It’s the most music-savvy phone from Sony Ericsson to date, plus the W980i is definitely in the running for the most quaint-looking. Basically, it so off-the-wall that looking at the W980i’s design and functionality it’s impossible to predict where Sony Ericsson will take its music-centric line up – it may happen that this phone will remain a stand-alone white spot in this manufacturer’s. In fact, these days music is simply all another way for a contemporary man to express himself. W980i very similar to the Sony Ericsson W900i back when the Walkman range was only starting out.

The W980’s external screen is based on a 176×176-pixel TFT matrix (27×27 mm) and shows up to 262 K colors.
The W980’s main display shows up to 262 K colors in the 240×320 pixel resolution (2.2 inch diagonal, 34×45 mm, TFT). This screen size allows it to accommodate up to 8 text and 3 service lines in most modes (plus it’s possible to cram in more information when browsing Web or handling Email).
The W980 makes use of a 930 mAh Li-Pol battery (BST-38).
The handset comes equipped with 8 Gb of storage and doesn’t support memory cards, with EDR-enabled Bluetooth 2.0, the menu enables you to turn on enhanced power saving mode. There is also A2DP support, which allows employing wireless headsets with the W980.
The W980i employs USB 2.0 protocol and therefore its data connection speeds top out at 2 Mb/s.
The device is equipped with a 3.2 MP camera with a CMOS matrix without auto-focus. The device supports three possible resolutions – – 2048×1536, 1632×1224, 1280×960, 640×480 pixels.

Shake Control. There is nothing tricky to it – you tap and hold the Walkman key and then start shaking the phone – shake it forward to get it to jump to the next track, and pulling it backward will move you to the previous song. And if you just shake it around, the W980i will take it as a command to turn the shuffle mode on. Every time you shake it, you get some tactile feedback as well – the handset vibrates a little.

Walkman 3.0 rundown. Among the fundamental improvements over Walkman 2.0, the new version sports DRM 2.0 support as well as support for MTP, which makes for direct music transfers with Windows Media Player.

Audio quality. The phone ships with an excellent pair of headphones – the HPM-77, one of Sony Ericsson’s finest offerings to date. The W980 turned out to be a pretty loud phone.

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