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Sony ericsson candybar phone6/29/2023 ![]() A familiar arrangement of soft-menu keys and call/end buttons flank this, while there’s the regular Sony Ericsson menu key and a Clear button.Ībove the display are two unmarked keys. Beneath this you get a silver navigation control that’s also marked up with music player keys. The display dominates the front of the closed phone. Some may prefer them raised a little higher, but we found them perfectly fine for texting. The slider action is smooth and solid, while the keypad beneath is makes efficient use of large keys arranged in a no-nonsense grid. It comes in several colour options – noble black, hearty red or Havana gold, depending on network – that thankfully go easy on the trademark Walkman phone orange. The W910i is a surprisingly lightweight 86g, and with its tactile rubber-feel casing, feels comfortable in the hand. It does do video recording at 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) at 15 frames per second, and there’s a secondary, lower-quality camera perched above the display for video calling. The camera on the back is a basic two-megapixel shooter that does without a flash or photo light. There’s no Wi-Fi here, however - you’ll have to check out the new 8GB-packing W960i if that’s what you’re after in your Walkman.ĭespite beefing up the shooting capabilities of recent Cyber-shot phones, Sony Ericsson has been parsimonious with pixels on this Walkman model. This particular one has HSDPA 3G - plus quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge - which ups download and surfing speeds. Interested in more phones? See a list of phones I own here.Sony Ericsson's Walkman W910i: shake to playĪside from its motion-sensor slickness, the W910i’s spec follows a familiar formula of quality music player and a spread of decent multimedia features that’s made the Walkman phone brand such a hit. Where can I get one?īoth Ebay and Amazon have second-hand and refurbished models. Overall it probably will not command much of a premium in price despite its success, which will probably be reserved for the more quirky phones such as the Sony Ericsson P900. The metallic housing also means that on the whole these have aged pretty well, although they will suffer from scratching to the screen. It is generally quite easy to pick up models as there are plenty available in the second hand market. This was a very popular handset and found its way onto all the main networks. Personalised faceplates were available but generally meant needing a screwdriver to disassemble the front. The phone cases were not easy to change.Java apps were supported, although it was easy to run out of space. There was no additional memory card possible and with on-board memory restricted to 2MB this had some limitations. ![]() At a time where phone cameras were rapidly improving, this now looks slightly underpowered, a weak resolution combined with no video recording.The screen technology was ahead of Nokia’s: offering both a larger display and more colours on the screen vs the Nokia 7250.The Sony Ericsson UI was still evolving but the iteration on the phone was very close to the Nokia one, meaning that people could move across with ease.Unlike many other phones at the time there was a dedicated camera button on the side of the phone which immediately started the camera: handy for taking snaps.The overall package was nicely weighted and the ideal size for a candybar phone at the time. As mentioned before the design was simply more classier and came in a metallic finish.While the T-series ended up dying out (a later Sony Ericsson T630 was released and that was it), the basic design of the phone lived on in a variety of other models as the phone moved with the times. The overall look was coming, as predecessors Sony Ericsson T310 looked similar, but the screen size was greatly enlarged for this model. The T610 differed from this in going for a much more premium metallic finish in a well-rounded design. The higher-end was still considered to be models such as the Nokia 7210 or Nokia 7250, or for those wanting the most functionality, the Nokia 6600.Īll these phones featured the familiar plastic designs with interchangeable covers. At the time, the dominant and best selling handsets were almost all exclusively Nokias: the Nokia 3510 was released the year before. It is quite apparent to see how Sony Ericsson’s approach to this phone was rewarded. The Sony Ericsson T610 debuted in 2003 and became a very successful phone in its own right and was one of the models that would lay the foundation for the manufacturers’ success over the next few years. Sony Ericsson T610 Review: It’s hard to imagine that this handset is now over 16 years old, but it’s true.
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