daniel_joseph
The Techie!
As a Sony Ericsson w810i user, I would like to inform you some absolutely unimaginative quirks which I believe; as a reputed manufacturer they could easily avoid. The WALKMAN branded (w810i) which I own does not have features which is expected of a music player like :
1. Music Playlist Creation: It is just impossible to create playlists for the WALKMAN from the PC which is simply stupid. Also the Disc2Phone software is nowhere near as good as the iTunes Player offered by Apple Inc. (along with iPod) so I use Winamp to transfer music tracks.
2. Absence of Dynamic Playlists: Another problem is the absence of dynamic playlists. Imagine a scenario, I have the Backstreet Boys music tracks neatly arranged in the Music folder with 20 tracks. Now I buy 5 new tracks from some online legal service (I use eMusic) and add it to that folder. As a WALKMAN player it should automatically identify the music and group it in the Backstreet Boys playlist but is not so. I have to (with great difficulty) navigate to the folder, find the new tracks and manually add it to the playlist.
3. Absence of Album Art, Mood and genre: The player should have supported these as a dedicated WALKMAN player.
4. More equalizer modes like classical, rock, punk, alternative could be well easily accommodated.
Other quirks it had:
1. The phone has a built in flash but it does not work like a flash. I look foolish when I on the photo-light to capture portraits and the subjects would stare at the light for a long time before the auto-focus would happen and the image is taken.
2. It is impossible to use Bluetooth stereo headphones with it.
3. Video playback is absolutely jerky. I tried to playback a backstreet boys music video at 176x144 at it was so jerky that, video playback cannot be considered as its feature.The same video I played on my mother's Nokia N70, and it was very smooth. Maybe it is because of a slow processor.
4. The quality of the mobile phone too is not as good as that of the Nokia especially the range.
3. The WALKMAN programs lack a "recently added" folder. It is so tedious to find a new piece of music I transferred.
5. The earphones supplied with the WALKMAN is absolutely stunning, but it is very bass-centric, great for (rock, punk, alternative or nu-Metal types) but absolutely Su(ks for classical music. The earphone wires have deliberately been made incredibly short so we cant use it with any other portable players.
6. Although The earphones are good, there seems to be no support for wireless stereo headphones. I grit my teeth with jealousy when my next door neighbor enjoys wireless music on his Motorola MOTOROKR.
The signal quality, reception and clarity su(ks. Let me explain. I conducted an experiment once. I took both phones to a very remote area, my Nokia N70 showed just one cell of range and I could even make (broken) calls too. I reckon the signal quality was just 5-8%. But when I put the same simcard onto my SE W810i, it showed nothing. NO RANGE at all. Just zero. I was stunned. Also I have noticed; many at a time there is greater chance of broken calls if we are using the SE W810i than the N70 especially while traveling in a highway or a fast car.
I am not comparing the WALKMAN™ to a media player. Even the Nokia N70 (non-music edition) too has a 'recently added' folder which makes sorting way easier especially if you are buying music from the net.
Equalizer changing is fine but we can't save it. It is very difficult when we need MegaBass™ for one track and a classical or a vocal setting for the next.
The camera lens is unprotected. I have already scratched it twice by now.
Except for the quality of the earphone which is sublime there is nothing so much to hype about the WALKMAN™ logo branding.
I really firmly believe that the WALKMAN™ branding is just another marketing hype to fool unsuspecting consumers. I have heard that the SE W800i and SE K750i are identical in terms of hardware but nowhere near in terms of price. I should have thought twice before I went on to purchase this.
1. Music Playlist Creation: It is just impossible to create playlists for the WALKMAN from the PC which is simply stupid. Also the Disc2Phone software is nowhere near as good as the iTunes Player offered by Apple Inc. (along with iPod) so I use Winamp to transfer music tracks.
2. Absence of Dynamic Playlists: Another problem is the absence of dynamic playlists. Imagine a scenario, I have the Backstreet Boys music tracks neatly arranged in the Music folder with 20 tracks. Now I buy 5 new tracks from some online legal service (I use eMusic) and add it to that folder. As a WALKMAN player it should automatically identify the music and group it in the Backstreet Boys playlist but is not so. I have to (with great difficulty) navigate to the folder, find the new tracks and manually add it to the playlist.
3. Absence of Album Art, Mood and genre: The player should have supported these as a dedicated WALKMAN player.
4. More equalizer modes like classical, rock, punk, alternative could be well easily accommodated.
Other quirks it had:
1. The phone has a built in flash but it does not work like a flash. I look foolish when I on the photo-light to capture portraits and the subjects would stare at the light for a long time before the auto-focus would happen and the image is taken.
2. It is impossible to use Bluetooth stereo headphones with it.
3. Video playback is absolutely jerky. I tried to playback a backstreet boys music video at 176x144 at it was so jerky that, video playback cannot be considered as its feature.The same video I played on my mother's Nokia N70, and it was very smooth. Maybe it is because of a slow processor.
4. The quality of the mobile phone too is not as good as that of the Nokia especially the range.
3. The WALKMAN programs lack a "recently added" folder. It is so tedious to find a new piece of music I transferred.
5. The earphones supplied with the WALKMAN is absolutely stunning, but it is very bass-centric, great for (rock, punk, alternative or nu-Metal types) but absolutely Su(ks for classical music. The earphone wires have deliberately been made incredibly short so we cant use it with any other portable players.
6. Although The earphones are good, there seems to be no support for wireless stereo headphones. I grit my teeth with jealousy when my next door neighbor enjoys wireless music on his Motorola MOTOROKR.
The signal quality, reception and clarity su(ks. Let me explain. I conducted an experiment once. I took both phones to a very remote area, my Nokia N70 showed just one cell of range and I could even make (broken) calls too. I reckon the signal quality was just 5-8%. But when I put the same simcard onto my SE W810i, it showed nothing. NO RANGE at all. Just zero. I was stunned. Also I have noticed; many at a time there is greater chance of broken calls if we are using the SE W810i than the N70 especially while traveling in a highway or a fast car.
I am not comparing the WALKMAN™ to a media player. Even the Nokia N70 (non-music edition) too has a 'recently added' folder which makes sorting way easier especially if you are buying music from the net.
Equalizer changing is fine but we can't save it. It is very difficult when we need MegaBass™ for one track and a classical or a vocal setting for the next.
The camera lens is unprotected. I have already scratched it twice by now.
Except for the quality of the earphone which is sublime there is nothing so much to hype about the WALKMAN™ logo branding.
I really firmly believe that the WALKMAN™ branding is just another marketing hype to fool unsuspecting consumers. I have heard that the SE W800i and SE K750i are identical in terms of hardware but nowhere near in terms of price. I should have thought twice before I went on to purchase this.
