Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25075 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony Ericsson
• Model: 5051495071407
• Released on: 2009-02-09

Manufacturer's Description
The Sony Ericsson W910i (W for Walkman) is a tapered styled music-oriented slider phone offering many useful features beyond its sound capabilities. It comes with a large and crisp QVGA display - ideal for watching videos as well as playing games in landscape viewing mode. A built-in light sensor beside the right control key helps automatically to adjust the brightness of the screen when the phone is used in different lighting environments. The 2.4-inch main LCD screen is augmented by a smaller camera for video calls. At only 12.5 mm thick, the W910i is very slim and weighs only 86g. It is a quadband handset for international roaming and supports HSDPA for high-speed downloads over the network. But it is the music feature set that sets the phone apart. For example, it has a built-in motion sensor that not only allows the user to control playback by shaking the handset, but also changes the orientation of the screen automatically in the media browser.

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Customer Reviews

Style and gimmicks over substance
I bought the W910i a week ago to replace my W880i. I used it for a day and have decided to sell it and stick with my W880i. Here's why.

The phone boasts a fair amount of new features. Unfortunately most of them turn out to be gimmicks. The "shake control" feature is the worst. To get it to work, you need to hold the walkman key and flick your wrist to the right. This is quite a lot of effort, as it requires a pretty firm flick. I showed my brother the feature and he laughed out loud at its ridiculousness. It is a lot easier just to press the right navigation key, and so I consider the shake control feature to be counterproductive and pointless.

The second new feature is the motion sensor ("auto-rotate"). What you're not told is that auto-rotate only works in the walkman player. Also, it's a bit temperamental. In its defence, the motion sensor does add a different dimension to gaming as you can control the game by rotating the phone.

I found texting to be very difficult on the W910i, and I have small fingers. The buttons are right next to each other, with no gaps, resulting in the wrong key being pressed quite often. The phone comes with a FM radio, with Stereo and RDS, which the W880i does not have. However, SE don't appear to have moved very fair on their radios since the K750i - move ten feet and your previously crystal clear sound is now fuzzy.

The W910i comes with a standard 2 megapixel camera which takes very good pictures in the day and very bad pictures at night due to the lack of flash. Once again, SE have not moved forward in this area - the camera is the same if not worse than the one on the 3-year-old K750i.

Points in favour of the W910i:
The main good point about the W910i is the design. It is relatively slim (12.5mm) and light (86g), has a huge, crystal clear screen, and has something a bit edgy about it which separates it from the usual Samsung/Nokia designs, and would surely appeal to the youth market a lot more.

Secondly, the W910i comes with Sony Ericsson Media Manager v1.0, which is infinitely better than the terrible software that comes with previous walkman phones. You can convert the format and bit rate of tracks upon transfer. Also, you can use the SenseMe technology to put your tracks on a kind of graph so you can select tracks by mood.

The in-ear headphones supplied with the phone produce amazing sound quality and superb bass response (courtesy of the MegaBass feature). A 1GB memory card is included, which will store over 500 tracks. The GUI of the walkman player has been changed for the W910i and it looks much nicer and slicker than on the previous walkman phones. However, the price you pay is that the menus are very slow, and you often have to wait for the phone to catch up when scrolling through tracks.

On the whole, the W910i is a disappointing addition to the set of walkman phones. It doesn't really improve on its predacessor, the W880i, and yet comes with a very hefty price tag. If you like your phones stylish, they don't come much better than this. If you actually want some substance beneath the style, it may be best to steer clear.

Terrible
Very nice phone for the first 3 weeks-1 month except for the rubbish camera.

Then the phone freezes and has the back red light on couple of times a day until the phone stops letting you compose/send/recieve texts and opening your inbox!!!!!

My second model of this has had the same problems over and over. Now I am switching to Samsung.

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME!

Keeps going down hill.
I have written a review about this phone about a month a go about how good it was as it was working perfectly. Now I have brought a new phone because it broke. Everybody that I have spoken to that has HAD this phone has said in a couple of months and it will brake.. they were right, mine is now in the bin. Its a lovely phone especially for girls but it kept freezing and turning half off which means you couldnt use any of the functions but the bright light wasted all the battery. There is no point getting it repaired apparently because it comes back and does exactly the same. I love sony ericsson and now have the new cybershot C902 but this is poor and all the new sony ericssons do exactly the same functions and more as the W910i.