It looks like just another "Walkman" brand slider, but the Sony Ericsson W910i manages to pack an awful lot of features into a relatively tiny package.


Weighing just 86 grams, the W910i is actually a 3G UMTS device with HSDPA (3.5G) support, a 320x240 pixel resolution screen, expandable memory, an FM radio, 2 megapixel camera (plus a video calling camera) and Bluetooth. This makes the W910i one of the lightest 3G phones on the market.

Despite the somewhat conservative styling, the W910i is very much a "next generation" music phone from Sony Ericsson. The old Disc2Phone software has been upgraded to a full set of media manager applications, including the PlayNow data and file manager, and the W910i also supports a feature called "SenseMe" that plays tracks according to your mood. No, we don't think that the W910i has a mood ring built in.. but what it does have is a some clever software to help categorise your tracks, plus a motion-sensitive "Shake" control to randomly select a song that matches your selection criteria. The W910i also supports stereo Bluetooth playback.

The motion sensor can also be used in gameplay, and games can be played in either a landscape or portrait orientation. It isn't quite a "PSP Phone", but it comes fairly close.


It's easy to forget that the Sony Ericsson W910i is actually a phone - and underneath this is a quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz device with GPRS and EDGE data, plus UMTS 2100 MHz with HSDPA. Physically the W910i measures 100 x 50 x 13mm. The battery life is not known.

Sony Ericsson say that the W910i should be available during Q4 2007 in "Hearty Red" and "Noble Black" colour combinations. There will also be a W908c variant for the Chinese market.