After spending so much time with the Nokias and iPhones of the world you forget that technology and design has progressed enough to bring us feather-light and waif-thin phones. Hello Sony Ericsson W series phones and a big hello to the W890i.
The W890i didn’t exactly come out of the blue. It’s pretty much an update of the W880 but that’s fine as the W880 was also a great phone, just like this. The best feature of this phone might actually be the thin design when you consider that this is also a 3G phone. You rarely see 3G phones this thin. The brushed metal design of the silver one really rocks. Forget the other choices. I loved this design.
Being from the W series it’s a music phone first and foremost with Walkman Player software version 3.0 on it, 2 gigs of plug in memory for all your music which isn’t a lot when you have an 8GB Nokia N91 or a 16GB iPhone but enough for a few albums at least. One button (on side) access to the Walkman feature displays the tracks in a great user interface. This is the one bugbear I have with phones. Too many of them fail when it comes to the software and the interface. They got it right here. Nice features too for sorting and tagging your music. For the music fascists amongst us (hi!) this power feature is great but 99% of people will probably not use it. We also have a radio on this phone. Yeah, no having to buy an outside jack with a radio at more expense.
Texting is easy on this and very easy considering the size of the keyboard. The areas where this phone is let down are actually the lack of WiFi but it doesn’t bill itself as offering everything and it doesn’t have a flash for the camera which is almost unusual for a Sony Ericsson these days.
Summary:
This is a brilliant music phone, a great 3G phone and a lovely waif phone. Ticks many boxes.