With a face like mine no wonder the screen cracked (Sony Ericsson W900i)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Sony Ericsson W900i
Date:	11/05/09 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: It's a sony...

Disadvantages: ...just the worst one in recent memory

This is an old review so the prices will be out, as it was originally written for ciao 2 years ago, basically straight after the phone came onto the market:

Well I wish I had insurance on this, So due to some financial mess up's of my own I managed to get this on a contract, get the contract cancelled, get the phone broken all within a month...and never thought of insuring it.
As with all my phones since about 2000, It's a Sony, which I've often felt had the best interface, very acceptable build quality, and I had replacement wires lying about for chargers etc (good reason to be loyal).
So when the thing came in the post, bunged in my sim, bunged the charger in and my m2 1gb memory card (from my previous K800i), which is where I noticed the phone having it's own 1gb card (worth about £25 new). So this was immediately handy, allowing all my music (around 250) pictures (around 600) videos (about 30) to be moved in an instant.
Now where as I was used to Sony's I'd been using the K series (K700i, K750i, K800i) for about 4 years, and ended up with a w (walkman phone), which focuses on entertainment side of things. It's music player is easier for example, to use, although personally I wouldn't agree with this claim made by Sony, but we'll go with it for now. The K series is better known as the camera series with most recent being the k850i, which boats an alarming 5mp camera.
Anyway the W seems to be for weak, after having the phone for about 3 weeks, I walked to work with it in my pocket, hoping to make the most of the music functionality on the way home, somehow the screen got damaged and I've not manged to get it fixed yet (middle of December), knowing the price of this sort of repair, it's really not worth getting repaired. Which has led me to getting a new phone (w610i) whi I've not really gotten too used to yet, but I like it's almost hybrid of styles, with the K's candy bar shape and the W's walkman software it seems to suit both my needs.

Anyway back to the phone at hand, it's a slider phone which is all black bar the central buttons, which have replaced the old style thumbsticks (which became unresponsive after moderate to heavy useage), I can't comment on whether this goes from wear and tear, as well...I didn't get to use it enough...The central silver button is primary to the Walkman feature though, so I'd hope it works better than the old thumbsticks.
The main advantage of this slider style, could also be the problem, the large screen which I thinks about 80% bigger than the phone I've got since, which is a godly thing to see it's easily one of the best screens I've ever seen on a phone...shame it dies so easily.
When slided up the bottum reveals very sleek buttons almost flat with the phone (allowing it to slide, duh), rather than buttons that stand out (that I had become used to) or even the "lines" that are used on the W610i (still not used to these). These buttons don't really have a solid feel, and given one that doesn't smash, I feel the buttoms would wear down very quickly.
Camera on the phone is only 2mp (the same as the W610i) which is worse than the old k800i (3.2 mp) which can be bought for around 1/4 of the price (£79.99), which makes me feel that sony have gone backwards some what with the phone. Theres no real technological advances, in the phone it's self.
Sure it looks nice, shiny and sexy just like any new phone should, but it fails to meet upto the build standard I've come to expect of Sony, I will be looking into getting it fixed as it is a decent phone, just not worth the £300+ that's being asked for it. For a similar price your probably able to pick up the much better K850i, which I must beg you to get instead.

The battery I found was to be excellent, though as with all phone batteries, it will be wonderful for the first 6 months, then go down hill rather swiftly, whether you can hold this against the phone or not, is arguable but the poor quality of the screen seems to make the phone effectively unusable.

Post original writing edits:
The phone with the dodgy screen was passed onto my brother who paid to get the screen replaced, sadly the replacement cost £25 and lasted a mere matter of weeks before it had again gone, he repeated this one more time before giving up. The phone would seem like it needs to be encased in cotton wool for the life time of the device, which when you consider the passing technological advances in the market since it became available, you should really pass up on the chance to own one. For the price go for either the K800i or the k770i (I'd advise the 800 personally).

Summary: Handle with extreme care.

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