The Sony Ericsson W350 is one of Sony Ericsson’s ‘Walkman’ phones, specifically the least expensive of the range, and it’s the first flip phone from Sony. This is an excellent little budget phone that does almost everything that it’s more expensive brothers, such as the W580i, do, with the only difference that I can see being the reduced screen size and resolution on the W350, which doesn’t really make much difference. It really is a very pretty phone (also very small), plus the controls are simple and very intuitive to use with the best example of this being the external music player controls on the back of the flip (which means those controls are on the front of the phone where you can easily access them with your thumb when the flip is closed as it would normally be). Have a look at the unboxing and more detailed review we’ve got here:
The battery on the W350 was also quite impressive: I did a test to see how much talk time I could get on a single call, maximum, and on a single call I managed to get just short of 8 hours before the phone died, which is even better than Sony Ericsson’s 7 hour estimate. Incoming calls from someone using the W350 sounded just a bit muddy in that voices were deeper than in person, plus you could hear a bit of irritating static-like noise on the other end, like the caller was outside in the wind…except they weren’t.
However, there were several other features that made up for this, such as being able to synchronize your Outlook contact list with the phone–the address book on the W350 is actually similar to what you would
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find on a smartphone, and although I wasn’t impressed with the keyboard, there was never a need to type in the address, due entirely to the Sony Ericsson PC Suite. For a 1.3-megapixel camera, the W350 was capable of taking surprisingly good quality pictures, though they weren’t excellent. At a lower zoom level the pictures had a very nice appearance and the |
colors looked excellent, however at full crop it was apparent that there was some heavy noise reduction which was dampening details, thereby giving the pictures a sort of pastel look, so edges were fuzzy and details hazy.
Additional Resources and Further Reading
Check out the Sony Ericsson W350 on Amazon.com
See the official Sony Ericsson site for the W350.
Here’s another very detailed review by MobileBurn.com that I was really impressed with, definitely check this out if you want more details or a second opinion.