Thursday, February 12, 2009


Sony Ericsson W350i

The design:
Sony Ericsson W350i measures 104 x 43 x 10.5 mm and weighs 80 grams. The phone comes in a few different color schemes, but the orange with black one seems the most appealing. As I mentioned before the W350i is an old-fashioned phone with a flip. On the flip there are several buttons responsible for navigating the Walkman 2.0 music player. The buttons do the work very well and add to the phones neat looks, but the flip itself seems a bit too delicate. Below it you will find the keypad with a D-pad. All the buttons there are comfortable and responsive with rectangular design. On the left side of the phone is the charging port and the Walkman dedicated key, whereas on the right is the volume rocker. At the back of the phone you will find the 1.3 megapixel fixed-focus camera lens.

Performance:
W350i is loud and the reception is very good so making phone call with it is a pleasure. Unfortunately, because of the smallish screen the W350i is not really suitable for browsing the Internet. You can do it, of course, but the websites that are not designed for mobile devices will not look too good. Sony Ericsson W350i uses the NetFront web browser which compresses the pages to fit the screen bit it cannot work wonders. The 1.3 megapixel
fixed-focus digital camera takes photos in small resolution, but of surprisingly good quality. The photos are well saturated with good white balance and generally look very good. The Walkman 2.0 music player also does its job very well, but the headphones included in the box are of poor quality. It’s good that in the box you also get an adapter with a microphone thanks to which practically any headphones may work as a handsfree. The music control on the flip are OK and the only thing about the music player that is weak is the low bass level.

Menus / use:
Sony Ericsson W350i has the good old Sony Ericsson interface available, however, it is a slightlycut-down version, as the phone would not make use of some of the tabs anyway. So the interface is very usr-friendly, uncomplicated and it comes with five different themes. Customization options are also very good, as is the call log and phonebook. The phonebook can store up to 1000 contacts with up to 7 phone numbers for each contact and a few other fields such as: address, website, birthdate and some others. All in all, the Sony Ericsson W350i is a good phone for people who don’t feel the need to show off and use a cell phone to make calls and from time to time for some other purposes.

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