Those in the market for an all-round mobile phone covers both you camera and music player desires, usually have no choice but to purchase a top-end smartphone. But for those who don’t want the fiddle of learning a more complex new OS, the Sony Ericsson W995 mobile phone offers the ideal solution. The Sony Ericsson W995 is easy to use and attractive to look at.This ease of use continues when you open the Walkman music software. A direct access button can be found on the edge of the handset along with play, track forward and track back keys, each nicely illuminated for use in the dark. This is version 4.0 of the Walkman software so it includes all the equaliser and playback options one would need, plus the Sony Ericsson SensMe, Shake Control and TrackID features. Audio quality is also superb, with the W995 beating the majority of its competition. It’s also great to see Sony Ericsson finally fitting a standard headphone jack on the body, rather than relying on an adaptor to there phone.

The Sony Ericsson W995 camera has a 8 megapixel lens takes pictures at a maximum resolution of 3264×2448 and features autofocus, a PowerLED flash, face detection, geo-tagging, macro mode, exposure metering and an image stabiliser, so you should be able to get the very best from your pictures. An accelerometer handles screen rotation and the user interface is very similar to that found on most other Sony Ericsson camera phones, meaning it’s simple to use and almost entirely managed by the D-pad and the side-mounted shutter key.

The W995 mobile also has assisted GPS is built-in, as is an FM RDS radio, the excellent Netfront browser, a YouTube client and a wide selection of motion controlled games. The W995 is similarly sized to the C905, but at only 118 grams, it’s considerably lighter, however the slider form factor is not as smooth and rounded as the top range CyberShot phone. Compare Sony Ericsson W995 Contracts