Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18013 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.

Sony erricsson havn't come far...
Brought this handset from launch mainly so i didn't have to take around my ipod,

First impression stunning!, looks were good media menu were PS3 style....

however this was short lived, walkman was EXTREMELY slow when going though menus, Why on a flash based memory?

Sound quality poor compared to previous sony phones, even w200i at £50 is clearer and louder? why?

Shake control, biggest gimmick on the phone market, why would anyone hold down the walkman button then shake the handset repeatly till it skips, (alternativly hold the down side button)

camera acceptable, but shouldnt just put the decent camera on their cyber shot range, could of atleast have a flash light.

Working in a phone shop alot of dodgy softwear causing the phone to reset is become quite common.

The phone is HSDPA which makes it a extremly good choice for mobile broadband (when linked to a laptop)

Bluetooth stereo works nicely


i would recomend this to any sony erriccson fan, but don't expect alot more than previous models

Good so far
I was offered a free upgrade to this phone. I accepted before I found out more.

My last phone was a SE w810i so I'll compare it to that.

Good:
Mini menu on front page to access phone book, calls, texts, calendar, etc (that may have been put on by Orange, though).
Very clear screen.
Predictive text not only tries to predict your current word but, when you're finished that one, it tries to predict the next word (my favourite feature).
Text message memory (and memory of previous people contacted by text) seems to have been expanded.
Charger has socket in back of it so it looks like you can use another device at the same time as charging phone.
Very good at finding a signal (I could use it in places that I couldn't use my w810i).
It's a slide phone so you can unlock it just by sliding it open.
The half moon buttons have gone so it's easier to press the right key.
The navigation key is bigger so it's easier to use.
The calendar tells you, on the front page, how many reminders you have for the current day.

Bad:
Whilst the battery lasts a few days it seems that it's not as long as my old w810i.
Reputed to be unreliable (I've had not problems as yet). I've taken a star off for that as the reports are so numerous that I've got my old phone a new sim in case my new phone breaks down.
It seems to take longer to pick up e-mails (but that could just be down to Orange network traffic).
There is no flash/light for the camera.

Just different:
The keys are a lot flatter (to enable the sliding) so that does take a little getting used to.