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Sony Ericsson W610i
By: Laiq Qureshi   |   May 28, 2007
  • 3
Good interface
Good Music Player
Earphones with Noise Isolation capabilities
Bundled Speakers
Bad keys
Bad Camera
Nothing new to offer
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In my opinion all the Walkman phones by Sony Ericsson, like the W880i are great portable music players. The latest addition — the W610i — is no different, although we have had some unusually bad experiences with the piece we got for review. I’ll talk about those later however. Although I’ll also mention here that after getting it replaced we observed some rather unwelcome behavior.

Design

At first glance, the phone casts a lasting impression. It’s a sleek and elegant piece of work. At 102 x 46 x 14 mm and just 93 g it’s not just appealingly slim, but also comfortably light.

The display is a 262K colored TFD (Thin Film Diode) supporting 176x220 pixels. Although TFD is a far more ancient a technology than TFT, it helps burns less battery power than the latter making it ideal. Although TFD screens have a fast enough refresh rate, it still can’t beat a TFT screen.

The keys on this one will need a lot of getting used to. The keypad has tiny protruding keys that, with my moderately plump fingers, pose a bit of a challenge. While typing messages you will often end up hitting the surrounding keys and after a lot of jabbing, the keys will begin to hurt your fingers.

The four-way D-pad is a circular ridge that works fine, and can also be assigned as shortcut. On either side of the D-pad are the regular - back, select, cancel and menu buttons. Just a small thought about these buttons — they are bit of a hassle. To begin with, they aren’t comfortable to press, considering the protruding nature. And the fact that they are designed with a semi-circular shape, leaves you with more surface space to long for.

In the center of the D-pad, the play/pause button makes for cozy access. It also doubles as the menu button. On the left side of the phone you will find another play/pause button. So what we have here are two play/pause buttons and two menu buttons. Making good use of the available space? Apparently Not!


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I myt get it on virgin media contract this or LG Shine or nokia 6300? ta x
Sxii Stacey @ Mar 16, 2008
the price is $225 in Maldives...awesome..
sam @ Oct 20, 2007
The price is Rs. 11,500 now, I think that's value for money.
Anon @ Oct 17, 2007
I admire of Sony Ericsson phone when i bought k750i last year on my birthday. it was of around 11000 inclusive of all taxes and i find suddenly worth it. it had great sound quality and picture quality and navigation menus are very simple to use unlike irritating nokia phones(they think people consider their phones very great if they make features which can be understand properly in months). well k750i gave me lot of things but not many big problem was slow interface specially music lists when i fill 256kb Memory slot.it becomes very slow to show all music lists. it does not have EDGE which was important to me to explore web sites during out side (later i know that EDGE facility is very limited e.g. not in U.P and other states in India but yes in Delhi on my Airtel connection) you can understand pain of GPRS speed in India.k750i also does not have A2DP too so i considered to buy a walkman player that has atleast A2DP and faster response . i wrote lot of reviews and finally i chosen W610i(why i did do it ?)
this phone had A2DP plus very fast good music player 2.0 contains lot of good features but but ..
batter gets warm.what is this ? it looks i am using a 2000rs phone oh my god !! and people say it is a louder phone . i do not think so inspite of being a walkman player it can not even campare k750i 's loudness, my friend. but ok! but yes, speakers that are bundles with the phone are truly worth . my godness such a great sound quality they look tiny but they are big boss indeed.
now camera performance. its not a 2.0 mega pixal i do not think so . look at k750i 's 2.0 and then you realize how true i am . worst performance i ever seen of 2.0 it gives a image quality like a 1.0 Mega pixal or VGA camera just like you see in Nokia6600 (alright a bit better than 6600 but ..).
and now finally few words about interface . look at font size terriably big ( are we blind or this phone is made for kids ?) you can not change font size even you change themes . no new games on SE website for w610i . on very first day button gets hurt my fingers it was an experience as you are moving your finger on a slightly blunt knife's edge . believe me .
what now i changed mobile again this month and purchase k790i except lower sound quality this phone is just awesome and only 2000 cos tier now than w610i.

so my friends my suggestion is if you can bear bad camera phone quality , bad style , bad battery and cost you should buy w610i or if you can only bear lower sound quality and 2000 rs more then go to k790i.
anu @ Sep 05, 2007
Rate is Highly
ALBAN @ Jun 29, 2007
one important thing the review left out is that this phone supports multitasking , which is very useful. i think it is over priced
karthik @ Jun 27, 2007
hey man ... i think that their being a bit harsh about on this phone
the keys are just fine although i havent tested the camera properly yet .... can someone please tell me if there is some serious problem with this phone ?
rahul @ Jun 25, 2007
waste
gyani @ Jun 20, 2007
Im on my SECOND W610i and have had major problems with both phones using the 4 and 6 keys when texting. Not a reliable phone!
C R @ Jun 09, 2007
It is awesome phone, the best sound quality, simply rocking !!!!
Dont worry about the reviews, the keypad is perfectly fine. No problems getting used to it.
Ankit Joshi @ Jun 08, 2007
good look.
navas k m @ Jun 08, 2007
Itz the best phone ever made
Syed Shoaib Abbas Zaidi @ May 31, 2007
Dis u collect ur phone from Magnet hypermart :)), coz the photo u have taken is of Karnatak Co-op Hsg Soc from the lane in front of Magnet. :)
Sandeep @ May 29, 2007
jus noticed the "nothing new to offer" wat do expect for a mid tier phone like this? 2gb memory or 5MP cam or inbuilt wi-fi n GPS???
Steve @ May 29, 2007
For a good decent Sony Walkman phone do not look beyond W810i. It is the best deal with speakers and 512 MB included.
Sony W810i @ May 28, 2007
Review is quiet apt discussing all the aspects related to the phone, but the comparison with W880i is quiet a mismatch. As it would be nice to compare it with W810i, havin 99% similar features & Available @ comparatively low cost.
Ankur Jain @ May 28, 2007
Review is quiet apt discussing all the aspects related to the phone, but the comparison with W880i is quiet a mismatch. As it would be nice to compare it with W810i, havin 99% similar features & Available @ comparatively low cost.
Ankur Jain @ May 28, 2007
I Think editor who has reviewed this really sucks
Ask anyone person who is using this phone . Most of the websites and people who are using this phone really like this
Please improve ur Point of view of looking at a Product.
The keys are no different to w880i
Dalveer @ May 28, 2007
Gud one,it has nothing new. This means this phone is refined version of walkman phones from sonyericsson without any glitches.But i suggest people to wait for 1-2 months till the price drops...
cheers
sumanth @ May 28, 2007
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