Sony Ericsson W960i Review

Sony Ericsson W960i Specifications:-

• General:-
  Announced:-2007, June
  Status:-Coming Soon.
• Size:-
  Dimensions:-109 x 55 x 16 mm
  Weight:-119 g.
• Display:-
  Type:-TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
  Size:-240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
  - Handwriting recognition- Wallpapers, screensavers.
• Ringtones:-
  Type:-Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, AAC
  Customization:-Composer, download
  Vibration:-Yes
• Memory:-
  Phonebook:-Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
  Call records:-Practically unlimited
  Card slot:-No
  - 8 GB shared memory for storage,- 128 MB RAM,- 256 MB flash memory (96 MB reserved for OS + 160 MB user memory).
• Data:-
  GPRS:-Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
  HSCSD:-No
  EDGE:-No
  3G:-Yes, 384 kbps
  WLAN:-Wi-Fi 802.11b
  Bluetooth:-Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  Infrared port:-No
  USB:-Yes, v2.0.
• Features:-
  OS:-Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0
  Messaging:-SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
  Browser:-WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML(Opera 8.0), RSS reader
  Games:-Yes + downloadable
  Colors:-Vinyl Black
  Camera:-3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video(QVGA 15fps), flash; secondary VGA videocall camera
  - Java MIDP 2.0,- FM radio with RDS, – Walkman Touch player,- TrackID music recognition,- T9,- Image viewer,- Picture/document editor,- Organiser,- Voice memo,- Built-in handsfree.
• Battery:-Standard battery, Li-Po 900 mAh (BST-33)
  Stand-by:-Up to 370 h
  Talk time:-Up to 9 h
• Sony Ericsson W960 is aptly the big gun in the Sony Ericsson portfolio of music-centered handsets. Gifted with the scorching 8GB of storage space and a large touchscreen TFT display, a 3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities, the W960 easily stands out in the Walkman crowd. Powered by the Symbian OS and UIQ user interface, it delivers one-of-a-kind Walkman experience with rich fullscreen visualizations and advanced track filtering.
• Key features:
  Walkman Touch music player
  Symbian OS 9.1 with UIQ 3.0
  3G support with video calls
  Wi-Fi support
  3 megapixel camera with autofocus
  8GB of storage space
  Dedicated touch-sensitive player keys
  262K color TFT touchscreen display
  FM radio
  Stereo Bluetooth (with 3.5 mm adapter included)
• Main disadvantages:
  Not as impressive in life as in the promotional photos
  Slow interface response as storage gets nearly used up
  Back key location changed
  No memory card slot (yeah, we know it has 8GB of internal memory)
  Music player cannot sort tracks by filename
  No EDGE support
• The Sony Ericsson W960 is the successor of Sony Ericsson W950, which came with 4GB of integrated memory, but failed to gain popularity for the lack of camera and Wi-Fi capabilities. In fact, featurewise the W960 resembles more the Sony Ericsson P1 – they are almost identical in terms of hardware (although the P1 has an Infrared port, which lacks in W960). The W960 features the same 208MHz processor and the same amount of RAM – 128MB. However, the W960 boasts a dedicated Walkman key, three touch-sensitive keys for controlling the music player and, finally, that all-important Walkman home screen application with fullscreen visualizations.
• Call management
  The Call log lists store all the information about the calls received or made. Now, when it comes to call management, besides call filtering there are two other nice things that the W960 can do for you. The first one is sending an SMS with a predefined text to the person whose call you are reject

  ing. The second one is automatically storing a callback event in the calendar every time you reject a call.

• Walkman inspired
  Sony Ericsson W960 boasts one of the most elaborate music players we have seen in a mobile phone. Of course, it supports playlists with shuffle and loop options, while offering the usual equalizer presets including the Walkman MegaBass.
• We finally got a camera
  The Sony Ericsson W960 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and a dual-LED flash – again, much like the P1 and unlike the previous Walkman-enabled smartphone W950. The maximum resolution is 2048 x 1536 pixels. Pictures are taken by holding the handset in landscape mode. The camera interface is intuitive – all settings are arranged in a toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
• Final words:- Sony Ericsson W960 easily offers more than any other Sony Ericsson Walkman before. Positive changes compared to the W950 are noticeable both in system performance and in the hardware equipment. In terms of software, the handset is identical to the previous UIQ 3 mobiles and, when compared to Nokia S60 smartphones, loses only on VoIP capabilities, which are much more elaborate in the latest S60 mobiles.
  The biggest controversy as we see it, when making the purchase decision for W960, lies in the use of a touchscreen interface for a regular smartphone. Our opinion is that a smartphone interface should be either optimized for finger touching or the screen should not be touch sensitive at all. Pulling the stylus out for anything except handwriting on the screen is not justifiable. So, just to put it shortly, the W960 would have been a great choice if it had some sort of a D-pad to allow easy single-handed navigation through the menu options without the need for stylus all the time.
  However, we find the Sony Ericsson W960 a great choice for all you music fans that don’t mind using both hands for operating their handset.