Sexy, sleek, shiny, soft (Sony Ericsson W910i)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Sony Ericsson W910i
Date:	09/01/08 (396 review reads)
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Advantages: Look amazing, large screen

Disadvantages: Softer than herbie hides chin

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 chanrgers 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, wether you can hold this against the phone or not, is argueably.

Summary: wrap it in cotton wool

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