As I should be due a mobile phone upgrade in a couple of months, I started having a look around at what's out there as a cheap phone I could probably get for free as a spare (not intending to actually replace my O2 XDA mini).
Anyway, as you do, I started browsing a mobile phone review site and came across the stunning-looking Sony Ericsson W950i:
This phone runs on Symbian 9.1 with UIQ 3.0 interface (if that means anything to you). When I first started reading the review I just thought it looked like quite a nice-looking phone that should have decent storage (being a Walkman model), but it turned out to be much, much more.
The phone is basically a PDA combined with mp3 player, with 4GB flash storage straight out of the box and a host of PDA-style apps. The screen is also a touch-screen, with stylus. Aside from lacking WiFi, this phone seems to add all the things that were missing from the XDA II mini. It's a 3G phone too, so browsing the 'net on it should be reasonably quick (the only other 3G phone I've had was a Motorola one on the 3 network that wouldn't let you actually just browse the Internet, so I never really saw the speed of 3G).
The W950i is supposedly to be released in July, so here's to hoping Vodafone will give me a good upgrade deal and that I have a bit of cash to splash by then!
supersonic feet » Orange SPV M3100 Blog Archive
[...] Forget my previous want for the Sony Ericsson W950i, I think I’m gonna try and get the Orange SPV M3100 this weekend. It basically seems to be a new version of my O2 mini, with all the niggles fixed and some great new tricks added. A couple of bits had been nagging at me with the W950i while I waited for its release, largely the fact that it runs on Symbian OS rather than Windows Mobile. The Nokia 7710 that I had before getting my current O2 XDA mini ran on Symbian and while it was quite good, I’ve really grown to prefer Windows Mobile over it. Windows Mobile just seems to work better as a PDA OS to me (though I do think the 7710 probably had some PDA bits pulled out) and one major factor is that I have TomTom for Windows Mobile. If I got a Symbian phone I’d have to buy a new copy of TomTom. That’s more a gripe at TomTom for not allowing/providing software for both on the same discs, but it’s a big thing anyway. [...]
August 10, 2006 11:29pm