Nothing besides a Walkman logo is placed in the bottom of the phone. The top holds the on/off button. This is quite peculiar since the on/off button was placed at the ‘c’-key on the W880.
The battery in the W890 is a standard 950 mAh BST-33 Lithium-Polymer battery. Sony Ericsson claims the standby battery life is 360 hours while talk time is 9½ hours. These numbers are quite spectacular for a phone this thin. Best of all is that they seem to be correct. The W890 manages to keep going for about 4 days of normal use which is more than acceptable.
It’s flashy and vibrating
Sony Ericsson’s feature phone user interface is intuitive, fast and very easy to use. It takes only minutes getting used to and it’s a graphical pleasure to look at. There are quite a few flashy effects in the interface that makes the handset a bit funnier to use.
Not only are there flashy effects as a standard part of the user interface, the W890 also comes with 5 different themes (Bronzy, Clarity, Musaic, Purple sky & Walkman) where 3 of them include Flash Lite menu layouts - that’s Bronzy, Musaic and Purple Sky. I personally prefer the Purple Sky theme as it includes a really nice menu look with cool transitions. All menu layouts sport a 3 x 4 icon grid and sadly not something like on the W910 where there are three layouts to choose from. Expect the menu layouts to be an option to choose from in future firmware updates, though.
