Advantages: Excellent sound quality for the price Disadvantages: For this price.... NONE!
These were replacement speakers for some poor quality JVC speakers I had. They're run of a Sony CD headunit (4*50W) with standard speaker wire.
With the cost being under £40 for a set of 6*9s I wasn't expecting anything spectacular but boy was I in for a surprise!! The quality of sound between the JVCs & Sony was just unbelievable.
The JVCs gave very poor bass & when you increased the volume, it just distorted. But with these Sony X-plods the bass is good enough for me to get the regular unapproving look from elderly passers-by & the treble/vocals is perfectly audible even with the speakers near their limits.
I play all sorts of music on them from Dance to Pop to Rock & it handles them all perfectly. Even though I can only turn my headunit up about a 1/3 of maximum, this is plenty loud enough to feel the bass in your back ...
Advantages: Nice design, small, light Disadvantages: Can't fully compete with other business phones
The G502 is another small, lightweight addition to the Sony Ericsson range of business-oriented mobiles.
I say business-oriented, it's no substitute for a Blackberry or other smartphone, but it's aimed more at the business user than the SE Walkman range, for example.
Basic features include:
Quite large colour screen
3G/UMTS network
SMS/MMS
Push email
Organiser/Calendar
PC sync (although my company doesn't support this feature for some reason)
2 megapixel camera (with video capture)
mp3 player
It also has a built-in FM radio and you can play games on it (essential for the travelling businessman...or maybe not).
Style:
It's a a smart looking, small, light phone and it looks suitably classy to not be embarrassed when using it for business. In fact, it's a nice looking phone but it does seem to be from the dark ages ...
Advantages: small, light, good design, solid build, good features, cheap Disadvantages: no video call camera, no autofocus or flash, poor selection of included accessories
Stick Micro M2 cards).
The phone is a candybar form factor, black in color, with some glossy silver accents. The screen and keys are also glossy, rest of the phone is black matte plastic. The screen is covered with glossy plastic which collects smudges and dirt but seems to be quite scratch resistand so it can be cleaned easily with a piece of cloth. Above the screen is the Sony Ericsson label, below the G502 label. Bottom half of the phone's face is occupied by the keyboard that has a very interesting wavy shape. The D-pad is integrated into the silver bar that runs across the keyboard over the call start/end keys and left/right/confirm keys of the D-pad.
The rear of the phone is black as well, with a silver bar running across the top third of the rear face, that bar has the camera lens and a tiny red video camera LED integrated into ...
