Style & Handling Summary for Sony Ericsson W205
The small screen and plastic finish make for a lightweight handset, but for £25 you can’t expect much more.
User Friendliness Summary
The keypad is tactile and comfortable, and the familiar user interface is intuitive.
Feature Set Summary
Pretty basic, as you would expect. No bundled USB and a very low memory mean you have to pay out for both file transfer and storage space if you want to use it as a music player. There’s a 1.3-megapixel camera for quick daylight snaps, and a couple of Java games.
Performance Summary
The internet is too slow to use, and the camera takes blurry, pixelated shots. Sound is shallow, with low bass.
Battery Power Summary
Thanks to the lack of 3G and power-hungry features, you get up to a massive 540 minutes of talktime.
Full Review and Specification for the Sony Ericsson W205
The Sony Ericsson W205’s main selling point is the fact that you can get it for £25 on prepay. The W in the name makes it nominally a Walkman phone, but really it’s just a basic, cheap, easy-to-use handset.
Style and handling on the Sony Ericsson W205
The matte plastic finish gives the phone a lightweight feel – rather too much actually, as it feels insubstantial in the hand. It does have a smooth slider mechanism, though. The screen is just 1.8 inches with a wide black border, which could have been used for extra screen space. Below the screen are the media control keys – play/pause, back/forward and a shortcut to the music player. The right key takes you to your contacts and the left to the 1.3-megapixel camera.
The silver keypad has slightly curved keys which are pretty comfortable to type on, albeit a little heavy. Texting is a quick enough process, althoughT9 predictive text is a little random. It won’t correct contractions like “how’s”, for example, but will contract “it’s”. This means you will have to type them manually with the punctuation the first time you use them.
The contacts book has space for a thousand contacts, and you can also keep up to four private phonebook for easy categorisation of different sets of friends, family or business contacts, for example. Call quality is very good at both ends.
Music on the Sony Ericsson W205
Well this is a Walkman phone but don’t go expecting a fully-featured music experience. The first stumbling block is the internal memory: just 5MB. This is barely enough to hold contacts and messages, let alone any tunes. There is a slot for an M2 MemoryStick (Sony Ericsson’s proprietary memory card), but you can only get up to 2GB on one card – approximately 500 songs. It’s not a huge problem, as music lovers will have higher spec players anyway; this is a budget handset for people who like to carry a few tunes with them.
A bigger issue is that there is no USB cable bundled in. Although you can transfer files via USB, using Sony’s usual chunky E-port, you will have to buy your own cable. The other option is to transfer files by connecting the handset to your PC via Bluetooth. It takes a while.
Playing music is more straightforward. You get direct access to the music player by pressing up on the D-pad, and tracks are displayed by artist, track and album as well as time elapsed. You get the usual settings of shuffle, repeat mode, playlists and you can filter your songs by track name, artist and album.
There’s no 3.5mm audio jack so you’re stuck with the bundled headphones, which are very basic. Bass is low and there’s a lack of fullness.
You do get TrackID, but only for use on the handset’s radio, and we like that you can use your own MP3s as ringtones.
Camera, web and games on the Sony Ericsson W205
As you would expect from a 1.3-megapixel camera, photos are pixelated and noisy even in good light, and there is no autofocus. No flash either, so no night shots. You can share your pictures using MMS or Bluetooth.
Internet speeds are a very slow GPRS, and the embedded browser isn’t much quicker. You certainly won’t be doing any involved browsing on the W205, that’s for sure.
Finally, you get two standard Java games, including Bubble Town, and you have the option to download more from Sony Ericsson – although that internet connection is likely to put you off.
The verdict on the Sony Ericsson W205
It may be called a Walkman phone, but the Sony Ericsson W205 barely fits the bill, especially as you don’t even get a USB cable for easy file transfer and the internal memory is tiny. But as a basic phone for a very good price, it does the job nicely.
The small screen and plastic finish make for a lightweight handset, but for £25 you can’t expect much more.
User Friendliness Summary
The keypad is tactile and comfortable, and the familiar user interface is intuitive.
Feature Set Summary
Pretty basic, as you would expect. No bundled USB and a very low memory mean you have to pay out for both file transfer and storage space if you want to use it as a music player. There’s a 1.3-megapixel camera for quick daylight snaps, and a couple of Java games.
Performance Summary
The internet is too slow to use, and the camera takes blurry, pixelated shots. Sound is shallow, with low bass.
Battery Power Summary
Thanks to the lack of 3G and power-hungry features, you get up to a massive 540 minutes of talktime.
Full Review and Specification for the Sony Ericsson W205
The Sony Ericsson W205’s main selling point is the fact that you can get it for £25 on prepay. The W in the name makes it nominally a Walkman phone, but really it’s just a basic, cheap, easy-to-use handset.
Style and handling on the Sony Ericsson W205
The matte plastic finish gives the phone a lightweight feel – rather too much actually, as it feels insubstantial in the hand. It does have a smooth slider mechanism, though. The screen is just 1.8 inches with a wide black border, which could have been used for extra screen space. Below the screen are the media control keys – play/pause, back/forward and a shortcut to the music player. The right key takes you to your contacts and the left to the 1.3-megapixel camera.
The silver keypad has slightly curved keys which are pretty comfortable to type on, albeit a little heavy. Texting is a quick enough process, althoughT9 predictive text is a little random. It won’t correct contractions like “how’s”, for example, but will contract “it’s”. This means you will have to type them manually with the punctuation the first time you use them.
The contacts book has space for a thousand contacts, and you can also keep up to four private phonebook for easy categorisation of different sets of friends, family or business contacts, for example. Call quality is very good at both ends.
Music on the Sony Ericsson W205
Well this is a Walkman phone but don’t go expecting a fully-featured music experience. The first stumbling block is the internal memory: just 5MB. This is barely enough to hold contacts and messages, let alone any tunes. There is a slot for an M2 MemoryStick (Sony Ericsson’s proprietary memory card), but you can only get up to 2GB on one card – approximately 500 songs. It’s not a huge problem, as music lovers will have higher spec players anyway; this is a budget handset for people who like to carry a few tunes with them.
A bigger issue is that there is no USB cable bundled in. Although you can transfer files via USB, using Sony’s usual chunky E-port, you will have to buy your own cable. The other option is to transfer files by connecting the handset to your PC via Bluetooth. It takes a while.
Playing music is more straightforward. You get direct access to the music player by pressing up on the D-pad, and tracks are displayed by artist, track and album as well as time elapsed. You get the usual settings of shuffle, repeat mode, playlists and you can filter your songs by track name, artist and album.
There’s no 3.5mm audio jack so you’re stuck with the bundled headphones, which are very basic. Bass is low and there’s a lack of fullness.
You do get TrackID, but only for use on the handset’s radio, and we like that you can use your own MP3s as ringtones.
Camera, web and games on the Sony Ericsson W205
As you would expect from a 1.3-megapixel camera, photos are pixelated and noisy even in good light, and there is no autofocus. No flash either, so no night shots. You can share your pictures using MMS or Bluetooth.
Internet speeds are a very slow GPRS, and the embedded browser isn’t much quicker. You certainly won’t be doing any involved browsing on the W205, that’s for sure.
Finally, you get two standard Java games, including Bubble Town, and you have the option to download more from Sony Ericsson – although that internet connection is likely to put you off.
The verdict on the Sony Ericsson W205
It may be called a Walkman phone, but the Sony Ericsson W205 barely fits the bill, especially as you don’t even get a USB cable for easy file transfer and the internal memory is tiny. But as a basic phone for a very good price, it does the job nicely.
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