Enhanced web browser
W890 is a Quad-band GSM phone with EDGE, UMTS & 3.6 Mbps HSDPA-support. Furthermore it has Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (transfer speeds at about 140 KB/s) and it supports A2DP for streaming stereo audio via Bluetooth. I’ve tested this with a MBS-100 and it worked just fine. It supports USB 2.0, which works quite fast in USB mass storage mode. There is no infrared connection on this phone.
Access NetFront 3.4 is the mobile web browser in W890. However, it has been significantly enhanced compared to the same version in phones like K850 and W910. It now includes a mouse for easy navigation and generally it seems a whole lot more fast! It does mobile websites as well as fully featured HTML websites without any problems. It supports light Java scripts, but no Flash support is present. It has a built-in Google search feature as well as a link to Sony Ericsson’s music store called m-buzz.
If the website you’re visiting supports RSS-feeds, you can add the feed to the phone’s built-in RSS reader. Once you update the RSS library, the feeds can be shown on the standby screen.
I had some problems setting up my Gmail email account on W890 (for some reason it simply wouldn’t work), so I quickly downloaded the free Gmail Mobile application. W890 supports IMAP4 and POP3 protocols.
Phone book works great
With room for up to 1000 contacts and a total of 7000 numbers I have my doubts if anyone will ever make use of all that room for phone numbers. Contacts can be stored with full informations including numerous different types of telephone numbers, email addresses, website, name, picture, special ring tone, work and private related informations about postal address, title and so on. Finally there’s also the option to add a date for the contact’s birthday - this date can then be put in the calendar and the phone will remind you that the contact’s birthday is coming up. This is actually quite brilliant and has saved my life quite a few times.
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One of the best things in W890 is the Smart Search feature. Imagine you’d have to go through a list of hundreds of contacts just to find one number. Those days are over with Smart Search. If you want to find my contact entry in the phone book, you’d simply have to type “6, 4″ for “M, i” and my entry would pop up as well as other entries where this number combination fits (this could be Michael, Nick, etc.). It also works with telephone numbers, so if you were to find the number “123456789″, you could simply type in “1, 2″ and it would pop up.
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The phone book in W890 is simply brilliant and outperforms most of the competitors.