Sony Ericsson has established an enviable reputation as a company that blends music and mobile phones well, and their new mobile phone, the Sony Ericsson W910i, carries on that tradition, but also upends it a little.
That’s due to the new browsing system on Sony Ericsson mobile phones, called SensMe, which offers a completely different type of music browsing experience. Forget going by artist, album, or genre; instead SensMe sorts music by tempo and mood. Whether that’s good or bad depends on the user, of course, but it’s unusual and the company obviously believes in it; it’s now standard on all Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile phones.
The sound is every bit as good as on previous models (virtually all music file formats are supported), possibly even better, with a loudspeaker built in, and the trademark Megbass equaliser on board, letting listeners customise the sound a little. Those are both good things, but the company does fall down on a couple of essentials. There’s an adapter, but no 3.5mm headphone jack, which seems a grave omission on such a serious music phone. Perhaps even worse is the fact that there’s just not enough memory to store a great deal of music, certainly not enough to satisfy anyone who’d be a likely purchaser.
The camera is very much of an afterthought of the Sony Ericsson W910i, weighing in at a very scant two megapixels, and lacking even autofocus. Although there are plenty of positives about this handset, it’s far from being everything it could have been, and that’s a shame. Better next time, perhaps?
