Review: The Sony Ericsson W760i

The Sony Ericsson W760i is Feature-rich Phone Packed in a Small Package

Despite owning and using a Sony Ericsson phones for several years (which stopped last year when I got my iPhone), I never had a Sony Ericsson slider phone ever. So I was a bit hesitant whether to get the Sony Ericsson W760i as a back up phone for my calling and my texting chores since doing so on the iPhone is practically futile. What convinced me to get the W760i was its small form factor, solid features, and of course its classic elegant look. Here’s our full review of the Sony Ericsson W760i.

Key Features:

• 3.2 Megapixel Camera (with digital zoom, geo-tagging, photo feeds, photo fix, picture blogging, video blogging, video recording)
• PlayNow arena for instant access to music, games, and other stuff
• Wayfinder Navigator for staying on track with turn-by-turn navigation, instruction, unlimited access to online travel planning tools and downloadable maps
• Walkman phone
• Playlist
• SenseMe creates playlists based on tempo and mood
• Music recognition returns song name, artists and album of a particular track you’ve entered
• Tracker for measuring the distance covered and energey expended
• Intense gaming
• Shake control for shuffling the music on your Walkman folder
• Mobile blogging functionality

Features:

There’s no doubt that the Sony Ericsson W760i is a feature-rich phone. Interestingly, being the first Sony Ericsson walkman phone I owned, I noticed some nifty features of the W760i which were not in my previous SE phone, the P990i. The W760i features an accelerometer functionality similar to the iPhone. You can change the orientation of the screen from portrait to landscape just by tilting the phone. You can also use the tilting functionality in some of the games preloaded in the phone, that is Need for Speed Pro Street 3D.

The Sony Ericsson W760i also features GPS navigation, Google Maps, and WayFinder Navigator. These functonality help you out in getting around unfamiliar locations. The phone also features a 3-megapixel camera that supports both photo and video. A nice minor feature of the phone is the functionality to edit the photos you’ve taken for an enhanced and better look.

Sony Ericsson W760i Performance

The W7601 allows you to drag and drop files from your phone to your PC or vice versa. The phone offers attractive and and slick menu which are almost flawless.

The W760i also features a nice call quality. It provides 9 hours of continous calls and 400 hours of standby time. The camera produces decent quality photo even if it is only a 3.2MP camera. The phone’s built-in browsers work fine although if you are an Opera Mini fan like me, you’d wish that the phone’s defaulty browser is Opera. The W760i also works great on a mobile network. Sorry folks, but the W760i doesn’t have Wi-Fi connectivity features. It would have been better if Sony Ericsson has included this feature.

Design

Like I said, one of the reasons why I got the Sony Ericsson W760 is because of its classic and elegant design. With a small form factor, this phone is lightweight and yet doesn’t feel like plastic. The W760i is available in black and red design. And both emits an aura of professionalism and business-like. The phone’s keypad is amazingly big for a small phone such as this. Hence, texting is a breeze. The 4-way navigational dial looks cool and is not your ordinary looking jog dial. The phone features a dedicated key for activating the phone’s Walkman features. It doesn’t require you to slide out the keypad to access the Walkman menu. The phone’s memory stick micro is located on top of the phone, so can easily change the memory card if in case you’re using two or more of those tiny storage cards. Overall, W760’s design is elegant enough that you would want to display it to your friends everytime.

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