| Dimensions: | 103 x 46 x 9 mm |
| Weight: | 71 g |
| Display: | 240×320 pixel and 262,144-colour TFT |
Price Range: $399.00 to $799.00
Slim Walkman®. Fat sound.
Funnel your favorite music into the ultra slim W880i Walkman phone. Store up to 900 tracks - enough to give your musical taste buds whatever they fancy.
TrackID is also available on the W880i and is one of the coolest features we’ve seen on a phone. This allows you to record a few seconds of any song you wish, through the external microphone. The recording is then sent to a music database and if the song is recognised, the title, album and artist name are sent back to you. It then allows you to download the full track if it is available.
You may mind more the fact that Sony Ericsson has chosen to use absolutely tiny keys, and while in some cases the system works well, the number keys are the smallest we’ve ever seen. At just a millimetre tall and 6 millimetres wide we found them to be simply too small to grapple with for fast texting. The fact that their orange colouring stands very proud of their black background means these keys look nice, but it does nothing for usability.
The music player is the feature that’s at the heart of the W880i, and as you’d expect it’s a really excellent player that can match an iPod in music quality. The music player can be accessed by a single click, and you can play, rewind, fast forward, equalise, shuffle tracks and create playlists. Sony’s MegaBass™ feature gives added woomph when playing music from the built-in loudspeaker, but for the best quality audio you need to listen via a pair of good headphones. A set of good quality headphones are included in the sales package, and the phone is also compatible with Bluetooth stereo headphones. There are some extra gadgets included in the music department. TrackID™ lets you identify a song (name, artist and album) from a few seconds recording, e.g. a song that you hear on the radio or in a club. The PlayNow™ download service lets you buy and download MP3 ringtones from your phone. The phone is supplied with a 1 Gbyte memory card, so there’s lots of room for storing music tracks - almost 250 tracks.
Camera
* Camera - 2-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 2.5x
* Picture blogging
* Video record
Music
* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™
* TrackID™
Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder
Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Modem
* PictBridge
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support
