Data communication, battery
Let’s start with the usual sad things. It’s very positive that the W960i is capable of GPRS and UMTS connections but EDGE support is missing again, but in our little country two providers concentrate a significant amount of power in 2.75G. Compared to P1i it’s a change that the infrared is gone (I don’t miss it), so for local data transfer we have Bluetooth and the USB cable, both having version 2.0. We can achieve an incredible speed with the latter, we can fill up the 8 GB space within half an hour, the transfer speed is over 7 MB/s. The Bluetooth connection didn’t excel that much, we had the usual 60-70 KB/s speed.
By all means I have to mention that the phone has WLAN, which now supports WPA2 encoding. It worked flawlessly although the sensitivity could be a bit better, it could hardly see the hotspot from across the street, while all other gadgets have connected without a problem. The browser… well, there is much to improve here. Of course it has full HTML, but no Flash, and we can choose two types of views: broken to page width, and landscape. We can zoom in steps of 10%, but it’s not a Nokia Minimap browser, that’s for sure. Of course compared to a standard phone it’s really cool, but in comparison with the rivals’ similar phones it doesn’t perform as well.
The camera above the display helps us during video-calling and I have surprisingly good experience with this. Usually these secondary optics give quite an ugly picture but the W960i transmitted my face in good quality to my colleague Gubro even in a darker surrounding.
Of course I didn’t expect much from the battery under the back cover. It has a large display, it was constantly connected to 3G, both the WLAN and the Bluetooth functions were active, so no wonder that it passed out after two days. When the battery is running low on power, the LED above the data connector blinks in red, but even when the phone signaled an empty battery, it still went on for another 5-6 hours, in opposition with a Samsung for example, which gives up the work 10 minutes after the first signal.
In conclusion I have to say that the W960i is a good little machine. It’s far from perfect, I would never buy one of these for myself because it doesn’t match my hands, but the musical part is worthy of the Walkman name, the complexity of the Symbian operating system is another pleasant thing and the 8 GB capacity makes a lot of people forget that the phone’s memory cannot be expanded. The processor should evolve a bit and the absence of EDGE still hurts. It doesn’t have a real concurrent in the market because even if the N95 has a lot of functions, it’s not the same category and the N81 didn’t yet arrive..
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| Sony Ericsson W960i |
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