Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman

Sony Ericsson has been the leading multimedia phone in the market. They have the Cybershot for pictures and the Walkman phones for music. One of the best phone produced by Sony Ericsson is the Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman phone.

Encased in an eye-catching black, the W810i offers high-end, powerful features, such as a high-resolution camera, Bluetooth, and a media player, while making a number of design changes. Users will appreciate that this is a quality phone despite some minor performance issues.

At 3.9 by 1.8 by 0.8 inches and 3.5 ounces, it is a bit small and feels solid and comfortable in the hand. The rich, vibrant display supports 262,144 colors and measures 1.8 inches diagonally (176×220 pixels). It’s fantastic for scrolling through the menus, viewing pictures and videos, and playing games.

Let’s start of with the phone’s physical features. It’s navigation keys is very good. Besides scrolling through the attractive, user-friendly menus, the sliver, circular navigation toggle serves as a shortcut to four user-defined functions in standby mode. Also, when in Walkman mode, the toggle acts as your tool for scanning through your music list.

In the middle of the toggle is a raised OK button that resembles a tiny joystick. In addition to opening the main menu, the OK button is the play/pause control for the music player.

Completing the outside of the phone are a music player button and a Memory Stick Pro Duo slot on the left spine, a camera control and a volume/camera zoom toggle on the right spine, and a dedicated power button and the infrared port on top.

On the bottom of the phone is the port for both the charger and the headset, that does not allow users to connect two peripherals at the same time. The camera lens, flash, and self-portrait mirror are on the back of the phone just above three round speakers.

Next we go to the phone’s features. The Sony Ericsson W810i is packed with features that will appeal to multimedia enthusiasts.

The phone book holds an impressive 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for five phone numbers; work title and company name; a birth date; additional notes; and e-mail, Web, work, and home addresses. You can save 250 more names to the SIM card. You can assign contacts to a caller group and pair them with a picture or one of 23 polyphonic (40-chord) ring tones for caller ID purposes.

Organizer features include an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a notepad, a calculator, a timer, a stopwatch, and a code memo for storing passwords and other secure information.

As this is a Walkman phone, music is pretty much the primary attraction with this phone. It has a music player that lets users organize music by artist, track name, or playlist. Settings include album/song shuffle and loop, Sony’s Mega Bass, an equalizer, and stereo widening. Switching between the cell phone and the music player is seamless, as music automatically stops when you receive a call.

Next to music, we have the camera. The W810i features a built-in 2-megapixel camera. It takes pictures in just three sizes: 1,632×1,224, 640×480, and 160×120. Other options are plentiful. There are Normal, Panoramic, Frames, and Burst shoot modes; a 4X digital zoom; autofocus; a macro setting for close-up shots; night mode; a flash; a time-and-date stamp; a self-timer; Black and White, Negative, Sepia, and Solarize picture effects; white-balance settings; Normal and Fine picture-quality modes; and four shutter sounds, though no silent option.

Though it has a 2-megapixel camera, It takes pictures in just three sizes: 1,632×1,224, 640×480, and 160×120. As with the W800i, we expected more choices. Other options are plentiful. There are Normal, Panoramic, Frames, and Burst shoot modes; a 4X digital zoom; autofocus; a macro setting for close-up shots; night mode; a flash; a time-and-date stamp; a self-timer; Black and White, Negative, Sepia, and Solarize picture effects; white-balance settings; Normal and Fine picture-quality modes; and four shutter sounds, though no silent option. We especially liked that you can use the zoom at the highest resolution.

The Sony Ericsson W810i has a rated talk time of eight hours and a standby time of 14.6 days.

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