Sony Ericsson W950i on Three Ireland Network

quintron

Just got off the phone with a 3 rep. They say the W950i will be out within the next month....





Got quoted an upgrade price of €229 which I don't think is too bad.
Though a slight grain of salt here... I was quoted €179 yesterday and €129 today for an upgrade to the K800i...

No wifi, but at least it has an OS and you won't have to shell out for a bigger memory card. 4GB should be enough for most people. I read somewhere that as the SE W950i is aimed squarely at the music loving/general public, it will not be marketed as a symbian UIQ phone but rather a "nano replacement" phone and consequently will be heavily subsidised.
Touch screeen is nice too methinks....

What you all reckon?

yrrag1974

If 3 launch this phone before the end of October I will eat my hat!

I have been told several times by 3 that a phone was launching and it has yet to happen. I think they must get confused between UK and Ireland!!

quintron

I too doubt it will happen in the near future but I thought I'd kick off a thread for updates on this models release.

I would like to see you eat your hat though.. it would mean I could play with a new phone..

Sam Vimes

quintron wrote:

Got quoted an upgrade price of €229 which I don't think is too bad.
Though a slight grain of salt here... I was quoted €179 yesterday and €129 today for an upgrade to the W800i...

the w800i? thats not 3g

rogue-entity

Vimes, maybe he ment w950i.

I was told this phone was coming too, but only after i asked the rep what models they had, that were not yet advertisd on their store/website.

The w950i also runs the Opera Web browser... normally when I try using the Opera browser to access the 3 portal I get an error, so this will be interesting.

The rep told me that 3 UK and 3 IE are "streamlining", merging per se, the will eventually end up with identical offerings on handsets etc.

quintron

Commander Vimes wrote:

the w800i? thats not 3g

Apologies.. got me letters mixed up. I meant the SE K800i. (updated first post to reflect this error).

They quoted me two different prices for the K800i in two days. So I'd take their quotes of forthcoming unreleased handsets with a grain of salt..

damo86

yrrag1974 wrote:

If 3 launch this phone before the end of October I will eat my hat!

I have been told several times by 3 that a phone was launching and it has yet to happen. I think they must get confused between UK and Ireland!!

it hasnt been launched sim-free yet, so i doubt 3 has launched it in the uk either, its smashing looking phone..very neat and tidy, thats what i like to see in phones!

damo

sambora

I've seen this and used it. Its no different to the W810 ......EXCEPT maybe the layout of files and stuff. But it's still a Sony Ericsson

Nephew

Does anyone know what this phone is likely to cost on 3, mainly on the VideoTalk and Text 200 package? I was hoping to buy a k800i this week but I'd hold off if I knew the w950 would be out soon at a decent price.

chrislad

sambora wrote:

I've seen this and used it. Its no different to the W810 ......EXCEPT maybe the layout of files and stuff. But it's still a Sony Ericsson

Are you sure? I thought this ran a UIQ system like the P990? If not, any chance of me purchasing it is gone.

Skyuser

Wow that looks really nice. I must have that!

Cyrus

chrislad wrote:

Are you sure? I thought this ran a UIQ system like the P990? If not, any chance of me purchasing it is gone.

it does

event

there is no camera on that phone though

Skyuser

Ya shame about no camera.

quintron

sambora wrote:

I've seen this and used it. Its no different to the W810 ......EXCEPT maybe the layout of files and stuff. But it's still a Sony Ericsson

? They are completely different.. One has a UIQ symbian OS, the other doesn't have an OS per say, bar default SE menu/navigation and ability to play java games.. Oh yeah one has 4GB solid state flash memory built in...
I question how much u "used" it to compare them both so rapidly..

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyericsson-w950-en.shtml

Re Camera, I'm glad it has no camera tbh.
If you want camera get the K800i, if you want a reasonably sized music touchscreen music player & a decent OS get the W950i. If you want both get an Archos Gmini 402CC or an N93 or N95.
Phone Cams are ultimately overrated. I have used extensively 3-4 Camera phones, all 1MP+, and I have DVD's full of crap pictures. A small dedicated camera is where you should invest money imho.
It works out cheaper in the long run and is actually useful at night etc..
I've learned the hard way that convergance is not quite there yet on that front and a dedicated camera has way more features for the money..

melekalikimaka

sambora wrote:

I've seen this and used it. Its no different to the W810 ......EXCEPT maybe the layout of files and stuff. But it's still a Sony Ericsson

os is diff, supports walkman 2.0, album aert and what not, my mp3 died recently, have the w800, really want this

tallus

rogue-entity wrote: »

Vimes, maybe he ment w950i.

I was told this phone was coming too, but only after i asked the rep what models they had, that were not yet advertisd on their store/website.

The w950i also runs the Opera Web browser... normally when I try using the Opera browser to access the 3 portal I get an error, so this will be interesting.

The rep told me that 3 UK and 3 IE are "streamlining", merging per se, the will eventually end up with identical offerings on handsets etc.

I'm using a W950i on 3 at the moment and the built in Opera browser is working fine, but when I tried installing the new beta version or even an older version from the opera site, it wouldn't connect. No biggie really tho 'cause the built in browser works fine.
Pretty cool phone tbh. It's growing on me by the day.