Sony Ericsson W890 Reviews

1. Good but it reboots!

17 Feb 2009 by Zee

66.7%6.7out of 10

Have had this phone for nearly a year now. SonyEricsson need to sort out their phone software issues because on numerous occasions this phone has rebooted. There was a time when all it would do was reboot every 5 seconds after coming back on again, like it was having an epileptic fit.

Apparently it's a known issue with SonyEricsson handsets, which they don't seem to fix.

Battery life.. isn't great. Having said that it is quite a thin phone so it is to be expected.

Talk/sound quality... During a telephone call, it seems Sony phones tend to pick up all the noise in the environment that you are in rather than your voice.. which means that quite often you have to speak loudly to the other person on the line. I hate that! So if you are on a busy street with loads of cars, or in a department store which is noisy then it doesn't really pick up your voice.

Nokia seemed to perform better in those scenarios.

Calendar - very basic. Personally I tend to prefer having an active standby screen that displays all your appointments for the given day. This one only pops up to what you set the reminder to be.

PC Suite - has improved with an update. Synchronisation with Outlook tends to be temperamental. Therefore it may hang, or never complete.. in which case you need to unplug the phone and try and sync again.

Walkman software - is excellent. Cannot fault.

Camera - cannot zoom when using highest quality picture at 3.2 Megapixel. Tut!

Ringing/Alert quality - Well let's just say that sometimes I have missed calls because I didn't hear it.

After reading this, you might be under the correct assumption that I should have really got a smart phone! :-)

 

Pros

Excellent Design
Brilliant Walkman Software
Improved PC Suite - but still buggy.

Cons

Reboots - A standard thing with Sony handsets
Battery not that great
Camera pretty average
Poor talk/sound quality
Calendar pretty average
Poor synchronisation with Outlook
Ringing/Alert quality

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2. W890

2 Jun 2008 by Kamol Kieawsrikul

96%9.6out of 10

I read >100 reviews on mobile phone in this price range. W890 get the best comment from most users & editors. I finally decide to change from Nokia (after being Nokia fan for 13 years) to this SE W890. After get the phone and play for several days. I really happy with the phone, feature, easy to use and software that SE provided. Excellent design with nice sound quality.

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3. Nice

13 May 2008 by Riverholder

88%8.8out of 10

It`s a very very nice phone! Well designed! The corrections made after his brother ( W880) made this phone a perfect one! Great job!

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