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The Sony Ericsson W960 is a great looking smartphone with plenty of top-notch features to offer. However, the user interface and touch implementation make it difficult to get around, and frustrating to use. The Walkman music player and 8GB of internal storage are certainly tempting, but the dreadfully slow USB data transfers and lack of Genre support in the music player are hard to overlook. Also, while the camera application is zippy, the flash and other settings are extremely inconvenient to change, meaning it's only really good for point-and-shoot. Overall, I give the Sony Ericsson W960 a Not Recommended rating. There are plenty of other music-oriented smartphones with good cameras that don't give you a headache to use.


comments from the w960 users please.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 16:00:24
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Not surprised with this tradition of mobileburn. I remember P1 was also not recomended rating. I dnt recomend it as a review site either.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 16:06:06
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they reviewed a commercial unit mind you. and by now, FW should be stable.
its all because of that slow cpu that was tasked to handle files (massive files)
all the goodies of w960 imo were hampered by the slow processor..
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Posted: 2008-05-13 16:15:48
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I remember they gave P1 a bad review too
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Posted: 2008-05-13 17:21:46
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"Dreadfully slow USB transfers" - HUH?!?!

The W960 is the fastest phone I have EVER used for transferring files via USB. I filled up 3 GB on its memory in only a little over 5 minutes! That's not slow at all.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 17:25:22
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sadly.....i'd have to agree with you on this!

it's the fastest i have ever through, transferring some DVD ripped files won't be a pain
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Posted: 2008-05-13 17:33:27
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Mobile Review also said that the W960 had a VERY fast USB transfer so im surprised Mobileburn say it's slow, they must have had a bad unit, i don't read their reviews anyway.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 18:41:50
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The reviewer was using SE's Media Mgr sw to transfer the files, which in turn uses the (slow) USB media transfer protocol.

Other reviewers (and users here) were/are using the mass storage, full High Speed USB 2.0 protocol which is undisputably much, much faster.

There's absolutely no need to use SE's Media Mgr to transfer files (unless you need to recompress your music during the transfer - but why would you?!). Use it to organize, rank and/or add Sense Me data to your music (mobile does not need to be tethered). Then tether the mobile using the mass storage option to move your music quickly over to the mobile memory.

A sloppy bit of oversight on the reviewer's part IMHO.

And re. the 6 key presses to get to the flash setting, one press of the '*' will toggle flash on/off in the camera app. Other camera app shortcuts (increase/decrease brightness, hide/show icons, frame size, AF on/off, and Night Mode on/off) can be seen/hidden by pressing the '0' key.

Another sloppy bit of oversight on the reviewer's part. Again, IMHO.

And if I'm not mistaken (sold my N95 long ago), using the Active Toolbar in the N95 camera app would still require a min 5 or 6 key presses to toggle the flash on/off. Don't seem to recall many reviewers making any brouhaha about that.


[ This Message was edited by: yyzxmn on 2008-05-13 18:35 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-13 19:02:27
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Activating flash difficult, huh?

As in most SE phones, pressing * activates the flash, 7 activates night mode, 4 changes focus mode & 1 changes picture size. The only 'simpler' alternative that can implement is a thought-reader.

Ofcourse as everyone has mentioned, data transfer speeds are the fastest among all devices.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 20:09:01
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w960... great phone :!:
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Posted: 2008-05-13 22:02:48
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