8 Sep 2008
The Sony Ericsson W880i has an attention-grabbing look courtesy of its finely designed casing that comes in either silver metallic or flame black colours. Measuring only 103 x 46.5 x 9.4 millimetres, the Sony Ericsson W880i is also a light handset that weighs 71 grams. Despite its super slender characteristic, the Sony Ericsson W880i is equipped with a large TFT screen that illuminates with more than 262,000 colours at a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The keypad of the Sony Ericsson W880i is aptly situated right below the TFT display, and has a user-friendly navigation tool and a convenient buttons set for easy exploration of the mobile phone’s functionalities.

Adding in to the Sony Ericsson W880i’s fun element is its support for animated and picture wallpapers and screensavers. Users can also personalise their handset by selecting from a choice of built-in ring tones in their most popular audio formats. Working over tri-band technology, the Sony Ericsson W880i operates on GSMs 900, 1800 and 1900.

Sony Ericsson created in the W880i a music-focused mobile phone that pleases music-digging users. Other Walkman models include the Sony Ericsson W950i, the Sony Ericsson W900i, the Sony Ericsson W810i, the Sony Ericsson W800i, the Sony Ericsson 710i, the Sony Ericsson W700i, the Sony Ericsson W550i, the Sony Ericsson 300i and the Sony Ericsson W200i.

Being part of Sony Ericsson’s Walkman handset collection, the Sony Ericsson W880i comes with a Walkman music player in version 2.0 that supports all common music formats and offers quality sound. The music capability of the Sony Ericsson W880i is highlighted with audio functionalities to make music experience unforgettable for the handset’s users. The music player has a built-in melody composer called MusicDJ, a quick-select ring tone system called PlayNow and a Mega Bass feature that users can adjust to their liking using an equalizer. A bonus feature of the Sony Ericsson W880i music player is the TrackID technology that allows users identify a playing track’s title, album and artist. Listening to music over the music player of Sony Ericsson W880i is a breeze using the Bluetooth A2DP stereo headphones.

Although focused on giving music lovers a good listening experience, the Sony Ericsson allows the capturing of life’s memorable events with its built-in 2.0-Megapixel camera. The powerful snapshot equipment integrated in the Sony Ericsson W880i comes with a 2.5x zoom, and a Macromedia Flash for better photo results. Moreover, the handset’s integrated camera allows users to record moving footages, as well as video playing and streaming. A bonus camera feature is the VideoDJ functionality. Being a 3G-enabled music phone, users of the Sony Ericsson W880i can make video calls using the dedicated camera that is found above the external screen.

For on-device internet connectivity, the Sony Ericsson W880i comes with a Web browser and RSS feeds support, making users up-to-date with information from certain blogs and online sites. To transfer and synchronise data files with compatible devices, the Sony Ericsson W880i supports Bluetooth wireless technology and USB connection. As it is GPRS supported, the handset can be expected to process device transfers more efficiently.

Users of the Sony Ericsson W880i can get in touch with their contacts through the messaging services offered by the handset. The mobile phone supports a customary text messaging service which works over predictive text, and a multimedia service that allows the sharing of photos and videos with audio. The mobile phone also supports push email messaging for instant receipt of online messages.

The organiser features of the Sony Ericsson W880i includes a phone book, an alarm clock, a stopwatch and a timer, a calculator, a calendar, as well as a notes and tasks option, among several others. The handset also has a business card feature, and a file manager to aid users who intend to keep their handset files orderly. For leisurely purposes, the Sony Ericsson W880i is built in with games in 3D and Java game formats.

Internally, the Sony Ericsson W880i phone offers users a 16-Megabyte memory, which is expandable through an M2 micro memory stick option. It offers users approximately 6.5 of talk time when fully charged, or 400 hours in equivalent when set on stand by.

In the overall, users of the Sony Ericsson W880i graded the mobile phone with a rather high rating. A downside, however, is that transferring files from or to compatible devices tends to take more time than it should.

Reviewer: TAGUIR HOUSSAINE - INDIA- KARAIKAL
Reviewed on: 29th April, 2008
Rating: 10/10
w880i is a excellent phone i used so for in my life . great music player and good lcd screen.nice to handle the phone ,good picture quality ,and thanks for sony ericsson to make this phone. wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Reviewer: Mimi - London
Reviewed on: 10th April, 2008
Rating: 10/10
Love it

Reviewer: Avishek Nandy - kolkata
Reviewed on: 31st March, 2008
Rating: 10/10
Sony Ericsson W880i it has a unique look and its very user friendly . Its a gadget that attracts the attention of other people

Reviewer: jimmy dudeville - manchester
Reviewed on: 28th March, 2008
Rating: 10/10
it is easily the nicest walkman avalible and so slim youll barley feel it in your pocket the 1-gbytestores loads oftop tunes you can download in no time at all. Im easily pleased so i dont mind the small keypad infact i think people over react with the whole fidly buisness. Im no fan of phones but as soon as i saw this there wasnt any turning back. I dont exactley know what a havana gold colour is but im guessing a sort of bronze by the look of the sony ericsson w910i and the k630i, and it looks horible it looks like a murky bar of gold thats had a trip down the sewwer if you know what i mean but the w880i 'havana gold' is nice its a brighter gold colour and is far more attractive than the other two phones in the havana gold collection. There's also a 2-megapixel camera on the back and a secondary VGA camera on the front for video calling. The slim slim phone doesnt feel like its about to snap like my previuos phone the motorola razr v3i (witch other than that i strongly recomend it for value).The other day my w880i was next to one my cd's and i noticed it was thinner than the spine of it! My dads phone one of those nokia classic things that is pretty slim failed to beet my w880i on witch one was the slimest my dad loves his phone but he addmited hed rather have a w880i but he things the gold one is far to flash for him and so is the black one with te orange back was too! Anybody who disagrees with me that this is the best, coolest, blingest phone on the planet is going to have to send me pics of that phone because that must be the best piece of technolgy anybody will ever make because this phone is so good the only major problem is once ou look at it you never want to look away. The W880i is a Walkman phone, so everything is centred around music, right down to the dedicated music button that takes you straight to the Walkman player. You can download photos and other content using the W880i's 3G connectivity, which also lets you make video calls using the VGA camera on the front of the phone, and browse the Web at speeds of up to 384Kbps in areas with good 3G coverage. Am i getting to technical? if its persuading you to get it than ...... VERY GOOD. Other features on the W880i include a flight mode, an RSS feed reader, MMS and SMS messaging, an email client, a calendar, an alarm clock, tasks, a voice recorder, a Bluetooth remote, a video player, Java games, a timer, a stopwatch, a calculator, a file manager and over-the-air synchronisation. The audio quality on the W880i's Walkman Player is great. The highly music focused Sony Ericsson W880i comes with a built in music player which supports all popular music formats & provides high quality sound. The phone comes with music focused features including MusicDJ™ melody composer, PlayNow™ quick select ringtone feature, Mega Bass™ bass feature & TrackID™ music identification feature. The TrackID™ feature allows the user to record a few seconds of a track then TrackID™ will provide the user with the name of the song, artist & album. The Mega Bass™ feature allows the user to enhanced bass frequencies which provides the perfect sound & bass for the style of music being played.

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

Reviewer: Faiyaz - Coventry
Reviewed on: 24th March, 2008
Rating: 9/10
Sony Ericsson W880i is an excellent phone with superb music quality and easy to use keypad.The company makes brilliant music phones and the slimness of the phone fascinates me the most. I am thinking of buying this phone just shopping around at the moment,first had a look when one of my mate bought it.It looks brilliant and caught my eye during the first instance...THANX TO SONY FOR MAKING AN EXCELLENT MUSIC PHONE AFTER W810i!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewer: Abraham Christopher - Nigeria-Africa
Reviewed on: 27th December, 2007
Rating: 10/10
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