The difference here is that while both of those phones looked and felt as cheap as the price tag attached to them, the W boasts a far more assured and desirable appearance. For starters, it's agreeably diminutive. Weighing in at a miniscule 79 grams the W is so light it almost feels like a toy. Thankfully the robust build quality - a SE hallmark - quickly convinces you otherwise. The rubberised plastic casing may not exude class but it helps the phone sit snugly in your palm, and generates a pleasingly dependable impression.
Those of you who appreciate retro phone design will be happy to note that the W is a 'flip form' handset - the like of which has become quite rare in these days of swanky 'sliders' and 'spinners'. The flip covers the keypad and features five dedicated Walkman buttons that allow you to effortlessly control your tunes when the phone is closed.
Speaking of music, the bundled Walkman software turns out to be disappointingly outdated, but this is probably to be expected given the modest nature of the phone. Camera: 1. Supports burst mode, night mode and has self-timer. Still image resolutions: x , x and x pixels. FM Radio. Fast Port stereo audio jack. Can record voice memo. Supports vibration alert. Networking: Bluetooth v2. USB 2. Software: Netfront web browser and web-based email and IM. PIM tools include contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, stopwatch, timer, calculator and alarm clock.
Thin and Slim Measuring 4. Camera The Sony Ericsson Wa comes with a 1. Display: 1. Resolution: x pixels. Performance: 9MB internal memory. Size: 4. The keys themselves react only when pressed by a finger and not some other object. The display and the keys have a nice backlighting, but only when used in the dark. Under bright sunlight the display is totally illegible and becomes useless. The hidden display has a nice backlighting but is useless in bright sunlight.
The secret behind the gesture control magic of the device is this. Once you get a call or your alarm sounds, the Sony Ericsson W activates the camera and uses it for motion detection - something even cheap webcams can do nowadays.
Then you just wave your hand in front of the camera and the call or alarm gets silenced. According to Sony Ericsson you have to wave twice in front of the camera to accept your gesture, however as you can see from our video, even a single wave would do it. Unfortunately there are no advanced settings for this feature so you can't use it for other purposes or applications, nor does it understand other gestures besides waving. In order for the feature to work, Sony Ericsson has equipped the camera with a really small LED strangely enough it can't be used as LED flash for the camera.
When there's an incoming call and the light is not enough for the camera to "see" you waving, the LED turns on in order to assist it. It should be noted that the task of opening the clamshell becomes almost an impossible one if you attempt it single-handedly.
Once you open the clamshell, the spacious keypad gets revealed. The keys are well made but the surrounding plate is covered in dots which reminded us of the now elderly Nokia The alphanumeric keys are somewhat hard to give in under your finger press, but there's ample space between them so you are unlikely to make typos, if that's a consolation.
The upper part of the keypad features the standard Sony Ericsson keys - a D-pad, two context soft keys, a correction C key and a Back key which is becoming obsolete in the upper range of the latest Sony Ericsson phones. The alphanumeric keys are hard to press but there's ample room for your thumb. On the back side of the Sony Ericsson W there is a hardware unlock slider that is used for unlocking the external music keys you probably didn't think of that, did you?
A slide-to-unlock key with a return spring sets the dedicated music keys free. The back cover hiding the battery has a pretty awkward opening system. If this phone is dropped at the wrong angle with the flip open disaster could follow. All the keys but the D-pad are shiny black and reasonably sized. They are bevelled to help with accuracy. The D-pad is silver and about as large as the space will allow it to be. There is no blank space here — every millimetre is used by a key of some sort.
With the flip closed this is a tiny phone, just mm tall, 43mm wide and 11mm thick. But hold your horses. As usual, Sony Ericsson has gone for its side-mounted headset connector; that enormous lump of plastic whose connector doubles up with the mains power charger. On a phone this size it looks stupidly large, and more importantly for music fans, turns a 43mm wide phone into one requiring closer to 60mm of pocket width.
Unforgivable, really. At least there is the saving grace that the headset is two-piece with a 3. Only the Bluetooth stereo output can do that. Sony Ericsson quotes up to 7 hours of GSM talk, hours on standby. My own music rundown test — seeing how long the phone can play tunes non stop off a full battery charge — delivered 11 hours 52 minutes of tunes, which is very respectable indeed. Memory is important to music fans too. The W has just 14MB built in. Music fans will appreciate the lock button on the top edge of the phone.
But it has no effect on the keys that are hidden by the flip. They work when you open the flip whether the hold button is activated or not.
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