Sony Ericsson W980i Black Mobile Phone. Pre-installed programs, games, themes
In the Sony Ericsson Walkman music line, one of the models is noticeably allocated against the rest of the rest due to its original design - we are, of course, about the folding glass of W980i. The device is unusual externally, and its characteristics are quite modern - good musical filling, 3.2 megapixel camera and other interesting features.
A telephone is produced in three color solutions - black, brown and red. The most pretty, in our opinion, is the most common black option. The body is entirely plastic, only the texture of the material differs. The front panel is covered with semi-mirror-translucent plastic, through which is visible additional screen And touch control keys player. While the device is new, it looks fashionable and stylish, but it is strongly not recommended to put it in one pocket with the keys, the trade look is lost very quickly.
The external display is quite annex, and the number of colors displayed by them is not inferior to the main display. The touch keys are highlighted with orange in the tone to the light indicator at the bottom of the front panel. To the touch, they almost do not stand out, but noticeable at first glance, and are sensitive to touch, so the blocking button is specifically transferred to the side panel. The pleasure of the design of the front panel is somewhat inclined to collect prints, which is inevitable on the mirror surface. Absolutely non-functional, but attractive element is the "Walkman" logo on the external screen, depending on the position of the phone body in space.
The side and rear panels are made of rubberized black plastic, pleasant to the touch and quite stable mechanical damage. On the right face you can find an eyelet for a cord, a universal Fast-PORT connector for a charger, headset and a USB cable, as well as a speaker. Exactly the same speaker is symmetrically located on the right side of the device, nearby - the touch-key lock key, above the quick activation button or radio when the phone is closed and the volume keys.
On the back of the Sony-Ericsson W980i there is a camera lens and a battery cover. The SIM card is placed next to the battery, but it is possible to replace it only after removing the latter. The location for the memory card in this model is not provided, so you have to be content with an exceptionally built-in array of flash memory with a capacity of 8 GB. Such a volume, of course, will allow you to save almost everything you need, however, in some (very, very rare) cases may be more convenient to external memory.
Sony-Ericsson W980i can well be opened with one hand, although it will be much more convenient to use both. W980i disclosure angle is almost 180 degrees. In the open position, the design produces the impression of reliable - the upper half is clearly fixed, there is no reference. Designer recovery - transparent insertion on the edge - causes the device to seem less than it really is.
The inner side of the phone is finished with glossy black plastic. The screen almost does not fade in the sun, over it - speaker and camera for video calls. The keyboard consists of quite large buttons, convenient and practically exclusive erroneous pressing. Cutely white-white symbols on the keys and bright backlight will help to navigate and day, and at night.
For more convenient use of the music player, there is not only the side key switching the phone to the "musical" mode, but also the quick activation key of the player on the main panel. But the keys of the fast activation of the camera here there is no, which is pretty annoying, and, and, in truth, it is also uncomfortable to shoot - the position of the hand to press the descent button is that the fingers constantly strive to close the lens.
In general, the design of the device is unusual, stylish, and the moreover, that the ergonomics of W980i is clearly thought out.
Complain to the quality of the connection reasons were not found. The battery pleased with a relatively long work.
Personalization opportunities are not impressive, but also to feel deprived of themselves. There are two options for those, you can select a background pattern, a menu view, screensaver, the size of the clock, the sound and volume of calls, the vibration mode, the message signals and the sound published by the keys when pressed. Setting parameters a lot, but the set of points in each of them is quite meager.
As for the publication of the network, everything is typically for Sony Ericsson devices: direct access to Google, line for entering the address, RSS channel, log, login to Sony Ericsson Specialized Pages. It is also possible to create bookmarks, saving pages, copy text, setting up the display of Web pages, etc.
Wrongs above the ergonomics of the chamber, praise its quality. The pictures made it (when the fingers of the photographer are not depicted on them), quite arabic.
The camera setup capabilities are also quite adequate: in addition to standard (such as size, quality, white balance, effects, etc.) there is a panoramic shooting, which is executed as a series of three pictures with a small overlay of the edge. True, this picture is successfully difficult - the first time may not work. Already a rather familiar setting is to add a framework to photos, in this model it is necessary to note their variety, some of them are truly beautiful. Lack of flash here tried to compensate for the presence of night shooting mode, but the pictures are obtained low-quality.
Ready images can be edited by adjusting light and color balance, brightness and contrast by adding effects and objects. In addition to a rather common photo editor, W980i offers to use the video editor services, in which you can build several rollers or photographs, adding music and transition effects. You can change the length of individual rollers, add texts and other features.
There is a camcorder itself (which is natural, if there is a video editor). From her no one especially high Quality And does not wait - the phone is still. As for the capabilities of the setup, they are similar to the camera settings, only in a slightly trimmed form.
But back to music - after all, it is the main feature from "additional" functions sony-Ericsson Phone W980i, proudly wearing Literature W. You can control the player when the phone is in a closed state, and when it is open - also to set the settings. Holding a special key, you can use the player control function by shaking, however, considering that for this, the "clamshell" must be opened and enter the player's menu, it is difficult to imagine that someone will take advantage of such a possibility more than once. Moreover, there are keys on the front panel. You can sort tracks by performers, albums, tracks, genres and years, you can create your own playlists. You can configure the preferred playback mode, select one of the proposed options for setting the equalizer or manually create your own option, which is not found too often. Light effects (indicator that when playing music lights up with orange light, with an incoming call - white) and the visualization can be turned on and off, as well as the extended stereo.
It is impossible to go around this important point as the sound quality. When playing through the headset, the sound is clean and rich on any of the available volume levels. The sound transmission through the speakers is somewhat spoiled at the maximum volume, but the sound power is enough for a small room. You can remove from outsiders in a noisy setting using headphones, sound power for this is quite enough.
No worse in Sony-Ericsson W980i and Radio. The sound here is also pure saturated and powerful. The FM receiver is able to remember up to 20 channels that are specified manually or using the auto-part. The receiver control can also be carried out using external touch keys, and playback can go not only through the headset, but also through the speakers. In addition, there is a transition from the FM range to AF.
No special music applications found here and without special music applications found in most Sony Ericsson: Playnow, TrackID, SENSME. There is a Musicdj melody editor.
Separately, it is worth mentioning the presence of six more mini-applications, the most interesting of which is perhaps the counter of the steps that functions as in W595. The phone offers the ability to enable a video call where you can configure the size of the image from the main or optional camera, brightness and quality, turn on the night mode. It is possible to determine your location using Google Maps, although there is no hardware GPS receiver in W980i.
Sony Ericsson W980i's mobile phone as a whole left a favorable impression about himself, although it is difficult to call it difficult. First of all, attention is paid to the image, and only then functionality. Unusual stylish design, but the brand easily scratched front panel, the absence of the back of the parts, but an inconvenient opening, a good camera, but the absence of a quick activation button, a high-quality player and a radio receiver, but no exit for standard headphones and a memory card slot. There are no shortcomings, of course, do not overlap all the advantages of the device, but they will mask them thumbs.
The main technical characteristics of the Sony Erisson W980i mobile phone:
- Form factor: "clamshell"
- Frequency range: GSM 900, 1800, 1900, 3G (UMTS)
- Antenna: Built-in
- Screen Type: Color TFT Screen, 262144 Tint, 240x320 pixels
- Interfaces: USB, Bluetooth 2.0
- WAP 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, POP / SMTP Client
- Types of Messages: SMS, MMS
- 64-voice polyphony, mp3 melodies as calls
- Camera: 3 MPIX (2048x1536), digital zoom 3x, support for PictBridge
- MP3 player, FM radio, voice recorder
- Games, java applications
- Organizer
- Features: Shaking Management, RSS Mailing, TrackID, NET Front
- Embedded memory: 8 GB
- Battery: Li-Polymer, Capacity 930 MA * h (up to 9 hours in conversation mode)
- Dimensions: 46x92x17mm
- Mass: 100 g
- Complete set: phone, battery, charger, headset, USB cable, disk software, instruction
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The form factor "Book" is loved by the manufacturer, although at first, such companies called mixed feelings (remember at least Z600). In the case of W980, it is the mid-size "folding bed", 92 x 46 x 17 mm at 100 gr. Weight. The phone is convenient for transportation, although in the open state is somewhat long. The housing is made of plastic of various textures: glossy transparent plastic facial panel covers the black surface of the cover, and the entire inner surface of the glossy-black. The rear, turning into the sidewalls of the bottom half is made of the Soft-Touch of plastic, why the device does not slide in the hand.
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You can open the W980 with one hand, but this requires a certain skill: a small ledge, and rather a skeleton of the bottom half of the hull is designed slightly alleviate this task, although it is not necessary to do without training.
The angle of disclosure of the device is approximately 85 degrees, it is impressive, but the disclosure mechanism is not typical for books-books. The fact is that when opening, the upper part of the case is behind the bottom, and does not fit with it at the junction site. This fact does not go to the detriment of ergonomics, just a feature of the design. Keep the apparatus at the ear when talking and use the menu functions comfortably, but, as mentioned above, it is a little longer.
So, proceed to the description of the functional elements. The upper part, its outer side is represented by a color display (TFT, 176 x 176 pixels, 262K of color shades) and key control keys of the music component (radio and MP3 player). The external display in idle mode is not visible, and when used fully assumes the features of displaying all the necessary data, eliminating the need to open the phone. It presents both the level of reception, and the current battery charge, and the name of the operator, and even the current date and time. When the FM module is working, the frequency and RDS data are displayed, and when the player is activated, full menu The choice of artist, album, podcast, etc., and further display the status runner and data from the tag composition. In general, when using the apparatus as a player, its disclosure is absolutely no need.
As for the touch keys of the panel, it is 3 partially combined circles (side equal to each other, the central is a bit more) in which the rewind buttons are highlighted, the PLAY / STOP keys and select the menu item, and the radio key. Confirmation of the press is accompanied by the vibrating device, and the accidental press is excluded by the Hold key on the right side of the device. The lower part of the panel under consideration is provided with a transparent arc, under which the light indicator is hidden, shimmering when playing the composition of the composition with a red color.
The inner surface of the upper part of the apparatus is given under the placement of the horizontal slot of the conversational speaker, offset to the right relative to the center, cameras for video calls in the center, as well as naturally the main screen of the device. The latter is a TFT display with a size of 2.2 "and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels capable of displaying up to 262k colors. The main screen takes not the entire surface of the inside of the folding lid, but this does not affect the perception of information. The picture looks alive and rich, and the behavior in the sun deserves a solid four - when direct sunlight gets, the information remains readable, although somewhat fade.
The inner surface of the bottom of the device is entirely completely given under the keyboard. These are traditionally controlled and alphanumeric keys. First include combined joystick circles and combined in circles - contextual, reception keys and call deviations, applications and Cancel, respectively. Just below are the detached rounds of the Walkman and inclusion.
The alphanumeric unit is the classic 3 column of 4 keys in each. The keys are made by the circles of black plastic in the frame of the silver circuit. They are well separated on the surface of the panel, so erroneous pressing is minimal. Despite the fact that the keys are arranged with the surface of the housing, they have a smooth and tangible move, it has a positive effect on the convenience of a set.
The backlight of the entire white block, moderately bright and not quite uniform.
At the bottom, or rather her side faces, there are many control and functional elements: these are 2 external speaker consoles (one on each side), then, on the right, the volume of the volume changes, the key of the music component and the lock lever (we wrote about it above ). On the left - the Fast Port interface connector, the status indicator and the slot for mounting the strap, shifted to the upper edge.
The rear panel is minimally filled with functional elements, but rich in inscriptions and logos. Here we see a small window of the camera lens without a curtain and the battery cover. About the camera Talk a little later, but because The device does not apply to the Cybershot line, then you should not expect something outstanding from it.
The battery compartment cover is attached to 7 protrusions: 2 on the side and below, as well as the main one in the top. Standard mount, but a small vertical backlash is present.
For the battery there is a corresponding tank under the lid with 2 protrusions at the bottom. To remove the battery, you must pull it out for the upper edge.
The SIM card is located above the upper rebar of the battery and half recessed into the housing. It is installed horizontally and when the battery is installed cannot be extracted. As you might notice, the device does not provide cards replaceable memorywhy there is no appropriate connector. The manufacturer logically suggested that with 8GB's own card memory, although it seems to us, it would be no superfluous support for removable carrier.
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: User interface
SonyERICSSON W980i works on the basis of the A200 platform, more than once considered on our resource. From additions, you can note the presence of an accelerometer in the model, which is actually not revolutionary on the market and is widely used both by the manufacturer and third-party developers.
Turn on the phone and see the setup wizard that allows you to set the language, the current date and time and copy the numbers from the card into the phone's memory. If you refuse, you can always find this feature In the settings menu.
Desktop apparatus typical for manufacturer's devices. The indicators are presented: the level of reception and charge of the battery at the top, the name of the operator's network is slightly lower in the center, and closer to the bottom, the current date and time, as well as the signatures to the contextual keys. Recall that the W980i contains the reception keys and call deviations, which is why the load from contextual keys for these functions is completely removed and they can perform their direct responsibilities. The size of the clock user is also free to choose from 2 options (big and small) in the settings menu. The picture of the desktop can be a downloaded graphic file or a photo made by the camera of the device, or the default picture, from the topic.
The W980i menu is selected from three views: matrix of 12 icons (3x4) - icons, rotation - circular menu and "one icon", with a vertical scrolling of items. The static icons and the minimum graphic effect are present only when the matrix display type - when you hover the cursor to the menu item, the icon increases in the size of the pulsa. Subparagraphs Menu are mostly text, made by a vertical list of components with a small pictogram to the left of the name. For quick access to the required subparagraphs, digital key sequences are provided that the machine quickly processes that it cannot but rejoice.
You should not forget about the so-called Activity Menu - this menu is called by a special application key, located under the call button, and opens access to the following functions: Event List (missed calls, SMS, etc.), launched applications, links and frequently used pages From the Internet browser of the device.
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: Telephone service
By default, the call log, which can be called or through the menu, or by pressing the call send key, displays a single list of the last numbers that differ from each other to the call type icon. In addition, the bookmarks are horizontally located by which you can go to separate lists of accepted, outgoing and unsuccessful calls. In addition to the name or number of the subscriber, the device will display time and duration (if the call was performed). In addition, the device provides a search function from dialed numbers, and not added to the telephone directory - with the first digit set, a list of matching numbers will be displayed on the display, of which it is proposed to make a choice.
In memory of the W980i, you can save up to 1000 subscribers. Subscribers, not numbers, i.e. Subject to the fill in all fields - 7 phones. The list of contacts monopolist and shows only entries in the memory of the device, completely ignoring the SIM card. Make it Display both of the list will not work, although you can see these numbers through the functions menu.
For each subscriber, you can set a large amount of data, such as:
The device provides groups of users who are invited independently. Alas, but change the call signal for them, or add a call to the call will not work.
For frequently used numbers, 3-9 keys are provided, you can configure a quick set. In addition, the user is available to create its own business card (V-Card) and the creation of special numbers (permitted, its own and emergency call numbers).
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: Messages
The message menu contains access to SMS, MMS, E-Mail and voice mail.
When creating a new message, the device is inquiry, which type wants to create a user, and only then breaks to edit. The message blank is simple and standard, regardless of the topic, it resembles a not a rated sheet. To help the user, a list of characters, including emoticons, the T9 dictionary and patterns. In addition, in the process of editing SMS, when changing the solution, you can go to the MMS from the same template. The T9 dictionary is trained and works quite correctly.
Editing an email letter is similar to that of PC: the field "To", theme, text and attachment. The account setting takes a little time, although some fields could be configured automatically based on the entered information.
In the process of testing problems and errors with encodings, it is not fixed, the client is quite convenient and functional.
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: Organizer, office
The organizer is represented by a separate item in the menu and includes all the necessary options.
The file manager provides access to the entire internal content of the device and memory cards, contains data on catalog files, such as:
In the apparatus of the whole 5 alarm clocks. They are configured both on a one-time and daily, taking into account the choice of days, triggering. Why such a quantity needed, do not be judged, but also you will not deny the need for several alarms.
A call signal can be any melody contained in the memory of the device, and the trigger is provided and when the device is turned off.
Calendar with the ability to display a month, week and a specific day will allow you to set reminders of events. After selecting the topic, such as beginning and duration, you can set the duration and date. In principle, nothing new, but item is usually indispensable.
Tasks and notes, also important items of the organizer. Unlike the calendar, the events made to these subparagraphs are not attached to the specific date and are placed by a single vertical list sorted by alphabetically.
The timer and stopwatch are similar in appearance, but different in essence. The stopwatch supports up to 9 circles, and exactly as the timer, can work in the background, which is quite convenient.
The calculator in the W980i is a multiple extended arithmometer, in addition to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, there is a counting count.
Code memo will be useful to hide confidential information from prying eye. At the first handling, the application requests to enter a 4-digit password and a control word, and only then proceed to filling.
SonyEricsson W980 :: Overview :: Internet
The device has a standard browser from NetFront. The browser itself is quite convenient - it can scale HTML-pages for the size of the screen, has a list of bookmarks, visits log, as well as the ability to save pages and individual pictures. Cookies are supported, pages caching and saving passwords. The first application link contains access to Google, which often simplifies the search for the necessary information.
SonyEricsson W980 :: Overview :: Communications
The device works in the following networks: GSM 850/900/1800 / 1900 / UMTS 2100, supports EDGE and HSDPA.
Communication capabilities The device gathered in one point hiding in the settings. Among them, Bluetooth, USB, Synchronization and Internet Parameters. Regarding Bluetooth version 2.0+ EDR, then there are no complaints to the protocol and its implementation in W980i. During testing, the device was connected to the PC, PDA, BT headset and several smartphones. There are no complaints to work and transmit data, communication breaks are also not fixed. A2DP profile has been tested in a bundle with Plantronics Pulsar 590e and worked quite correctly, it is quite critical for a musical phone.
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: Multimedia features
Multimedia Browser W980i Something like the appearance of the interface used in Sony products, PSP and PS3 (XMB) and is now used in almost all new products. This is a cathedalized content type vertical list, offering access to photos, music, video, games, RSS channels and configuring display parameters.
However, to work with the music player, and we talked about it earlier, it is not necessary to use this browser at all, and in principle to open the phone. All the necessary keys, menus and possibilities are available when closed "folding" and using an external display. Unlocking the lever on the right pane, select the Music application and get access to performers, albums, tracks, playback lists from genres, years, audiobooks or podcasts (it is logical that the data is taken by the apparatus of tags of compositions). After selecting the required option, go to listening - a visual player is quite simple: for excluding the upper line with a signal level, time and battery charge, 2/3 it occupies the Walkman logo, which rotates depending on the position of the phone, below the progress bar below We see the name and artist composition. The indicator of the top cover, under the transparent arc at this time, thrills the composition of the composition.
It is worth noting that in the open state the device displays not many more information (Total composition time and time from the start of playback under the progress bar), except for more detailed settings. From the settings, we note:
The last option is useful in the car - after specifying a specific FM frequency in the menu, you can and you need to find it on your radio and start transmission. Curious and sometimes useful option that eliminates the purchase of an additional device or synchronization of favorite music from the phone with such in the car. For correct reproduction and interference, it is necessary to place the device in close proximity to the radio, in our case, this distance was no more than half a meter.
The Sensme option offers to find mood music. For operation it is necessary for the presence of a PC on which the "server" part of the application analyzing music is actually launched.
The radio, according to tradition, does not work without connecting a wired headset that performs the role of antenna. There is a memory for 20 radio stations, support for RDS, autopoysk and work in the background.
Included headset care is very good. In addition to the fact that it consists of 2 parts, i.e. Fast Port Connector and Mini-Jack Connector (3.5 mm) with Microphone and Answer key, thereby allowing you to connect any / favorite headphones, so also the in-ear headphones themselves will not be formed from the first minutes about their replacement. However, the volume of the sound of the device itself can not be called excessive - we tested this parameter in the car of the Moscow metro and honestly, expected a little more. Undoubtedly, the sound is clean, the composition is heard, but sometimes you want a slightly greater volume. In comparison with the Sennheiser CX 300, with which we usually check the music component of the device, the original liners lose in volume, albeit slightly.
Also, the multimedia features of the device include recording of sound and entertainment applications Videodj, PhotoDJ and Musicdj. In the first case, it is a simple to design a voice recorder, which, however, rather qualitatively writes information without time limit (except for free memory).
Musicdj will create its own composition from a set of samples available in the kit. By changing and adding the sound on the 4th tracks, you can create a unique melody that then can be saved and used as a call.
The TrackID application will allow you by writing a few seconds of the composition, to obtain data on the album and the song performer using the Internet connection.
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: games and applications
The device has 3 games, Lumines Block Challenge (Variation on Tetris theme), Need for Speed \u200b\u200b(Famous Racing) and Sudoku.
Location Definition - GPS service: Built-in GPS at W980i No, and the application is presented free service Google Maps. The application displays a picture of the card, and a photo from a satellite, to choose from, tieting the current location to the base station. Route and travel on the map is also possible, but Google itself does not advise to use the function as a car navigator.
In addition, the application menu contains an extensive list. useful programs. Among them:
Java Machine Test Produced standard programs Jbenchmark. The results can be seen in the table below, in our opinion they are not bad.
Table. "Java" sonyericsson w980 |
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| Platform | MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 |
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| JBenchMark 1.1.1 |
7581;
Text / 2487, 2D / 1832, 3D / 893, Fillrate / 783. Animation / 1586. |
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| JBenchmark 2.1.1 |
268;
Image / 287, Text / 623, SPRITES / 563, 3D / 8, UI / 1697. |
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| Jbenchmark 3D 3.1.0. |
HQ / 341. LQ / 397. Triangle PS / 35126 KTEXELS PS / 1532 |
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| JBENCHMARK HD 3.4.3. | Smooth triangles / 32541 Textured Triangles / 29875 Fill Rate / 1226 KTEXELS Gaming / 153 (5.1 FPS) |
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SonyEricsson W980 :: Overview :: Camera
As mentioned above, the device does not apply to the Cyber-Shot line, so to present high chamber requirements and this application we will not.
The application interface is convenient and informative, but easy enough and designed for vertical / portrait orientation of the camera. By default, we can see zoom data, brightness, frame size, and extended capabilities are already hiding under the left context key. Among them:
You can judge the quality of the shooting on the applied samples, however, how it seemed to us, it is average. The device, or rather the camera, demanding good light, is not very friendly with the "Macro" mode and in the absence of autofocus as a whole is more designed to shoot "Infinity".
For video settings modest:
SonyERICSSON W980 :: Overview :: Impressions and conclusions
The manufacturer declares 9 hours of operation of the device in a conversation and 370 hours in standby mode, which is actually in active testing mode, poured into three days. The full charging cycle is a little more than 2 hours, which is a classic parameter for a modern phone.
According to the quality of communication, and the transmission-transmission of speech, the device is typical SonyEricsson, notice any differences from other tested products of the company failed: a loud call, the average power of "Vibro", confident reception And a good microphone (according to the interlocutors).
With an average cost at the time of publication of the review 17 000 rubles, the device will not disperse as hot cakes, this is a fact. We will add to this the average dimensions and a chip. However, the manufacturer turned out a good-quality model on an amateur, an amateur music, radio that will not be deprived of the built-in memory of the device and will not think about the additional device for its musical addictions, there will be no chamber if necessary, and the design of the new friend did not give up. In general, we liked the model, she took the place of two permanent satellites (telephone and MP3 player), and now, passing it to the editor, even a bit sad.
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We have already paid enough attention to the problems of hardware solutions in Sony Ericsson products, and most of the words concerned exactly the company's musical line. In 2005, along with the Announcement and Complete Headset HPM-70, a fairly interesting information regarding the high quality sound in products based on the Philips Nexperia platform came to management. A year later, this information surfaced again, this time with projecting to a model where the quality of headphones was implied under high-quality sound, but not the phone itself. Funny moment, do not find? It becomes even more interesting exactly from the moment when you start viewing the press releases of the following products in 2007. Everywhere mentioned a certain quality sound, the guarantor of which is the Stem Walkman. At the same time, no one was going to clarify that the definition of high-quality sound, even inside the company, was designated for a complete set, since only general data were needed by the management, without specifics.
Once sound and no extraneous intervention, the Sony Ericsson leadership skillfully dropped to the side of the timid attempts of the company's engineers to create some hardware superstructure with DAC and the amplifier. The same fate has suffered and offer to change the Fast Port to the most demanded bundle of 3.5-mm connectivity and miniusb. This proposal was perceived not otherwise, as an attempt to overlap the entire direction of the manufacturer's accessories, which the company could not allow anywhere, despite the fact that accessories already produced in volumes of 20-30% of real market demand, which generate an extensive niche of fake Accessories. But this is not a trouble, because the management of the company is largely represented by people from Sony, considering consumer loyalty to the brand at one level with Nokia and Samsung, and therefore any sharp step away from the template will inevitably lead to a drop in popularity and reduce sales.
In connection with this funny vision of the current situation, most of the latest companies looked extremely funny, starting with, where the sound quality has already been discovered by a side parameter, which is identical to the same. An even more interesting, the situation looked taking into account the fact that the audio actuator became basic not only for the products of the upper price range, but also for solutions of the middle segment, such as. Since 2008, the company has begun a much larger translation of a wide product line to the area of \u200b\u200bimage solutions of the middle and upper price range, and the starting point to this has become a hurdled announcement of the ODM solutions from HTC in February. Then on Mobile World Congress.Together with Xperia, another 6 different products were announced, among which we left not considered only W980, which means it is time to correct this gap.
Appearance
At first glance, not only image positioning Sony Ericsson W980 is immediately guessed on this small glossy bar, but also the estimated impressions of use similar to other solutions of the company in Walkman - the upper price range. What is interesting, on boring official images of the phone, only the location of the elements can be traced, and exemplary colors of the body, having calculated at the same time an ordinary arrangement, which is not designed for positioning in the price segment of $ 700 and higher.
The live phone looks much more interesting, and not so much due to the peculiar shades of colors and the combination of plastic materials, as due to the classical dimensions and skillfully beaten limitations of the hardware base in thickness.
Sony Ericsson W980 is made in clamshell form factor, dimensions 91.8 x 46 x 17.2 mm, which is comparable only with the trends of clamshells of the average price segmentAnd it certainly knocks out from the current race for the RAZR-shaped format with a significant width and height, but extremely small thick. Since the hardware base for the hero of our today's review is, the thickness of the case trite could not exceed the framework that are indicated by the actual dimensions of W980. In the near future, this restriction can significantly fasten the Sony Ericsson positions in the coolars niche, although the release to the output will most likely be the bearing of stereotypes and the presentation of the value as good. These are the interesting moments associated with only the thickness of the hull.
After we took the phone in your hand, thoughts about the thickness, hardware platforms and the technological lag behind Sony Ericsson go to the side, giving way to the weak, but still positive emotions from tactile perception. In the template lines with small roundings of the faces, it is difficult to find fault with the absence of metal panels, since the combination of matte plastic rear panel and a gloss with a mirrored substrate on the front side create no less interesting tactile sensations from working with a telephone, rather than metal. As for the quality of the assembly, it is possible to find face here except to the inevitable transverse backlash of the lower edges of the clamshell halves, which is a plastic disclosure mechanism.
As for wearing such a small clamshell, here the user is limited except that weighing 100 grams that ensures the effect of a tightly assembled body, adversely affecting the W980 wearing in the breast pocket of shirts. In other pockets, no significant complaints arise, except that the thickness of the case is too clearly felt in the denim pocket under the lighter.
The entire face panel of the Sony Ericsson W980 is made of a thick plastic lining with a dark mirroring substrate. Unfortunately, the plastic is soft, which means that small scratches will inevitably begin to form, unless, of course, do not apply to the carriage of the phone is extremely careful. Just below the horizontal center of the case, it is impossible to not be noted the three spectacular circumference of different diameters, in fact, playing the role of touch keys that respond to contact with something. Funny, but everyone who looked at these circumference, constantly caught themselves to think that two extreme circles are convexed, and the central was drowning only in the center. Here you can only pay tribute to the designers of Sony Ericsson, because these circles are convex only from the inside, and on the surface the central ring is recessed by a millimeter, while two small circles at the edges do not distort the surface at all. In total, there are 10 highlighted designations on the sensory zone, among which five with white illumination and five with a glow of focal orange color, in the beat of the Walkman-player.
The keys are located and the corresponding display with a diagonal of 1.5 inches. We are dealing with a TFT matrix with a resolution of 176 x 176 points for which the display of the color palette of 262 thousand colors is stated. Of course, with such a resolution, it is difficult to talk about a colorful sharp picture, but this moment was wondering in Sony Ericsson, since on the screen, we will talk about in the description of the player's capabilities, only uncomplicated graphics are displayed with a minimum of colorful images. Moreover, even the name and number of the caller is not accompanied by the image of the contact. It remains only to reproach the screen in the role of its protection protrudes soft plastic, and not a cool glass, which means that the behavior in the sun can be called no more than satisfactory.
At the bottom of the halves, instead of the Walkman logo, a thick transparent insert is located, leveling 8 mm difference in the length of halves. The musical logo, respectively, is already located under the lining, and its role is to dissolve light from LEDs located on the lower end of the top half. They rhythmically blink into the tact of a low-frequency spectrum of music, coping with their task no worse than the technology of Haptics from Motorola, which is already talking about many.
In the early prototypes of the W980, the transparent pad on the top half was slightly shorter than the bottom of the case, from which the phone disclose accounted for using small grooves on the sides of the case. Fortunately, in serial versions, the lining added in length about a millimeter, which is quite enough for the top half of the maiden, followed by a large finger. In a male hand, open the phone with one hand is quite easy, but girls can complain about insufficient squeezes, due to which it is more convenient to reveal the phone with two hands. The mechanical disclosure mechanic itself is represented by a M-shaped location of the loop on the top half of the housing, and not on the main one, as in most phones of this form factor. Due to this feature in the open state, the edge of the upper half provides a pleasant focus on the index finger, and the visual distance of the screen is perceived rather unusual.
The inner surface of the phone is spectacularly painted in varnish black, fully justifying the name of the color of the Piano Black case. At the top of the sliding half of the housing, you can mark two major gum, preventing the contact of the halves of the case, and the slit of the spoken speaker looks more wondering if we consider the fact that it gave the central location of the CIF-Camera's eyes for video calls.
Immediately under the conversational speaker there is a 2.2 inch TFT-screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 points. This matrix has already been seen earlier on the K850i, so we mention the color palette of 262 thousand colors only for standardization. The picture on the screen is saturated, with a good color palette and deep transmission of black color, just observe bright saturated colors only in the presence of bright contact lighting, such as the sun. Under the right sunlight, the screen behaves well without losing in sharpness, and fading only by a third. But the viewing angles on the contrary, it was unpleasant surprised by the values \u200b\u200bof 60 degrees vertically and horizontally. It is worth a look at the screen at a large angle, and the eyes will appear too faded image.
Lighting sensor is located in the right upper corner The main half, slightly above the navigation block of the keys.
The central navigation element is a slightly mounted round frame of dark gray glossy plastic, only a fraction of a millimeter protruding above the surface. A large matte confirmation keys OK, edged with a thin silver ring, was inscribed. Given the weak tactivity and short soft move of the navigation key, talking about the convenience of navigating the phone menu does not have to. The impression of the key is changing for the better, if you move on the menu with an average speed, because then it will be difficult to not notice a clear silent click. On the sides of the navigation key, a slightly recessed softkeys are inscribed, partially combined with the Activity Menu call buttons and remove C. Working with the keys would be quite convenient if there were no glossy buttons for receiving and post calls between them. Such a miniature sandwich can be called an average of ergonomics, if you press the edge of the nail to be pressed on these buttons. If you try to fall on them with the pads of your fingers, the task will be executed only if the slow speed of action is observed. As an example, each fifth pressing on the right soft key is aligned with the contact by the end button, whose action translates you into standby mode. Well, at least the buttons have a slightly righer than the navigation key, but still insufficient for the middle man's hand.
Fun with the location of the maximum buttons at a minimum of space continues in the case with two small launch keys on the left, and turn on / off the phone on the right. Just below the player keys it is worth highlighting the unusually located opening of the microphone, to which, however, no complaints occur.
The digital key of the keys consists of twelve bored round buttons of matte textures, each of which is slightly recessed above the surface and a solid silver cant. At the expense of good spread and good tactivity, it is pleasant to work with the keys and conveniently, and the number of blind numbers will not be difficulty after an hour of use.
The backlight of the entire block of the White keys, unusual uniform and moderately bright. If the music player is launched, navigation block painted in red.
If you look at the Sony Ericsson W980 from the ends, it will not be easy to notice an equal division of the surface on glossy top and matte bottom. The only place where idyll is broken is an empty top end.
On the right end it is worth highlighting a small tight rudder of the volume adjustment, whose ergonomic form is practically not felt due to the insignificant elevation above the surface. A centimeter below is located the radio / music mode / music / watches button, and binds the description of the tight slider blocking sensors whose large risks are well suited for shift slider by nail.
The left end is allocated by the presence of a FAST port - connectivity for connecting wired accessories, as well as uncomfortable mounting strap from above. Both lower edges of the ends are occupied by small holes of polyphonic speakers, have never been providing a clear stereo effect.
The rear surface is fully made of matte plastic with a rubber coated Soft Touch. In the upper part, it is worth noting a large module 3-MP chamber, protected by ordinary glass, slightly recessed relative to the surface. Nearby is a weak LED, glowing in red during a video.
Most of the rear surface plays the role of the lid of the battery compartment, for the removal of which is quite light movement down, using a convex icon as an end for the finger. The cover is fixed quite reliably and not the backup, despite the fact that it is removed at all without effort. Here it is necessary to say a few words about the frightening thickness of the plastic, from which it is made. Only 0.3 mm, due to which it can be easily bend without noticeable effort.
Under the lid is lithium - polymer battery BST-38, Capacity of 930 mAh. His charge is enough for:
- 16 hours listening to music with a complete headset
- 18 hours listening to radio.
In the conditions of everyday use of one charging, there is enough for 2 days of work at 30 minutes of conversations per day, 3 hours listening to music, Bluetooth constant activity and 20 minutes of using the camera.
Above the battery compartment is to highlight the slot below the SIM card, and in the bottom part it is boring the connection connector external antenna. The slot under the memory card is missing, since one single NAND-memory module is used with a volume of 8 GB.
User interface
In standby mode at the corners of the top of the screen, traditional five-level indicators of the signal level and battery charge are located. Between them there is a field for various system indicators, whether missed events, notification of Bluetooth activity, or silent alert mode. The Java running indicator - the application was changed to the icon resembling the Activity Menu symbol.
Below on the screen, the names of the operator and the active base station can be displayed, and at the bottom of the screen - the date, digital clock and countdown of the timer, if it is running. Three signatures of context keys are displayed at the bottom of the screen, which are not possible to reassign. To invoke the functions of interest to you, you can use the deviations of the navigation key to which you can assign most functions, including Java Midlets. If the four shortcut labels are not enough for you, you can use the label tab in Activity Menu. In addition to bookmarking shortcuts in the active menu, there are classic bookmarks of the Favorite Web browser, missed events and running applications.
The main menu consists of 12 icons, describe the image of which is not so easy. The updated version A200 provides for the ability to quickly change the appearance of the menu, regardless of the selected design theme. The icons thoroughly redraw, significantly simplifying the schedule - they became noticeably easier, and the graphic resembles the one that was used in Siemens CX65. Together with a slight increase in the size of each of the icons, designers managed to get rid of the cursors, the smoothness of the animation of which and became famous for the first phones of the K. series
In addition to the classical representation in the form of a 3 x 4 matrix, two more options are available for icons similar to the variations of Flash themes in the company's telephones on the basis of A100. There is a carousel option, with a smooth scrolling of horizontal icons. The following display option looks like a tribute to fashion, as it makes sense in mapping one big icon without animation, on a large screen, more than a little. The last version of the icons depends on the content of the existing theme. If the theme also flashes the icon set, you can use it. The themes themselves can be switched from the same drop-down list of functions in the main menu.
Animations in the interface became even more, although it was more than enough in the K850i. Significantly improved both the smoothness of the appearance of the falling windows of functions, and the icons in the top line are now smoothly flying out on the strip or disappear.
In addition to extensive features, the user is available to install background drawings in JPEG format, BMP. GIF and SWF.
Profiles are still limited to 7 superstructures, each of which can be changed by a number of parameters:
- volume call
- activation of increasing volume
- vibrovyzov
- sound keys
- forwarding
- white list
- answer way to incoming call (Single key, or by pressing anyone except for a pen).
6 profiles can change the name, but the icons remain unchanged.
Phone book
The organization of working with a phone book is simple, but is not deprived of a set of popular possibilities. Synchronization of the VCF questionnaire is supported, or transmitting them via Bluetooth, copying a database from a SIM card, or vice versa. In the view list, 6 entries are displayed on the screen, and the dedicated contact can be viewed with phone numbers. In the event that several numbers are associated with the recording, you can switch between them by simple horizontal deviations. Unfortunately, the usual selection of several records allows only to make subscribers to the message distribution list, and removing and moving is possible only when using the corresponding functions. Total Memory phonebook Designed for 1000 entries and 7000 numbers in total.
Accordingly, in addition to 7 phone numbers, each subscriber can add:
- Web address
- individual call signal and picture
- position
- organization
- street
- city
- region
- postcode
- and the country where the place of work is.
- the same address data for accommodation
- text note up to 511 characters
- memo about birthday.
Call lists do not differ in functionality, depending on the launch from the main menu, or by clicking on the call send key in standby mode. There are four horizontal bookmarks with sorting calls for incoming, outgoing, missed and mixed. Each section fits up to 30 entries, despite the time that only one record can be for each subscriber.
Messages
There is a good tool for creating SMS / EMS messages. As before, it is possible to display emoticons in the form of pictures. As before, the limit on the size of the created message is on the value of 594 characters, Cyrillic and 1188 symbols of the Latin.
The service with MMS was also not subject to any changes. This is a pleasant eye interface for comprehensive messages, up to 300 KB. You can add both existing audio, photos, video materials, and run directly to create them (camera, voice recorder).
Email client allows you to configure a record of five steps.
Initially you enter the name account and email address. Then you enter the login and password, after which the phone will offer to get the rest of the settings from the SonyEricsson.com/support server. If there is no access to the Internet, the other two steps will consist of choosing the connection type (POP3, IMAP4) and the fitting of the incoming and outgoing mail servers.
From the interface changes, it is possible to note that the changed background of the message read / writing window.
Regarding Cyrillic in headlines, you can mark the correct display of most messages received by the author. All attachments can be saved in the phone's memory - this is a certain plus.
Organizer
There are five alarm clocks in each of which you can specify active days of the week, set the call time, melody, or radio frequency, if the signal will use the inclusion of the FM receiver with the sound output to the polyphonic speaker of the phone.
The calendar
There are two types of display: a month or table of the week with an hourly schedule of each day. Having on the desired day of the week, you can quickly create a reminder. Reminders also shook a wide degree of configuration. You can set an arbitrary name, start time, duration, alert for 5-30 minutes. Before, set the specifics of the repeat renovation (daily, weekly, monthly, annually), as well as add information about the place of the event. Dessert is presented with the possibility of adding a small description of the event. As you can see, reminders if not ideal, then as close as possible to that, given that this is not a separate organizer, but one of the functions of a mobile phone.
Notes
Ordinary text notes. Each length cannot exceed 254 characters.
Timer
Ordinary timer. Specify time up to a second and admire the report in standby mode.
Stopwatch Allows you to create up to 9 intermediate values.
Calculator Allows you to make the simplest arithmetic action.
Memo codes are interesting only by the presence as such. Otherwise, the four-digit password most eloquently indicates the seriousness of these closed notes.
Multimedia menu
The multimedia menu has not undergone almost no changes in comparison with the predecessors based on the first variation of A200. The settings section still includes only the screen orientation settings. Due to the presence of a position sensor, there is a function of automatic screen rotation.
Video
The video viewing section includes the simplest sorting tool and the player itself, which does not support files with a resolution above 320 x 240 points. There is a feature of a stop frame while saving JPEG format, and movie viewers will like the automatic continuation of the last minute roller viewing on which the reproduction was interrupted.
Photo
View photos are equipped with pleasant effects of turning, and at the same time quickly add In the album of the selected pictures. The breakdown of images in the album is carried out by months, while the entire list of photos is displayed on the screen. During viewing, you can quickly call the image editor, or use the automatic correction of color levels Photo Fix.
There is no slide presentation of X-PICT Story images, although it has not changed. Unlike smartphones, you do not have the choice of soundtrack melodies, so limit ourselves to the moods alone.
Games
Given the coming A300 with wide opportunities On the creation of high-quality games, the menu has been delivered to the multimedia menu. From here you can conveniently cause running applicationsOr quickly complete them and move them to others.
News stream ribbons made to the title section of the multimedia menu, filled them full spectrum Settings. The section contains links to uploaded or preset links of network aggregators.
Music
The musical player is rightfully is the main feature of W980, as for music and a large external screen is provided. In idle mode, digital clocks with a date, time, as well as the top string of indicators may be displayed.
Using the selected mode key, you can switch to radio mode, and then to music, whose interface consists of a classic library in the Walkman 2.0 spirit and playback mode windows.
The main feature of the external screen is rightfully visualization, which starts with a logo that is sensitive to the position of the phone in space, and at the same time and colorful multi-colored effects of water ripples, performed in the spirit. In addition to these effects and light indication of the lower end of the body, it is impossible not to mark funny triangular waves, the nature of the motion of which is always parallel to the surface of the Earth. Accordingly, you are liberated to change the direction of movement of the waves relative to the edge of the screen, by simple rotation of the device in space.
On the main screen of the phone, the player is made in the classic version of WalkMan 3.0. In the title library of the player, in addition to sorting by performers, albums, displaying all songs and collecting playlists, there are sections of the sorting of compositions by year, by genres, mapping separately from the rest of all kinds of audio books, although the most interesting sorting is definitely the Sense Me function. It first appeared in the W910i, whereas in W960i it can be considered separately, the benefit there it is completely independent and does not require additional processing of music outside the device. In W980, all moods can be set only with PC, namely utilities Media. Manager. Funny, but the latest version of the program is still dated December 2007, although, when connecting the phone, everything is recognized as a bang. By adding indexed files to the phone library, the user remains only to update the library and go to the Sense Me section.
In this section, there is a simple crossress from a cheerful and sad mood, and the speaker is divided by the vertical scale. The files themselves are indicated as points, the location of which approximately correspond to speed and mood, according to the Music Manager program. Another interesting opportunity is to form a set of compositions in the current playlist. To do this, it is enough to choose the appropriate sorting by pressing the right soft key, then set the diameter of the covering ring, the center of which is the current selected track. Another way to select unexpected lists is viewing compositions by year.
The playback window consists of a narrow line of progress in the entire width of the window, which is located a small ALBUM ART window, icons of playback modes and the current track position in the playlist. Nothing the information line is not done from above, where the signal level indicators, battery charge, other notifications and time are displayed.
The string displays the past and the remaining track playback time, information from ID3 tag, and notation for the navigation key. What is interesting, on the key itself there are the same designations. Press up or down the current playback list is called by half active window Play. When changing the orientation to the landscape, the designation of the navigation key sails to the right edge of the scroll bar.
In the player settings, you can enable / disable random playback mode, and at the same time and repeat the current composition / list. In addition, instead of a small album cover, you can withdraw a different animation called visualization. The effects are pleasant to the eye, but with such dimensions of the active area it will not hurt to use a magnifying glass.
The W980 acts as the first Sony Ericsson product from the Walkman line, which has entered the Sony A-Series players. The equalizer, in turn, is one of the brightest and most noticeable solutions of this scheme. So, instead of a classic vertical list, we are invited to choose one of their 9 add-ons of the five band equalizer, the design of which is quite consistent with the image musical solution. Each superstructure is located in a large window with a schematic listener, the name of the musical genre and demonstrating the values \u200b\u200bof the equalizer bands.
There is no Mega Bass, since instead of it the familiar section of manual installation is equipped with a dedicated left side of the three-position setting of Clear Bass. As in the Maternal Sony players, installing bass values \u200b\u200bto the maximum significantly cuts up the upper and average frequencies, but Middle Bass becomes much, but not excessively, if, of course, you are going to listen to the electronics.
Sound quality
In the Sony Ericsson advertising campaign, all sorts of references to the W980 are actively used, the use of Clear Stereo and Clear Bass technologies, as well as other innovations previously seen in Sony A - Series players. Of course, we could not go around the attention of such loud statements, especially with the fact that the mythical quality of Sony's sound players to this day torments the minds of those who rarely faces monitor acoustics, and other components, really qualitatively reproducing music records.
Let's start with a small one, namely, in the W980 drivers, the codec normalization of the stereo effect called Clear Stereo. At the calibration, this system is simply struggling with the overloads of the central spectrum, as in the previous Sony Ericsson phones. However, this time the system was significantly corrected, due to the fall upper frequencies The problem saturated area is approximately twice as low as in the predecessors. In addition, the most complex mid-frequency range is subject to better adjustment, from which, first of all, the engineering of the electric guitar suffers, since all the necessary speaker of the audio color disappears. Thus, from the list of music for listening, you can immediately strike out all the directions of heavy music, including a harmless alternative.
The second step towards satisfying everyone who loves electronics and popular music has become the introduction of Sony's branded technology called Clear Bass. And here is purity and why all this is only a loud word, a long time knows most of the unbiased owners of Sony players. A low-frequency spectrum takes and rises to incredible heights, passing down the average frequencies and a third of the printed top. As a result, it turns out something about what we will tell immediately after the excursion on the RMAA 5.5 Table.
General results
| Non-uniformity frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB: | +0.02, -0.12 | Excellent |
| Noise level, dB: | -88.0 | Okay |
| Dynamic range, dB (A): | 84.9 | Okay |
| Harmonic distortion,%: | 0.0060 | Very good |
| Intermodulation distortion + noise,%: | 0.019 | Very good |
| Interpenetration of channels, dB: | -84.6 | Very good |
| Intermodulation by 10 kHz,%: | 0.028 | Okay |
Total rating: very good
Frequency characteristic
| Frequency range | Unevenness |
| From 20 Hz to 20 kHz, dB | -0.13, +0.02 |
| From 40 Hz to 15 kHz, dB | -0.12, +0.02 |
Noise level
| Parameter | Left | Right |
| RMS power, dB: | -86.1 | -85.9 |
| Power RMS (A-Weight.), DB: | -88.0 | -87.8 |
| Peak level, dB (FS): | -71.4 | -72.2 |
| Offset DC,%: | -0.00 | -0.00 |
Dynamic range
| Parameter | Left | Right |
| Dynamic range, dB: | +83.4 | +83.1 |
| Dynamic. Range (A-Web.), DB: | +85.1 | +84.9 |
| Offset DC,%: | -0.00 | -0.00 |
Nonlinear distortion + noise (at level -3 dB)
| Parameter | Left | Right |
| SC,%: | 0.0066 | 0.0060 |
| Book + noise,%: | 0.0173 | 0.0168 |
| Book + noise (A-Weight),%: | 0.0157 | 0.0152 |
Intermodulation distortions
| Parameter | Left | Right |
| Ki + noise,%: | 0.0195 | 0.0193 |
| Ki + Noise (A-Weight.),%: | 0.0167 | 0.0166 |
Interpenetration of stereokanals
| Parameter | A lion. | Lion-\u003e pr. |
| Penetration of 100 Hz, dB: | -81 | -81 |
| Penetration of 1 kHz, dB: | -83 | -84 |
| Penetration of 10 kHz, dB: | -84 | -85 |
Intermodulation (variable frequency)
| Parameter | Left | Right |
| Kii + noise at 5 kHz,%: | 0.0205 | 0.0203 |
| Ki + noise by 10 kHz,%: | 0.0285 | 0.0256 |
| Ki + noise at 15 kHz,%: | 0.0398 | 0.0366 |
The program will not be bought on the laudatory reviews to which they sought at Sony Ericsson. The results of measurements on the head above, quite comparable with and only the reference goes in the separation from the rest. But, let me, because in the previous paragraph we mentioned that many instrumental compositions are better and not to load into the phone's memory? That's right, since the RMAA test material consists of artificial sound transitions that do not affect sound processing technologies in W980. Due to this coincidence at the output, we get excellent data comparable to Sony A8xx players, but in practice everything is completely different. Accordingly, relying on one numbers becomes incorrect, which forces it to compare the audio code only on the basis of its tastes and preferences.
When typing multiple headphone models for testing, we started listening to different music to start in the Hard Rock genre, and then electronics. Heavy guitar losses and virtuoso solo turn into something boring and dull, since you hear everything except the Distore effect itself. A few minutes later the picture becomes unpleasant to the limit, which means that the negative verdict is unequivocal. The following on the list is the ordinary pop music of the past generation, and then electronics. Here the situation is much better, but low frequencies lack severity. It seems that the gain of low frequencies does not work as necessary, from which the noticeable return is not observed. Here it is necessary to recall that these impressions were obtained after using third-party headphone models in the popular price range of 70-100 dollars plus overhead Philips SHP895.
But we should go away from the experiments and take advantage of the HPM-77 complete headset, as all thoughts go to the side. In the company found truly signal model Headphones, noteworthy not only compact dimensions, but also sound. To begin with, we note excellent sound insulation, from which an attempt of a conversation on the headset is accompanied by a feeling that your ears laid, since you almost do not hear your voice. With such headphones, the maximum volume of the W980 is quite enough for the conditions of the metro, although it is possible not to resort to the maximum at all. And now the main thing: bass. As many of you are well known, 80% of music listeners are puzzled only by this parameter, and not sound scenes and other attributes of enjoyment by classics. Here for such users of Sony Ericsson W980 in a pair with complete headphones presents a real musical paradise. Basin is extremely saturated, but it is impossible to call them sharp or air. It is a dense consistency of everything sound spectrum Below 300 Hz, literally emitting the listener's ears with its atmosphere. At the same time, the headphones are not deprived of the opportunity to gently reproduce the upper and average frequencies, significantly ahead of these parameters the same Sennheiser CX300. The only moment to pay attention to the fact that many of you may not hear any of this consistency, if the headphones are installed wire down. Here you can advise to wrap the wire around the ear shell, so that the headphones are installed on top down - only with this way your humble servant has achieved that sound, which was described above.
This time we decided to pay a lot of text space, although we did not put forward any specifics and instructions to the genres used, since the main goal was the idea of \u200b\u200bthe insolvency of the standard approach to testing sound quality, in the case of W980. The phone will seem close to the ideal among the majority of those who constitute the target audience, but only subject to the use of excellent complete headphones and the addiction of the listener to light musical genres. Repeat: the device loses on the part of the mid-frequency spectrum and the detail even, but here the bass, which is usually not enough for many, break out of HPM-77 headphones in a bundle with W980 such a dense flow that KOSS The Plug is perceived by no more than bad similarity. And so that in music is more important, bass or everything else is to solve only you.
Radio
In addition to the music player, Sony Ericsson W980 is equipped with a familiar FM receiver with RDS, AF and memory for 20 stations. In addition to this, you can mention the classic TrackID service.
As we mentioned in the description of the appearance, and affecting the player's work, to switch the external phone screen to the radio mode, there is an extension key on the right end by calling the receiver with which the receiver you get into the navigation window where you are shifted. Between the stored stations and manual adjustment by pressing the left and right sensor. All other possibilities are available only on the inner screen described above.
Multimedia features of Sony Ericsson W980 will not be noted that the FM transmitter can not be noted that you can easily broadcast music on any receiving from a distance of up to 7 meters.
Communications
The phone has a Bluetooth 2.0 Wireless Module with EDR support, as well as other standard profiles:
- Basic Imaging Profile
- Basic Printing Profile
- Dial-Up Networking Profile
- File TRANSFER PROFILE
- Generic Access Profile
- Generic Object Exchange Profile
- Handsfree Profile
- Headset Profile
- JSR-82 Java API
- Object Push Profile
- Personal Area Network Profile
- Serial Port Profile
- SERVICE DISCOVERY APPLICATION PROFILE
- Synchronization Profile
- Syncml Obex Binding
- PHONEBOOK ACCESS PROFLLE.
The data transfer rate is at the level of 100-120 kb / s. The stability of the connection is high both in the case of transmitting large files and when working with a wireless headset. About A2DP headsets should be sent a few words. Using with two models from Sony Ericsson, in both cases playing music downloaded the CPU phone full program, and the movement speed on the menu fell at times. However, the DACs installed in and provide a noticeably more detailed sound with minimal losses of high frequencies, the appearance of a fairly accurate bass, as well as a total increase in volume by 15-20%.
Since the phone is equipped with 8 GB of integrated memory without a slot for memory cards, the implementation of the connection to the PC cannot be left aside as a description. The first point to indicate is the support of two data transfer formats that do not require the availability of Sony Ericsson Phone Manager on the PC. In the first case, the W980 is defined as a drive, automatically turning off the radar, and translating the interface into a familiar mode of operation. In this case, the data transfer rate is as much as 700 Kb / s, which, on the background of 3 MB / s on the same G502 it looks strange. In part, the problem can be tried to write off the presence of a PC connection in MTP mode, in which you can transfer files with DRM protection without blocking access to them. But it comes out for nothing, since the file recording speed surprises even more: 600 Kb / s.
What are the reasons for such low high-speed indicators? Everything is simple: A single RAM memory module is used with a volume of 32 MB, but the second array of the ROM memory is recently presented in the company's telephones by 64 or 256 MB, just replaced by 8 GB option. At the same time, the memory card controller that supports the recording protocol within USB 2.0 High Speed, simply is not set on the board, and write to the built-in memory of Sony Ericsson phones, as you can make sure, does not go beyond the framework of the USB standard 1.1. And since the memory area in the phone is one, in the file manager there are also no bookmarks for selecting regions, which causes an analogy with and W800i.
Performance
Jbenchmark1: 5613
TEXT: 1856.
2D Shapes: 1377
3D Shapes: 691
Fill Rate: 502
Animation: 1188.
Jbenchmark 2: 1219
Image Manipulation: 368
Text: 714.
Sprites: 645.
3D TRANSFORM: 724
User Interface: 21968
Jbenchmark 3D
JBENCHMARK 3D HQ: 462
Jbenchmark 3D LQ: 482
TRIGLES PEAR SECOND: 37418
KTEXELS PEAR SECOND: 1547
Jbenchmark HD.
Smooth Triangles: 31241
Textured Triangles: 27299
Fill Rate: 1359 KTEXELS
Gaming: 132 (4.4 frames per second)
Games
There are only three games in the phone, since the W980 is not included in the new game concept, for which it is not important, but the amount.
The first of the pre-installed games is Luminies Block Challenge, which has become traditional for Sony Ericsson Walkman-phones. We will not again describe this mixture of Tetris with the arcade, and we will not understand in the sense of the gameplay in 2-5 minutes, the benefit is simple.
The following Sudoku game is coming to the list, which includes more than a hundred crosswords of varying degrees of complexity, and in the end of everything there is also a clear description of the gameplay, so important for beginners.
Need for Speed \u200b\u200bPro Street closes the top three available games, although this game is nonetheless, is also the main one in the whole set. According to the chart, it is a strong middling, but, alas, not physics. For maneuvering on the track, it is enough to reject the phone of the sideways, and two degrees of the steering wheel, distinguishing this method Controls in comparison with buttons.
Applications
Accuweather.
Weather viewing program to receive data from the meteorological service of most airports from around the world. The use of the service does not require any additional funds, except for payment of traffic, although it is required to be extremely small.
Walk Mate.
The long-awaited pedometer using the acceleration sensor to control the player and only it. Unfortunately, this is not so much a pedometer as a pleasant waiting mode screen saver, as he considers only a step, not even trying to convert them into the distance traveled. But there is a symbolic goal of every day whose essence lies in a set of symbolic 10000 steps, which approximately corresponds to 6-8 kilometers, depending on your growth and other parameters. It's funny, but the application from Nokia is limited twice by smaller numbers as a daily norm, although it is not so important, in contrast to the fact that the pedometer is, and it works correctly, even if only if the phone is wearing the phone in the pocket of jeans / trousers or on the wrist hands.
Music Mate 5.
In the fifth version of the instrumental set of musical samples, the long-awaited possibility of tonal guitar tuning appeared, although all other moments coincide with the previous version.
Units converter is not as much as sufficient base of different quantities, how much is a pleasant visualization of graphics.
STANDBY WORLD.
The application allows you to output a few beautiful shooting hours indicating the current time for several countries. Its main advantage can be considered the fact that the application itself can be displayed in standby mode instead of the background pattern.
World Clock 3D
Ordinary viewing of time zones on a three-dimensional globe.
Camera
The phone has a 3-MP camera module without autofocus optics and flash. Not the most successful location of the camera lens at the site of a comfortable finding of the index finger could be called a non-essential disadvantage, if the phone is able to use a good external screen as a viewfinder. But, alas, the camera is only available in the opened state of the phone, so that only half of the main screen is used as viewfinder. At the top of the screen, over the viewfinder are located standard indicators Digital scaling and brightness installation. Low below is the switching window between the photo / video modes, next to which you can see the icon of the current save place and the installed photo / video format.
All available camera settings are concentrated in the options menu, whether it is a choice of resolution and quality compression, installing the balance of white and color effects, selection of the shooting mode, activation of the timer shutter speed, add the coordinates of the phone's location coordinates to the snapshot metadata, as well as the choice of one of the four sink sounds Shutter, with the possibility of its disconnection.
As you can see at the following examples of images, the quality of the photo is quite enough to shoot uncomplicated plots without complaints about quality. On the phone's phone, the pictures look well, but on the PC you can quite comfortably view only those photos that were obtained in sunny weather with the optimal illumination of objects.
As a phone Sony Ericsson W980 provides good quality communication, fully coinciding with most other company phones. The conversational speaker reproduces the entire current frequency range, without emphasizing any of the SCH's sides, thanks to which the voice of the interlocutor is distorted only within the AMR format and no more. The speaker volume is enough for most calm situations, but in a noisy room, or in the metro car it is better to use the headset, as a 30% lack of volume for such situations takes place. The polyphonic speaker does not suffer from the squeaky playback of the melodies, although its maximum volume is only slightly above the average. In the same lively noisy setting, the call melody can be easily taken for another non-critical sound. The vibromoter also contributes to the appearance of missed calls, since it vibrates it in small ripples is somewhat weaker than the average value. conclusions In the description of the Sony Ericsson W980 there can be no place for dry evaluation of technical characteristics and infinite compared to competitors. This product acts in its niche, which can be described only by emotional impressions and delight from balance. There are no status points in the folding glance, there is no high-quality sound, there is no autofocus chamber, and a frighteningly small thickness also does not correspond to the description of this compact phone. But in the phone there is a story of the first Walkman products, in which the priority component was images supported by the music. And this is really a musical product, on which it is not convenient to listen to music, it's nice. It is nice to play games on this phone, it's nice to talk, nice to write messages and watch photos. And the funny thing is that this brand phone with a plastic body is quite reasonable worth its $ 650, as it is not offered for this money tool, but emotions. Since we have noted a far rate of W980, it is time to note the fact that the phone involuntarily becomes a certain status solution, closely tightened to the same, even here, the success of a competitor to convenience. There are no other fun competitors from this musical clamshell and is unlikely to be foreseen. So all those who like this concept of emotional solutions can safely go to the store and buy Sony Ericsson W980. If it seems to you that its price is unreasonable, we advise you to not operate with statements towards the plastic case without a metal, we advise you to look at the solutions of competitors, if, of course, you will find them.
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Contents of delivery:
- Telephone
- Battery
- Charger
- Wired stereo charter HPM-77
- USB cable
- Disk with Media Manager, disk
Positioning
Music flagship, this is all said. The most functional in the aspect of the music model from Sony Ericsson at the time of the presentation is the most unusual. This device is extremely extraordinated, and it is impossible to judge future models, most likely it will remain like a white spot in the Sony Ericsson line. The situation around this model reminds me of the Sony Ericsson W900i output at the very beginning of the winning procession of the Walkman line. For the first time, a graphic accelerator appeared, recording video with QVGA-resolution, an unusual ROTATE form factor, a great screen and a good camera. All together created an expensive, but such a pleasant device that someone still uses them and does not feel any difficulties, does not have the desire to change this model for something else.
The positioning of the Walkman line on the music has not been so unequivocally, there are many models, which attract attention to the appearance, materials, form factor, price, delivery set, but the last thing it would seem the main function - music. Let's remember the Sony Ericsson W910i, Sony Ericsson W890i. Against this background, becomes clear sales Sony Ericsson W960i: Expensive device with a large amount of memory and aimed at implementing the main function - music, with a smaller image component. The keyword relative to the Walkman line today is not music, this is an image.
Music is one of the elements of the self-expression of a modern person. Rephrasing the famous saying can be said: "You are what you listen." In social aspect, the importance of music is difficult to underestimate, for young people it is one of the key topics in communication, knowledge of the world. There are not just the fans of one or another group, directions in music, this is the expression of your own I, an attempt to position yourself in the world. Extremely few people in unintelligible, all directions in music at once. There are always certain favorites and taboos, the fact that a person will not listen to never. Among adolescents, you can often hear phrases like "She listens to such a singer or singer." This is diagnosed, there is nothing to add to this phrase. Social marker, separation of "your own strangers." Along with external markers, such as clothing, music has become a key element of culture.
It's funny, but for a huge part of young people, listening to music plays a social role, they need to listen to music. At the same time, the quality of playing music seemingly playing not the last role, but, as the Walkman line sales experience shows, not priority. Among the buyers of Walkman phones avid Melomanians units that understand what music is and how it sounds really, and is less. For most, the Walkman phone is a device with which the social function is performed and only. Exactly the same device was Apple iPod for the US market, this player is socially based on. You have white headphones in your ears, then you have an iPod, and you are a progressive young man. It is curious that the quality of the sound of the iPod is also medium and inferior to most competitors, who, however, and closely did not approach him in popularity.
Exactly for this reason, there is no need to improve the sound of the Walkman line (this does not apply to individual players). What to invest in improving the main function, if 90 percent of customers are looking for external manifestations that they listen to music. That is, the very fact of listening to music is important, significantly, on what they listen to this music and what exactly. Of course, people will surely assure you that they are important to the quality of music, how it sounds. From the study in the study, we faced this paradox. Using us that the quality of music is in the first place, people then bought phones, which were worse in their same assessment. What is the reason? The social significance of such phones was more, they offered without listening to music with good quality, and the ability to communicate. Imagine, you get your phone, shook him and nod your head in the tact of a new composition. What do people around you see? Rhythm music, they suggest that you are listening seeing how you do it. Not so little information, a huge number of social markers.
I understand that it is difficult to get along with the idea that we all try to play a particular role in society, and music is one of the components of social behavior. It is even more difficult to make the idea that the quality of music is not so important for many, they are more important than the external manifestations associated with listening to music. What headphones in the ears are that you can show what can be said, including the quality of the player's sound, phone. Communication is the answer to the question.
In Sony Ericsson W980, everything is subordinate to communication, the company tried to make the device as catchy as possible, attractive. Light effects on the selected panel serve for the same. In the aspect of the image it is difficult for me to come up with something similar to the Sony Ericsson W980, there is everything and even more. From the point of view of music and the quality of its playback, the device is medium in the market, the market is full of solutions of other companies playing better. But are they more popular? I do not think. In them weak is a social function that raises in the flagship from Sony Ericsson.
This phone is ideal for young people active in society looking for themselves and their way that has already achieved their first success. Age group from 22 to 35 years old, with primary focus on a group of 22-26. And the girls and young men are equally perceived by this phone, it is universal.
This is not the first apparatus of this kind, with a similar idea. But the first with a similar level of implementation. You can recall Motorola U9, something similar to the housing, on the Motorola side, amazing effects on the external screen, good quality of music playback. But the social component is not so high. Do not look for direct correspondences, they will not be, Sony Ericsson W980 stands mansion on the market. In the form factor of clamshells is one of the most unique models over the past couple of years. But it is not necessary only to evaluate it from the point of view of the quality of playing music, the device, despite all the declarative statements, was not created for this, no one.
Design, dimensions, control elements
The clamshell with the Japanese design - this is how it is possible to characterize the W980. Why do mod models from Japan immediately come to mind? WINDING TO THE ANGLE OF THE OPERATION OF CLOTHES, when two rectangles form a broken line, swivel hinge in the middle of the upper end. Add a characteristic click when closing or opening the device. Case materials. The list can be continued, but in the end we will come to the conclusion that there is nothing like that in most markets today. The model is unique in design and attracts attention instantly.
Only one color is available - black (Piano Black). The front panel of plastic, it is glossy and very, very brand. Honestly, I expected the rejection of the apparatus, I do not like dirty things, and I can't wipe the phone for me. However, it was pleasantly surprised: the phone due to the mirror effect does not look dirty. In most cases, he plays light, indoors, reflecting the light. The maximum on it can be seen dust, but not fat.
The outer screen is guessed with bright lighting, its borders are visible, it is almost not noticeable in the room, which is not so bad. The material of the hull of the racks to scratches, we had not so many of them, almost there were almost no, even after the phone visited his pockets with keys.
The screen shows three circles, in the middle a large and two small sides. These are sensory keys that serve to work with the player, they only answer for it. No reading messages on the external screen ( last message scrolled entirely by itself) or view the last calls. Only music, radio and point.
Touch keys have a return by vibration, it is well felt, it's nice to work with them. Illumination of two colors: orange in player mode, white for radio. In your pocket, you need to block the keys, otherwise they will be pressed independently, the first press turns on the backlight, the second is already responsible for the action. On the right side there is a slider that blocks the buttons is nice. Immediately on the right key changing the modes of the outer screen, they scatter, as if pages in the book, the animated effect of pleasant. In total, three modes are available - the usual waiting screen with the name of the operator, the radio mode and finally the player.
The characteristics of the outer screen are not bad - this is a TFT matrix with a resolution of 176x176 points (27x27 mm), which displays up to 262,000 colors. Screen for protective "glass", which has a toning, so on sunlight He is sometimes visible not very good. In the lower end in a closed form, a transparent insert, this is a LED that has two illumination colors - white for most events and orange for the player. A kind of light music when playing compositions or a light indicator when calling, a message and so on. A pleasant thing that looks stylish, there are simply no analogs on the market.
The service LED, however, decided to still establish, not to calculate only on the external beauty. The small indicator is located on the left side of the phone. On the same side - a hole for the strap, standard Fast Port. The side location of the interface connector was the norm for Sony Ericsson, but it is inconvenient in most cases, in the pocket the width of the phone with headphones is increased by centimeter. On the right side there is a paired volume adjustment key. For two side sides, closer to the bottom end, the openings of the speakers are visible. This is the first apparatus of the company that plays well music in speaker mode, the presence of two speakers is felt.
Side parts of the case, the back part is made of plastic Soft Touch, in hand the phone does not slide, it lies like this. Size - 92x46x16.9 mm, weight - 100 grams. Typical dimensions, not the thinnest apparatus, but quite fit in the pocket of the shirt, not to mention jeans or trousers. Open the device easily with one hand, there are no surprises here.
On the back you can see the camera lens, it is not covered with nothing when you hold the phone in your hands, finger hits the lens, it is always dirty. It is useless to clean, it does not help any drop.
Display
The main screen displays up to 262,000 colors with a resolution of 240x320 points (diagonal 2.2 inches, 34x45 mm, TFT). This allows you to show up to 8 lines of text and up to three service lines for most modes; To view Internet resources, when working with emailWith messages it is possible to display and more strings due to the smaller font size.
The screen quality is excellent, bright colors, saturated. On the sun, the screen glances a little, the glossy coating is affected, but, finding an angle, you can read from it. To make the screen not in contact with the keyboard, there are two rubber gaskets, they save the position. But, on the other hand, the traces of the cheek on the inner screen are visible constantly, it is almost impossible to fight them. Above the screen is the camera for video calls, exactly in the middle.
Keyboard
The digital keys are round, medium in size and well spaced. Soft pressing, working with keys. Complete pleasure. They are suitable for both a quick dialing, and for continuous correspondence in SMS messages. Selected Walkman key on the keyboard, the navigation key is common.
Illumination of white keys, pleasant, medium intensity.
Battery
The back cover does not have a backlash, it is easy to open. The lithium-polymer BST-38 battery is placed inside, its capacity is 930 mAh. According to the manufacturer, the operation time of the device in standby mode is up to 370 hours, in talk mode - up to 9 hours. In the conditions of Moscow networks, the device worked an average of three and a half days at a good load (up to one and a half hours of conversations, about 30 minutes of games, 20 minutes of using a browser, up to 3 hours listening to music).
Music playback time is up to 30 hours. The total battery charging time is about 2 hours. By optimizing power consumption, the model is one of the best on the A200 platform today, it works for a long time. Not a record holder, but above average.
Memory, memory cards
The phone has 8 GB of integrated memory, memory cards are not provided. For most users, this amount of memory will be more than enough.
Data transfer
When a USB connection, you must select whether files in memory will be accessed, this data transfer mode will be accessed, or work with the phone will continue, or the PRINT mode is activated. In the first case, the phone is turned off, you see the phone's memory. USB 2.0 standard, data transfer rate of about 2 MB / s. In the second case there are various USB settings for accessing the network, the phone acts as a modem.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth in this version 2 model and supports EDR. The A2DP profile is supported, which allows you to use wireless stereo textures. The model supports the following profiles:
- Basic Imaging Profile
- Basic Printing Profile
- Dial-Up Networking Profile
- File TRANSFER PROFILE
- Generic Access Profile
- Generic Object Exchange Profile
- Handsfree Profile
- Headset Profile
- JSR-82 Java API
- Object Push Profile
- Personal Area Network Profile
- Serial Port Profile
- SERVICE DISCOVERY APPLICATION PROFILE
- Synchronization Profile
- Syncml Obex Binding
The device also supports HSDPA.
Performance
Everything is typically for the A200 platform, there are no features. There is no restrictions on the size of the JAR file, the size of the HEAP is from 512 KB to 1.5 MB.
Camera
The phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera, a matrix - CMOS. No autofocus. The device supports four possible permissions - 2048x1536, 1632x1224, 1280x960, 640x480 points. There are two types of compression snapshots - Normal, Fine. Most photos in the examples are given as FINE. The camera interface is vertical, it dictates the phone form factor, the absence of a side key, the OK button appears in its quality.
Camera settings look like this:
- Sound of shutter. Select one of four shutter sounds, you can turn off the sound.
- White balance. The choice between automatic mode, as well as Incandescent, Fluorescent, Daylight, Cloudy.
- Effects. You can apply multiple effects to the pictures, namely: Negative, Sepia, Black & White.
- Timer - Activated for a certain time to shoot yourself a loved one.
- Night mode Designed for shooting in the dark or under conditions of insufficient lighting. Noise increases in photos, exposure increases (it is impossible to move the device, otherwise you will get a lubricated snapshot).
- Shooting mode. Normal mode is the receipt of ordinary photos. Serial mode (BURST 4) - Getting 4 shots at once, series. Panorama - getting panoramic pictures, very interesting mode that allows you to receive unusual photos. The last mode is to get pictures using the framework, the photo resolution automatically decreases.
In shooting mode, the phone screen plays the role of the viewfinder, moving the picture on the screen smooth, everything is visible very well. Digital keys can quickly switch various functions and shooting parameters, this significantly speeds up work with the camera.
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The new features of the camera associated with the presence of navigation and not only include adding position, that is, information about the place where the picture is taken. This feature can be disabled from the camera menu. The implementation of positioning is made interesting. Add a position about the place not only from the hardware GPS receiver (it is not here, unlike the W760i), but using the Cell ID, which is used by Google Maps the second version. Find data about the place in EXIF \u200b\u200brecords of files With this definition, we failed, but the phone itself quite correctly showed for such pictures on the map. A thumbnail appears in Google Maps, and the map shows where it is made.
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Video can be recorded in two permissions (320x240, 176x144), file format - 3GP. The duration of the rollers can be indicated as limited (up to 10 seconds) and unlimited. The quality of the rollers is average, does not affect the imagination.
Pre-installed programs, games, themes
Consider in detail all the features software It makes no sense, this is the A200 platform, which is perfectly described in a separate material, here we will focus on the features of this apparatus.
Unlike the first devices on the A200 platform in this model, animation is widely used while opening the windows, sending messages. This is the simplest animation, but it changes the phone perception, looks beautiful. Another trifle in the piggy bank of this phone.
In the apparatus 5 of various designs, they all use flash animation to some extent, can change the type of main menu, for example, to a cyclic or more familiar matrix. Themes look interesting. The main menu can be made cyclical, circular or display one icon at a time.
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The phone has three games, one - Need for Speed \u200b\u200b- is a good racing emulator, but the main thing is that the machine can be controlled using the built-in motion sensor. You can fit into the turn, slightly rejoint the phone aside. Such management is very pleasant diversified game. Second game - Lumines Block Challenge, this is a version of Tetris. The last game is the traditional sudoku.
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Applications are represented by six programs. One of them is accuweather - allows you to upload the weather forecast for the phone, the program is not much of interest. The second program is world clock 3D, time view in various cities in the world.
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Music Mate 5 is present, you can learn how to play different tools, or turn the phone in the metronome.
Converter - converts different values.
Standby World - Clock for different belts that can be installed as a waiting mode screensaver (for the main screen).
Music opportunities
The player of the third version, which is the most difficult on the market today, in contrast to previous models A new representation of equalizers, a more convenient and simple, similar to Sony Ericsson W760i, W902 was added. The rest of the device has everything characteristics Sony Ericsson W760i. It is mistaken to be that this is the first apparatus with Clear Stereo, Clear Bass, all together - Clear Expirience. No, the first apparatus with the support of these technologies was the W760i. Another thing is that the manufacturer did not advertise them, and no one paid attention to the "outstanding" sound quality, plus the headset included was usual. The reason is obvious, we will talk about it below, considering the basic functions of the player.
Music management on an external screen.The phone completely controls the music library from the outside screen, all filters are available, the transition between the lists. It's nice. The separate window is dedicated to the radio, there is a transition between the stored stations, the search for stations, the side keys of the volume (long-retention - the crossroads between the stored stations are valid. Need to open the device to listen to music or choose the desired composition, not.
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Sensme.. To the standard set of Walkman functions of the third version of the Sony Ericsson W980i, the Sensme option is still in addition. This is a playlist, which includes various compositions and distributes them by type (playback speed, mood). You do not need to add tags to compositions, for this purpose serves Sony Media Manager, it analyzes all the melodies on the computer and adds the necessary information. Another thing is that such a process takes time. For example, an analysis of approximately 1.5 GB of music in our case took about 20-25 minutes. Plus Media Manager in the fact that he can work with memory cards, no mandatory connection of the phone itself is not required. The program also knows how to convert photos, video for the phone, its possibilities are wide enough.
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Is Sensme's interesting? Of course. On the map of the melodies, you see points the location of each track, you can move between them, and at the same time a certain point is highlighted, and it also begins to play. In sight, however, several points come immediately, they are ringtones. By pressing the input, you can create a playlist with melodies close to mood, playback speed and so on. Under certain life moods, it is very nice.
However, it is necessary to understand that the function will work well only if you listen to the music of various genres, as well as it is a lot on your phone. If you add a couple of three albums of one artist, then you will most likely see that they are all in one part of the card. The meaning of the function is lost.
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Shake Control. Used full version Player management with shocking. It happens very simple. Press and hold the central touch button, and then shake the device, when moving forward, it is a jump to the next composition, backwards, respectively, to the previous one. Just shocking - a random selection of composition. When performing actions, there is feedback, the device vibrates.
It is not worth considering that the function will find a massive application. It will be interesting only to those engaged in running, other sports and want to be able to quickly change the composition. For young people, it may be interesting to try it in action and only. It is more convenient to connect the control panel and use it to control playback.
From new filters, it is worth noting the "time machine", it loses the composition for a certain year. Of the more traditional, the list of the most played, the least played.
Playing in speakerphone mode. In mode music box This device does not affect the imagination - playing loud, but not very high quality. There are no differences from the devices equipped with one speaker. All about the same level, unfortunately.
General description Walkman 3.0.From fundamental differences from previous version Walkman 2.0 can mark support for DRM 2.0, as well as support for MTP, which allows you to directly transmit songs from Windows Media Player.
The device finds all files and directories on the memory card, pulls out information from metadata (ID3 tags). Supported for audio files Formats - MP3, AAC, AAC +, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA and M4A. There are no restrictions for MR3 files by bitrate, you can also download files with VBR. The company recommends using files with a stream in 192 kbps.
In the music library, all saved music is divided into several signs:
- Performers - A list of alphabetical executives is given, a quick search by the executor operates.
- Albums - Sort by album name, also acts a search.
- Entries - A common list of all melodies, sorting occurs by the name of the song or, in case of its absence in metadata, by file name.
- Genre - This is a sort of type of music, for example, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues and so on.
- My playlists - The players created by the user, they can be created both in the machine itself and on the computer when viewing the contents of the memory in the USB Mass Storage mode, when updating the library, the device also finds them.
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Unlike the second version, all transitions are made although horizontal, but externally decorated somewhat differently. It does not cause difficulties. All navigation is carried out in several touch, and each list has a multiple letters.
A reproduction mode of one or all compositions, random playback is available. The progressive rewind, when holding the key, the rewind step changes. In the standard, basic, player, you can not choose a visualization, that is, animation on the site of the album pictures. Only an image correlated with the album.
If you play music, and you are in standby mode, then the launch of the media section will immediately lead to the point of player.
Equalizer is 6-way, you can set your settings, turn on the expansion of the stereo pass. Equalizer settings are now available only when headphones are connected, pictures installed for the default equalizers are clearly displayed.
Trackid is present as a standard option, there is a built-in FM radio with RDS support (for detailed description You should go to the description of the A200 platform).
FM TRANSMITTER. Initially promised that the W980 would have a built-in antenna, then the transmission of sound to external devices would not imagine problems, and the broadcasting of the radio in Bluetooth stereo handphones is a pleasant option. But it did not happen. The radio works only with the antenna, but the FM transmitter remains.
In the Radio menu, you can select the frequency and immediately start the broadcast. The effective distance to the receiver is to a half-meter, then the interference starts to be very annoyed. In the car, it is best to put the phone closer to the radio, otherwise there is no interference. The volume of the transmitted signal is low, approximately halfway from the ethereal radio. There is a lot of interference, but this is the characteristics of such devices in general, their obvious minus.
With an incoming call, the signal transmission is interrupted. Only sound, but also the name of the artist, the name of the composition or other phone is broadcast on the radio or other phone. The transmitter should be viewed as an additional function, the exotic, in demand, it will not become.
Playback quality. HPM-77 headphones are included in the kit, they have excellent quality of music playback, one of best headphones Companies today. There is a volume adjustment of 15 positions, it is quite enough. Plays the device loudly, I have a subjectively model seemed better than other company phones.
We now turn to the consideration of the myths about the quality of Sony Ericsson W980i sound. In this model, there is no separate DSP responsible for the processing of sound, respectively, for everything corresponds to the phone processor, sound processing is software, but not hardware algorithms. It is possible to achieve good sound and thus the presence of DSP is not a panacea and not salvation. There is no way. But it is the use of a specialized chip that allows you to achieve even sound characteristics, good sound.
In the RMAA program, the frequency characteristics of the model are different, they do not differ from most players, for example, the same iPod Nano last generation. But when listening to this model, everyone marks background noise on different compositions, the voice often sounds not very natural. What is the reason? Initially, Clear Stereo, like Clear Bass, is another equalizer that improves the sound, makes it more pleasant to rumor and only. He can't make it natural, no. The sound is processed to sound better, and it is impossible to return the usual sound here, this is not a disabled option. With this, problems of measurements of sound characteristics in RMAA are associated, before measurement, it is necessary to turn off the stereo adjustment extension, all equalizers, programs processing sound. In Sony Ericsson phones it is impossible, such an option is simply not provided, they always "improve" sound. Someone will have such a sound, there is no such sound. But it is impossible to call it natural.
When working with touch keys - retention of central, rewind - applied, foreign noise in headphones. Unfortunately, on most of the compositions heard that the "noise" apparatus. This is well noticeable in the InterModulation + Noise parameter in RMAA, it is 0.8 against 0.015 in most modern phones.
Measures do not show an even account anything. Good frequency characteristic It can be spoiled by a rejection of the interpretation of music and vice versa. Therefore, we spent blind testing. To exclude the influence of headphones, we took complete HPM-77 and connected them to different devices (used original adapters by 3.5 mm in all cases). For comparison, Sony A803, which has a Clear Stereo technology, Sony Ericsson W760i, Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Apple iPod Touch is chosen. Users did not see the device and evaluated only the sound of music. The group consisted of 10 people. Results speak for themselves.
| Parameter, type of music | Sony Ericsson W980i. | Sony Ericsson W760i. | Sony A803. | Nokia 5610. | Apple iPod Touch. |
| Maximum volume | 8.3 | 7.1 | 9.2 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
| Classic (playback quality) | 5.1 (a lot of noise in the back background) | 6.2 | 8.2 | 7.2 (Lack of depth) | 8.4 |
| Popular music | 8.4 (Sing's voice does not always sound as expected) | 7.7 (lack volume) | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.2 |
| Jazz | 5.2 (unnatural sound) | 6.2 (Unselected Sound) | 9.1 (saturated bass) | 6.9 | 7.4 |
| Lyrics (author's song) | 6.4 (music and voice are broken, unusual) | 7.1 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 8.6 |
| Enable equalizer BASS (average for all songs) | 7.3 | 6.9 | 9.1 | 7.4 | 8.6 |
Good volume, oriented to popular music - these are the main parameters of the Sony Ericsson W980. Miracles in the world does not happen, and the phone loses the player from Sony, as well as inferior to a music model from Nokia with a dedicated DSP. The reason is that all these decisions were created as universal, manufacturers were difficult to assume that it was users who would listen to them. Sony Ericsson was considered that the bulk of users listens to popular music, and optimized their music flag for her. In my opinion, leave these improvements in the form of a separate equalizer, and everything would be wonderful. The ability to shut down - a great thing.
Considering that most "music lovers" do not understand what sound is, and focus on appearance Devices, Sony Ericsson W980 sound quality will always be evaluated high. This is how the sound of users is rated while listening to the standard headphones of each device, seeing it. Psychology in action.
| Parameter | Sony Ericsson W980i. | Sony Ericsson W760i. | Sony A803. | Nokia 5610. | Apple iPod Touch. |
| Evaluation of sound quality | 8.9 | 5.1 | 9.4 | 5.2 | 9.8 |
From personal and subjective experience. It is necessary to get used to the sound in Sony Ericsson W980. When the Sony A803 began to use, I turned on Clear Stereo, but then I realized that the sound comes, it does not please, it looks often not very natural (and on the player this equalizer is implemented to order better). Disabled it and listened to music in a regular manner. He began to listen more and set less. Improving sound strongly affects the brain, it is unnatural, and the information flow increases repeatedly. You can argue with this statement, say that it is sudden from the finger. This is what I personally encountered, and, judging by the observations of friends, they are about the same approach, the sound improvements are disconnected. But this is a separate story.
In order not to trust the blind it that they write in various reviews, press releases and the like nonsense, I recommend that you arm a set of favorite, well-known songs and listen to them on Sony Ericsson W980. Perhaps the new reading of a well-known music you will have to do, and you fall in love with the device, it is possible that it will not like it. It is impossible to say in absentia, you have to listen.
Stereo speakers. The first device from Sony Ericsson, where two dynamics are not nominal, they sound well, albeit not volume, but loud. Using the phone as a music box is nice, you can listen to the sleep of the coming podcasts, volume and playback quality is enough for the eyes.
Impression
The model has an acceptable call, it is heard in most situations. There are no problems with the quality of communication. The vibrating alert by force is slightly stronger than the average, felt well.
The phone was on sale at a cost of about 420 euros (in Russia in early August at a price of 20,500-21,000 rubles). No need to interpret it as a musical solution, it is not so. Like almost all Walkman phones today, this is an image phone with a very, very unusual design, a good set of features. By cons of the device, I can only attribute a stupid camera location, all the time the finger falls on the lens. The rest of the phone is so pleasant that I do not even know what to say. Unique model and only. Case materials, unusual external screen, control, good themes, pedometer. The logo on the external screen includes pleasant trifles - the letter W is spinning after you rotate the phone. This is another undocumented application of the motion sensor. Early Pictures in the desired plane, XPICT Story or Slideshow with music - all together creates a very pleasant product.
This is a typical Sony Style, beautiful, functional. I caught myself thinking that I like this phone simply as an apparatus, unusual in all components. But I almost did not listen to the music on it. From the strength of podcasts. Feature perception. For many who are not spoiled by high-quality players, this model will be top of dreams. Even for the radio, Clear Experience settings are valid, and one desire arises - give me a button to disable this "miracle." Somehow never otherwise.
Predict that the phone will become massive, it is impossible. It's not even as a sound or player. Sony Ericsson's Music Flags have never been very common, with the exception of the first phone of the family. And this model is also the road that explicitly hints at the fate of the same Sony Ericsson W900i. Good apparatus that was perceived with a bang knowledgeable people. There is a different situation, it is a clean image that will not less well among young people. But it will not become a bestseller, this is a certain niche and only. But getting into this niche is almost one hundred percent. The model is pleasant and deserves close attention.
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