I know nobody here cares about cell phones but I just bought the W850i in the color precious black and it' s amazing!
I' m not going to mention obvious stuff like 3G speed Web browsing, organiser functions or videocalls but I will tell you about the extra awesome stuff. This is Sony Ericssons latest music phone so in order to not take light from their camera phones (k800i) or their smart phones (p990i) they have put lesser focus on that in this product.
The sound on the Walkman-player is awesome and it supports MP3, MP4, M4A, 3GP, AAC, AAC+, AMR, MIDI, IMY, EMY, WAV and Real8.
It has Sony' s Mega Bass which really, really turns up the bass and the stereo headset you get with the package are amazing, far above the average headset. I' ve yet to listen to a better headset than this. You can also plug in your own headphones into the headset cabel if you have better ones.
The orange wide button above the keypad is the Walkman button. Press that and you' ll bring up your Walkman player. Once you listen to music the button will flash to the music. It' s completely useless but it looks really cool and you' ll have people flocking around you when using it. Of course this feature can be turned off.
Thanks to the Walkman player you can easily create playlists, organise your tunes and see track, artist and album info on the screen.
The phone has multitasking so you can surf the web, write messages or other stuff at the same time you' re listening to music.
1GB of memory is in the package and you can upgrade to 4GB (Sony memory stick Pro duo).
The speakers are quite good too so if you want to listen to the radio along with some friend then it' s no problem.
In the package you get PC software that makes it very easy to transfer music and other files between the phone and PC' s. It even transfers files directly from CD, converting the files for you.
You can also install MMS, web and other settings very easy via Sony Ericssons website.
There' s also an FM-radio which works really great. The best thing about it is the TrackID feature. If you' re listening to a song on the radio and want to know the name of it you can easily press the TrackID option. This option records a couple of seconds of the song and then finds the information on the Internet to tell you the artist, track and album. It' s a free feature so the only thing you pay for is the data transfer. The feature has worked perfectly for me.
If you' re hearing music from another source then you can simply record that music too and do the same thing. Simply amazing.
The design of the phone is the best I' ve ever seen. It looks good, it works good and the weight has been placed on the right spots too so it feels really comfortable in your hand. It even has a metal bar in the middle of the top side making sliding the phone open much easier. My only design complaint would be that the top row of the buttons are to close to the screen part making it difficult for people with fat fingers to push those buttons. The size is like the W810i which is very impressive for a 3G phone. It doesn' t feel big like many other 3G phones.
The screen is big and has great colors and resolution. It has a sensor that measures the light in the room and adjusts the screenlight accordingly. Very convenient!
If you want to view videos or play games in widescreen it supports switching to that option.
One thing i dislike about the videoplayer is that you can' t pause, rewind or forward any videos. Too bad if you' re watching a long clip and needs to do something else for a while. Other than that the video playback is very satisfying. I converted some videos (Ergo Proxy actually) and they looked as good on my phone as on my PC. Subtitles were very sharp despite being un such a small screen.
The menus are easy to understand and if you want a more stylish menu you have the option to change theme in the options menu.
The included wallpapers react to your walkman player so they change color and pattern when turning the Walkman player on.
The camera kind of sucks for a Sony Ericsson phone. Of course, it' s Sony Ericsson which only Nokia can compare to when it comes to cameras. But compared to the K800i it sucks. It still takes decent pictures with it' s 2 megapixel camera. The reason it' s not great is the lack of auto-focus which means the pictures get a little blurry.
It does have facewarp which is a really funny feature where you can morf peoples faces in various ways. You can also edit pictures and add effects, reduce red eyes and stuff.
Everything else works flawlessly like organiser functions, phone calls, messaging etc. Right now I' d recommend this phone above any other 3G phone on the market.
I couldn' t get a Wii but this will keep me happy until I get one.
More info about the W850i on Sony Ericssons website
< Message edited by ginjirou -- 10 Dec 06 20:23:18 >