Sony Ericsson W880i - reviews
Sony Ericsson W880i (review by ukstairs on 09/07/2008)
Ease of Use
Style and Design
Battery Life
Camera
Music Player
Mobile Internet
Reliability and Quality
Overall
My main reason for picking up this phone was its profile; at less than 95mm in depth you can slip it comfortably into any pocket, even if you're into the body hugging cotton-spandex hybrid jeans that seem to be sweeping the nation.
It's also quite the pretty device, coming in two colour combinations (black and orange or stainless steel) with sturdily machined parts that impart a definite weight and feel of quality for something so light and svelte.
The menus, keys and camera are all easy to use, with a layout that will be familiar to any Sony Ericsson user, but these are all intuitive enough that any newcomer will at once feel at home with this phone.
The phone comes with a 1 Gb memory card that you can use to store over 200 MP3 files -- great for music lovers -- or hundreds and hundreds of pictures that you can capture with the in-built 2-megapixel camera on the back. There's even a second camera on the front of the phone for video calling, if you swing that way. Camera quality is certainly fair, though pictures are a little soft in comparison to equivalent competitors, and at 2 megapixels, this isn't a selling point. It's the great music functionality that sells this phone to many users, and rightly so.
With headphones blaring, pictures taking, and many long conversations a day, the critical question is just how far a battery charge will take you. In my experience, and taking into account how slim this phone is, battery life is pretty stellar, running to 4 or 5 days of fairly intensive use. This has come down to 3 or 4 days after more than a year of battery wear, but it's still more than I need.
Gripes? Just one; the keys on the number pad are a little fiddly, but they do respond well, even to broad fingers. They just feel wrong because they're so narrow, but this is likely to have been a design compromise, and simply takes getting used to.
Two thumbs up!
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