The central screen features your clock, while the other two host a text messaging widget and a Friends application. The Friends app is an attempt to lend the Mix Walkman some social-networking capabilities, allowing you to link to contacts on your Facebook and Twitter accounts. On paper, it sounds like a grand idea. It also looks pretty cool -- the widget displays your contacts as floating squares, which you can swipe through.
Unfortunately, though, the app is very bare-bones and the data it sucks in from Facebook and Twitter is disjointed and poorly formatted. Friends aside, the Mix Walkman's interface is pretty standard for a phone of this type, offering no major surprises or innovations.
Disappointingly, it's quite a sluggish phone to use. Swiping through the menu system is often a hit and miss affair, with the device struggling to keep up with your taps and selections. When the Mix Walkman falls over, it does so in spectacular style.
On several occasions during our review period, the device froze completely, refusing to respond even when the power button was pressed firmly down. We had to take out the battery -- a struggle in itself, due to the awkward rear cover -- and reinsert it in order to bring the phone back to the world of the living.
A 3-inch capacitive touchscreen is reasonably impressive on a phone of this calibre, and the Mix Walkman's display also benefits from decent brightness and good colour depth. The overall resolution of x pixels isn't too shabby, either. But, alas, the screen is still awkward to use. Responsiveness doesn't seem to be an issue, because the device is capable of detecting the lightest of touches.
The major problem is the lack of processing power -- the phone doesn't seem able to keep up with all of the interface data the touchscreen is sending it.
Quick swipes often go unheeded because the handset is desperately trying to execute a command you gave a few seconds ago, and it's not uncommon to find that the Mix Walkman freezes for a few moments as it tries to catch up. The relatively small size of the Mix Walkman's screen should give you a reasonably good impression of the phone's overall dimensions.
Although it's not exactly a slim customer -- it's just over 14mm thick at its widest point -- it isn't very tall or wide. It almost feels like a pebble when you cradle it in your palm.
Given the Mix Walkman's price, it's hardly surprising that it's constructed almost exclusively from plastic. The battery cover boasts a rubberised texture that improves grip, and there's a faux-metallic accent that runs around the entirety of the phone's sides. This band of plastic is swappable, and the handset we reviewed came with a luminous green substitute. We can't say we were overly enamoured with it, but those of you that like to give your phone that personal touch may find it a welcome feature.
Games tend to look very basic and dated too. Java gaming — fun, but all a bit Additional apps and games for the phone are sparse too. This offers no real apps as such, but does have a bunch of additional games, plus wallpapers, music and ringtones. However, if it had used a resistive screen, at its price it would deserve to be paraded through the streets while being pelted with tomatoes.
With a 3in widescreen, Sony Ericsson has sensibly left you with T9 numerical keypad input rather than a full Qwerty. This keyboard is used when typing out text messages and in the default web browser. The predictive dictionary is pretty limited, though, and typing-out words manually to get them added to its library feels clumsy and slow. Undeterred, we loaded up a microSD card with tunes to see if its software is much cop. It uses the corner shortcut layout seen throughout the interface.
These take you to your library, show the current playlist or album , and give you access to the Zap and Karaoke functions. This plays you either a clip of each song lasting just a few seconds or around 15 seconds, skipping to the next afterwards unless you press the Zappin button up top.
Maybe the kids will enjoy it, but we find it utterly tasteless and a bit embarrassing. It effectively removes the central channel, where lead vocals tend to be mixed, in order to turn normal tracks into backing tracks. It works pretty well. This scans through your music and splits it into moods, effectively making playlists for you. Instead you have to get your computer to do that for you, before syncing the music to your phone.
Who would have thought an MP3 player would have more power than a phone these days? Once stocked with albums, the Mix offers a perfectly decent music experience. The supplied MH earphones are well above average for a bundled pair, though, offering decent bass and clarity. Whatever way you look at it — not a web browsing star. The browsing experience is more notable, but not for a good reason. The interface of each is good enough, but hampered by a number of technical limitations.
The Sony Ericsson Mix has a basic 3. This, in tandem with the fixed focus, makes taking pictures pretty quick. It does limit the kind of photos you can take, though. In perfect conditions, the relatively low resolution and budget sensor limit the amount of detail captured, and colours are fairly muted too.
Manual settings are of limited use in such a low-powered camera anyway, but panorama and burst shot modes would have been appreciated — and the lack of some fun effects seem like an oversight in an arguably youth-oriented device.
I had this phone long time ago.. No theme support , not support 3D game , bad music sound no equalizer , no file manager , no shortcut button or icon , this phone heavy , always hang , launcher do not support folder , other add SUJI, 26 Apr is it possible to download whatapp application in this mobile. I can't connect my phone to wifi,what can I do? No shop could rectify that. Blue tooth manag Ra e ez, 29 Aug It is a nice phone for ordinary usage.
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