Menu
A lot of people may have been waiting for a significant innovation in the W960i’s menu system, but it has been already known that this innovation did not happen. The phone is equipped with the same system as for example the P1i, so there is no notable change if we don’t consider the active desktop prepared for the Walkman functions and the renewed music player already seen in K850i and W910i.
The Symbian 9.1 operating system runs the UIQ platform usual from the manufacturer and it is currently at version 3.0. The speed necessities are taken care of by the 208 processor running at 208 MHz, which is sometimes just not enough. The 384 MHz core used by rival Nokia performs much better, but of course in the case of Sony Ericsson we must take into account the touch screen as an advantage, but to tell you sincerely it isn’t always a clear benefit. Opening messages takes the most time. Of course it isn’t critical, but as we have seen much faster models, the difference is notable.
The menu is constructed logically, although I have been a bit oppressed a bit by the need for both hands to use it. Almost every function can be accessed faster through the touch screen, but because of the phone’s size only by switching hands can the lateral wheel, the numeric keys and the different spots on the display be reached properly, one after the other. Just like in the M600i the function texts appearing on the bottom of the screen do not have a corresponding hardware button, accessing them needs the use of the touch screen. I would have preferred normal buttons to help using the phone instead of the music control keys, but a Walkman is a Walkman.
Anyway, the phone can be customized completely, themes can be applied, colors are changeable, the active desktop and other virtual hotkeys wait to be modified as we want it. I liked the task manager a lot, which can always be accessed from the top right corner. Switching between running tasks is very easy and closing a task is just two clicks away. This comes in handy sometimes because launched applications can only be minimized with the “Back” button; they keep running in the background. Fortunately I have never experienced any slowdown due to running multiple tasks. It happened that the camera, the calendar, the music player, the browser and the messaging service have been running together but if I don’t open the task manager I wouldn’t have even noticed it, so stability is simply brilliant.
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