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While the camera is not as bad as you might think, you can observe that most pictures are
out of focus and blurry. Even if you have a wide range of settings at your disposal like White
balance (Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent), self timer, night mode, Effects
(Black and White, Negative, Sepia) you won't be able to improve the quality of the pictures.
Overall I can hardly say that this is an average camera, but bear in mind that this is not a
Cyber-shot series handset. If you want a better camera at a loss of good music features,
than go ahead and buy yourself a Cyber-shot phone. Sony Ericsson says you can't have
both ... for the moment (market strategy reasons).
Menu and Software
Sony Ericsson's fans would probably be happy to find that there is no obvious change in
W660's menu or software. You get the same fully customizable main menu, depending
widely on what kind of theme you use. You can even make your own themes by using the
software called Themes creator, offered by the Sony Ericsson Development department.
Besides the main menu you will be able to access a Quick menu (by simply pushing the
right gold colored button), which contains shortcuts to various features of the phone
(Bluetooth, Alarms, Radio, RSS reader, Calendar, Main menu), a quick access to Internet
navigation, a report of various events (missed calls, alerts), as well as a list of running
applications (if any).
Innovative in all its endeavors, Sony Ericsson made available for music lovers a very useful
application that will enable the recognition of almost any track played, be it on the radio or in
a car. You just need to record a fragment of the song that you'd like to be recognized and
the application, called Track ID will search an online huge database and will most probably
find your song in a matter of seconds. You can also play with some multimedia applications
such as PhotoDJ, MusicDJ and VideoDJ. Most likely these will eat your free time faster than
the 2 Java compatible games embedded: Snowboarding and Tower Bloxx.
Other helpful applications that you'll find very easy to use and access include: Organizer,
Calendar, Text notes, Stopwatch, Countdown timer, Alarm, Calculator and Code memory.
The File manager is also easy to use and has 3 different views where it will list every folder
on both phone's memory and external memory, or just one of the two.
Users will be able to personalize their phone in detail by using the included themes. You
can also attach any MP3 file format, no matter where it is located (phone memory or
external memory), to any ring tone, alert or alarm. For those that like to surf the Internet on
their mobiles, Sony Ericsson included a standard browser that can work in landscape mode
or even make the pages fit the screen's size. The browser also integrates a RSS reader
which works smoothly.
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