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Rating from Springzy 5 Stars ()

Advantages Light-weight and value for money

Disadvantages Memory space

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.

Upon receiving the k300i as a present, this Christmas passed, I turned the phone on, and to see the sight of the menu was at first daunting, but I soon browsed through every option on the phone within a good 2 days and had a good understanding of most - it wasn't really confusing at all.


I always receive excellent signal with this phone, wherever I am, whether it be at home, out and about, or in Italy. I can always manage to be auto-connected to a service provider and it's very reliable. I recommend this if signal is an up point for you.


-- Features --

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.

-Camera-

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.

-Keypad & Layout-

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.

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    Wow great review! I dont really like the little joysticks on most sony erricson phones though! :-) xxx

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