Nov 7th, 2006
Sony Ericsson W850 review
Sony Ericsson has released another Walkman Phone, now with a slider. The W850 has a high quality 2″ QVGA display, 3G technology with video calls and a 2 megapixel camera, that misses autofocus.
It is neither a slim or a cheap phone, but it can playback music at high fidelity and you can use your own headphones, due to it’s 3.5 mm standard jack. The phone also has the latest version of Sony Ericsson music player.
The navigation button is tricky to use and can stress you and the Walkman button can easily be pressed by mistake. Those are it’s negative parts, but the alphanumeric keypad’s buttons are very soft and easy to press that writing a phone number or a message can become a pleasure.
The phone’s software is very easy to use and operative, unfortunately it doesn’t have any operating system, like Windows Mobile or Symbian. But that would have made the phone hardly to use and would request much more experience. This is for light users that only need a phone to make calls, write and read messages, listen to music or play. Not using complex softwares.
It’s a great music phone. The music player can play a lot of file formats ( MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV, WMA, M4A and MIDI ) and is very easy to use. You could even use the phone to supply music to a party or something like that, using the 3.5 mm standard jack and the music player.
The 2 megapixel camera takes good quality photos, but bad looking, low resolution video clips. You can use all it’s transfer options to send the pictures or movies, or everything you want to your friends or relatives or directly to your pc. And it has some, like Bluetooth, Infrared and USB.
Sony Ericsson W850 is a great phone, recommended especially for music lovers, that want both a high quality mp3 player and a mobile phone into one piece and that has also got a modest 2MP camera, can play games and navigate the internet.




