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Dear lovely Ciao people, I would like a new digital camera please :o) Thank you. P.S but I will gladly accept any prize.
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Every year I get to upgrade my mobile phone for free and every year I spend a long time deciding what kind of phone I want, what features I want it to have, what I will use the phone for and also I also look for the latest phone on the market.
This year I have opted for the Sony Ericsson W900 (i) 3G-enabled mobile phone, which is one of the latest phones available.
To look at the W900 (i) is stylish and fun but at the same time it is a mobile phone with many capabilities. For the time being this phone is only available in white in the UK whereas black is the dominant colour in other countries, but I have to say the white is a strikingly clean white colour with the name 'SonyEricsson' written in grey on the back of the phone along with the company logo.
This phone does boast a 180 degree swivel head which keeps the keypad nicely hidden from view but in saying that the phone is designed cleverly enough so that even if the keypad is hidden, the phone can still be fully used without needing the keypad and this is a feature that I really like. The display is a 262k colour TFT screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. It's an absolutely stunning and fuzzy less screen.
So what else does this phone do? Well it certainly does not have limited options, in fact if anything it has too many options, but for someone like me to likes to have a phone that does everything humanly possible, this is not a bad thing.
The options: To get to the options menu you simply click the middle button on the front keypad below the screen and instantly the options menu pops up with the following:
Entertainment - within this feature you have the options to Play Games and they are all Java Enabled, Watch TV*, Watch your Videos which you have taken using the video camera
option, look through your photos and finally Music DJ which is a lot of fun because this phone allows you to create your own melodies at the touch of a button and you can use them as your ringtones.
I have mentioned that you can watch TV, this option is not available to everyone, it is only available if your mobile phone operator is part of the deal. However, it was offered to me with my current contract on a trial period so I decided to take up the offer and essentially you are given the opportunity through 3G to have SKY television on your phone. Now when this was first mentioned to me I was amazed that this could happen and now I have got it I am still amazed that I can be sat on a bus or in my office and decide I want to watch Sky News or CNN or whatever channel I use. Obviously I don't get access to every SKY channel available but I do get a good selection and the viewing is actually very good, considering there are hardly any 3G masts near where I live or work, if there was a lot more masts then the viewing would be better, but I will leave the politics of that argument for now. So my mobile phone has SKY TV on it and I can watch it as and when I see fit. Once the trial period is over, I am given an option to subscribe at a cost of £5 for a limited package or £10 for the current package I have now and that is on a monthly basis.
Next we have Vodafone live which connects you to the internet or WAP and the one big difference between this phone and my last phone which was a Nokia phone using GPRS is that 3G is definitely alot faster.
Then there is the Sony Walkman option - this is where the phone becomes an MP3 player and you can upload your favourite songs to the MP3 player use your phone in this way and you can also download songs to listen to using the 3G system. As with this phones predecessors, the W900i has an expandable storage capacity by way of using a memory stick, which start at a small 128 megabytes and currently go up to a 2-gigabyte. Basing storage of audio on the MP3 standard, it means you can fit around 1000 songs onto your phone using this 2 gigabyte stick and you can also use it to store your photographs onto which you can then take to your local photography shop to print off, much like a memory card in a digital phone. If you don't have the expandable memory you can still comfortably house 100-200 songs. You will find on the front of the handset, a joypad set-up which doubles up as the musiccontrol pad, with play, forward and rewind keys all present which goes to show that this phone was made with the idea of music in mind.
With both of those in mind that brings me to the sound quality of the phone, which as you may expect is second to none. It is totally crystal clear whether you choose to have sound through your earphones or on a normal setting and through the speaker phone.
Accompanying the W900i is the Disc2Phone software, which enables users to transfer CDs from a PC or a laptop, which have been taken from your own CD collection and to use this software is really easy, once it is set-up on your PC you simply drag the tracks from albums when they appear on the screen and drop them into the relevant place.
As with most mobile phones these days, the W900 (i) does have a camera built into the phone and this camera is a 2million mega pixel camera, which has auto focus. The camera itself is relatively
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easy to use and when using the camera you simply decide whether you want to the use either the camera or the video camera. When using the camera there are various options to choose from when taking your picture or when shooting your video - one thing I do like is that I can choose to have a full screen view of anything I take.The messaging option is the same as many other phones and here you can create a text message, a multimedia message and an email
My Files - Contained here are all the pictures, videos, themes, sounds, web pages and games that you have personally put onto your phone and to save time searching through all of the other options available, you simply go to 'My Files' to find them quicker.
Organiser and Tools contains your calendar, calculator, task list, notepad, timer, stopwatch and many other organisational items, which you may find you need on a day-to-day basis. I use the alarm function to wake me up in a morning for work every weekday and it is brilliant, very loud so that it wakes me up. You can also find the 'Alarm' under it's own function and here you simply set it to what time you would like it to go off at and finally there is also easy synchronisation to a PC via Bluetooth or USB.
The next option is your contacts book within which you will find everyone you have listed upon your phone and they are arranged alphabetically with their phone number underneath their name. You can also store email addresses, picture and a few more options which allows you to build up profiles on people and use your phone as an extended address book.
Video Call - with this function you can use the videos you have recorded of people to pop up on your screen when they call you. I have to admit this is not a feature I have yet fully explored but I do that instead of using the video, you can use a picture of that said person to pop up when they call you.
The final two options are calls and settings which both inter-relate with one another. Within the calls menu you are basically able to view everyone who has called you, everyone you have called and every missed call that there has been but there is also an extra option which I have never had before and that is seeing which calls you have answered. Within the settings menu you will find every possible functional setting whether that is for the display, sound and alerts, diverting your calls or simply using the connectivity.
So with all of those options there is certainly plenty to play with and that is before you start playing the games. The phone I have came with a lot of extra's including the MP3 player system, the software for the MP3 player, and the Sony Ericsson software for the phone on CD, an expandable memory stick and some headphones.
As with all mobile phones there are good points and there are bad points, I am yet to find a phone, which is so perfect that I find nothing wrong with it.
So the good points - when selecting this phone I wanted something with a lot of memory so that I can store pictures of my gorgeous hubby, my adorable cats and my little nephew, so I am not disappointed on that score because this phone has a massive 470mb internal memory. Secondly, I wanted a phone whose battery doesn't die on you after talking on it for a few minutes, with the job I do I am constantly on the phone wherever I am and the battery life of the W900i is good, especially when you consider that it's a 3G phone. If you switch the 3G off, you can extend the battery life further, and you can put it into music mode if you just want to listen to music.
So the talk time is 500 minutes and the Standby time is 370 minutes and finally I wanted to have the ability to have real tone's, polyphonic tones and at the same time be able to play decent games, when I spend over an hour a day on public transport going to and from work I need a distraction and this phone certainly has given me that. I also like the fact that I can access every function I need to without opening up the phone and in being able to do this, the phone does fit in the palm of my hand quite easily.
Finally for the good points, is it easy to use? Well in short yes, all of the functions are similar to any other phone I have used, whether that is a Nokia, Sharp or Motorola and with those added extra functions, they are easy to elarn how to use.
So what are the downsides of this phone, well ultimately it is the sheer weight, which is 148g. So it is quite heavy in comparison to some mobile phones, but with all the functions and features I am prepared to overlook this.
Prices for this phone do vary depending on which mobile phone service provider you are with. I paid nothing for my upgrade because it is part of my contract but you can expect to pay anything between £250 and £450 for this phone.
Overall, I have to say that I totally love this phone; it does everything I want it to and much more.
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