Typical price: £370
What is it: Hand- and pocket-friendly mobile with huge storage capacity and pretensions as a mobile music player
What we think: Small, neat and good looking, but ultimately falls over its own music-playing feet
What you need to know
Reviewed on: 17 August 2005
Tags: Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson W800i, lens, standards, storage
We like:
Super FM radio; lovely camera; nice feel in the hand; large capacity bundled Memory Stick Pro Duo; good battery life
We don't like:
Cumbersome music transfer system; average headset; memory looks plentiful now, but won't in a few months time
You might also need:
Better 3.5mm headset; more Memory Stick Pro Duo cards
CNET UK judgement:
The W800i is a nicely featured handset, comfortable to use and with great battery life. It plays music reasonably well, and holds a lot of it thanks to the capacious bundled Memory Stick Pro Duo. But getting music onto the handset is difficult and the quality of sound output is poor. We'll wait for the next generation of music phone
Full review:
The marriage of Sony and Ericsson has, until now, concentrated on leveraging the former's media empire and the latter's phone-making abilities. With the W800i, that changes. This is the first handset to sport the Walkman logo, and as such the first from the partnership where music-playing ability is considered the primary feature. Continue Reading...
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October 25, 2006
Posted by: Eric Jensen
"Overall, a perfect phone compared to other phones on the market"
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