I am rarely excited by modern mobile phones. They tend to pack too much into an unusable interface and end up being slow at what they are meant for; voice calls and text messages. My current phone is a bare-bones Nokia; it doesn’t have a camera, radio or 3G, it doesn’t double as a PDA or an MP3 player (I have an iPod nano for that.)
This Sony Ericsson W950i though is giving even this mobile-phone troglodyte heart palpitations. It looks good, the flush keyboard is gorgeous (and I hope usable), and has dedicated controls for the music functionality. That is an absolute must, the dedicated controls. It has a lovely 2.6″ touch sensitive screen too. It is also slim opting rather to be wide which is a form factor I prefer (and which Motorola are doing well with in their Razr phones.) It has 4gb of memory, twice what my iPod nano has and apparently will work like a USB drive which makes transferring files a doddle.
A plus is the lack of built in camera. Well done Sony Ericsson for not trying to shove in a crap mobile phone camera.
All in all it looks like a winner. My only reservations are interface speed, voice quality and whether the interface might be too crammed with options. As soon as O2 Ireland get it on their shelves I’ll give it a go.
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