The video player on the Sony Ericsson W995 supports fast-forward, rewind, and slow-mo playback. It can play in landscape and has three options for video size - original, auto fit and full screen (which crops the video if needed).
The video player
A nice feature of the video player is the screenshot capability. It allows you to save a frame of video and add it to the gallery. To help you get exactly the frame you want, there's the option to skip frames one by one.
All this is nice but the kickstand on the back and the bigger screen seem to promise great video viewing. However, in this respect the W995 fails to deliver, since there's no support for DivX and even better XviD, or any other advanced video codec. A shame really, given the provided 8GB memory card can store hours of high quality video.
Since W995 is not a smartphone, there's no way to install a third party program to get around this disadvantage. DLNA support could have made it a pocketable movie player but apparently, video capabilities took second place to music and imaging.
Of course, you can always convert your video files to the supported MPEG4 format, but that will probably bring down the bitrate and audio quality. Additionally, the regular 3:4 aspect screen will hardly fit widesceeen videos nicely.
The 8 megapixel power of the W995 is harnessed in the friendly and efficient camera interface which we've known - and appreciated - across a number of high-end Cyber-shot handsets such as the C905. While the handling and features are quite familiar, the camera quality is not what we expected - no, a Walkman is not a Cyber-shot. The picture quality of the W995 snapper is just adequate, while on the C905 it's exceptional. Bear in mind though that this is a pre-release unit and the final quality may differ from our test shots.
The 8 megapixel camera
The 8 MP AF camera on the W995 offers a wide range of features like face detection, camera images geotagging, exposure metering, image and video stabilizer, BestPic, auto-rotation, macro mode, etc. The W995 camera interface lacks any option for setting the ISO levels, something that was also missing on the Cyber-shot flagship, the C905.
The W995 is capable of a maximum image resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels with an average file size of about 2 MB. The lens is not protected, but there is a PowerLED flash to assist in short-range shooting.
The camera controls are very comfortable to use, especially the shutter key.
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