Sony Ericsson W910i Review

Sony Ericsson w910i...Hmmm!

I _would_ recommend this phone _IF_ SE could sort out the on-off problem reported on other reviews.

I've had this for almost 2 years, and as a voice phone, and text phone has been good; music has been excellent (providing you use headphones/external speakers - hey! It's a phone - not a portable music centre!!) Camera is mediocre (Hey guys! It's not an Olympus camera, remember!!)

Keypad is a bit fiddly, but I then again, my fingers aren't the smallest; my wife finds it fine. I've found amongst many family and friends that the thinner SE phones are prone to the on-off problem. My own pet theory (IMHO) is that the thinner phones (take the thickness of the main body of the phone where the circuit board is - not the screen module) is that being thin it has less mechanical resistance to the flexes and bends it receives in your pocket/handbag, resulting in microfractures of the circuitboard/powerlines, causing the problems reported ie on-off/lost calls/lost texts/memory drop outs. Updated firmware may make the phone less sensitive to this, but ultimately it's a hardware problem.

It's a pity, as the phone overall has excellent music capabilities - much better than my earlier SE phones (w810i, w580i), but the on-off lack of reliability issues massively reduce it's ratings.

Hope this helps!