I have used Sony Ericsson W200i since 2005, and now, few months ago I bought Sony EricssonK530i. I didn't need anything amazing, I just needed simple phone for working, mostly I call and send sms-s with that and this is pretty good phone for that.
As I already said, my old phone was Sony Ericsson W200i, it was walkman, but I didn't find anything wonderful about the walkman, so this time, I decided to buy Sony Ericsson phone, which don't have walkman music player. First time, I used it, I found
out some music player, and in my opinion, it was exactly same as walkman music player. Sony Ericsson phones has really good quality, and Sony Ericsson phones are excellent business phones. This is pretty new phone, first time I saw it in the market about one year ago, so It's nothing special, if we depilate all this phone good sides.
Anyway, I didn't want some mobile phone, which screen is black-white colored. Also I didn't want some perfect 3.5G phone, regardless this is really useful, if you use it as business phone. I just wanted phone, which has features like; you can call, you can send sms-s and things like that. Also It's really good if your phone has quality camera, so you can take a picture of important things. My old phone had 0.3MP camera, so picture quality wasn't the best one. But this phone camera is 2MP, so picture quality is pretty good, nothing special, but It's sufficient.
-Display Display is with 176x220 pixels, and there are about 26 thousand colors. Screen size is pretty good, enough to play some games, but if you use it as internet page, It's too small, at least in my opinion. You have to scroll it wildly, and very soon you understand, It's really annoying. My old phone screen was smaller, 128x160 pixels, but I didn't use internet or something like that. Sometimes I played games, but sometimes, I understood that screen is too small.
-Outlook Outlook is pretty nice, phone is really thin, and I haven't got any problems with that. Screen is almost half of the phone, and buttons are some kind of metal. So far, I don't have any problems with that, nothing have broken, but very soon after I started using that phone, I discovered that screen goes really dirty. Phone backside is made with plastic, and around the camera, there is some kind of leather cover.
-Entertainment Of course there is some kind of entertainment, like java games, music DJ, photo DJ and things like that. Sometimes I play java games, but after playing about ten minutes, you understand, that these games are really annoying. Music DJ is really good application, you can make your own song or something like that, add instruments like guitar, drums, synthesizer and bugle. You can make your song faster and slower and so on. With photo DJ, you can simply tune your picture, with simple applications. You can put the frame around your picture, you can add the text and you can turn around your picture.
-Music player As I said in the beginning, music player is almost same as Walkman player. If we compare music player with radio example, then It's really good, that you can listen music without ear muffs. You can make your own music folders, where you can add music from other folders. Using music player is really easy, you just have to use joystick to stop or start the song.
-Camera Camera is pretty useful application, because you never know, if you have to take a picture from some important thing. For example, one day when i drove to the town, I saw some car crash, and then I could take a video of this crash. Video was with pretty good quality, and after that, I could show it to my friends.
-Battery life Battery life is one really good plus about this phone. Battery type is Li-on, and It belongs really long time. Almost every time I make some long calls, battery belongs really long, and I haven't got any problems with that.
-Audio I listen music player very often, especially then, If i have some long car trips. It's really enjoyable, and It's really good if music quality is really good and pure. Also I listen music then, when I go jogging. Anyway, sound quality is really awesome, at least in my opinion. I mostly add MP3 files, and every song is with great quality. But if you want perfect sound quality, It's better to download WMA files, but WMA files are much bigger.
SPECIFICATIONS OVERVIEW:
- Dimensions: 102 x 46 x 14 mm - Dimensions: 102 x 46 x 14 mm - Weight: 92 g - Battery Type: Li-Ion - Memory: 16.0 MB - Expandable Memory: Memory Stick Micro - Main Screen: 262000 colors (TFT), 240 x 320 px - Camera: 2.0 MP / 2.5X Zoom - Ring Tones: MP3 - MP3 Player: MP3 / AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+ / m4a / PlayNow / TrackID - Email: POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP / Push Email
WHAT IS BAD ABOUT THIS PHONE?:
What can I say? I haven't find anything bad so far. If I compare this phone with my old phone, then this phone is much better. Mostly because of battery life and screen size. But also my old phone didn't support WMA files, and also I couldn't read text documents. Oh, now I found one minus... I can't read text documents. Anyway, this is really small minus, and almost everything else is perfect about this phone. Really, I haven't got any problems with that, and this is really perfect phone, which don't have any bad sides.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY:
The phone came out in year 2007, it means that's not really old phone, and It's available almost in every shop. Before I bought this phone, I found out it almost in four shops, so It's nothing rare. Price is pretty normal, It means cheap at least at the moment. Far time ago, It was more expensive, but now price is lower, and availability is bigger. Price is about £110 right now, so It's nothing expensive, but when I bought it, it costs about £600, so there is really big different.
CONCLUSION:
What can I say? I simply love this phone. Outlook is awesome, screen size and picture quality is really nice. There is no bad sides about this phone in my opinion, except you can't read text documents, but this is really little minus. There are a lot of useful features, you can entertain yourself with this phone and so on. Also this is really good business phone, It's really lightweight, measures are little and It's really compact. This phone is recommended to everyone, it's really good choice to everyone, so don't worry about the price and availability.
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Access email and the Web - at 3G speed - wherever you go. Snap quality pictures. Organize more
and synchronize. The K530i: efficiency in your pocket. The Web On The Go The K530 comes with the Access Netfront Web browser pre-installed. Search the Web make online purchases and much more - you have Web access whenever you want. 3G Quick and easy access to broadband Internet. Say hello to video calls audio and video streaming Internet surfing multimedia messaging and email on the go. Pictures You'll Want To Share A 2-megapixel camera takes pictures to be proud of. Upload to your blog or surprise your friends with picture messages. Speakerphone Switch to speakerphone to activate the loudspeaker. Now you can use your phone hands-free and it's an easy way to share a conversation with others.
Advantages: 3G, Longer Battery life, Camera, Audio quality, Disadvantages: Video playback, no dedicated music keys (but this is K series not W series):-)
nishanthl21111987 01.11.2008 (01.11.2008)
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Advantages: Easy to use, good sound quality, easy to surf and has good camera. Disadvantages: Headphones sometimes plugs out, bad photos quality when you take em at night.
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