The Sony Ericsson W950 is an exciting new addition to the Walkman series of Sony Ericsson. It is a smartphone based on the Symbian 9.1 UIQ 3.0 with a stylish and yet classical design. Although it doesn’t feature a camera, the 4GB of free space and the dedicated multimedia keys would make any music lover jump from joy. The large touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution is just another fascinating feature for the tech buffs. It seems that the W950 has got what it takes to overtake the high-end music phones market.
The Sony Ericsson W950 seems like the utmost music phone in its pure form. The whopping 4GB of internal memory are enough to store all the tracks you love to listen to. The addition of dedicated music keys that come alive when you start the player is just great. Moreover, all this comes in a rather compact body.
Although the 4GB of storage memory might make you think of Nokia N91, in fact the Nokia handset has more to offer such as a 2 megapixel camera and Wi-Fi. Nevertheless, N91 is much bigger and weighs a hefty 50 g more.
The Sony Ericsson W950 retail package includes a USB cable and a Walkman stereo headset with a remote control. Of course, as with any other mobile phone, the contents of the retail package remain strictly market and country dependant.
The stereo headset that comes in the package in fact is standard one with a 3.5 mm jack. The remote control itself, also bearing the stylish Walkman logo, is an adapter so you may even opt for using your regular 3.5 mm headphones with W950.
The W950 boasts a solid construction and a stylishly designed body made out of matt plastic along with silver lining and orange highlights. Thanks to those, the orange Walkman theme has been kept all over the handset, while keeping successfully away from the flamboyant styling of some of the previous Walkman phones.
Measuring at 106 x 54 x 15 mm, the W950 could be hardly called a compact phone, but as far as smartphones go, it is in fact pretty slim. The probable reason for that is the absence of a camera. When it comes to width though, our friend has lot more to show. But width is essential in order to be able to use comfortably the Jog Dial single-handedly. And you may agree, that is of great importance since besides the stylus, it is the only way to navigate through the interface.
Similar to Sony Ericsson P990, the Jog Dial can no longer be used in five directions as in Sony Ericsson P910. Now the only available directions are scroll up, scroll down and press. We think that the 5-way Jog Dial was a great navigation tool and stripping it of two of its functions would most surely disappoint many people that are already used to it.
Now, beside the Jog Dial, the left side of the body features only a Back button used for exiting the current menu. The left side is also the one from where you can pull out the stylus, which plugs in into a special slot in the phone’s body.
SE W950 Specification
Network system
UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Size
106 x 54 x 15 mm
Weight
112 g
Display
- TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
- 240 x 320 pixels
- Wallpapers, screensavers
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by Up to 340 h
Talk time Up to 7h 30 min
Ringtones
- Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, AAC
Option
Number in phone Yes, Photo call
Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls
Memory
- No Card Slot
- 4 GB internal memory
GPRS
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
Messaging
SMS, MMS, Email
Infrared port Yes
Games Yes: + downloadable
Color Mystic purple
Features
- No Camera
- 3G 384 kbps
- EDGE W958c only
- Java MIDP 2.0
- RDS FM radio
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- T9
- Image viewer
- Picture editor
- Organiser
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree
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