The last three mobile phones I have had have been Sony Ericssons. A couple of years ago, I would have gone for the Nokias every time - they look pretty and I knew the functions on it were pretty good. However, two years ago I ended up with a rather chunky looking black Sony ericsson, it was a bit of a boys phone but I wanted a phone that had a decent music feature and at the time (and its probably still true now) the Sony Ericsson was the best option.
So two years on, I've opted for the Sony Ericsson once again, but only because I finally found one that actually looked attractive, so now I have a phone that ticks all the boxes!

I am not going to list all the features here - I don't think its really necessary, if you have had a mobile phone before you will know the main features that mobiles have such as alarms, calandar, WAP, Bluetooth, ringtones etc, and this phone is no exception. I will mention the more interesting of its features. Just to mention this phone has a fitness application with a pedometer - but I can't really comment on this as I haven't used it - yet!

This phone is also a lovely handy size - it made a great change from the length and thickness of my last phone, the K810i . The size is 99x 47 x 14mm.
Its also great because if you are reading messages, answering a call, and doing pretty much anything other than dialling a number or typing a text as you can keep it at its miniature size and do not need to slide the phone up. A small thing, but I quite like that feature, it makes it nice and neat!

Also important in my phone is a radio function which this has. However, my negative of this is that it took me a long time to find out how to connect to the radio - to find your music tracks on this phone is very easy, but connecting to the radio was not so simple, and it took me quick look through the manual to find out where abouts I could find this!

I have had this phone for a week now and overall I am not let down by this model. It has all that I wanted in a mobile, a decent (ish) camera at 2.0 mega pixels (my last phone was 3.2 so the camera quality, inevitably is not as good, but then I don't really want my mobile for taking top quality photos anyway so I am not too bothered!) It has a girly looking look - you can also change the colour of the lights which also appeals to my girly side! Its sleek and easy to fit in my pocket (whereas my last phone just looked ridiculous and also inched its way out of my jeans, sometimes I felt like I had bought a mobile from back in the 1980's it was so bulky!) and I can have all my music in one place without the need to buy an MP3 player and take up more room in my pockets when its not necessary.

This isn't the only problem with the back of the phone. The back cover also has a silly design and the battery cover is hard to take on and off. At the back of the phone at the bottom, its is slightly curved upwards which means unlike most Ericssons you cannot simply slide the phone back on and off, you have to try and insert it at an angle (or at least that's what I did!) and try and push it in to place without snapping the back altogether. Taking the cover off the phone is just as difficult, every time I tried to push and slide it off, all I managed to do was to slide the phone open and not get anywhere with the back cover because of the slight curve at the bottom. The instruction booklet was not help at all, so I turned to trusty Google to see if there were any answers. I wasn't too surprised to see that a lot of people also had the same problem. There is a knack to it however, but this design could definitely be improved on.

I also think that eventually I will have a problem with the earphones. I personally love the earphones that are given with the phone (these ones are white rather than black) because the earbuds fit inside my ear. However, because I have these in when Im cycling and the phone sits in my pocket, I often find that after a couple of months the sound goes in one ear. I think this probably has to do with the fact that to the wire gets bent and the connection is lost, so no doubt that is my fault for the way it sits in my pocket rather than a design fault!