Media is of big focus on the W890 and all other phones based on this operating system. An application called Media is to be found in the main menu. This application holds all photos, songs and videos on the device, with future plans of adding extra content such as games, RSS feeds & online TV shows (YouTube!). The user interface is very much like the one on the PSP and is a breeze to work with. There are nice transitions and cool effects in the different media browsers.
In Media Settings you can change the display mode - either portrait mode or landscape mode. Unfortunately there is no accelerometer in W890 so it doesn’t feature automatic display mode changes. In future firmware revisions we should also see TV-out support in selected phones from the Media menu.
The camera disappoints
The back of W890 sports a 3.2 mega pixels fixed focus CMOS sensor camera - unfortunately. Unfortunately because the camera does not feature auto focus, so you’re doomed if you want to do close-ups or want to do nice portrait with high levels of details - or any kind of photos with high level details. Furthermore, W890 lacks a photo flash for taking pictures in low-light environments.
The camera interface looks nice and is extremely easy to use. It takes no time to figure out how things are put together and where the various settings are to be found. As you might have guessed the camera interface is also highly animated and includes small effects here and there. It all works brilliantly!
If you haven’t got time to go through the menus to reach the appropriate settings, you can use the default keypad short cuts. You can check out the different short cuts in the picture above. If you do want to check out the camera settings, this is what you can mess around with;
- Shoot mode - Normal, Panorama, Frames & Burst
- Picture size - 3 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels), 2 MP (1600 x 1200 pixels), 1 MP (1280 x 960 pixels) & VGA (640 x 480 pixels)
- Night mode - Off & On
- Self-timer - Off & On
- White balance - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent & Incandescent
- Effects - Off, Black & white, Negative & Sepia
- Settings - Picture quality (Fine & Normal), Review (On & Off), Save to (Mem. card & Phone mem.), Auto rotate (On & Off), Shutter sound (Sound 1, Sound 2, Sound 3, Sound 4 & Off) & Reset counter.
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