Sony Ericsson Zylo The world + dog may be knocking out smartphones like there's no tomorrow but that's not to say the feature phones is dead and buried. The Zylo handset from Sony Ericsson would, once upon a time, have had a W code to show it sat in the Walkman range, but the days of simple delineation between music (Walkman) and camera (Cybershot …
Worth asking in store as the reviewer suggested. I picked one of these for my son as a combo phone and music player when he went back to school and told the lass in the 3 Store I'd pony up for the phone on PAYG if they would chuck in an adapter and indeed a deal was done. Bought the lad a new pair of earphones in the shop for a tenner too, so they came out ahead in the end.
I thought Sony had gone and bundled a cassette Walkman into a mobile phone. I really miss the tape getting snagged, that hiss, the wow and flutter as the tape stretched/tape transport wobbled and the need to click open a cover to change tapes....oh, wait, at least I did not have to dismantle my Walkmen to change tapes.....maybe mobile phone co.s COULD learn from the past.
Mines the one with the lopsided pocket cos it's full of tapes
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