Product Description
“The W760 is a Walkman phone that you will want to take with you everywhere. Play it loud through the stereo speakers on the front. Shake your phone to change track. Identify unknown songs with TrackID, and use SensMe to choose songs by mood. Find your way with GPS -Looking for the location of a gig or a new club? Even a new city poses no challenge for the W760. The phone’s built-in GPS with Wayfinder Navigator™ lets you search over 20 million points of interest around the globe and talks you to your destination every turn of the way. There’s also a GPS-supported fitness application called Tracker that can tell you how fast, for how long and how far you ran (or walked!). Share your music with your friends Become the focal point of a spontaneous party or gaming experience with the W760’s powerful built-in stereo speakers. If outdoors, use the phone with the Active Speaker MAS-100 – a revolutionary case that not only looks fantastic but also protects your Walkman® phone at the same time as being a built-in speaker and FM radio antenna for enjoying music with friends.Set the mood with the right music -The W760 helps select the right music for the occasion. Store up to 950 tracks2) on your phone*, and use SensMe to pick the music and tracks that match your mood in an instant. Navigate through a playlist with Shake Control – shuffle and skip through tracks, or adjust the volume, with just a shake of the phone. The TrackID functionality allows you to identify any song you are listening to on the FM Radio or at a club. And with TrackID Charts, you can also review the most searched tracks in your country or anywhere in the world. The intuitive Media User Interface rotates depending on how you’re holding the phone, so you can see everything you need at a glance. Auto rotate works for photos, videos and games too. Just twist the phone to change the view.
Product Includes Sony Ericsson W760 Fancy Red (unlocked) Standard battery AC travel charger USB data cable 1GB Memory Stick micro (M2) Sync Software CD-ROM User manualThe W760 is a Walkman/phone that you will want to take with you everywhere. This is where the added protection from the multipurpose Active Speaker MAS-100 comes in. Announced today, it acts as a good-looking protective case, a speaker to let you play your tunes even louder and an FM radio antenna. Find your way with GPS Looking for the location of a gig or a new club? Even a new city poses no challenge for the W760. The phones built-in GPS with Wayfinder NavigatorTM1) lets you search over 20 million points of interest around the globe and talks you to your destination every turn of the way. Theres also a GPS-supported fitness application called Tracker that can tell you how fast, for how long and how far you ran (or walked!).
Sony Ericsson W760i Review
Phone rating:
In a nutshell: The W760i is a music phone, with the bonus of GPS satellite navigation. It also has a lot of fun features like SensMe (plays music that matches your mood), Shake Control and Wii-style games. The camera isn’t that great, but the other features are good. However, it’s another Sony Ericsson lemon: the list of problems including freezing, shutting down and dropping calls. Available in a choice of colours: Fancy Red, Intense Black & Rocky Silver.
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The Sony Ericsson W760i is an interesting phone. It’s a Walkman phone, and has a new style of stereo speakers mounted on the front, for playing your music loud, plus loads of music-related features. Yet it also comes with GPS satellite navigation and Google Maps. It’s also quite a physical phone. Shake the phone to play the next song. Tilt the phone Wii-style to play games. It’s a curious combination and perhaps this explains why few are appearing in the shops.
Let’s describe what the phone does well. It does music well. Really, Sony Ericsson have packed every music-related feature that they have into this phone. It has the latest generation of Walkman player, with features such as album art and SensMe (automatically creates playlists based on your mood.) It has MegaBass (does what the same suggests), TrackID (finds out the name & artist of a track), PlayNow (music download service), and Shake Control so that you can change tracks with a flick of the wrist (cool if not exactly life-changing.) It has only 40 Mbytes built-in memory, which is enough for around 10 MP3′s, but you can expand this to 1 GB with a Memory Stick Micro card. There’s a built-in Fm radio too. The W760i uses stereo widening, coupled with front mounted speakers to give good sound reproduction. You can listen on conventional headphones or a wireless Bluetooth headset.
So it clearly does music well. There’s also a camera, which is of limited quality, being 3.2 megapixels with no autofocus or flash. And the surprise bonus feature of GPS navigation. We don’t know exactly why SE have included this feature in a phone that is so obviously music-orientated. But we’re not complaining! You can use the GPS to navigate around town, using Google Maps or Wayfinder Navigation to show you the way. With GPS also present on the C702 mid-range Cyber-Shot phone too, it looks like 2008 will be the year when GPS becomes commonplace on mobiles. And a good thing too!
So we’re left slightly puzzled at the combination of features that the W760i includes. It’s great for music, with an average-ish camera, but with GPS included. Battery life seems to be good, especially if you switch to 2G. Physically the phone looks good, with a better keypad than many recent Sony Ericssons. Some people are complaining that their W760i didn’t include mapping software, so SE need to sort that issue out pretty quickly. But the big problem with the W760i is its appalling reliability. It regularly freezes, shuts itself down or drops calls. The alarm seems to never work. The menus are slow. Basically, despite all the lovely features and the good lucks, we urge you not to buy this phone. Consider the Sony Ericsson C702, which also has GPS but a better camera, or if you want a Walkman phone, try the new Sony Ericsson W595.
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Features of the Sony Ericsson W760i include:
* 3.2 megapixel camera with 3.2x digital zoom
* Video camera / video calling (limited)
* 3D Java games
* Display: 262,144-colour TFT LCD, 240 x 320 colours
* Music player (Walkman 2.0) with SensMe & shake control
* FM radio
* Megabass™
* PlayNow™
* TrackID™
* Polyphonic ringtones & music tones
* Sound recorder
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email
* 3D Java games
* Animated wallpaper
* Personal organiser functions
* Flight mode
* Memory: 40 Mbytes plus Memory Stick Micro™ support (up to 1 Gbyte)
* Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB mass storage, infrared
* Internet: WAP, EDGE, HSDPA
* Web browser, RSS feeds, picture blogging
* Vibration alert
* Size: 103 x 48 x 15 mm
* Weight: 103g
* Quadband (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) plus 3G
* Talktime: 4 hours (3G) – 9 hours (2G)
* Battery standby: 350 hours (3G) – 400 hours (2G)