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I bought this phone about three or four months ago and I am generally pleased with it. I am not bothered about using all the functions, personally, so this review is about those I use. I am not a big mobile phone user and really only use it for occasional phone calls and text messages - both sending and receiving. I bought it in one of the big Tesco stores and I think I paid about £54 for it - I have just looked it up and it is now advertised there at £59.97 which includes £20 free air time. Previous to this mobile I had a really basic Nokia which my company supplied. I was attracted to the Sony Ericsson by it's looks (I wanted something small that would fit into my pocket so I always had it on me) and by it's price - I just wanted a cheap
pay as you go. It is available in shadow blue or misty silver. I thought this model was the best in this price range and it was advertised with the following key features most of which appealed to me:
Triband - Works outside Europe e.g. the USA I wanted this feature as I spend a lot of time abroad and I have always found it works well to call and send and receive messages in the UK and in France
Camera with 0.3-mega pixel (VGA) and you can also record and play video clips which also have sound on them.
Never having had a phone with a camera before I have found this really useful as I now always have a camera on me. I used it to take a photo of damage to a hire car. It has 4 shoot modes: normal, panorama, frames (with 20 fun frames you can put on your photos and burst (where you take several photos in succession and can choose the best). There are 4 picture sizes 640x480, 320 x 240, 160 x 240 and extended; a night mode, black and white and negative effects, self timer, picture quality setting and shutter sound. It has a digital zoom 4x.. OK so the photos aren't as good as on my digital camera but I think they are pretty good still. I have downloaded them on to the computer and emailed some of the videos to friends and family.
Built-in MP3 player, Media Player, melody composer/MIDI, (MusicDJ™), Music tones and PlayNow™
I have not used these features so cannot comment
Good quality colour screen
101 x 44 x 17 mm 3.9 x 1.7 x 0.7 inches
I agree with this statement and find it very easy to see the screen. The phone is light 82 g /2.9 oz
Polyphonic & MP3 Ringtones
I am not bothered about this feature
Handsfree speakerphone
I have not tried this
Access to internet style pages - RSS feeds , Web browser Access NetFront™ Web Browser
I have never tried these features and we usually travel with the laptop and I thought it would be too expensive to use the phone for this
Memory - the phone memory is about 15MB which is fine for me!
Entertainment - 3D games, Java, Video Clip - they all work fine I guess but I am not interested in these features so have just looked through quickly
Connectivity - fast port G~PRS, Infrared port (am looking forward to trying this out) modem, synchronisation PC, USB support - have had no problems with this
Messaging -email, MMS, predictive text input, SMS long text messaging. Have managed to use all this eventually but not without some difficulty and many lost messages and frustrations - but then I am a granny so maybe this is rather more down to me than to the phone! I found the joy stick really hard to use at first and kept dialling numbers by mistake. It seems really fiddly and I am usually quite dextrous. Again I am now getting much better at this so practice makes perfect.
Communication - conference calls (haven't tried, but like the idea) polyphonic ringtones, speakerphone, vibrating alert.
Organiser - I really like the feature and use it a lot. The alarm clock is easy to set and has worked will for me. It has a business card exchange which I don't need to use; a calculator and calendar which if fine and I often use,; file manager, notes, phone book, stopwatch, tasks and timer - all again I find useful and easy to use. I use it like a diary and always carry it around.
Finally I have found the Sony Ericsson website useful:
Advantages: Excellent functionality for the price, stylish design, very useful reminders function Disadvantages: Unreliable joystick, virtually unnecessary VGA camera
tech-review 14.03.2008 ·
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Advantages: Cheap, good-looking, functional, lovely slide mechanism Disadvantages: Customisation is limited, settings can be fiddly, no dictionary for predictive texts
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