Sony Ericsson W995

A stunning slider music phone has been launched by Sony Ericsson in the name of Sony Ericsson W995. This handset is great for every kind of user. The excellent features of camera and memory storage can turn anyone crazy to own it. While travelling or doing any work, one can get connected with the person living in any part of the world. Sony Ericsson W995 is truly a immense gift for such people who are looking for handset with looks and advanced features.

Size and Weight :

The Sony Ericsson W995 is a slider, so you'd be expecting it to be on the chunky side. That said, they've kept it reasonably slim by keeping the top part to a svelte 4mm, delivering the vital statistics of 97x49x15mm and 113g.

Network and connectivity:

The Sony Ericsson W995 is well served with connectivity options, including quad-band GSM, GPRS, HSDPA 3G fast internet connection (up to 7.2Mbps), Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo A2DP. It will also hook up to Mac or PC for syncing or charging via USB 2.0.

Memory and Display:

It has internal storage of 118 MB. Card slot Memory Stick Micro (M2), can be expand up to 16GB, 8GB card included. The Sony Ericsson W995 uses a fantastic screen. The 2.6-inch, QVGA screen didn't pack so many pixels, but it was bright and colorful, and Sony Ericsson does a nice job providing colorful content that looks great on the display. The menus were basic icon / grid jobs, but the icons themselves seemed rich and colorful, and most of the features had a polished look that brought out the rich color depth of the screen.

Camera and Video:

it's the best camera on a Walkman phone yet. The Xenon flash is downgraded to standard LED but most of the other Sony Ericsson features are there, including an image stabiliser and auto focus, as well as smile detection and the marvellous BestPic, which takes seven pics in quick succession, both before and after you press the shutter, to ensure you get the best snap. There's also a 16x digital zoom, macro setting and panorama, though we found this didn't stitch the three images together as easily as some versions of this feature. Pictures were great in comparison with lesser camphones, but not quite up to the top standard of the 8 megapixel brigade – close inspection revealed a modicum of blurring and a bit too much purple fringing on the edges. It didn't seem to handle bright light particularly well either. Video provided better quality than we were expecting, though it's still a drop in standard from the still picture images.

Entertainment Features :

We tend not to dedicate space in a review to bundled software packages, but Sony Ericsson's Media Go deserves a special mention. Similar to iTunes, Media Go creates a library of media files and lets you sync these files with your handset. Unlike iTunes, Media Go does all the leg-work building your library; it will search your PC for compatible files and collect them in Video, Photo and Music categories. The most significant feature of Media Go is the capability to re-encode video files before transferring them to your phone. The W995 is capable of playing MP4 and 3GP files, so Media Go takes all your other files; DivX, Xvid, WMV, etc, and converts them to an optimised MP4 file. This process takes sometime, especially if you want the software to re-encode several feature-length movies, but not having to chase a third-party program for this functionality is a blessing.

Sony Ericsson W995 is truly a great gift for such people who are looking for handset with looks and advanced features.