Sony Ericsson’s latest Walkman music slider, the Sony Ericsson W595, is earmarked as successor to the popular personal training W580i. Fitness fanatics will be pleased to hear its built pedometer remains but a serious feature upgrade and design facelift is where it’s at - dawdling EDGE downloads speeds have been swapped for turbo HSDPA while the two-megapixel camera is hiked to more snap happy 3.2-megapixels.
Samsung’s Ultra blowers have long been the poster boys for the size zero phone generation with the likes of the slinky U600 and U700 sliders and the Rich Tea Finger-thin U100 breaking all slimline records. The Korean’s latest Ultra, the U800, is another svelte number but this time rocks up with a premium steely glint.
With its trim 9.9mm torso carved from quality brushed stainless steel, the U800 has a lot in common with the Nokia 6500 Classic. But where its slender metallic rival only chugs along to 3G and sports a two-megapixel snapper, this Ultranite fires a three megapixel shutterbug and faster 3.6Mbps-flavoured HSDPA downloads speeds.
The thought of Motorola’s first ever ROKR music blower, the E1, still sends shivers down the spine. This iPod white candybar roped in Apple to provide the iTunes music chops but a 100 song limit and tired rehashed design earned it a one-way ticket to the nearest landfill. Three years on and still undeterred Moto is back with its second ROKR incarnation, the E8, and signs are it’s learnt from its mistakes.
The new ROKR on the block is clearly a universe away from the E1 aberration, sporting a unique slick none more black glossy veneer. It also tightly constructed, lightweight and pleasingly trim, although it does sport broad Nokia 95-esque shoulders.
Sony Ericsson’s Walkman handsets have always been the lead singers on the mobile music scene but recently its rep has come under threat from a crew of super group-sized rockers.
The likes of the Nokia N96, Apple iPhone 3G and Samsung i8510 with their 8GB and 16GB stadium-sized storage and skilled music player licks, has seen the Scandinavian Asia outfit retaliate with force with the 8GB fatted W980.
When it comes to music phones, Samsung has always been out of tune compared to rivals like the Sony Ericsson Walkman family and Nokia’s XpressMusic band of brothers but it latest muso, the F400, looks destined to become a hit.
Samsung has also experimented with offbeat design for its music blowers – take the petit switchblade F210 for proof – and it’s no different with the F400, sporting a Nokia N95-esque dual slider action.
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