Review of the Sony Ericsson W350

Sony Ericsson W350

After the thrill of my last Sony Ericsson handset, the C902, i was prepared for additional of constant with the W350. In style terms I got it, but in different respects i was disappointed.

The W350 is a Walkman handset, and thus is designed for music enjoying. It sits at the lower finish of the Walkman vary, though, thus you should not expect huge things of it. it's a tri-band GSM phone with EDGE and if you would like 3G you wish to appear elsewhere.

Sony Ericsson has gone for an additional striking hardware style with this mobile. it's a kind of hybrid between a candybar and a clamshell phone. it looks initially glance like a candybar. The front fascia is half occupied by the screen, half by a pad containing 5 buttons.

The screen is small - it measures a mere 1.8in diagonally, and on paper it looks it's to a small degree short on pixels at 176 x 220. while the screen is a very little blocky to appear at, Sony Ericsson pulls of its usual trick of producing a transparent and bright display. thus while additional pixels would have been nice, this screen remains ok to measure with.

The front buttons are designed during a} very flowing, curvy arrangement. 3 of them are marked up for music control (play/pause, back and forwards). the opposite 2 are unmarked but are vertical scrollers and they sit among a circle that conjointly incorporates the pause/play button and provides a highlight of color against the phone's largely black fascia.

On my review handset this circle was bronze in color, but different choices are on the market too. Vodafone, for example, includes a purple version at its web site.

Now, this bottom part of the front fascia will be flipped downwards to reveal the phone's number pad, D-pad, softkeys, back and cancel keys. The flip is extremely flimsy, bending and bowing when opened at the least application of pressure to it. If this phone is dropped at the wrong angle with the flip open disaster may follow.

All the keys but the D-pad are shiny black and reasonably sized. they're bevelled to assist with accuracy. The D-pad is silver and about as large because the area will allow it to be. there's no blank area here - every millimetre is used by a key of some kind.