Thing Review: Sony Ericsson W760a
*UPDATE* This phone is a steaming pile of shit.
I stopped using it after about a week due to it’s crappiness. The Sony proprietary plug on the side never worked right, and the headphone jack never contacted the contacts in a reliable manner for more than a second (literally) and it refuses to charge. I went back to my Razr V3xx, which is a million billion times better at everything, including being a walkman.
Original review:
I sometimes have problems making decisions. Some people have trouble deciding between types of rice or they literally spend minutes going back and forth between honey and low-fat granola at Hy-Vee (*cough* Jeni *cough*). I seem to have a problem with free cell phone upgrades. I’d looked through all of the phones on AT&T’s website, and nothing seemed any better than my Razr v3xx, so I decided to wait a while. I thought about an iPhone or some form of Blackberry for a couple of seconds, but decided against one because a computer is better at the internet and a cell phone is better at being a phone. Plus they’re too big and cost too much.
Well, we happened to be by a Radio Shack last night, so I figured I’d stop in and look around. The nice lady behind the counter convinced me that free and a 30-day return policy warranted my getting something, so I did. I got an LG Shine. Why? It was made of metal and it was shiny… and that’s about it. I got it home and realized that it wasn’t really that great of a phone (strange feeling joystick, lousy speakerphone, harder than it needed to be to open), plus various applications crashed randomly. So I decided to actually research some alternatives, and I came up with the Sony Ericsson W760a. It wasn’t exactly free ($21), but Radio Shack beat AT&T’s web pricing by $80.
The Sony is better in pretty much every category and has some cool features that the Shine lacked: GPS navigation, accelerometer (games, display orientation, music navigation), very slick music/video/photo interface that doesn’t crash, faster menu system, full HTML support, 3.2 mp camera that actually takes decent photos, and much better speakers. It also has some interesting applications, such as mood-sensitive song selection and an FM radio tuner. The downsides are that I had to order a Memory Stick Micro (though it was only $3.88 for 2gb) and a Sony Ericssen-specific set of headphones ($4.50), it lacks a micro USB port… and it isn’t made of shiny metal.
Orientation-sensitive display mode similar to the iPhone (only less pretty):
Proprietary Sony Ericsson nonsense:
3D Need For Speed something-or-other that is controlled by handset movement:
Sample photo of a groaning Bug from the 3.2mp camera:
I couldn’t help but notice that your rating of ’4.875 junebug heads’ contradicts the accompanied chart. The chart clearly shows 4.674 junebug heads as each of the four full junebug heads are 46px wide and the remaining partial junebug head is 31px wide. So, these 215 junebug head pixels of a possible 230 junebug head pixels are clearly ’4.674 junebug heads’ if the indicated full rating is in fact ’5.000 junebug heads’. Please explain the missing 9.25 pixels and what your true rating might be.
Good question, simple answer: You forgot to take her disproportionate ear size into account when calculating. She is very sensitive about her ears, so I adjusted the result to give a more standard head to ear relationship. This altered weight is what produced the skewed result.
4.674?
What kind of lame calculator are your using?
Junebug would really take offense
215/230 X 5 = 4.673913043 junebug heads
BTW Junebug, being a proper name, should be capitalized.
Jeez
I clearly calculate 4.875 junebug heads when factoring in the volume and depth of the wax within the left ear canal.
Interesting points from the two of you, but they may be for nothing. I’ve come to the realization that as a phone, the Sony w760 deserves 1.3 of Junebug’s fresh steaming piles on a cold winter morning. I’d illustrate this graphically, but considering that this is a high quality source of reviews for all ages, I’ll not.
You can get a Blackberry at W*!M* for between $0 and $20. Give it a try!
Yeah yeah… we’ll see.
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