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Sony Ericsson W890i

Best for music

These days when people say 'Walkman' they tend to be referring to Sony Ericsson phones, rather than Sony music players. Walkman puts the 'W' in W890i, the follow-up to last year's trendsetting W880i, and it plays the same cards of combining an ultra-slim, good-looking case with best-in-class music facilities. The updated handset also removes the main drawback of its predecessor: the tiny, rice-shaped keys. So you have a stylish phone which doubles as an iPod plus one fantastic party trick: the exclusive TrackID feature, which identifies a piece of music by sampling it and checking it against a database of millions of tunes. In a word: magic. 

FIRST POSTED MAY 28, 2008
PROS: TrackID, good looks, sound quality
CONS: Small display