A Serious Flaw With Sony’s W960i

If anybody out there is a going to or even planning to buy a touch screen mobile phone, then let me alert you on the first hand before you fall into it’s the shiny and sleek look. Don’t Buy It!!! Unless you’re too rich to spend few hundred dollars like a penny – Don’t Buy It. I know it’s a strict advice but believe me you will regret later. How I know it? I’ve been through it and by God it’s not worthy.

I bought Sony’s 8 GB touch screen W960i walkman phone just a few months back. Before I bought it, I had written a post about W960i too comparing it with Nokia N95 in my other blog. I thought the sleek and thin design along with 8 GB memory card and more than that touch screen to add trendy feel was a better option. But then I didn’t know at that time that I was making one of the biggest mistakes of my like.

A couple of weeks ago, the touch screen just stopped working. I didn’t drop the phone anywhere. I was working fine the other night but the next morning I could click or navigate from touch screen. I was like what the hell’s going on. I restarted my phone many times but it was still the same. Then I tried googling it out in the web where I realized what a big mistake I had done. I found so many people facing the same kind of problem especially with the touch screen. Their phones also freezed all of a sudden and there was no other alternative than changing the touch screen which cost few hundred bucks. I tried several solutions like clicking the black button like thingy below the battery pack, I went to a mobile shop and checked the wiring too but all in vain. I thought a master reset would do the trick but the “jog wheel” alone just couldn’t navigate to the “OK” button on the left side of the screen. I still haven’t lost my hopes and am still looking for a solution other than changing the touch screen. Any type of suggestion is appreciated.

And I don’t mean to be too much out of fashion but now I really think that there should be a full navigational system even in touch screen mobile phones.