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Technical Details

Dimensions 109 x 55 x 16mm
Weight 119 g
SMS, EMS
MMS
Email
Instant Messaging
Built-in handsfree
Downloadable games
Bluetooth
USB

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

The Walkman® touch player let you manage your music the easy way. Enjoy album art on the large phone display and use your fingers to play the song you want

View videos in TV quality on the W960i display. Or connect to your PC, synchronize and enjoy podcasts on your phone. All the software you need - and a stereo headset - is included in phone kit

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Never mind the quality, feel the width, 19 April 2008

By	G. Ward (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After two months of ownership I cannot recommend the W960i.

The W960i looks good and is bursting with top specification features and capability. Now all things being equal this would make it an absolute winner but all things are not equal. The W960i is badly let down by a dreadful user interface. Something browsing the specifiaction list will not prepare you for.

The user interface is inconsistant, unintuitive and inefficient. Issues with firmware/interface have been a problem with some SE phones for a while now and the W960i is not the one that turns that around.

Inconsistancy of input is perhaps my biggest gripe with the W960i. You find you are constantly having to swap around between, key pad, jog wheel and touch screen when operating and carrying out even the simplest functions, making it irritating, slow and fiddley to use.

Due to the ridiculously small icons the touch screen is near impossible to reliabley operate with your fingers, which forces you to pull out the stylus in yet more swapping around and fiddling with the input method. In fact to me the touch screen adds nothing to the overall experience of using a W960i. A gimmick it could well do without.

Due to the lack of a D pad there is no intuitive way to make a horizontal scroll or selection, even though the user interface presents them to you, such as selecting beween the phone or media memory in the picture gallery. This is just sloppy and yet again forces you to alternate between forms of input, jog wheel and touch screen in this case. The software writers should have made the cursor default to the tabs first then move onto the menu. That way you could make all selections in one intuitive and efficient move with the jog wheel.

Entry and editing of text while writing a text message is another area in need of significant improvement. The number of text messages I send has actually dropped since I got the W960i, so poor in comparison to my previous Nokia is text handling.

This W960i is littered with this thing.

I am tremendously disappointed with the W960i, it does not live up to the promise hinted at by the extensive and potent specification and it is all down to the user interface software. Perhaps SE will release a major firmware update that adresses the usuability issues (they really need to) but I'm not holding my breath.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A lot to be desired..., 14 April 2008

By	Dissatisfied (England) - See all my reviews

What a disappointment this phone was... The interface with the touch screen works sometimes if you are righthanded but if you are left handed you depend on guess work (as your left hand has to go over the screen) and have to always go back from the damn sound controls (which are on the side you use to grip the phone). I have not managed to send a message yet before the damn thing crashes. The software is pitiful: for example it is a 4 button operation before you are able to delete a message or an entry in the calls register; the next word prediction is laughable; file management a riddle. Shall I continue? The battery life just about stretches to 2 days; I forget the number of missed calls because it does not ring or goes into meltdown every time it receives a call, or more importantly forgets to activate my alarms. It may have a great camera if you can wait long enough for the picture to be taken and a Walkman but overall this is a heap of excrement failing miserably to perform the most basic day to day operations. Frankly, I wonder what did Ericsson think when they released it...

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow!!!!, 26 Mar 2008

By	D. Stephenson "danfish24" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bad
I got this phone as an upgrade from vodafone as the features where good. The fist thing I noticed Is that the phone takes a while to start up, when it had final loaded up I noticed that it lagged a lot, it would take about 6 seconds to open phone book and Texts.I put a movie on and most of the time it tended to skip Or crash.
At least 2 times a day I would need to restart the phone. I try updating the phone over this internet, but it was no better.
Good
The camera was very clear. wifi was very good. battery life could be better but was ok . Sound quality was great!!!! (the best i have every heard on a phone before )

Overall
If your looking for a phone which dose everything but you don't mind it being slow then this is for you.