The Sony Ericsson W980i is the best handset from Sony Ericsson. This is a Walkman phone, which comes with high quality features. This 3G Walkman comes with a flip opening mechanism. This gorgeous clamshell designed handset comes in different vibrating colours. These vibrating colours are piano black, opera brown and violin red. These colours add extra style to your personality. Its key features include 3G HSDPA technology, 8 GB memory, dual colour screens, 3.2 megapixels camera, Walkman music player with external music controls, TrackID music recognition and FM Radio with RDS. Its external casing is enhanced with external music keys.

The easy-to-use device comes with a weight of 100 grams. This light weight device measures 92 x 46 x 17 mm in dimensions. The circular navigation key, shortcut keys, circular call keys and a keypad with individual circular keys are continued when the circular key is in an open position. Its display screen is available in two parts, first internal and external screen. The internal screen has size of 2.2 inches, which is filled with 262K colours. This TFT screen is empowered with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The external display screen is filled with 262K colours, which is empowered with a resolution of 176 x 176 pixels; this sleek phone has altogether refreshing wallpapers and screensavers. This device comes with 8 GB of shared memory, which gives enough space to save data like messages, photos, videos and contacts. Its full rechargeable battery gives approximately 9 hours of talktime and 300 hours of standby, respectively. The Quad Band technology device supports 2G and 3G networks. The high band 2G network covers 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 GSM as well as 2100 HSDPA frequencies.

The Sony Ericsson W980i is incorporated with a 3.2 megapixels camera with digital zoom. Its photo fix option maximise the picture quality by automatically adjusting the contrast and light levels to ensure a perfect finish. The users can view the photos presentation on a slide show mode. All the settings can be adjusted by the camera setting options. The high resolution video camera facilitates and comes with video recording, video player, video clip, picture blogging, video streaming, 3G video calling, picture wallpapers and wallpapers animation. This device also be put on the flight mode.

This excellent audio phone comes with Walkman music player and FM Radio with RDS, by which the users can listen to high-quality songs. The music controls allow the users to play, rewind and fast forward the music. The users can use Shuffle, Playlist and equalise the songs. This device supports polyphonic, MP3 and AAC ringtones. The music player is also integrated with Shake Control, TrackID, PlayNow, SensMe, Disc2Phone software and Bluetooth stereo with A2DP functionality.

Some other communicating messaging features include SMS or text messaging, MMS or multimedia messaging, instant messaging, Email, predictive text input and sound recorder. The entertainment game features are embedded with Java and 3D games. The games can also be downloaded through connectivity features. The organiser features include Phonebook, alarm clock, calculator, calendar, tasks, timer, stopwatch, notes, flight mode, speakerphone, vibrating alert, PictBridge printing and auto rotate.

The Sony Ericsson W980i supports 3G HSDPA, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB connectivity features. The USB connection transfer the data to use a USB cabled connection between the W980i and other USB compatible devices. This device has Access NetFront, WAP 2.0 and xHTML enabled Internet browser. The users can enjoy the 3G video calling through 3G HSDPA option. Thus, the Sony Ericsson W980i is a true Walkman phone.

By: Raina Kelsey