SonyEricsson - W900 Review

W900

17th October 2005

The Sony Ericsson W900 is the fourth ''Walkman'' phone in Sony Ericsson's range, and the first one with 3G. It's a rotating phone, like the W550i and W600a and has a 2.2'' 240x320 pixel TFT display in 262,000 colours, a 2 megapixel digital camera, expandable memory using Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo modules and Bluetooth.

Internal memory is a huge 470Mb, which means that most users of the W900 won't need to expand the handset's memory at all. With 2G memory cards also available from retailers, the combined memory of the W900 rivals the hard-disk based Nokia N91 and Samsung i300 handsets.

When the W800i was released, we complained about it not being 3G. Well, the W900 is 3G, and it supports over-the-air downloads of multimedia tracks, which should be a boost to any network operator who supports this feature. The W900 supports MP3, AAC, and AAC+ audio formats, plus others. You can plug a standard 3.5mm set of stereo headphones directly in too. The Sony Ericsson W900 also comes with an FM radio.

It's more than just a music phone though, and the W900 also supports games in both portrait (tall) and landscape (wide) screen modes, comes with a WAP browser and email client. It also supports push email and comes with an RSS reader.. handy for web sites such as Mobile Gazette that carry RSS feeds.

In keeping with the current crop of modern phones, the Sony Ericsson W900 has a 2 megapixel digital camera with autofocus and a camera light. Sony Ericsson are quite pleased with the frame rate on the W900's video camera at 30 frames per second, which is substantially higher than many similar handsets. There's also some picture editing software, plus Sony Ericsson's Quickshare system for sending off pictures to friends. The W900 also supports video calling.

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