September 17th, 2008Sony Ericsson’s W595 - Music phone with a slider
The W595 is another of the music phones in the walkman range from Sony Ericsson. This middle range Walkman music phone is easy to use and looks good too. The W595 is a slide open music phone which is available in four stunning colour combinations which include an active blue with turquoise, cosmopolitan white with a hint of red, jungle grey with turquoise & a ruby black which has a hint of red.
Like W902 W595 has a 2.2-inch display with QVGA resolution, capable of showing up to 262K colors. The user can view the clear colored screen in both slide closed or slide open position and access the curvaceous music keys in either position. The smooth opening system is easy to operate in a single hand & allows the user to open the casing when the keypad is needed.
The user can turn this handset into a music player when in the mood for a soul freeing music. It comes with a shake control feature, TrackID, SenseMe, has a Mega Bass which allows user to set the best possible bass to suit the music, has PlayNow for music downloads, has built in FM & AM radio with RDS for on screen radio information. The phone with its 40mb built in memory and an expandable memory slot, a 2GB Micro M2 card for storage of more than 1900 songs, has EDGE, 3G HSDPA. It has stereo speakers, is polyphonic, has vibration mode, photocall phonebook with 1000×20 fields, GPRS, HSCSD, USB, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP.
Some excitement for the gaming entertained users as the phone comes with a preloaded game - the Guitar Rock Tour game. Many more games can be downloaded as the phone supports 3D and Java games. It comes along with Walk Mate - step counter for the fitness conscious. Access NetFront browser and all the messaging services - text, email, sms, IM, MMS makes contact management an easy feature of life and supports picture and video blogging. Its 3.2mp camera with 2.5x digital zoom has video and videocall features.
W595’s quad band covers four GSM networks and UMTS. W595 UMTS/HSDPA 2100 and 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, W595c 850/900/1800/1900 MHz for China Mainland, W595a 850/900/1800/1900 MHz for America, 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - 3G Network HSDPA 2100 (W595 only).
The handset is solid to hold and weighs 104 grams. Its rechargable battery provides 9 hours talk time and 365 stand by time. Its overall dimensions are 14mm deep by 100mm tall by 47mm when the handset is in its closed position.

