The Perfect Multimedia Phone : SE W960i

[Pathik]

OFFTOPIC: Speaking of durability... Nothing beats the ngage qd with a silicon cover on...

 

[gxsaurav]

The phone in its current state DOES NOT have EDGE. Period!

Have a look here, Quoted from GSMArena

The handset has UMTS 2100MHz and tri-band GSM/GPRS network support - no EDGE support is present. The Chinese version of the handset will have EDGE but no 3G. Other features of the W960 that are worth mentioning include Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio and USB support.

So it is a confirmed feature like all the other SE phones which usually come in 2 models.

Why doesn't anyone talk about durability. Will this phone handle falls like nokia phones?

Don't know, WE960I is not out yet.

16m colors doesn't make a diff...contrast and screen qulaity is wat matters cos our eyes are not made fr 16m colors...our eyes catcha a max of 65k....and sorry...i think the w960 has bttr flaunt value han the iphpne..just look at its width....the iphone is fat...

Could be, but 16million colours do look good. I think just like W950i & K810i, Sony is using the nVidia Mobile phone GPU in it.

Just read a comparison of iPhone & W960i. My god, iPhone stands no chance in U.S market. W960i is not attached to a single vendor for next 5 years, nor it forces you to buy a 2 years contract, neither it restricts application installation, nor it is low on HD space. This is indeed the 2nd god of phone, First is still N95

 

[Pathik]

^^ u forgot the apple fanbase... they ll lap up anything apple rolls out...

 

[rajasekharan]

OH MY GOD , WHAT A PHONE (Falls of from the chair, slowly gets up , sill mesmerized ).....

damn , i want this....
my SE, my sweet SE....my precious !!!!

 

[gxsaurav]

@ rajasekharan

Slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap....dishummmmmmmmmmmmm...abe hosh main aa

 

[rajasekharan]

damn, its symbian OS is it?????
i hate that thing....i just want Sony's old thing , well atleast i hope the interface is the same....

but still i want this phone...


came back to sense

 

[blueshift]

This is the next big thing if it comes with EDGE and 3G both.

But mind that iPhone still has bigger screen and more colors to display. So viewing on iPhone will be a pleasure.

 

[gxsaurav]

Yup iPhone is a gr8 portable media player or better yet a gr8 iPod.

But it sux in Phone things, the only thing good in iPhone is its ipod compatibility & capability. Do you expect a phone costing 35k approx on lounch to come with only 2 MP cameara & no 3rd party application installation. It is even bigger then SE W960i

 

[dreamcatcher]

hmmm...i wud bttr buy the creative visoin w fr multimedia..costs 15000 less and is way smaller thn the iphone..with an awesum screen...y buy sumthin wch is hyped fr tht purpose but nt as a phone...

 

[gxsaurav]

Ok this is now confirmed it seems. W960i plays videos at 320X240 pixel at 30 fps. Video recording is at 320X240 with 15 fps.

 

[infra_red_dude]

both the symbian uiq in this phone and os x on the iphone are kinda restricted. not all apps for symbian s60 are compatible wid the uiq, and same is the case wid iphone: not many apps. so it will be one area where both hafta improve on.

actually the os x on the iphone is more like bsd kernel wid aqua skin. it is very much stripped down! i think we must give sometime for the iphone to mature.

regarding w960i, i think the are where it needs to improve is the video capture resolution. 16m colours hardly matter. 262k is really sufficient i guess. 16m support has much tradeoff in the form of battery life.

 

[aryayush]

and by the way heard of the accelerometer in the new se phns??...the pictures turn modes as u turn the phn..if is horizontal then the pics go hori..if vertical..the pics go verti

And by the way, that is a feature of the iPhone, not of Sony Ericsson phones.

....and by the way ude..16m colors doesnt make a diff...contrast and screen qulaity is wat matters cos our eyes are not made fr 16m colors...our eyes catcha a max of 65k....

And by the way dude, you are completely and ridiculously wrong. Who told you such an incredibly stupid thing? What are all these screens meant for then? So that Elephants can watch movies on them? LOL! Dude, these screens support so many colours because the human eye can see them. You'd think that if it couldn't, all these companies would stop rolling out more vibrant colour screens, wouldn't they!
I rarely hear something quite so funny. Ha! Ha! Thanks for a hearty laugh!

My Nokia 6300 has a 16M colour screen and I did a direct comparison of the screen with my Sony Ericsson W550i, which supports 262K colours. The Nokia screen was dramatically better. You can clearly say which screen is superior of the two. So yes, 16M screens do matter. I bought the Nokia phone even though I dislike Nokia just because of its screen.

 

[gxsaurav]

both the symbian uiq in this phone and os x on the iphone are kinda restricted. not all apps for symbian s60 are compatible wid the uiq, and same is the case wid iphone: not many apps. so it will be one area where both hafta improve on.

Correction : In case of iPhone it only has web based apps which do not qualify as full fledged apps.

actually the os x on the iphone is more like bsd kernel wid aqua skin. it is very much stripped down!

Yup thats the case, you think they can install a 4 GB OS in a phone with 4 GB HD

regarding w960i, i think the are where it needs to improve is the video capture resolution.

Well, its not N93i but 320X240 at 15fps isn't bad either. N70 ME makes same video & it is awsome

 

[goobimama]

pah! its got all these plastic keys whether you want them or not!
- you know who!

 

[infra_red_dude]

but w960i is still supposed to cost quite a lot. so i do believe the video capture resolutin needs to be worked on.

btw, there are various linux based phones out there... and i think the os x on iphone compares to the linux based phones (i'm talking only abt the os part). it just made to give the looks wid aqua skin. did read somewhere that it too much stripped that os x tag jus doesn't justify it!

 

[dreamcatcher]

hey aryayush..stop being a nerd and check before u post..the accellearator is a feature of the sont phones and not of iphone..check youtube launch videos of the new se phones..and ya by the way evn k800 is a 256k color phn..hw cum its screen is bttr than the w550..it doent matte ron the colour mr...just go thru su bio buks and then giv ur opinion...i dunno y peaple with no knowledge watsoevr crop up and start praising sumthin like nething...stop being a loser and grow up...

 

[goobimama]

Anyway, I just hope Apple at least makes these "desktop class applications" since they aren't allowing anyone else to...

 

[infra_red_dude]

@ amd64_man2005 and @aryayush

stop fighting you two! you both are half correct. its correct to say that the iphone has the accelerometer. it is also correct to say that w960i (and others like w710, w580 etc.) has accelerometer. but it is incorrect to say that ONLY the iphone has accelerator while w960i doesn't and vice versa!

 

[aryayush]

@ amd64_man2005 and @aryayush

stop fighting you two! you both are half correct.

Half correct! Not even by a long shot. I am fully correct and he is entirely wrong.

it is also correct to say that w960i (and others like w710, w580 etc.) has accelerometer.

No, it isn't.

but it is incorrect to say that ONLY the iphone has accelerator

Yes, it is because ever car I've seen has one and the iPhone has none.
But it is not incorrect to say that only the Apple iPhone has an accelerometer that senses the phone's position and adjusts the screen orientation automatically according to it. Only the iPhone has it.

check before u post..

Yeah, I did.

the accellearator is a feature of the sont phones and not of iphone..

What is an "accellearator"? All I know is that the accelerometer is a patented and exclusive feature of the iPhone and no other phone in the world has it.

and ya by the way evn k800 is a 256k color phn..hw cum its screen is bttr than the w550..

Because it has a larger size and resolution.

it doent matte ron the colour mr

Oh really? Which is better: black and white or grayscale? 4K colours or 65K? 262K or 16M? You've no clue.

...just go thru su bio buks and then giv ur opinion...i dunno y peaple with no knowledge watsoevr crop up and start praising sumthin like nething...stop being a loser and grow up...

Oh WOW, you typed some rude words and ended the post by calling me a loser. Such a cool person.
Just being unnecessarily rude to someone does not help you in the least. When you have little idea about something, try to learn from those who know better than you. If you do not trust someone's opinion, ask a third person or fourth. Have an open mind.

I dare you to bring me any evidence from a reliable source that proves even a single thing that I've typed in this post wrong. I ask the forum members here - am I wrong? Do SE phones have accelerometers? Doesn't the iPhone have one? Aren't screens with 16M colours better than 262K and 65K screens? Isn't the human eye capable of seeing more than 32M colours?

 

[sakumar79]

It appears that Sony Ericsson had patented orientation detection for mobiles last August, but as far as I can tell, it doesnt look like any of its current phones have that feature... I could be wrong though...

Check *gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/is-the-iphone-screen-stepping-on-a-sony-ericsson-patent-234658.php for this piece of info... Also *www.maclife.com/article/news_roundup_why_did_the_ipod_cross_the_road_and_other_questions

Screens with 16m color will definitely be better than 256k screens, and this will be important for phones which offer video recording/playback...

Arun