Battery life was below average: In our PC World Test Center trials, the W995a had a talk time of just 4 hours and 9 minutes.

The Sony Ericsson Walkman W995a has multimedia features that surpass some of our top-ranked phones: Both the camera and the music player go above and beyond the capabilities of the , the , and even the (the camera, mostly). But the fact that the W995a isn't a smartphone keeps us from putting it at the top of our charts--it just doesn't have the browser, keyboard, and e-mail connectivity that the others have. And at a $600 unlocked price point, it can't compete with the less expensive subsidized phones. Compared with those of the models in our , though, that price will appear less stratospheric.