i actually mean it

I've been meaning to post for a few days about my shiny new Sony Ericsson W950i walkman (smart) phone. It totally rocks. I'm going to keep it short, but here are my top threes....

As a music lover I think,

• sound quality is great (apparently even better with the HBH-DS970 bluetooth headset)
• the player can be toggled (with a single button press) with the app you are working with, which avoids the annoyance factor I have seen with previous SE phones (P910)
  
• 4Gb of storage - the same as a nano... the iPod is in danger...

And as a smartphone user I think,

• the legendary symbian 90-second start-up time is still there :( not a good start...
• 3G means my POP3 emails download a damn sight faster.... good stuff...
  
• An in-built RSS reader ! finally... (and it's good!)
• Google Mobile Maps for Java MIDP2.0 is incredible (browse to http://www.google.com/gmm from the inbuilt Opera 8 web browser to install - the google mail java client is not bad either)
  
• The "Messaging" SMS and email client has been integrated with Opera (finally!) - no more groaning when you realised the P900 was trying to render an email with the appalling built-in UIQ2 browser
• T9 and handwriting recognition together - start writing then click on the completion. Sweet!
  

confession time: I wanted to rave about my w950i but I also wanted to try out google adsense. I decided to make them coincide because my average post doesn't tend to lend itself to adsense :)

But i really really do think the w950i rocks :)