Sony Ericsson W980i > Reviews (11)

This is officially the best phone I've owned! ever! I am a massive fan of flip phones they just seem so convenient and handier to put away in your pocket when your not using it.
Firstly I'm going to talk about the exterior.the front panel is very shiny! So shiny you can see your own face in it so ladys good news you don't need to carry a compact too ;). At the bottom of the front panel there is see-through plastic which, when your phone is playing music flashes orange! How cool! it only does this for 30 seconds or so, so it would be good if this happened for the duration of the song. Also on the front is your actual walkman player; there are orange symbols for play/stop next and previous track. Also there are two little dots above and below the play/stop sign and these are to guide you round the songs on your phone. There is the obvious battery charger slot on one side of the phone and on the other the is a lock slider, so your phone doesn't start playing tracks as you're walking to the shops! a volume button (up/down) to play your music to a volume that suits you and another button which when you press it takes you to the radio (which you need your earphones for), the time and date, and of course your walkman player!
On opening the phone you see the same sleek design as on the outside, and some quite unusual yet attractive round number/text keys.
The reason I wanted this phone so much is not only because it looked so nice, but also has 8GB of internal memory! I thought oh my! i'm never going to have to worry about losing a memory card again!
When you open the phone and see your wallpaper, which can be one of your photos, although they do have some very attractive wallpapers on the phone, there is a choice betweem media, menu and contacts... I was first confused by how many contacts i could have in my phone because the manufacturer never clarified that in the instructions but after having it a while i figured out its as many as you want because of your 8gb memory is where it is all stored! same applies for text messages i have over 1000 stored.
Now to the camera and this shocked me because it is 3.2MP which is really good for a walkman phone. It takes really clear photographs and not bad videos, although they could be better.
The phone has an option called "play now" and this is if you want to download single songs to your phone because you don't own them which is really handy but not worth your money if you have the same song on your computer, just put it on direct. It comes with WAP internet which is a feature i dont use because it takes too long to load and cost a fair bit of credit so it could benefit from wifi!
There are lots of features on this phone to keep you entertained for hours and hours. Suchas track ID holding up your phone to music playing and it will identify the song for you! games of course, video DJ which allows you to edit the videos you've recorded, photo DJ to do those little touch-ups, music DJ which looks real fun but i haven't had the chance to play around with it yet and you can record you own sounds and use them as ringtones!

I find this phone really easy to text with... also if you use predictive text its helpful that mid-word it will guess the word you're going to type, if its right select it, and if it's wrong keep typing.
There are LOADS more features to this phone i could go on and on and on but i'll just sum it up because i've went on a bit... if you're thinking of buying this phone you're definately on the right track and you WILL NOT be dissapointed! it's everything i love in a phone all crammed into one handset.. good job sony ericsson!