Sony Ericsson W550i

With the release of the W550i, Sony Ericsson has finally plugged a void in its product portfolio for a 'Walkman' camera phone priced affordably enough to woo students and young executives. Naturally, styling was one of the key consideration points...

Excellent sound quality, good screen, exciting form factor, phone lock button on the side, great design

No expansion slot on the side, Camera poor quality

The device has a reasonable camera, walkman functions, sufficient but not lavish memory and you can change the covers on this handset.

Successful music interface from the W800i, intuitive keypad lock, 1.3 megapixel camera, comfortable keypad, 256MB of internal memory

No memory expansion options, screen could be a little larger, quite large and bulky, useless handle adds unnecessary size

The W550i is a cheaper alternative to the W800i and retains most of its big brothers features while adding a new swivel design most suited to gaming.

Integrated music player and radio ; Great user interface ; 256MB of internal memory ; Best in class sound quality

Chunky sized phone ; Lacks a memory card slot

If we were given a choice between Motorola's iTunes-compatible ROKR E1 and either of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones, we'd choose the latter -- without question. We prefer using iTunes to sync music as apposed to the W550i's drag-and-drop method. But...

Successful music interface from the W800i, intuitive keypad lock, 1.3 megapixel camera, comfortable keypad, 256MB of internal memory

No memory expansion options, screen could be a little larger, quite large and bulky, useless handle adds unnecessary size

The W550i is a cheaper alternative to the W800i and retains most of its big brothers features while adding a new swivel design most suited to gaming.

We should mention, normal disjoinable earphones are included, and you can attach own headphones into a standard connector for them. But the "drops" are enough qualitative, which allows good sound. Also we should point out the presence of a Disc2Phone...