Want a new Walkman phone? Here's the new Sony Ericsson W350i, a flip bottom designed mobile phone that will satisfy your need for music and communication. This phone is geared with fast technologies and cooler design. The difference of the Sony Ericsson W350i to it's predecessors is of course its new design and better performance. It is a promising phone that ensures good functionality and (as a member of the Walkman family) excellent music experience.

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The phone is rigged to blow your music experience to the next level. It's designed and prepped to define what music experience is all about. It's got the award winning Walkman music player, able to play songs in excellent quality that a Walkman phone can deliver. What's a music phone without an FM Radio? Just an mp3 player. Well, this isn't the case with the Sony Ericsson W350i as it has a high performance FM Radio plus a whole lotta features that will boost it's performance. These features are TrackID, PlayNow and MegaBass. These features are not entirely unique to the Walkman series but they are always in the series. The phone is an excellent performer, it can last 7 hours talk time or 300 hours standby.

Unlike most Walkman phones, the Sony Ericsson W350i has this distinct look. This is probably the new trend in the walkman phone or they'll only stick to it on the W300i+ mini-series. Anyway, the design looks like the good old day mobile phones where you flip the bottom to open the keypads and talk. It's a slim phone in 43 x 104 x 11 mm weighs 80 grams. It's small but it feels solid. The casing looks cool and elegant, the details on the sides and on the keypads are unique to it's mini-series. The keypads are pretty straight forward, they are arranged closely together but its comfortable to text or dial. The phone has a 1.9 inch 262k TFT color screen in 176 x 220 pixels resolution, it's been a standard for Walkman phones as it display good images.

The Sony Ericsson W350i is also a good messenger. It supports the common SMS (Text Messaging) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging) formats. It also allows the user to type long messages (SMS Long). And it has the basic capabilities that speed messagers like, the Push Email, Long SMS Messaging and Predictive Text.

The Sony Ericsson Z250i doesn't have much versatile connectivity but it's got the latest. It is the EDGE technology, famous for enabling mobile phones to support fast data transfers without relying too much on good signals. The phone has USB and Bluetooth connectivity. The USB is quite fair as this is the most used connectivity when transferring data and if you link it up to the computer, it's got PC Synchronization to access or transfer data easily.

Calling is obviously an important functionality that a phone should have with much efficiency as possible and the Sony Ericsson W350i deliver good network connectivity. Though it only has Tri Band, this is certainly is enough as it allows the phone to effectively utilize 3 frequencies to allow efficient roaming capability. These frequencies are GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. However, calling efficiency and coverage depends on the network provider.

As for camera features, the phone doesn't have much to boast. It only has 1.3 Megapixel Camera and 4 x Digital Zoom, rated average to below average, nothing to boast about. But even though it has a low megapixel, it can still take excellent pictures and videos. The Photo Blogging feature allows you to easily set up those pictures you already took and start posting those on your blog.

All in all, its a good music phone. Excellent for music lovers or any user. I don't think it will top the market charts but it's fresh and has good features to boast. Also watch out the most preferred free Sony Ericsson W350i with free gifts or with best cash back deals with a free Sony PS3, it's easily the best way to get this phone without spending too much money.