Sony Ericsson W980 Review
Be true to the original
Richer bass, improved stereo quality - it’s a clear audio experience. The W980 Walkman® phone makes sure your music stays true to the sound of the original recording.
It’ll be available soon in July or September on your SE local stores, I think it is better for me to make a review for it. Absolutely! Cause this one is different ….
When we talk about music phone, W series from Sony Ericsson must be at the top ten chart if it is not the best one. Cool design with a complete features and new technology is SE’s perfect weapon to serve customers, especially young generation for such a music mobile phone.
SE newest Walkman phone, W980 series perhaps is a good example to proof this mantra. The design, features, and technology that comes with this black-red clamshell is worth enough to make you spend some money from your bank account. But before you had gone through your local bank, let’s take a look inside first.
Design
This clamshell W980 comes with a mix of black and red. Though I occasionally said that a clamshell is a designed-for-ladies handset, I would dare to convince myself and you that this one will perfect for gentleman too. Even for myself. Yeah.
Storage
For music mobile phone, an 8 GB internal memory is pretty cool. If not storing about 7500 audio files, perhaps this will fit for 6000 songs you have. Depends on what kind of songs and format your audio files is. In case when you want to store more files into this 3G handset, you have a chance to upgrade that 8 GB with the new one. Sounds very interesting …
Internet
This W Series is not a mediocre 3G. Powered with 3,6 Mbit/s transfer rate HSDPA technology, W980 will makes browsing run seamlessly. Video call, multimedia messages, email or even audio and video streaming from Odeo and YouTube have never been so easy to engage with.
When it comes to surf and enjoy the web, you can count this Symbian 60 agent on its NetFront web browser and RSS feed reader. NetFront for S60 includes unique technologies like Smart-Fit Rendering™, which intelligently adapts standard Web pages to the screen width of a S60 phone and eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling.
For daily blogger out there, you gonna love this gizmo since it will help you to upload your post with picture easily.
Image and Display
With 240 x 320 pixel and 262.144 color TFT, your eyes will be happy to watch this one. For shadow-catcher lover, W980 comes with 3,2 MP camera plus a special X-Pict story mode that let you enjoy all pictures in a slide view complete with a sound and transition.
For picture editing, there is a software called Photo Fix that could help you in optimizing and adjusting light and contrast after a picture had been taken.
Music
On music, W980 is certainly the absolute gadget at its own. As a Walkman series, W980 has every features and technology other W series has. Let’s see one by one!
- Shake control: switching your songs with an easy shake.
- SenseMe: allow you to create playlist base on temp and mood.
- Radio FM with RDS: listen to the radio stations with data on the current show.
- TrackID: let you know a song’s information by sending it to Gracenote Mobile MusicID.
- Transmitter FM: do not enjoy your music alone, broadcast it with transmitter FM
- Bluetooth stereo A2DP: forget those string, you can listen your audio files wireless. perfect when you are riding a bike or jogging
- PlayNow: download music and games directly on the web into the 8 GB storage
What else do I missed here? Perhaps a number of features and specs will help you before you decide to buy it on your local stores.
- Size: 92.0 x 46.0 x 17.0 mm
- 3.6 x 1.8 x 0.7 inch
- Weight: 100.0 gr 3.5 oz
- Available color: Piano Black
- Display: 240×320 pixel 262.144 color TFT
- Memory: Phone memory 8 GB
- Network: GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900, EDGE, UMTS 2100, HSDPA
- Browser: NetFront, WAP, WAP 1.2.1
- Messages: SMS, MMS, Online chat, Predictive input text
- Organizer: task list, calendar, alarm, flight mode, timer, stop watch
- More specs on Unofficial SE blog
- See the accessories on SE W980 official website
Source: Sony Ericsson W980 Series | 3gweek.net
