The new Sony Ericsson W960i, announced today, is the new top of the line Walkman phone. Headline features 8GB of flash memory (700 alubums, 8000 songs), UMTS (3G) and WiFi connectivity and an autofocus 3.2 megapixel camera. The W960 weighs in at 119g with dimensions of 109x55x16 mm and has a monoblock form factor.
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Now I have to plan to replace my Nokia N80. This phone is great. I dont want the N95 with built in GPS as the GPS is better outside and placed on a open sky position.. I dont want my phone to get baked in the sun as well.. 😉
"A stereo Bluetooth headset (HBH-DS220) will be included in the retail box in addition to the usual wired headset."
The future is here! 😊
No, it's the past. Still no HSDPA.
Guess Who wrote:No, it's the past. Still no HSDPA.
No, it's the future! The difference between HSDPA and UMTS is small! In real life experience is really small! So, u can't tell me "don't buy this brilliant phone cause it don't has hsdpa!" Cause UMTS is clearly enough for all the staff! I think thats the best phone from the new walkman seria, and my words are prooven by the spec sheets.. Also by the phone's outlook(point of own view, it's different for different ppl-thats normal)
Cheers!
Oh wow.. .I'm drooling.
I kinda liked the w950i already but it had a few drawbacks - no camera, no WiFi. This just sounds/looks like it's fantastic.
Put my W950 on ebay today - couldn't get on with the keyboard.
Wonder when this will be available?
"No, it's the past. Still no HSDPA."
I meant it's great that they're including stereo bluetooth headphones in a sales package, wasn't commenting on the actual phone.
HSDPA versus regular UMTS?
Definitely there's a huge difference! You can't even compare regular UMTS with HSDPA as HSDPA, given you're network has good coverage, is 6 times faster...
Imagine downloading a file for only 5 minutes using HSDPA as opposed to what would have been 30 minutes with regular HSDPA...
If only this was HSDPA enable, this would be perfect. I'm not really complaning though because It already has almost everything I could ever want on a mobile 😃
RDS for the radio sounds good - I don't listen to the radio on my N80 on the train just because you have to keep twiddling the reception.
I respect other's preferences. But I still think that S60 smartphones are more productive for daily life work. It's my preference.
Hi all,
Sorry but no HSDPA on Data centric device due towards the end of 2007 is really not on especially when some of the other SE phones are getting it just makes no sense. Although i do think think it is a stunning phone lack of HSDPA and still using the same processors and graphics chip as the P1, P990, W950 and M600 this far down the road is also very disappointing. You have to wonder just how many of those blasted Nexperia chips did SE buy and when are they going to get round to getting newer chips. 90% there just 10% missing but what an important 10% it is IMO.
Marc
another SE phone that does not have joystick... even if the ph has a touchscreen, for some simple tasks, joystick is faster and easier to use.
LED or XENON?
What about the flash? LED or XENON?
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it appears to be, from looking at the photos anyway an LED flash.
I am now torn between a p1i or the W960. the 960 does looks a lot nicer and having a normal numeric keypad might serve me better in the long run as it's what i'm used to, relearning to type might be a bit of a pain.
I hope that they keep the enhancements made in the p1i though like the RAM and stuff, it would be stupid not to though really I suppose.
Hmm... This phone really looks great, is it 950's succesor? Very compact, this is definitely a strong oint. It seems like Sony Ericsson realy knows the term "build quality".
I wonder if they mean to claim that you can actually transfer 1 gig of data in 3 minutes to this phone, or if they're just saying that that's the maximum capacity of the USB hardware. I guess it's the latter, because I doubt that you can actually write 5 megs of data a second to the flash memory.
Actually you can write a flash memory with even more than 5 megabytes per second. My USB flash is usualy written at about 8-10 MB/s.
You can write with even 35MB/s a SanDisk Extreme IV CF card in a SanDisk FireWire800 card reader.
I've just updated the main story:
128 MB RAM - excellent - four times more on boot up compared to W950
Same UI improvements as P1i
UIQ 3.0 - but with performance enhanced and some 3.1 features back ported (really 3.1 was aimed at optimsing for non touchscreens).
I'm assuming this is just a restyled P1, so I'd expect to see Wi-Fi on the spec list, but there's no mention of Wi-Fi on the Sony-Ericsson pages.
So does it have Wi-Fi?
Yes there's definitely WiFi support (SE refer to this as WLAN). I imagine it shares a lot of development with the P1i.
what a sexy phone! what seems to be missing though is a standard 3,5mm jack, even if there's a bluetooth headset supplied.
W960i has got everything that I would have dreamed about.... but NO GPS and a Low Rez QVGA... kinda not so kool.... GPS and VGA screen with 16 M Color would be My Dream Phone
how long would the flash memory..and battery last?
eg. doesnt flash memory wear out after a while??
With all these features, a mobile tracker is compulsory
Too bad it doesn't have Xenon Flash.. I think only two essential features are missing.. HSDPA and Flash.. Dang! But I soO love this phone!
i live in Jamaica so UMTS or HSPTP (or watever it is) doesnt really matter to me i likt the fact that it has WIFI cuz i have a wireless card and its easier for me and cheaper to access it wirelessly so the data connectivity isnt a big issue for me cuz i dont really care about that i like the phone cuz it is cool and has alot of great features and i see most of u nitpicking over one or two features, and it isnt necessary so if ur unhappy make ur own phone company and create ur dream phone and if u cant then stop belly aching about one feature cuz who really goes online with phones anyway for anything significant