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With an ultra-thin design making it only 9.4mm thick, the Sony Ericsson w880 slides into your pocket with almost no bulge resulting. Laying flat the W880i has a footprint of 46.5mm by 103mm, with a rubberised back preventing it from skidding around if thrown down on a table. Tipping the scales at only 80 grams.
The W880i has a compact but sharp screen capable of showing 262K colours and 240x320 pixels. Like many petite phones, such as the Samsung X830, the W880i's biggest drawback is its keypad. Sony Ericsson has made the W880i's keys as tiny slivers, which lack space between them vertically; large fingered people will have problems distinguishing the buttons. Sony Ericsson has abandoned its usual joystick in favour of a four-way nav key that, like the rest of the keypad, is fiddly and prone to accidental presses, mainly due to the closeness of the directional keys to the centre selection button. If your fingers are small, though, you shouldn't have a problem with navigation or typing text messages -- Sony Ericsson's interface remains one of the easiest to use.
Flip the W880i over and you'll find a 2-megapixel camera on the back, but without a flash of any kind. Shortcuts on the side of the W880i are for launching the camera, opening the Walkman music application and adjusting the volume. The proprietary charging and connection port is moved from its usual bottom placement of the phone to the side, directly above the hot-swappable Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot.
As with all Walkman-branded phones, the W880i is bundled with a 1GB memory card -- room for about 250 MP3 or AAC songs. With the focus of this mobile being music, Sony Ericsson throws in an excellent pair of headphones, which have rubberised tips that fit snugly in your ears and block out some ambient noise.
In addition to the main 2-megapixel camera, there's a low-res secondary camera on the front for video calling. As such the W880i supports 3G (UMTS 2100MHz) networks. Other wireless inclusions are tri-band GSM connectivity and Bluetooth 2.0, which supports the stereo music profile (A2DP) so you can use the W880i with wireless headphones as well as Bluetooth headsets and car kits.
Flight Mode allows you to listen to your tunes without sending out any radio signals, but a notable omission from the W880i's range of music features is an FM tuner -- most other Walkman phones come with this as standard.
As thin as the battery is, Sony Ericsson claims the W880i is capable of up to 6.5 hours of talk time or 425 hours of standby per charge. Unfortunately we struggled to get more than three days from the W880i, with usage patterns of a few phone calls per day, a handful of text messages and a couple of minutes of 3G video content streaming.
All up the Sony Ericsson W880i will appeal to those looking for a good music phone and those that seek a thin, fashionable phone.
This handset is locked to the Orange Network and can only be used with an Orange Network Sim card. |
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