W960i costed me 539 EUR (= $808 USD) with no contract from a Greek shop named "Plaisio"(Plaisio.gr), while their online special price is 509 EUR (= $763 USD). It would take a few days to deliver via online order, so I decided to visit the shop and purchase it directly.
I personally consider ANYTHING above 250 EUR (= $374 USD) too much for a single mobile device, but honestly I got so pissed off hearing that Sonyericsson's warranty is only available per region and they can't do anything and I wanted a new phone so badly. You may say: "So you got pissed off at SE and went to buy one of their most expensive phones to take revenge of them? good job, ha ha ha" - well it wasn't exactly revenge, but something to calm down myself before I start screaming on them because I couldn't believe that a so huge company doesn't provide world-wide warranty.
I was between K850i and W960i but the following features made me choose W960i:
a) WLAN (even if it's 802.11b, 11 Mbps) that K850i didn't have, I really wanted that
b) 8GB internal disk while K850i required memory card purchase
c) Touch screen
While the only reason that K850i kept me in dilemma was:
a) 5Mpixels camera, while W960i has 3.2Mpixels
b) Xenon Flash
Either way, I got W960i.. it's currently charging and I will have a look at it soon. Regarding my W810i, I will try to contact the shop I purchased it via e-mail and/or Sonyericsson in Dubai and see what they can do as I really want to make that phone function again.
Thank you everyone for your interest, I am really impressed of this forum, I will keep checking it for my W960i although I really hope I will never ever ever ever ever make a similar thread for it :eek:
Regards,
apapapa.
PS: I just tried to visit the Download Section but it shows nothing, I suppose my 2-days premium service has expired. Should I still be getting a listing of files but not download them or it doesn't even list if you don't have access to download area?