clips with a maximum 176 x 144 pixel resolution.

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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Sony Ericsson W660 technical specifications Menu and Software, Communication