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The new W960i may sit atop the Sony Ericsson music phone tree but is it supposed to be a smartphone or a music phone? Maybe a bit of both. The problem with the phrase 'a bit of both' is that it's seldom the harbinger of anything other than compromise or muddled thinking. If we had to describe the aesthetics of the W960i in one …

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  1. Al Taylor
    Thumb Up

    Ear buds

    Sods law! While packing the 960 up to go back to SE a small plastic bag that had been trapped in the rather Byzantine packaging fell out containing...yes, you guessed it, two spare pairs of rubber buds for the phones! Happy to report the larger of the 3 sizes fitted perfectly.

  2. David Gosnell

    LEDs

    Can we please stop referring to LEDs as flashes, even with qualification such as in this article. LEDs on camera-phones make mighty fine torches, and can provide a little helpful illumination for photos in desperate situations, but they are not remotely comparable with flashguns and shouldn't be described as such.

  3. Matthew Coulson
    Unhappy

    No card slot?

    Ouch, 8GB of non-removeable storage. Give us a card slot and let us choose the capacity, and be free to back things up without the need to find drivers/Windows only "pc suites"/custom-connector cables.

  4. Lickass McClippers
    Boffin

    Hmmm...

    ...doesn't sound good enough phone for me to relinquish my brushed ally W880i...

  5. Levente Szileszky
    Coat

    K850i + 8GB M2 = W960i? Ehh, what are you smokin'..:)

    I don't know what are you smoking but I want some - K850i is well behind this phone, I think (sans HSDPA over UMTS, of course.)

    I have this phone for a while and:

    - I use it *without* the stylus (until few days ago I don't even know where did I put my stylus) and

    - with *one hand*

    - yet I can access *everything* including *submenus as well*

    - this latest Symbian OS - same as in P1 - is waaaaay ahead of the K850i's proprietary SE OS

    - touchscreen + roll-wheel + shortcuts give you *multiple* ways to click, start, access etc

    - 8GB+160MB might sound limited for some people but in reality out of my 100GB+ collection I have over 1000 high-quality (e.g. 320k MP3) songs on it, along with few videos (including the ones I shot during last Fall's The Cult concert :))

    - paired with SE's stereo BT headsets it's an excellent urban traveler's music+web setup.

    Am I right when I think this article forgot to mention that W960i it comes with TrackID? If so it must be mentioned, even if it's standard on most SE phones because trackID *IS* the *best-ever* application for *any* music lover - it works literally everywhere for me, even in noisy pubs!

    I must admit it took a few weeks until I figured out the best ways to use it, espcially with one hand - no, I'm not disabled but it's NYC here, the other one holds the coffee mug :) - but once you discover all the tricks you really develop an appreciation for the very thoughtful engineering that went into this phone.

    Perhaps it's time to learn how to use it properly, Alun? ;) :P

    FYI: it takes a bit more than few days but ever since I got this phone - few months ago - I have not touched my perfectly working WM6-running HTC TyTn...

    This phone has a great potential but SE dropped the ball when they did not introduced here, in the US. I've showed it to 4-5 of my colleagues so far and at least 2 people immediately dropped the idea of buying an iPhone, they want W960i instead - too bad SE priced it stupidly high, they should go down at least $100 below Apple's price (8GB) and start promoting it heavily on these markets (the US, that is.)

  6. Al Taylor
    Happy

    Track ID

    Track ID is indeed present on the 960i, as it is on the 850i.

  7. Alan W. Rateliff, II
    Paris Hilton

    Can we get Symbian to the K-series?

    I've been very impressed with the Java Platform on my K790a, even though I have found a few bugs here and there. I'm hoping that JP8 on the K850i is even better, but man, Symbian on the K-series would be very cool.

    Paris, on my K-series, please.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Business Card Scanner

    "Something we haven't come across before was the Business Card Scanner."

    Isn't this a standard feature on HTC/O2 Smartphones these days?! You really should have come across it...!

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