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I'm a fan of Sony Ericsson. I hope they can get back to their glory days. My old W810i was the most dependable phone ever. I dropped that thing so many times,

by SandB0x 16y ago

I'm a fan of Sony Ericsson. I hope they can get back to their glory days. My old W810i was the most dependable phone ever. I dropped that thing so many times, one time out of a first floor window onto concrete. Barely a scratch. I went on a five day trip without a charger. No problem. Gave it to one of my friends and he's still using it years later. It was there for me through thick and thin. Today's smartphones can't hold a charge past dinner time. (Edit: Mahmud, yeah I now remember the dodgy proprietary connector. That was a terrible idea.)

mahmud 16y ago
I had the W890i with boombox and all the gadgets. The charger slot functions as headphones, the headphones function as antenna, and everything uses everything else. I had a tiny pin break off and the whole thing was rendered useless. Also, a year into it the battery started dying within a few hours of full charge. I really loved walking into my apartment, throwing the phone on the couch and having music play through my boombox, but a year into it the thing felt dated.
martey 16y ago
I bought 3 W810is for myself and family. Ironically, I think many of the things that made this phone successful were actually manufacturing limitations of the time: * rugged nature: Most of Sony Ericsson's newer phones have been thinner and have bigger screens. This makes it easier for them to break when dropped. * long battery life: The W810i was not a smartphone. Its web browser sucked, and it only had EDGE. The lack of constant data transfer, combined with a small screen, undoubtedly helped battery life. I am not saying that the W810i was not a good phone for its time, but rather that it was not made to deal with the modern mobile landscape of real-time status updates, push email, and monthly OTA firmware upgrades. SE phones are falling down now because they have unusable user interfaces, are based on obsolete software versions, or are just plain buggy. The W810i was stable, but it also never needed to be upgraded.
- durin42 16y ago
  Agreed about battery life. If I turn off data syncing and don't use my Nexus One as a smartphone, but rather just a normal phone (eschew browsing and so forth other than a quick "where's my stop on this unfamiliar public transit?") I get more than a full day of battery life. I've never tested it past a day and a half, since that's when I invariably get wherever I was going but it doesn't drop very quickly when it has less to do.

by SandB0x 16y ago

mahmud 16y ago

I had the W890i with boombox and all the gadgets. The charger slot functions as headphones, the headphones function as antenna, and everything uses everything else. I had a tiny pin break off and the whole thing was rendered useless. Also, a year into it the battery started dying within a few hours of full charge. I really loved walking into my apartment, throwing the phone on the couch and having music play through my boombox, but a year into it the thing felt dated.

martey 16y ago

I bought 3 W810is for myself and family. Ironically, I think many of the things that made this phone successful were actually manufacturing limitations of the time: * rugged nature: Most of Sony Ericsson's newer phones have been thinner and have bigger screens. This makes it easier for them to break when dropped. * long battery life: The W810i was not a smartphone. Its web browser sucked, and it only had EDGE. The lack of constant data transfer, combined with a small screen, undoubtedly helped battery life. I am not saying that the W810i was not a good phone for its time, but rather that it was not made to deal with the modern mobile landscape of real-time status updates, push email, and monthly OTA firmware upgrades. SE phones are falling down now because they have unusable user interfaces, are based on obsolete software versions, or are just plain buggy. The W810i was stable, but it also never needed to be upgraded.

durin42 16y ago
Agreed about battery life. If I turn off data syncing and don't use my Nexus One as a smartphone, but rather just a normal phone (eschew browsing and so forth other than a quick "where's my stop on this unfamiliar public transit?") I get more than a full day of battery life. I've never tested it past a day and a half, since that's when I invariably get wherever I was going but it doesn't drop very quickly when it has less to do.