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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Style and gimmicks over substance, 4 Nov 2007
I bought the W910i a week ago to replace my W880i. I used it for a day and have decided to sell it and stick with my W880i. Here's why.
The phone boasts a fair amount of new features. Unfortunately most of them turn out to be gimmicks. The "shake control" feature is the worst. To get it to work, you need to hold the walkman key and flick your wrist to the right. This is quite a lot of effort, as it requires a pretty firm flick. I showed my brother the feature and he laughed out loud at its ridiculousness. It is a lot easier just to press the right navigation key, and so I consider the shake control feature to be counterproductive and pointless.
The second new feature is the motion sensor ("auto-rotate"). What you're not told is that auto-rotate only works in the walkman player. Also, it's a bit temperamental. In its defence, the motion sensor does add a different dimension to gaming as you can control the game by rotating the phone.
I found texting to be very difficult on the W910i, and I have small fingers. The buttons are right next to each other, with no gaps, resulting in the wrong key being pressed quite often. The phone comes with a FM radio, with Stereo and RDS, which the W880i does not have. However, SE don't appear to have moved very fair on their radios since the K750i - move ten feet and your previously crystal clear sound is now fuzzy.
The W910i comes with a standard 2 megapixel camera which takes very good pictures in the day and very bad pictures at night due to the lack of flash. Once again, SE have not moved forward in this area - the camera is the same if not worse than the one on the 3-year-old K750i.
Points in favour of the W910i:
The main good point about the W910i is the design. It is relatively slim (12.5mm) and light (86g), has a huge, crystal clear screen, and has something a bit edgy about it which separates it from the usual Samsung/Nokia designs, and would surely appeal to the youth market a lot more.
Secondly, the W910i comes with Sony Ericsson Media Manager v1.0, which is infinitely better than the terrible software that comes with previous walkman phones. You can convert the format and bit rate of tracks upon transfer. Also, you can use the SenseMe technology to put your tracks on a kind of graph so you can select tracks by mood.
The in-ear headphones supplied with the phone produce amazing sound quality and superb bass response (courtesy of the MegaBass feature). A 1GB memory card is included, which will store over 500 tracks. The GUI of the walkman player has been changed for the W910i and it looks much nicer and slicker than on the previous walkman phones. However, the price you pay is that the menus are very slow, and you often have to wait for the phone to catch up when scrolling through tracks.
On the whole, the W910i is a disappointing addition to the set of walkman phones. It doesn't really improve on its predacessor, the W880i, and yet comes with a very hefty price tag. If you like your phones stylish, they don't come much better than this. If you actually want some substance beneath the style, it may be best to steer clear.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good so far, 7 Mar 2008
I was offered a free upgrade to this phone. I accepted before I found out more.
My last phone was a SE w810i so I'll compare it to that.
Good:
Mini menu on front page to access phone book, calls, texts, calendar, etc (that may have been put on by Orange, though).
Very clear screen.
Predictive text not only tries to predict your current word but, when you're finished that one, it tries to predict the next word (my favourite feature).
Text message memory (and memory of previous people contacted by text) seems to have been expanded.
Charger has socket in back of it so it looks like you can use another device at the same time as charging phone.
Very good at finding a signal (I could use it in places that I couldn't use my w810i).
It's a slide phone so you can unlock it just by sliding it open.
The half moon buttons have gone so it's easier to press the right key.
The navigation key is bigger so it's easier to use.
The calendar tells you, on the front page, how many reminders you have for the current day.
Bad:
Whilst the battery lasts a few days it seems that it's not as long as my old w810i.
Reputed to be unreliable (I've had not problems as yet). I've taken a star off for that as the reports are so numerous that I've got my old phone a new sim in case my new phone breaks down.
It seems to take longer to pick up e-mails (but that could just be down to Orange network traffic).
There is no flash/light for the camera.
Just different:
The keys are a lot flatter (to enable the sliding) so that does take a little getting used to.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Keeps going down hill., 30 Jul 2008
I have written a review about this phone about a month a go about how good it was as it was working perfectly. Now I have brought a new phone because it broke. Everybody that I have spoken to that has HAD this phone has said in a couple of months and it will brake.. they were right, mine is now in the bin. Its a lovely phone especially for girls but it kept freezing and turning half off which means you couldnt use any of the functions but the bright light wasted all the battery. There is no point getting it repaired apparently because it comes back and does exactly the same. I love sony ericsson and now have the new cybershot C902 but this is poor and all the new sony ericssons do exactly the same functions and more as the W910i.
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