[z999]

Hi,
A while ago I read about sony ericsson making a watch that connects to your phone. Since I'm buying a new phone (probably c702) and recently broke my watch (a fake breitling so I'm not going to fix it) and thought it can be cool to buy one, so I've googled a bit and found out those things are expensive. so I wanted to ask if there are alternatives? and are those real quality watches?

[Mizzle]

Sony Ericsson has no real alternatives. You can either get the MBW-100, MBW-150 versions or MBW-200 versions. But yes, they are a bit expensive, but real quality watches too.

[BlueVD]

Well, just after Christmas, an old pal of mine droped me a visit and behold, he had a MBW-150 Music edition.
I asked him if I could borrow it and also his HBH-IS800 bluetooth handsfree...
Needless to say it was a perfect music galore so to say. My W350i had no problems with either of them.
The only times I ever hat to take the phone out of my pocket was when I got text messages. Everything else was done by bluetooth. I could see who was calling me on the phone and even silence or reject the call.
Also, the MBW-150 can do much more than time keeping and skippin' trhough songs. I can say that the watch itself is fully worth the ~260$ price tag (in my country). Plannin' on getting one as soon as I can raise the money
EDIT: forgot to mention one of the most important features: if the watch gets to far away from the phone and loses the BT connection, it vibrates. This means you'll never love your phone, forget it at the office or ar home... Which to me is pretty important since most of the times I'm in a big hurry and I always forget something =]

This post has been edited by BlueVD: 14 January 2009 - 09:26 AM

[weirdwilli]

If I ever get my C902 and my iPod suddenly breaks, I think I'm going to go for one of them too.
They just look so, so practical.

[darthvaderrulesyourmind]

I want one but I'm don't have a credit card :sad:

[photographer]

I agree, they are expencive... but they have nice features and a pretty good battery life (for a watch with bluetooth). They are real quality watches made of nice materials so you won't regret buying one

[Taikira]

Well, I bought a MBW-100 in black color about 18 months ago. I must give some precision about these watches.

1/ MBW-100 & 150 are for men, MBW-200 are for women.

2/ Yes, as Photographer said, they have a very good battery. When I don't use BT, mine has a battery performance of about 2 month. If I use BT, the performance is of +- 3 weeks.

but:

3/ the features are poorer with the 100 than with the 150 series. With the 150 series, you can drive the whole walkman player. With the 100, this feature is limited.
But it is nothing compared with windows mobile phones, when a lot of patches exist to expand the features (like reading sms, and other stuff).

4/ The quality is not good!!
On the MBW-100 black, the color is cheap and it scratches very easily.
On both 100 & 150, the glass is said to be scratch resistant, but it is not! And it scratches very, very easily!!
I sent my MBW-100 to repair service because of very deep scratches and the glass, and they changed my watch for a MBW-150 executive. One week later, the glass has been scratched once again, just because of a contact with an interior zip in my motorbike jacket!!!

So definitely, MBW watches are not good quality!

[illuminarias]

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Well, I bought a MBW-100 in black color about 18 months ago. I must give some precision about these watches.

1/ MBW-100 & 150 are for men, MBW-200 are for women.

2/ Yes, as Photographer said, they have a very good battery. When I don't use BT, mine has a battery performance of about 2 month. If I use BT, the performance is of +- 3 weeks.

but:

3/ the features are poorer with the 100 than with the 150 series. With the 150 series, you can drive the whole walkman player. With the 100, this feature is limited.
But it is nothing compared with windows mobile phones, when a lot of patches exist to expand the features (like reading sms, and other stuff).

4/ The quality is not good!!
On the MBW-100 black, the color is cheap and it scratches very easily.
On both 100 & 150, the glass is said to be scratch resistant, but it is not! And it scratches very, very easily!!
I sent my MBW-100 to repair service because of very deep scratches and the glass, and they changed my watch for a MBW-150 executive. One week later, the glass has been scratched once again, just because of a contact with an interior zip in my motorbike jacket!!!

So definitely, MBW watches are not good quality!

thats because you don't keep it properly.

[Taikira]

Maybe you know better than me how I keep my watches? Mom', get out of that body!

Never had any hardware problem with my other watches, whatever the brand (casio, festina, yema rallygraf or any other); just with MBW watches.