Introduction

Reviewing the W960i was the last time I wrote down that thanks to the conjunction of different, very fortunate circumstances we have acquired a phone that although not yet present on the market, is, on one hand, capable of stirring up the readers’ imagination and on the other hand very few people had tested it before. The successor of the W880i did not disappoint me; it is constructed in the same spirit, the design is still a hit, but anything correctable was corrected by the designers.

The latest member of the Walkman family is special because of two things. First and foremost it is made unique by being slim as a blade and second, the use of materials also picks it out from its category. It is undoubtedly a premium category phone, from the same cast as the W880i but besides the acknowledgment of its great design, that phone has been criticized for the small buttons and the radio which only functions through a working Internet connection. Well, these problems are now gone!

The W890i will probably not hit stores this year although the launch timed for the Christmas season would not have been a bad move. The software on our test-phone seemed quite finished (no lockups and hangs) although it didn’t yet contain Hungarian language besides the other Eastern European ones and Turkish. For the very reason that the W890i is a special phone, we didn’t receive either a headset or a charger. A hand reaching out from a car handed over the phone and then: bye-bye!

It’s a pity we had to give it back later.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!