Exterior

This handset is about the exterior. When looking inside the almost cube-shaped box, we get to see a stereo headset (unfortunately not the earplug type) and a USB cable besides the phone. I don’t think we should expect more, the most important is the phone that has a bit longish design compared to earlier (much earlier) similar models. When putting it near T28 we have to face how much did the mobile phone industry evolve in a couple of years, as the phone that back then was considered extra flat, now looks a chubby, fat piece of brick when compared to W350i.

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The protagonist of our review has arrived in black, but there are white and blue editions too, and moreover the black one is available with violet or orange secondary color. We had the latter one. This is not so good-looking like the other editions, but it still attracts attention, on one hand because of its form factor, and other hand because of the shiny orange parts. On the front (on the external part of the flip) we can find the music control keys. On the side there is an orange stripe running along, while on the hinge at the bottom there is a discrete Walkman logo.

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The data connector is on the left (poor guy is unprotected), which is understandable this time, as there wouldn’t have been enough room on the bottom. Besides this we can also find the music player’s hotkey on this side. On the right we can see the volume control keys, and there is a huge bonus point awarded for the slider keylock. The soft plastic back cover doesn’t have any attractions, the camera is kind of desolate, there is only a manufacturer logo and an orange W for identifying the phone. These have been printed with a 90 degree rotation, which is strange because W350i doesn’t have to be held horizontally when taking pictures.

After opening the phone the keypad fills out all available space, and although the keys might seem large enough, there are quite small in practice. This is mostly important for the central button of the silvery navigation ring, this usually has to be pressed with a nail, as it is tiny and it doesn’t pop out of the plane of the buttons. Of course it does not, we couldn’t close the flip if it would.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!