Typical price: £350
What is it: Walkman music phone with 8GB on-board memory
What we think: Feature-packed and decent-sounding, but it won't replace a dedicated MP3 player
Average user rating
9.7
spectacular
Average user rating from 3 users
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Sony Ericsson W980 user reviews
August 5, 2008
Posted by: mitchuk
"Cooler than a polar bear in a refrigerator"
What I like:
Great sound qaulity, gestural controls
What I don't like:
A lot of great features hidden away
Review:
I got this phone as a replacement to my old Nokia. I was looking for a phone that could also play music as I was fed up of using an MP3 player and a phone, and I was not going near an iPhone as they don't support the music subscription services that I favour.
After playing around with the phone a lot, I am very impressed. The sound quality is excellent, both from headphones and from the phone speakers. Now I know what you are thinking - why are you playing music out loud from the phone. Don't worry - I'm not annoying fellow commuters on trains and buses. It comes in handy with a bunch of friends when you don't have a sound system in the room, or in a car when the stereo was out of use. The phone was a lifesaver on a recent 5 hour car ride with no stereo - crisp and loud! One annoyance is that although you can use your own headphones, you have to use the adapter that comes with the phone - in trouble if you lose that!
The phone has interesting gestural controls - tilt it towards or away from you to adjust volume and give it a flick to switch tracks - careful in public! Digging around, the phone has other apps which use these controls - the driving game to steer, a drum kit where you play different drums with a flick of the phone and a useful pedometer! However a lot of these features seem hidden away so explore those menus!
The phone has a camera which does a good job, though there is no flash. I was not expecting a great camera though as this is part of the Walkman series and not Cybershot - maybe one day they shall combine!
In conclusion this is a fantastic music phone, very small, very sleek, great user interface, using a cut down XMB for Multimedia and stunning sound quality.
Recommended!
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