Tech
This is an expensive phone that ranks up amongst the higher end phones that Sony Ericsson has, so it’s gotta have all the cutting-edge features right? Yeah, it’s got 3G with a secondary VGA camera for video calling, Bluetooth with A2DP stereo support, the excellent full NetFront web browser (even over normal WAP connections), USB 2.0 for fast data transfers, a newer Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory card slot (and a 1GB stick in the bundle).
But the phone doesn’t have EDGE network support, which isn’t something we deserve, especially after paying this much money. So the phone wasn’t designed for India initially, which could be the reason why EDGE wasn’t a priority (it’s got 3G instead), but didn’t what use is 3G here? Web surfing is very slow, but you can take your own pictures without turning the phone around! That’s not very good a trade-off, is it?
Multimedia
Once again, this section is quite complete except for one pretty fundamental feature. This is the first Walkman phone without an FM radio tuner built-in. It doesn’t make any sense. Samsung skips the FM radio all the time in their higher end phones, but Sony just can’t get away with doing that, especially with a Walkman-branded phone.
The speaker on the rear of the phone also doesn’t perform as good as you’d expect any Sony Ericsson phone speaker to. The clarity and crispness is here, but at louder volumes, it distorts heavily, which is not a very Walkman trait. And I’m not even talking about the highest volume here. The speaker is good enough for ear-piercingly high ringtones, though. The provided Walkman earphones deliver as expected, but my Fontopia earphones, plugged into the same headset adapter, sounded much, much better.
Format support is nothing to hold up placards about – you have the usual MP3, AAC playback, 3GP, MP4 video playback, MP3 ringtones, etc.
The phone also has TrackID music recognition service that lets you record a few seconds of any song playing anywhere and identifies the track via an online service powered by Gracenote (of CDDB fame), provided you have GPRS enabled. The service is free, so other than your monthly GPRS fees, there’s nothing to pay per track ID or anything like that. TrackID works as advertised, but it really can only identify mostly popular music like 80’s hits such as Eye of the Tiger, hip-hop/pop tracks from more recent times like Nelly Furtado and even some Hindi music like Ya Ali from the movie Gangster. But that’s exactly the biggest problem with TrackID. If its popular music, chances are, it’s called ‘popular’ because everyone knows it. So why would you need to ID popular music? Needless to say, it didn’t id any of my music, mostly progressive, electro and trance tunes from DJs such as Dubfire, Sharam and Matt Darey. If you’re not into popular, top 40 type of music, then TrackID won’t do you any good.
There are a couple of problems with the W880i is the placement of the connection port. The port, which is usually at the bottom, has been placed on the lower left side of the phone. Ports on the top or bottom are easier to manage when listening to music with the phone in the jeans pocket, which is a luxury you won’t have with the W880i. The other problem is that the Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot is right under the port, making it difficult to remove or replace the memory card while a headset or charger is connected. Fortunately, this isn’t a scenario you’d find yourself in, too often.
w880i is this phone works in india?, plese reply 
