Shots were blurry and grainy and colors washed out. Likewise, video quality was unremarkable. Still, the Wi does offer a few creative applications for the amateur photographer. With Photo DJ, you can add one of six fun frames; rotate the shot's orientation; and use various image effects such as brightness, contrast, tint control, and photo marking.
There's also a Video DJ, and if that doesn't satisfy, more picture-, video-, and multimedia-editing options are on the software CD, including QuickTime, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, and a multimedia message composer. Moving photos and videos off the phone is painless.
You can send them in a multimedia message, transfer them via Bluetooth, or the infrared port, or use the included USB cable and software. You can personalize the Wi with a variety of themes, wallpaper, and screensavers.
Alternatively, the phone comes with a Music DJ application for composing your own ring tones and a quirky application called Music Match that plays guitar chords and piano notes. Though it was fun, it wasn't terribly useful. Call quality was quite good with remarkable clarity and volume. We never had trouble getting a signal and rarely encountered static or interference. Callers reported the same conditions, and they could understand us under most conditions. Speakerphone quality was slightly worse--voices sounded hollow, but it was decent overall.
We connected to the Plantronics Explorer Bluetooth headset and encountered admirable call quality as well. The EDGE connection was sufficiently speedy for transferring small files. Using the included Disc2Phone software and USB cable, which also charges the phone, we tried loading music onto our Wi. Transfer time was relatively slow at 30 seconds for a 5MG song, so you'll have to be patient for a large transfer.
On the whole, however, the software is easy to install and exhibited few of the quirks we found on previous models. What's more, the phone didn't turn off automatically when we disconnected the USB cable. Music quality was on a par with that of other Walkman phones: clear and crisp, though one transferred song had some very minor hiccups.
The Wi won't replace a stand-alone MP3 player, but it does the job admirably for short stints. Our one real complaint was that the phone had a tendency to freeze during normal operation, such as when we were scrolling through a menu or when we were using the USB connection. On one occasion, we had to reboot, but more often, the phone unfroze after a couple seconds. The Wi has a rated talk time of 9 hours and a promised standby time of Our talk-time test result came in a bit short at 8 hours, but that's still respectable.
Kent German. The Sony Ericsson Wi suffers from poorly designed controls and keypad buttons and low-grade picture quality, and it had a tendency to freeze on occasion in our tests. Though it has a few design and performance glitches, the Sony Ericsson Wi is a quality, basic MP3 cell phone. Since Sony Ericsson first introduced its Walkman cell phone line last year, music-friendly phones have had mixed success in the United States. Though they're lauded by users and critics alike, including us, U.
Sure, Cingular offers the Wi , but that's the exception rather than the rule. Sony Ericsson no doubt has taken notice of this discrepancy, which may be a reason behind the Sony Ericsson Wi. The only thing that drains the power fast is the Bluetooth radio. If you keep the Bluetooth radio on and keep your Bluetooth headset and car kit connected to the phone, you will likely charge the phone every other day.
The Contacts database can store contacts on the phone, and each contacts can have five numbers, multiple email addresses, URLs, business and home street address, notes and birthday.
You can also associate a contact entry with a picture for caller ID and a unique ringtone. The Calendar, Notes and Tasks applications along with several other utility apps live in the Organizer folder. Calendar has monthly view, weekly view and appointment view. PC Suite is a very capable syncing application that makes sharing data between your desktop and your phone a breeze.
Another application you will use often if you use the phone as your music player is Disc2Phone. The conversion time and transfer speed is decent: a full music CD will take less than 5 minutes when using the Disk2Phone to rip it to your phone. If you are looking for an affordable GSM clamshell phone with good phone features and connection capabilities, you should give the Wi a look, especially if music is your thing.
Pro: Compact size and lightweight, strong reception, excellent call quality, good browser by WAP browser standards and capable messaging features. Transferring music files to the phone is easy and the expansion slot is handy for storing tunes.
USB 2. The phone is a little buggy and freezes up once in a while with no apparent cause. When that happens reboot the phone or take the battery out for a few seconds. The number pad keys look great but are a bit hard to use. The Bluetooth radio drains a lot of battery power. Web site: www. Display: k color TFT screen, x pixels main display; monochrome, x 80 pixels external display.
Battery: mAh Lithium Ion rechargeable. Size: 3. Weight: 3. Camera: VGA camera with 4x digital zoom. Also records video clips with audio. Picture resolutions are x , x and x and videos can be taken at x and x 96 resolutions. Vibrating alerts supported. Software: Sony Ericsson OS.
Also included are three JAVA games. Expansion: Memory Stick Micro M2 slot. Music, Gaming and Multimedia Next to being a phone, the Wi really wants to be your music player. It claims it is for attaching a lanyard so you can hang the phone around your neck, and in a hot climate where people don't have jackets this makes sense.
Unfortunately, it's only hot for a few weeks in the UK and therefore wearing a phone around your neck isn't necessary -- we found the aerial just gets annoying in your pocket. We also felt that the large hinge on the Wi looked out of place, and found the OK button unnecessarily small. Conclusion Sony Ericsson's Wi is a value for money handset and comes with a good balance of features.
There are several ways you can communicate with other devices and storage is also made easy with the expandable memory slot. The keypad suffers somewhat though, and the camera could have been better. The Good Walkman software, infrared and Bluetooth connectivity; good audio quality on calls; orange monochrome external screen, MB bundled memory card, 3.
Sony Ericsson's Wi is a compact, cute Walkman phone that has a variety of communication options and comes with good music software.
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