In years gone by, Sony Ericsson worked with several Walkman phones, trying to make them as good as they could possibly be. Physically, these phones were great, since some came with a stylish slide design, like the W910i. According to critics, however, looks could be really deceiving. The Sony Ericsson W910i was only good when opening the package it came in. When it was time to turn on the phone, it was like opening Pandora’s Box, as bugs and glitches, short battery life and other problems jumped out at you. Fortunately, after a year’s worth of research, Sony Ericsson finally found the cure and launched W595.
The W595 looks exactly the same as the W910i, but is a little heavier. However, that’s a small price to pay, since all the bugs and glitches have been fixed and the firmware is superior.
Since this is a Walkman phone, the W595 puts its main emphasis on its music capabilities. It comes with a whopping 2GB of internal memory, plus support Micro Memory Stick™ of up to 8GB, to give a total of 10GB worth of music files. In addition, its batteries last for over 350hours of standby time and you can listen to you favourite songs for about two days straight. Apart from these goodies, it has a “shake” feature, which enables the user to jump to tracks by just shaking the phone to the left or to the right, which is really something.
As well as being a Walkman phone, the Sony Ericsson W595 has a passable 3.2-megapixel camera, which is quite advanced compared to some of its competitors. You can also record videos with the camera and stream with it.
If you are looking for a Walkman phone, this could be the right one for you.
