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BBS
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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From: Hong Kong
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I am trying to remove the SIM from my new W910i but I don't find an easy way. It seems that I need to use tweezers to remove it. It not like any of the SE phones I had/have. It looks like S500i but pushing the SIM inside is useless - it doesn't pop out. Please help! |
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BBS
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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From: Hong Kong
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I did manage to remove the SIM by pressing forward exposed part of the SIM. But it is not convenient. |
widget_psz
Joined: Jul 12, 2007
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I just got my w910 so I'll share my experience with you. I'll skip the good sides, because it's the faults that spoil all the fun for me.
- Phone is soooo sloooow. Without music playing it is so so (still a lot slower than my k750 with w800 firmware) but when I listen to mp3's and try to navigate the menus... c'mon, it is supposed to be a music phone when it seems playing mp3's is using almost all of its resources.
- Buttons on the side are ridiculous. I'm having trouble pressing volume buttons with my phone in my hand, not to mention when the phone is in my pocket. In k750 I can easily reach to my pocket, feel the volume buttons and change track playing. It seems to be impossible with w910. Also, how can I play/pause a song?
- Walkman button? It is so hard to press that I have to use two hands to do that.
- Why in a slider phone the shortcut for silent mode is still '#'? Why not make it 'c'? Now I have to slide the phone open when I want to silence it.
- Built in speaker is one of the worst I've seen. It is indeed very loud, but the sound is extremaly distorted. It's almost useless.
- Built in camera is a big step back. Why in a such expensive piece of hardware I have to deal with no AF and no light at all? (I found the LEDs in other SE phones very useful as a flashlight)
- The screen automatically turns off much too quickly. I'm working on some flash wallpapers right now and it drives me insane that after a few seconds screen goes out. There should be an option to set that time.
- When I enter multimedia library and try to browse tracks I see all the recordings I made with sound recorder. Why? It isn't so in k750.
- Basically there is too little configuration options. I'd like to disable the operator logo, disable standby time and date, hide sony ericsson links in multimedia library, but I can't.
- Data transfer statistics are in bytes...
That's all that comes to my mind right now. Hope its not too much for you, but I'm really disappointed that my old k750 was more useful as a music phone that this one is. |
BBS
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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From: Hong Kong
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On 2008-08-09 16:56:15, widget_psz wrote:
I just got my w910 so I'll share my experience with you. I'll skip the good sides, because it's the faults that spoil all the fun for me.
- Phone is soooo sloooow. Without music playing it is so so (still a lot slower than my k750 with w800 firmware) but when I listen to mp3's and try to navigate the menus... c'mon, it is supposed to be a music phone when it seems playing mp3's is using almost all of its resources.
The speed of menu operation is O.K. with my phone when I play preinstalled music. How big is your mp3 file?
- Walkman button? It is so hard to press that I have to use two hands to do that.
All of the buttons of my phone are normal so far. You may have faulty buttons.
- Why in a slider phone the shortcut for silent mode is still '#'? Why not make it 'c'? Now I have to slide the phone open when I want to silence it.
SE wants to break the sliding mechanism as soon as possible so that you will buy a new one soon after.
- Built in speaker is one of the worst I've seen. It is indeed very loud, but the sound is extremaly distorted. It's almost useless.
I agree partially, it is still O.K. at low volume.
- Built in camera is a big step back. Why in a such expensive piece of hardware I have to deal with no AF and no light at all? (I found the LEDs in other SE phones very useful as a flashlight)
I agree with you.
- The screen automatically turns off much too quickly. I'm working on some flash wallpapers right now and it drives me insane that after a few seconds screen goes out. There should be an option to set that time.
I agree for the time setting option, without this option shorter auto screen off is required to save power.
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widget_psz
Joined: Jul 12, 2007
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On 2008-08-09 18:14:22, BBS wrote:
The speed of menu operation is O.K. with my phone when I play preinstalled music. How big is your mp3 file?
It's a normal few megabytes mp3 file. Menus really slow down when music is playing. The menu opening animation (when icons burst from the center of the screen) has like 4 frames of animation in uneven intervals, when normally it has 8-10 frames (on K750 it's even smoother). Tab switching animation sometimes has 0 frames (one tab, than after a while immediately next tab).
I've quickly put together a speed test, please set this as your wallpaper and tell me your scores. Mine are:
Without music: 13,5 fps
With music: 8,4 fps
http://www.wrzuta.pl/other/file/xmLriQEbE0/speedtest.swf
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I've got a 08W22 model with latest firmware.
[ This Message was edited by: widget_psz on 2008-08-09 20:39 ] |
pete910i
Joined: Jun 08, 2008
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From: Sydney, Australia
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without music: ~13.2
with music: ~7.97
also latest firmware. week 44/07 build.
looks like u hav it better off me mate 
cool swf by the way |
yea g
Joined: Jul 02, 2008
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lol for no reason i tryed this on my pc. It got 100 fps lol. Not really suprised, its just some balls |
BBS
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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From: Hong Kong
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On 2008-08-09 21:37:40, widget_psz wrote:
It's a normal few megabytes mp3 file. Menus really slow down when music is playing. The menu opening animation (when icons burst from the center of the screen) has like 4 frames of animation in uneven intervals, when normally it has 8-10 frames (on K750 it's even smoother). Tab switching animation sometimes has 0 frames (one tab, than after a while immediately next tab).
I've quickly put together a speed test, please set this as your wallpaper and tell me your scores. Mine are:
Without music: 13,5 fps
With music: 8,4 fps
http://www.wrzuta.pl/other/file/xmLriQEbE0/speedtest.swf
PS
I've got a 08W22 model with latest firmware.
[ This Message was edited by: widget_psz on 2008-08-09 20:39 ]
I got 6.3 to 8.5 with music and 12.4 to 13.1 without. My phone is quite new, with latest firmware has no files/information other that received with the phone.
R1FA035
08W13
I am used to P990i which is far slower and therefore it might be the reason I don't feel W910i slow. Everything is relative.
P.S. My phone is Hong Kong version which has both traditional and simplified Chinese menus which might affect the speed a little bit though I have set the language English.
[ This Message was edited by: BBS on 2008-08-10 08:38 ] |
ros-mari
Joined: Feb 04, 2007
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From: Barcelona
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I'm afraid I must agree with all you say
Pity such a beautiful slim phone has those "stepbacks"?
I use a 4gb card and it takes a long time to use anything and the battery drains in 2 days .
AF and bad camera in such an expensive model is ridiculous, as in the w980.
I agree the "setting" options are not too many (operator logo ...what ou mention too)
The silent key!!! You are sooo right.
Still, it is a beautiful phone (I've got the asian white version),m lsime and light.
I wish it was louder too, but SE will never do a 100% complete phone again, still missing my super old w800 and k50 features here.Those were Top phones and STILL now, we all miss them |
SilveR.
Joined: May 03, 2002
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One thing I have to Agree is it's slow when walkman is on. Other is going real smooth..
So I'm satisfied with mine
Going change up it to W980 later C905.. |
Muhammad-Oli
Joined: Jun 13, 2004
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From: The NZ of L
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Heh, I have a W910i but I never use it for its Walkman functions. I don't find it slow generally, but it always does these little freezes during everyday use, quite often while writing text messages so it misses out several letters in a row. Some times it catches up again, and sometimes I have to go and press all the buttons again. Its quite annoying.
Then there's the slide. While mine has stayed smooth throughout its life, it has now started to scratch parts of my phone. On the back it is rubbing the paint off, and on the front there are scratches in the plastic.
I figure I'll never buy another SE slider. And I'll never buy another Walkman phone because I just don't need it and I bet I'm paying for the Walkman brand. I'm 90% sure I'm going to get the C902 as my next phone. Ive decided camera is way more important to me and I'm sick of having only an average one on my W910i.
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widget_psz
Joined: Jul 12, 2007
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Currently im into Java bussiness and I'm working on some pretty large dictionary (JAR file has 2MB). Here is a benchmark done on that dictionary (find all words starting with 'a')
K750: 0,9 sec
W910: 9,2 sec
This is outrageous. I must get rid of this phone. Do you think K850 is better in terms of faults I've mentioned?
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Also, when I have mega bass enabled volume is dropping on every beat. They call that a music phone?
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0blivion
Joined: Feb 14, 2008
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From: s.w Wales, uk
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Are you sure you are running the phone on R1FA035. And if you are have you tried reflashing using the SEUS. The latest release is totaly reflashing the phone.
Only now on the newest firmware am i happy with the phone. The music quality is making a mate with a modded k800i jelous, Which is good enough for me |
widget_psz
Joined: Jul 12, 2007
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On 2008-08-11 12:28:21, 0blivion wrote:
Are you sure you are running the phone on R1FA035. And if you are have you tried reflashing using the SEUS. The latest release is totaly reflashing the phone.
Only now on the newest firmware am i happy with the phone. The music quality is making a mate with a modded k800i jelous, Which is good enough for me
I've got R1EA030. I did a total reflash with SEUS this friday. Thats weird. Maybe the newest version is not available for my region yet? (I'm central europe) |
markmanny
Joined: Feb 22, 2008
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hi guys!
i'm also an w910 owner and i must say i'm quite happy with it.
of course, it's not perfect, but it's pretty good for my needs.
anyways, i found one strange thing with it, so i would like to hear what you guys think.
saving sms messages ... 2 available options, phone memory or memory card (2GB) ... i selected memory card, but all of my messages i wanted were saved in phone memory nevertheless. now, it's 100% ful and i can't save no more. i tried to move already saved messages to memory card but i get an error saying i can't do that.
i did manage to tranfer saved messages to computer just in case.
so i wonder if my only choice now is to delete all saved sms messages to free up the phone memory and to start filling it up again, because i don't know how to order my phone to save sms messages to memory card?!
thanks for your suggestions! |
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