We get hands-on with Sony Ericsson's W350i
Also on the table at Sony Ericsson's booth is the new ultra-light flip, the W350i. We've covered the important tech bits on this thing already and we were pretty stoked about its slim svelte look, but sadly, this fella still needs some tweaks to make it just right. We wanted to get at least a couple pics of the user interface, but it wasn't cooperating with us at all, any attempt to get the handset's demo rolling ended up in complete video madness. We can overlook software glitches as the handset isn't close to hitting retail, but this phone's flip is cheap, and I mean real floppy cheap. When in the closed position the flip doesn't actually seat -- we saw this on two different handsets -- nor does it have an I-will-last-a-long-time feel. Those points aside -- and it may be those issues go away before it hits retail in the second half of this year -- we're really digging the look of this set.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The D Train @ Jan 7th 2008 12:24PM
See I would of bought this phone, its stylish, its original, but then they added that nonsense at the bottom just make it a slide, that bottom part looks too fragile.
fappae @ Jan 7th 2008 12:57PM
another buggy sony ericsson phone? youd think they would have learnt after the disaster that was the k850
robbyb413 @ Jan 7th 2008 1:05PM
With the flip open I can't help but think of the old MicroTACs.
slamEVIL @ Jan 7th 2008 2:48PM
man what a lame phone. the only thing on the flip is the music controls? why not just stick with the candy bar style and save us the trouble of opening it just to talk?
Stephen Liu @ Jan 7th 2008 3:14PM
You might not need to open it to talk. Old Ericsson phones that had that form factor could be used when closed. I'm sure the outside buttons have some extra functionality.
Stephen Liu @ Jan 7th 2008 3:14PM
You might not need to open it to talk. Old Ericsson phones that had that form factor could be used when closed. I'm sure the outside buttons have some extra functionality.