Suitable for music
Although the K660 only comes with a 256 MB memory card, it still packs one of the best mobile music players - the Walkman 3.0 player without the branding and gimmick features. The music player is extremely easy to find your way round in, and it’s graphically stunning as well.
The K660 will support most common audio codecs, such as M4A, MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV & WMA. You can set equalizers to enhance your music (4 presets and the option to manually set the equalizer). The K660 will display the album cover art, if any, or you can set it to display an animation instead. The player can be used in both portrait and landscape mode, but you’ll have to manually change the mode.
The K660 audio quality is quite good. It’s not at the same level as the W890, which I recently reviewed, but it seems to be on par with the K850. The loud speaker is among the best Sony Ericsson has ever created, so I’ve got to give them props for that.
If your music collection should ever end up boring you, you’re in luck - the K660 has a built-in FM-radio tuner, so you can listen to the radio with a headset plugged in. Up to 20 radio frequencies can be automatically found and stored, and K660 supports RDS, so there’s no risk of ever losing the radio channel, even if it changes the frequency.
TrackID is a unique feature of most new Sony Ericsson phones. It works by recording a short sample of the radio (or music), sends it to Gracenote’s database, and returns with song details - all within seconds. Depending on your operator, there may even be a link to buy the song. It’s amazing how well this works!
