Sony CMD-Z7e Review

Overall Rating

Small, stylish, strong backlight

Low battery life, ringtones inaudible, vibration alert undetectable, delicate, games awful

The CMD Z7 looks the part but fails to deliver. Although there are many features such as the scheduler, WAP applications and Voice dial and memo functions, the memory on the phone is quickly filled, and navigation around the device is convoluted and irritating - the "quick select" keys will take you to a menu but not to a suib-menu item e.g. you can select "messaging" but cannot get directly to "Outbox" from the front screen in one or two button presses. Add to this the fact that the ring tones and message alert tones don't actually feature "ring ring" and cannot be updated and you are left with a phone that looks the business but fails to deliver - definetly a triumph of style over substance.