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Sony Ericsson C510 review
By Kaloyan Stoychev, 23rd of March 2009
The C510, as its model name implies, is Sony Ericsson’s most affordable Cyber-shot phone till date. It’s also the first Cyber-shot handset to use the index number 5** and to use the Smile ShutterTM technology. Fact is, it’s a mid-end handset and although the features may not sound too impressive, it’s really a little gem of a phone. It’s got both the looks and smarts to satisfy your not-too demanding parent or teenager, who wishes only for a tastefully designed phone that can do almost anything else a normal phone can plus a very nice camera. It’s a phone for the masses, really.
Sony Ericsson C702 preview
By Michell Bak, 7th of June 2008
The Sony Ericsson C702 is the new junior Cyber-shot phone, featuring a decent 3.2 mega pixel camera with auto focus and face detection, as well as a revamped user interface compared to the K550, which seems to be its predecessor. When announced, the C702 was the first GPS-enabled phone by Sony Ericsson, adding the ability to geo-tag your photos, when connected to GPS satellites. To further enhance the C702’s camera abilities, Sony Ericsson got the C702 IP54-certified, meaning it is more or less dust proof and splash resistant from all angles. This will enable photography enthusiasts to take photos in more extreme conditions than previously possible.
Note: This is a large-scaled preview.
Sony Ericsson C902 review
By Michell Bak, 31st of July 2008
The Sony Ericsson C902 is Sony Ericsson’s latest Cyber-shot branded phone on the market, and with its slightly updated camera software and additional features, it is also the best Cyber-shot phone on the market, although it lacks a xenon flash. While C902 does pack a decent feature set, the most impressive thing about it is undoubtedly its build quality and feel.
Sony Ericsson C905 review
By Kaloyan Stoychev and Michell Bak, 3rd of January 2009
On paper, Sony Ericsson aims high with its latest 8-megapixel Cyber-shot phone, the C905. It’s the first product from the Japanese/Swedish venture to sport such a high resolution camera, and, if you ask us, also the first capable of competing with the standalone compact camera. In addition to this, the C905 features built-in GPS, and is also Sony Ericsson’s first feature phone to include WLAN. Mix that up with Sony Ericsson’s excellent user interface and a slightly updated set of organizer applications, and you’ve got yourself a mighty fine, albeit heavy and large, phone for the masses.
Sony Ericsson G700 preview
By Michell Bak, 2nd of July 2008
The Sony Ericsson G700 is Sony Ericsson’s cheapest smart phone to date, and probably also the last Sony Ericsson phone to be making use of the UIQ user interface. It’s not necessarily marketed as being a smart phone, but rather being a smart feature phone.
The G700 is all about organizing your life and staying up to date with your next step - which is lucky, considering it’s good at doing so.
Note: This is a large-scaled preview.
Sony Ericsson G900 review
By Michell Bak, 21st of June 2008
The G900 and its sibling, G700, represent a new kind of Sony Ericsson smart phone products, that don’t look or feel like a smart phone, yet perform and deliver as one would expect a smart phone to do. These G’s are targeted at the normal everyday consumer, who wants a little extra something from his phone, while still keeping the price low. Both phones can be used almost solely without the use of a stylus, separating them from Sony Ericsson’s previous smart phones. In a very good way, that is.
Note: This review is also of interest for (potential) Sony Ericsson G700 owners, as these phones are very similar with only minor differences.
Sony Ericsson K550 review
By Michell Bak, 16th of June 2007
The K550 is part of the second generation Cyber-Shot phones along with K810. Where K810 replaces the K800, K550 replaces the older K750, which introduced 2 mega pixels in camera phones and auto focus in a compact design.
Note: This review is old-styled
Sony Ericsson K660 review
By Michell Bak, 3rd of May 2008
The Sony Ericsson K660 is a stylish web phone targeted at the youth. K660 impresses with speedy internet connection possibilities, a bold design and choice of colour, as well an attractive price tag. This is a traditional Sony Ericsson phone - which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Sony Ericsson K850 review
By Michell Bak, 10th of November 2007
The K850 is Sony Ericsson’s camera flagship phone of the year packing the 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus, xenon flash, BestPic, Cyber-shot technologies and a whole lot of extra features. But of course it’s not just a phone with a great camera - it’s a phone with the new Sony Ericsson user interface and platform (with the new Media application), 3.6 mbps HSDPA, large and vivid 2.2 inch TFT display with a great viewing angle, first time touch sensitive softkeys/screen concept, innovations in the design, functions and more.
Note: This review is old-styled
Sony Ericsson P1 review
By Michell Bak, 8th of March 2008
The Sony Ericsson P1 is Sony Ericsson’s first smart phone in a smaller physical size than ever before. It’s approximately 25% smaller than its predecessor, the P990, and with a weight just below 125 grams, it’s also about 30 grams lighter. Furthermore, Sony Ericsson put in twice the amount of RAM memory, which means about 4 times the work memory as on P990. The QWERTY keyboard has of course remained, but has now been embedded into a two-key system, also used on the M600 messaging smart phone. P1 feels great in hand, and is built like a phone from the good old days.
Sony Ericsson S500 review
By Michell Bak, 2nd of August 2007
The Sony Ericsson S500 is the first slider phone with the “emotional design” from Sony Ericsson. It is also the first slider in the S-series. I’d bet you remember the first spy pictures of S500 - every one was saying / thinking that this one would be the first phone in a E-series of phones. Where else in the portfolio was it to be put(?), seemed to be the question everybody was asking. But then the day came, and it was released. Surprise, surprise, it was named S500! Rebirth of the S-series, that was formerly dedicated to swivel phones!
Note: This review is old-styled
Sony Ericsson T650 review
By Michell Bak, 6th of January 2008
Who doesn’t remember the good old T610? I certainly do, mainly because it was one of Sony Ericsson’s best products ever and it was an important brick in a huge puzzle for the manufacturer. The story goes on with the T650, which is a 12.5 millimetre thin design oriented phone with an excellent camera. T650 will be popular - I just know it will!
Sony Ericsson W380 review
By scotsboyuk, 30th of March 2008
The W380 is a stylish clamshell handset that compliments Sony Ericsson’s Walkman range. Like many previous Sony Ericsson handsets this one isn’t going to blow you away with an impressive list of features, but that’s not the point of the handset, and understanding that will allow you to appreciate the things it does excel at, not the least of which is its design. Simply put this is a handset aimed at looking good whilst delivering some fun at the lower end of the market.
Sony Ericsson W595 preview
By Michell Bak, 17th of October 2008
The Sony Ericsson W580 was a great hit, especially among youngsters, and its successor, the W595, is set to take over where W580 left. W595 is a funky looking HSDPA-enabled Walkman phone in a slick and thin slider trim that will appeal to most.
Note: This is a large-scaled preview.
Sony Ericsson W715 review
By Kaloyan Stoychev, 22nd of April 2009
What mainly differentiates the W715 from other Walkman feature phones is that it’s the first one to feature Wi-Fi. It’s also got a big screen for better browsing, a GPS module, a great and stylish shell and, last but definitely not least, Sony’s trademarked Clear Audio and Clear Stereo sound enhancement technologies. It’s not even a high-end phone, at that.
Sony Ericsson W760 review
By Michell Bak, 26th of July 2008
Sony Ericsson’s latest high-end Walkman offering is much more than just another Walkman phone. It is the first Walkman phone to combine an array of features, including built-in GPS, HSDPA network connections, Walkman 3 player, latest Bluetooth standards, and a very impressive user interface. Add to that, an interesting slider design and a nice collection of bundled accessories, and you’ve got the Sony Ericsson W760. It is not perfect, but we’re sure getting there.
Sony Ericsson W880 review
By Michell Bak, 17th of July 2007
The Sony Ericsson W880 is the World’s thinnest Walkman (phone) ever! It’s measuring in at only 9.4 millimetres in depth, which makes it fit perfectly in every pocket. It features the second generation Walkman player for mobile phones, which has a couple of enhancements compared to the first version - but more about that later on. If you compare W880 with W850, you will not find many differences.
Note: This review is old-styled
Sony Ericsson W890 review
By Michell Bak, 21st of March 2008
Sony Ericsson W890 is the multi-talented successor of the revolutionary W880 that was announced in a little over a year ago. W890 follows up by increasing the depth of the phone with a meaningless 0.5 millimetres while adding a whole lot of features and a design that is to die for.
Sony Ericsson W902 preview
By Michell Bak, 19th of October 2008
Sony Ericsson recently announced during the Q3 financial results that its C902 model was the hit seller during this quarter. With such a legacy, the W902 is destined to follow in C902’s footsteps as a hit selling phone.
With the W902, Sony Ericsson addresses the relatively small display and limited memory in the C902, as well as adding a few extra features.
Note: This is a large-scaled preview.
Sony Ericsson W910 review
By Michell Bak, 8th of December 2007
Sony Ericsson W910 can be considered a big brother to the mid-end W580 Walkman phone. Both are pretty thin and have got the slider form factor. However where W910 really separates itself from the W580 is in terms of features, design and pleasure of usage. W910 is the first phone to have Walkman 3.0 with new music features and it’s also one of Sony Ericsson’s débutantes at using the A200 operating system.
Sony Ericsson W960 review
By Michell Bak, 18th of December 2007
Sony Ericsson W960 is Sony Ericsson’s top notch music offering featuring a massive 8 gigabyte flash memory, Walkman 3.0 Touch player, QVGA resolution touch screen, WLAN & Symbian OS with UIQ 3.0. Don’t start shaking in your pants because you just saw UIQ 3.0 being used in the phone - it’s running absolutely flawlessly on W960 due to the 128 megabytes of RAM memory. Multitasking is superb and it’s nearly impossible to dry out this baby!
Sony Ericsson W980 review
By Michell Bak, 6th of October 2008
The Sony Ericsson W980 is Sony Ericsson’s newest and coolest looking Walkman phones. Music is in essence, and with superb audio quality, the Walkman 3 player, an FM-transmitter, external music controls and a massive 8 gigabytes of onboard memory, that should be pretty obvious to anybody. While the design looks rather slick, there are some potentially annoying design issues that should have been dealt with before even announcing it.
Sony Ericsson W995 review
By Michell Bak, 10th of April 2009
The Sony Ericsson W995 is perhaps one of the most important and interesting offerings in Sony Ericsson’s 2009 portfolio. As clearly suggested by the product name the phone is a high-end class Walkman phone, but that’s not all. Sony Ericsson launched the Entertainment Unlimited project a couple of months ago, combining the Cyber-shot camera brand with the Walkman music brand, and the W995 is the first product under the wings of Entertainment Unlimited. What this means is that the W995 could easily be mistaken as an imaging savvy offering with its 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and face recognition.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 review
By Michell Bak and Paul Smith, 15th of November 2008
The launch of Sony Ericsson’s premium high-end brand XPERIA back in February was a courageous and highly unexpected move that now seems to be one of the most brilliant moves in a long time. Without further ado, here is to our in-depth review of what is probably the best and most versatile smart phone to date - the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1.
Sony Ericsson Z770 review
By Michell Bak, 23rd of May 2008
Sony Ericsson’s sales strategy of manufacturing similar products with only physical and minor software changes seems to be a safe strategy. Personally, I’m not a fan safe strategies, but after having used the slim Z770 for some days, I do see why Sony Ericsson continuously announces phones that are very similar to already announced phones. It’s all about style and design - and that’s what’s important on the global market at the moment.
Various reviews
SensMe™ review
By Mik, 20th of march 2008
Having recently purchased a W910i I have had my first experiences of Sony Ericssons SensMe™ function. For those who may not know, with SensMe™ you can discover music by mood. The phone knows the mood of each song without you entering information such as slow, fast, major, minor, acoustic, electric etc.
Camera Shoot-out: Nikon D40 vs Sony Ericsson K850
By Michell Bak, 13th of April 2008
The Sony Ericsson K850 is Sony Ericsson’s best camera phone at the moment. In this camera shoot-out, we’ll do a completely unfair comparison, and put it up against the entry-level Nikon D40 d-SLR camera. Both ‘cameras’ feature a flash and an auto focus LED flash. But what makes these two competitors different? In this detailed “David vs. Goliath”-styled camera comparison, we’ll find out!
Old-styled reviews
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