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The interface of the camera is very basic and very poor in features: Effects, White balance,
Self Timer and Night mode.
Furthermore, sample pictures clearly show that, if you want a good camera phone, then
you better pick another device as this one will not do.
Menu and Software
Sony Ericsson W380i runs the same firmware specific to all Walkman series handsets. The
most attractive feature of the phone is, without doubt, the Gesture control, which requires
you to keep the camera module open. That will clearly drain your battery energy faster, so I
suggest more restrain when using this features. Anyway, how does it function? The concept
is very simple: when you get a call and you are in a meeting and want to mute the phone,
just move your hand in front of the camera and the phone will simply stop ringing turning to
'Mute'. You can do the same thing when snoozing the alarm. Don't forget to turn ON the
feature, as the clamshell comes with the Gesture control feature set to OFF by default.
Besides the usual productivity tools included (Calendar, Notes, Calculator, Image viewer,
Organizer, World time, and Tasks), multimedia lovers will be happy to discover the usual
applications that are not missing from any respectful Walkman series handset: MusicDJ,
TrackID, Sound recorder, but also some games (ExtremeAir Snowboarding, QuadraPop
and Sims 2). The phone can be customized to look more stylish by taking advantage of the
Flash Lite themes support.
The File manager of the phone does a great job and features 3 list modes: All (both
memories), phone memory and external memory. MP3 and MIDI files can be added as
ringtones, if you want to change the default ringtones. The embedded HTML browser is also
poor in features and, because of the small display, it offers a 'crippled' browse experience.
The Java emulator works with just about any compatible application, I had no troubles
running any benchmarks, games or productivity software. Nothing really changed into the
‘ol' good’ Sony Ericsson's interface, which makes the user forget that he is using an
entry-level phone. Overall, SE's W380i user-interface is very easy to use and offers
maximum functionality to a 'noobish' user as well as to a mobile phone freak.
Communication
Only the standard features have been included into W380i clamshell, but that is more than
enough, especially if these are working within the parameters. The phone features GPRS
and EDGE Class 10, as well as the High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data speed transfer.
EDGE speed benchmark revealed average results – 107 Kbit/s download and 53 Kbit/s
upload, but it is much better than GPRS at least.
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