Display 2. Camera 2 MP Single camera. Storage 0. Battery mAh. Description The W is a budget candybar Walkman phone. Design Size comparison. Nevertheless, the W pulled off some nice shots with balanced sharpening and no traces of purple fringing. Contrast and colors are ok too.
The W camera failed to capture the right white balance much like the W, however this time we are dealing with a warmer setup, which is more pleasant than the slight bluish cast produced by W The Sony Ericsson W is without a doubt one looker of a handset. Featurewise it seems the most balanced Walkman handset to date in its segment. The nice music package and the slim profile will probably be its strongest selling points. Well, with the right price tag, that is.
There are a number of handsets already to offer even better feature sets in this segment and while the W certainly has its place in the Sony Ericsson portfolio, we can't help the feeling it comes at least a year late. Nokia is already gaining popularity and it's been around long enough to finally reach rather acceptable price levels.
The Samsung U is another excellent alternative although it's a different form factor - it has a nice display, excellent camera and top notch audio quality. And both these handset can be found for around euro SIM-free. So without underestimating the Sony Ericsson W potential and qualities, we do believe its success is very much staked on a reasonable price tag. GSMArena team , 22 July Sony Ericsson W preview: software.
User interface is clean and simple Sony Ericsson W comes with 20MB of internal memory, but as Walkman usually has it, a memory card is part of the retail package. Available alternative skins The Walkman music player can display the album cover during playback or you can choose from the other available visualizations. The FM radio interface and some of its options You can also use the TrackID service to record a sample of a track through the handset microphone.
Camera Sony Ericsson W is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera that produces images with a maximum resolution of x pixels. The camera viewfinder It's got a dedicated burst mode that takes four snapshots in quick succession for capturing action shots. The nice Cyber-shot interface Here are a couple of samples from the Sony Ericsson W camera: Image quality was a nice surprise - it looks good for a 2 megapixel camera, but it still falls short of the best 2 megapixel examples we've seen recently - such as the Samsung D, for example.
The W doesn't support podcast subscriptions, which is a feature we love in handsets that are higher up the Sony Ericsson totem pole, like the W Walkman , for example.
You can sync podcasts along with your other music using the free Media Manager software, but we're not fans of the software's usability. We like that it supports drag and drop, but it reorganised our music based on its own rules, and it's not clear what file formats are supported.
Files in all of those formats can be packed onto the handset's MB memory stick. If you like, you can spend the money saved by not buying a pricier phone on a memory-stick upgrade, up to 4GB. The W also has 20MB of on-board memory. Boring browsing The W's music features got us through the night, but the rest of the package let us down. Pictures look fine on the xpixel screen -- nothing to write home about, but clear and bright, with vibrant colours.
But Web pages look awful in the browser, with images an over-compressed mess. Since it also doesn't have 3G or Wi-Fi, we wouldn't recommend the W for anything more than an occasional emergency Google search. Say cheesy The 2-megapixel camera can shoot video or stills, but, with no flash or LED, it's only suitable for snapshots in bright light.
The multimedia experience is also let down by a poor user interface -- something's that's excellent on some other Sony Ericsson phones , like the C Cyber-shot. Photos, video and music are hard to find in the media browser.
It's also hard to navigate once you're in the photo-viewing application. We struggled to find photos that we'd just taken, and had to trawl through unsorted wallpapers, slowly scrolling past one image at a time.
Tiny buttons The user interface also proved a problem when we wanted the W to act as a dedicated music player.
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