Sony Ericsson W890 is the multi-talented successor of the revolutionary W880 that was announced in a little over a year ago. W890 follows up by increasing the depth of the phone with a meaningless 0.5 millimetres while adding a whole lot of features and a design that is to die for.
Advantages
- Slick and beautiful metallic design
- Size and weight (only 9.6 millimetres thin!)
- Beautiful display
- HSDPA, Quad-band GSM, EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
- Walkman 3.0 for superb music playing, TrackID
- 2 GB MemoryStick Micro
- FM radio with RDS
- Superior user interface and positioning services
- Access NetFront web browser 3.4
Disadvantages
- Display is only 2 inches large
- No W-LAN for buying music online
- Camera lacks auto focus and a flash
- No accelerometer for motion based applications and features
- Limited internal memory (~ 26 megabytes free)
If you compare the W890 to its predecessor, the W880, you’ll quickly notice that W890 looks more complete in its design than the now 1-year old W880. There’s no obvious difference in the thickness of the phones, so I’m not too worried about the 0.2 millimetres the W890 has put on.
Both phones are obviously not heavy to hold and especially the W890 feels really good in your palm. Where the W880 had square-like edges, the W890 has rounded edges, which feels much better.
The W890 comes in a swift-looking box that holds 3 different smaller boxes; one with the phone, one with the bundled accessories and one with the manuals, guarantee papers and the application disc. Being that this is a music phone, it comes with some nice starter in-earphones that give a nice bass. The mandatory charger and USB cable is of course also present in the sales box.
