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Sony Ericsson W980 Review

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Sony Ericsson W980 Review

Published on: 19 November, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

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Interface:

The W980 runs on SE’s A200 interface, like the other high-end Sony devices such as the C905 and W902. If you have used it before you won’t see anything unknown here. There are some incremental improvements that simply infuses some freshness into a familiar OS.


	Standby World	Walk Mate
Homescreen

Here you can put a program on the initial screen too; in this case you can use Walk Mate and Standby World. The first one is a pedometer, showing you how many steps you have taken for each day of the week. The second is a world clock showing three cities at your choice.

Initially, the main menu is comprised of icons arranged in a 3x4 grid style, but you can choose between two other visualizations independent of the theme:

Rotating – the icons appear like a rounded band.
Single icon – the icons appear one by one on the whole screen and change vertically, with a progress bar on the right.


	Grid	Rotating	Single icon
Main menu layouts

Phonebook:

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You can save up to 1000 contacts, each with several numbers for a total of 7000 numbers, e-mail and web addresses, birth date, a personal photo, and both ringtone and video caller IDs.

When dialing a number directly from the home screen the phone will search for number and name matches from both the contact list and call history.

Organizer:

The organizer includes a calendar, tasks, notes, alarms, calculator, stopwatch, countdown timer, coded note, links to programs, file manager and synchronization option. All these functions are standard and are nothing new or unknown so we won’t go into detail.