Ok, I probably will get in trouble in this post, but, ultimately, I decided its important to bring this up. 4 days ago, my account exect. took away my beloved motoQ that was given to me to demo. They needed it for a photo shoot. So I had to walk out of the office that night with just a sim card in hand. Without much thinking, I went over to one of the worst cellphone stores you can find in beijing, the one right across from Häagen-Dazs shop in Wang Fu Jing. I got my self a sony ericsson walman phone.
To make my point, I absolutely loved this new phone right away. I loved Q for the reason that I can always show it off, its a blackberry but more handsome and half the thickness. I'd lay it out on the table, hoping for a call so its glowy blue key pad would light up and catches some attention. You know what though, it always works.
With this Sony Ericsson, initially I was a bit doubtful about its construction, took me some times to get used to the smaller dimensions, but after that, man, it was a F&*king bliss. I did things that I never did with my Q, or many moto products for that matter. Assigning my mp3 songs to different people, organizing contacts, attaching notes and birthdays to it, etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, many moto products offer the same features, but, at least out of my own experience, it has always been so damn hard to get to them, its always more buttons to press and more menus to go through. This frustrated me so much that after going through couple of them, my habit changed, I no longer wanted to organize my contacts, I accepted just to have a name and number for each contacts, no customized ring tones, no pictures, nothing. Same with Q, Windows mobile seemed to have transplanted all the confusion you can get from windows operating system to its phone operating system, and then some.
With sony ericsson, the first thing I did is to bluetooth some songs in my computer to it, it asked all the right questions after the transfer, three, four clicks and its saved in the right folder and assigned to a contact of mine. Also, the menu system is beautifully designed with least amount of cluster and appropriate amount of animation, unlike moto phones, which in my honest opinion, have some of the most dreadful menu graphics, animations and color combos out of all phone manufacturers.
Also, Sony Ericsson has this killer app in their music phone series called track ID, say you heard a song from somewhere, a commercial, or just something on the radio, and you want that song really bad and have no idea what it is. Track ID will listen to it and give you an answer right away, and that, is just... amazing to me, and I'm astonished that MOTO didn't get their hands on this earlier...
So, in the end, I stayed up for two hours after a late gym night, re-organizing my old contacts, asking friends for cellphone pictures and putting in my favorite mp3s and on and on, the phone just behaved marvelously. I suddenly noticed I just re-adjusted my cellphone habit, for the first time in two years I began to care about what wall paper, ring tone and theme I should I have on my phone again, all because of switching from a phone that has strong industrial design but weak UI, to an Average exterior, but strong UI one. The latter one completely won me over.
Moto, I really wonder when you will change your inside...
Now I must declare that I soon will be moving on to another company that has Sony Ericsson in their client roster, although I won't be responsible for that account. The above are is purely my personal opinion and experience. The phone, Sony Ericsson W580c, (CMCC partnered) was purchased with my own money at its full retail price.
