The Sony Ericsson W995 has the highest model number of any Sony Ericsson phone (beating the P990 by a whisker). Well, that says it all - we're dealing with a high-end handset here. The interface is customizable by Flash Lite themes and is sprinkled with smooth animations all over. The interface offers many options and settings accessible at great speed - adding to an uncompromising user experience.
The standby screen is arranged as usual with signal strength, currently used data carrier and battery status indicated at the top. At the bottom of the display just above the context keys are their labels. This leaves plenty of space for the elaborate background animations.
The well-known Sony Ericsson home screen
The wallpaper is always on the move and really comes alive when the music player is on, making smooth transitions when playback starts or stops.
Sony Ericsson handsets also come with a handy option for their wallpaper - you can use an application as a background instead of an actual image. Of course you cannot use any application out there - the choice is currently limited to only three apps. These are WalkMate, Sound Sensor and Rock Bobblehead. The step counting WalkMate is probably the only practical app among them.
The options for the menu layout are the well-known foursome - one theme-dependent, a 3 x 4 grid of icons, rotating view and single icon view. Rotating view features three animated front icons on the display, the center one showing the active selection. The other two icons are half-hidden, there to simply indicate what comes next. Five other menu icons can be seen in the dim background.
The icon view displays a single icon at a time and a vertical bar, which features tiny icons for the other main menu entries. Neither of those view modes work with shortcut keys, it's only the Grid view that allows quick numeric keypad access.
But there's another reason to favor the good old grid view over the new gimmicks. The W995 features a couple of new themes we see for the first time. They affect the main menu causing the currently selected icon to break up and then pull back together in one of the best animations we've seen.
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