bland10000 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) product review moved. Edited February 26, 2007 by bland10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSP Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 woooo damn..that´s a cool phone, don´t like color though.greetz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxthrusters Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I wonder if this phone sold well in Japan. Hopefully it did, and Sony will put out more ATRAC-enabled phones (incl. ATRAC3plus!).A friend of mine just got a W800i, and it is a nifty phone. I am actually interested in getting a new cell phone for myself, and a Sony Ericsson seems like a good idea to me. Unfortunately none of the models we have in Canada suits me: I want a phone with ATRAC3plus, CONNECT store compliance, Bluetooth A2DP, photo, video, quad-band/EDGE, and that uses Memory Stick Pro DUO (not the newer mini sized M2 one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Nice Review Bland .I'm amazed that phone actually allowed you to transfer Atrac 3 Plus file which was not supportedby the phone woooo damn..don´t like color though.http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/22/sony-er...hone-for-japan/c?&u=http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/w42s/index.html" target="_blank">http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?&u=h...w42s/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Thanks for the review. I'm actually surprised SE ever released a phone that had ATRAC capabilities, even as limited as this one was. I just sent an email to SE a week or two ago requesting that newer phones include ATRAC playback, since there's a store that supports ATRAC (Connect) and it would give a leg up on the competition. Up until now, the iTunes phones by Motorola weren't all that amazing (slow interface, etc.) SE's design and already pretty good Walkman software on the W-series mobile phones could be that much better. Maybe some cool stuff will be announced by Sony/Sony Ericsson at CES next week? I can only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Thanks for the review. I'm actually surprised SE ever released a phone that had ATRAC capabilities, even as limited as this one was.There are currently two phones in the Japanese market that play atrac, this phone and the Music Porter II from NTTDoCoMo. The MPII does play Atrac3+ files, at least up to 256...don't know about 320 and 352. I'm surprised that a product bearing the Walkman label does less than the DoCoMo product that doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I'd rather Sony Ericsson stick with what they're doing now (no sonicstage, UMS, no Atrac) and improve upon HE-AAC and add gapless support, instead of going back a thousand steps to the stone-age of network walkman (only Atrac3 bitrate supported is just like my NW-E3) + sonicstage. The main draw of SE phones for consumers is the fact that people don't have to use Sonicstage. Sony SE phones probably won't be as popular as they are if people has to use Sonicstage. I wish SE market their phones more openly in the US, and bring in more and newer models, not some leftovers from Asia.bland10000: Love your ラスト figurine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I agree that there is a draw for not requiring SonicStage, though I would love to see a dual-method approach for getting music on the device, similar to how it works with the PSP. You can definitely drag and drop mp3's via USB, but it is also recognized as an ATRAC device in SonicStage. Gives you the best of both worlds. The PSP seems to handle the two together very well. Why not a cell phone too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackxxJapan Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 So, I'll be buying this phone tomorrow (black, not pink!) from AU, but if it doesn't play WMA and MP3 and junk...what good is it?Does that software convert the files to playable ones or what? Or can I only use Lismo music? I'm confused. Please reply back before I go to the cellphone shop tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) 1 en sale?For the internal memory, you will have to use Lissmo for downloading from the net and AU Music Port for loading your cd's.With AU-MP you can import your tracks in WAV, AAC, WMA, MP3, and something else. It will get transferred to the internal memory in an AU format that has a max kbps of 128 but sounds fine for what it is.The software will run on an English OS. The only problem with viewing is the options in the pull down menus appear as ? and " but the interface and screens you go to from selecting options appear fine. Edited January 6, 2007 by bland10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackxxJapan Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Bought the black one today at about 5000 yen, ignore what I said before. Super snazzy, I like it a lot. Haven't actually loaded it with any music though. I find it hard to believe it can play for 30 hours, have you tested that?And my laptop is English but it is configured as bilingual, so I should be able to display the characters correctly by switching languages. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I haven't done a test of playlength, just what I am getting as I go about the day. Today, I loaded the internal memory and got 8 hours playtime before arriving back home. Looking at the cell meter, it hasn't lost a notch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackxxJapan Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 すごい～Ok, Sonic Stage v4 doesn't seem to be working on my English Laptop. A little error thing pops up and says 'This Language is not supported'. Can I use an English version of Sonic Stage with the phone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Yes, the English language version works. Remember, the SS4/4.2 is only for loading music onto the Sony memory stick not the internal memory. Here is the link to SS 4.2, the latest version.I just tried a test that failed. I bought a card reader this afternoon at Yodobashi and stuck the MSPD card in it. SS won't recognize it and I did a drop and drag of a music file in .OMG format onto the card...phone won't recognize it so to load playable music onto an MSPD card you have to use SS. Edited January 7, 2007 by bland10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackxxJapan Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Ehh?How do I get stuff on the internal memory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 You have to use the program AU Music Port. Access to it is done via the cd-rom supplied in the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughingman720 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 that is a sweet phone!!!! lol color is funky, but cool!! hey do they sell those phones only in Japan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Only in Japan though I know a guy who takes a suitcase full of phones to Hong Kong every month and sells them...says this is a popular model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Soebali Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Mmm another cool phone that only can be used in Japan and not anywhere else in the world.... SE actually have many cool phones for Japanese market but due to Japan's unique network, it certainly cannot be used in any other networks in the world.If only this phone use GSM then it might have its sister for market outside Japan... sigh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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