Sony Ericsson W890i to make good on W880i's shortcomings?

by Chris Ziegler posted Sep 25th 2007 at 10:23AM

A random Polish auction site probably isn't the first place we'd think to look for leaked prototype Sony Ericsson hardware, but heck, maybe it should be. This here stylish, brown, brushed metal candybar showed up recently on allegro.pl, bearing the telltale "SE123" badge on its rear and all the signs of a successor to the 9.4mm W880i: a listed 3.2 megapixel camera (up from the Ai's 2 megapixel piece), UMTS, 12mm case thickness, Memory Stick Micro M2 slot, and a slightly -- okay, significantly less ridiculous numeric keypad. You might argue that it's a step down in the looks department from its supposed predecessor, but with the better cam, better keypad, and we'd imagine a slightly tighter fit by launch, we're guessing it'll have a few takers. You didn't forget EDGE this time around, did you, Sony Ericsson?

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, UMTS

Tags: ai, ericsson, prototype, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, w880i, w890i, walkman

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Vasilis @ Sep 25th 2007 11:07AM

And also it appears to have a fairly bigger screen. The W880i had one pathetically small screen for a modern phone. I kinda wanted that phone but there was no way with that screen. Glad I didnt the N95 is real cool :)

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MuffinFlavored @ Nov 21st 2007 12:32AM

I own the W880i, and I am going to purchase a W890i because the W880i has no support for GSM 850, and my W880i would simply say "Emergency Calls Only", and get different networks signals, instead of my network.

The W890i is a quad-band phone. The W880i was great, aside from the no service problem.