Sony Ericsson Media Go review: First look
Gsmarena have posted a review of the new Sony Ericsson Media Go. Here is their final impression.
Media Go seems like a capable application and its performance was flawless during our test. Managing music with it is fine, but videos and photos get scaled to agree with your handset. If you use regular aspect videos (4:3, the aspect of VGA-res clips), you would be quite happy with the output quality. Widescreen videos however turn quite small on that screen and zooming in only makes things worse.
On a different note, we couldn't help but wonder why Sony Ericsson decided to ditch their Media Manager, which was only around for a year or two. They could have just upgraded it to accommodate the new stuff such as the Play Now Arena integration and the Podcasts subscription service, but instead they've decided to go for a totally new app.
As a result in a few months time there will be not one but three applications that users will use for syncing various content to their Sony Ericsson phones - Media Go, Media Manager and PC Suite.
We would have really preferred it that Sony Ericsson went for the integration path - merging Media Manager and PC Suite in one single application so users can sync both their multimedia and PIM with one single application.
Leaving that nuisance aside, our final verdict, is that the combination of Sony Ericsson W995 and Media Go doesn't sound like the best portable video combo we've seen. If video on the go is important to you, our recommendation is to stick with powerful smartphones that both support a wide range of video formats and are capable enough to playback desktop videos without any conversion whatsoever.
Media Go seems like a capable application and its performance was flawless during our test. Managing music with it is fine, but videos and photos get scaled to agree with your handset. If you use regular aspect videos (4:3, the aspect of VGA-res clips), you would be quite happy with the output quality. Widescreen videos however turn quite small on that screen and zooming in only makes things worse.
On a different note, we couldn't help but wonder why Sony Ericsson decided to ditch their Media Manager, which was only around for a year or two. They could have just upgraded it to accommodate the new stuff such as the Play Now Arena integration and the Podcasts subscription service, but instead they've decided to go for a totally new app.
As a result in a few months time there will be not one but three applications that users will use for syncing various content to their Sony Ericsson phones - Media Go, Media Manager and PC Suite.
We would have really preferred it that Sony Ericsson went for the integration path - merging Media Manager and PC Suite in one single application so users can sync both their multimedia and PIM with one single application.
Leaving that nuisance aside, our final verdict, is that the combination of Sony Ericsson W995 and Media Go doesn't sound like the best portable video combo we've seen. If video on the go is important to you, our recommendation is to stick with powerful smartphones that both support a wide range of video formats and are capable enough to playback desktop videos without any conversion whatsoever.
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