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Sony Ericsson’s Walkman range of phones continues the tradition of music on the move. In this age of iPods and other MP3 players, Sony decided to team up with one of the early mobile phone vendors to deliver a ‘sub-brand’. This, of course, is all old news: the Walkman series has been around for years. These phones are lifestyle orientated products and are primarily aimed at young adults.
This model is a very compact ‘slider’ with a slim-line profile. The overall styling is quite slick and hi-tech. The user interface is also quite slick, with attractive icons and backgrounds, and transition effects. However, these themes are quite system resource intensive, and often the phone is not the quickest to respond, as its processor struggles under the load of animating icons and the like. The sliding action is firm and positive, with no looseness or rattle. The keypad that is revealed when the phone is ‘opened’ is, unfortunately, also firm – a tad too much so, in fact. It is impossible to type fast on this phone as a result. At least it’s extremely unlikely that a key will be accidentally pressed, even with the handset in the open position. The upper half of the phone contains multifunction keys, which double as playback-control buttons when, for example, listening to music. These are accessible and usable even when the phone is ’closed‘ (though protected with a key-lock sequence, to prevent accidental key presses).
This handset features a 3.2-megapixel camera. Although the software that runs it is the same as that in all Sony Ericsson phones, sadly the device itself doesn’t perform on a par with others, particularly in low-light conditions. The screen, on the other hand, is good (though it scratches a bit too easily). Being a Walkman phone, the W595 features quite a slick media player, as well as an FM radio. It also features an accelerometer, which is used to auto rotate the display to a landscape orientation when appropriate, to implement ‘shake controls’ for music playback, and for walking-distance measurement.
One aspect that really impressed me was this model’s battery life – with minimal but continual usage, the battery was still going strong after a week! In fact, it still registered quite a lot of ‘juice’ left. Of course, making calls, playing music, browsing the Web, and whatnot would reduce that to a few days – but that is still a couple of days more than most phones are capable of!
This model is a very compact ‘slider’ with a slim-line profile. The overall styling is quite slick and hi-tech. The user interface is also quite slick, with attractive icons and backgrounds, and transition effects. However, these themes are quite system resource intensive, and often the phone is not the quickest to respond, as its processor struggles under the load of animating icons and the like. The sliding action is firm and positive, with no looseness or rattle. The keypad that is revealed when the phone is ‘opened’ is, unfortunately, also firm – a tad too much so, in fact. It is impossible to type fast on this phone as a result. At least it’s extremely unlikely that a key will be accidentally pressed, even with the handset in the open position. The upper half of the phone contains multifunction keys, which double as playback-control buttons when, for example, listening to music. These are accessible and usable even when the phone is ’closed‘ (though protected with a key-lock sequence, to prevent accidental key presses).
This handset features a 3.2-megapixel camera. Although the software that runs it is the same as that in all Sony Ericsson phones, sadly the device itself doesn’t perform on a par with others, particularly in low-light conditions. The screen, on the other hand, is good (though it scratches a bit too easily). Being a Walkman phone, the W595 features quite a slick media player, as well as an FM radio. It also features an accelerometer, which is used to auto rotate the display to a landscape orientation when appropriate, to implement ‘shake controls’ for music playback, and for walking-distance measurement.
One aspect that really impressed me was this model’s battery life – with minimal but continual usage, the battery was still going strong after a week! In fact, it still registered quite a lot of ‘juice’ left. Of course, making calls, playing music, browsing the Web, and whatnot would reduce that to a few days – but that is still a couple of days more than most phones are capable of!