Sony Ericsson W810i Music Phone Review

Where the K800i uses Sony’s Cyber-shot capabilities for photography, ‘W’ series handsets use Sony’s experience with mobile music via its Walkman brand. Now, the ability for a mobile phone to play music is not exactly ground-breaking these days, so we have a right to expect something pretty special from handset in the ‘W’ range.

The W810i is billed as a music fan’s handset and its 512MB MemoryStick Duo card and easy file copy facility is a good start. The dedicated music buttons help too, but its battery life and playback quality fall short of what dedicated players provide. In the end if you want music from a phone this handset is pretty much at the top of the tree in terms of features and capability, but it’s not going to come out on top in a direct comparison with a dedicated player.

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