Compact Convenience: With Orange.

This phone is perfect for me. The Sony Ericsson k300i is a dinky little thing. I've never really cared for top-of-the-range technology or spending cash on new and updated things when it is unneeded. Even as a teenager myself, I stuck to a cheap old phone which lasted me, using just basic features of just texting and calling. But to go back to that now, I wouldn't want to.

Contact Book
Adding contacts into the phone is so easy, and you can assign more than one number to each person (you have options to specify a certain type of number e.g. mobile phone number, home number, work number, fax number etc.) and you can also assign a picture to each contact you have.

Pictures? Well, you can have them sent to the phone through it's very reliable infrared receiver (or even send them to another phone or device), take them off your computer or laptop, or even take a picture on the phones camera. The camera installed on the phone is of decent quality - nothing special, but by no means below average. Though this hasn't proved a problem for me as of yet and I'm finding the camera quite useful, and fun to play with. The camera comes with 5 different effect options.. (black & white, sepia, negative etc..) and many different frames to capture your pictures in. The camera has a useful zoom feature, and the brightness on the camera can be easily altered by the press of a button. You can specify what size you want your pictures to be, which for me is very useful, and picture sizes tend to be quite small, while retaining picture quality - I love this about the phone. The camera also has the ability to record videos, and again, keeps the size (in my opinion) unbelievably small while retaining quality. Despite the camera not being top-of-the-range picture quality, I give it a
7/10 for quality and 9/10 for features.

So what else is great about this phone? Well, for one, it has a simple to use layout so you will hardly ever become confused, and also, the keypad. The keypad may not seem important to some people, but it is to me. I become easily irritated by fiddly controls and buttons, but this keypad is perfect. With separate buttons for each set of letters (rather than 3 rows of 3 buttons like on the new Moto RAZR) it is easy to use and you won't get frustration or hassle while trying to type into the phone. Also the phone has a small and simple to use navigation button. You simply press left to go left, and up to go up and so on, and you'll never accidentally go the wrong way. (Unless you've maybe had a few too many drinks of course).

Messaging on this phone is easy. With a range of options for messages - picture and media messages: easily send pictures, video clips, sounds and animations, normal text messages, and also e-mail messaging service. It's so easy to get used to using this phone, even predictive text which I always found so testing, now makes messaging so much quicker.
Storage of messages is pretty good, once you get to a certain capacity you are told to delete some of your messages, but you can save the special ones in a saved items folder - so there's no worries there. And it's not like there's minimal space for messages, I'd say you can hold around 200 in inbox and outbox before needing to delete any.

Everything is covered. Pictures, music/sounds, videos, games, and even other applications are all covered on the phone. The phone comes with a range of emoticon pictures on it (to include on messages, to show people how you're feeling) and sounds, and also 2 games. There is an inbuilt sound recorder on the phone, and using the sound mixer on the phone, you can easily create little catchy tunes - that should keep you occupied for a while in times of boredom.

Phone charging for this little model is relatively quick, taking little more than a few hours to fully charge. Battery power lasts up to at least 7 hours of talk time and 300 hours stand-alone time (that's more than a week and a half of battery time). I rarely find battery power a problem, when I run out I just charge it for a couple of hours and I'm sorted.

There's a whole range of accessories you can buy to go along with this phone.
Vehicle Phone Mounter: Simply clip it onto the a/c vent on your car and insert phone. But still, on your mobile while driving, it can be a little tricky? Well not with the hands-free kit that comes free with the phone (or at least when you buy it on Orange pay-as-you-go from Phones4U, like I did ^_^)

There aren't many bad points, just a general few..

--- Pricing ---
On eBay you can find this phone (PAYG) for as little as £39.99 but in most cases between £50-60.
I found on offer for this phone: Pay As You Go with a Free Vodafone SIM card (NEW) for just £49.99 from the link. This is a pretty decent price to me.