Sony Walkman 850i

Advantages: Very stylish, great music player, very powerful tool
Disadvantages: No Camera Zoom

...Well with some trepidation i recently upgraded to the W850i when contract renewal time came around. Having read a few bad reports about this product i almost went for one of its rivals, however i stuck to my guns as the W850i offered the features i most wanted, and in one of the most stylish packages. So to the phone, no need to list its functions plenty of others have done that, but more to point out the really useful bits, and the misguided advice of others. I can only speak from a TMobile service users point of view, but so far i have had no problem getting a signal wherever i am in the uk, which is a vast improvement on the performance of my old Samsung, although that was with Voda. Then to the music part, for an old git the ability to store a good few CDs worth of music is more than sufficient, and the 1GB card supplied...

karlsp 26.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sony Ericsson W850i Walkman

w850i = Great!

Advantages: Music Player, Sound quality, Memory, Sleek Phone
Disadvantages: Lack of auto focus for camera

...I've had the Sony Ericsson w850i for a week or so and I thinks its great! There are many features, like; 3G video calling 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flash Video camera with photo light VideoDJ? software for video editing Music player FM radio Melody composer / MusicDJ 3D Java games WAP, GPRS, Web browser Connectivity: Bluetooth, Fast Port, Infrared, USB mass storage Memory: 16 Mbytes plus Memory Stick PRO Duo support + loads more features! The Sony Ericsson W850i is a 'Walkman-branded' phone in a slide design. The sliding mechanism is solidly constructed and very smooth so you won't experience any trouble in moving it up and down. As with some other slider designs, the W850i doesn't cradle your head when positioned against the ear, but it's comfortable to hold while talking. The slide format means...

mahiumair 06.05.2007 (08.05.2007) · Read review
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  K850i : WORTH THE MONEY!?

Advantages: 5 megapixel camera and great features, touch screen!
Disadvantages: media center can be troublesome, fingerprint and smudge magnet!

...SONY ERICSSON K850i After the fast selling and extremely popular K800i and K810i mobile phones Sony Ericsson had a tough job improving on them. To improve on the older models they basically took there great design and system layout of the previous versions, slapped a 5 mega pixel camera and a media center and a few more extras and you get the New K850i mobile phone. However with a pay as you go price of around £300, is the phone worth it? THE PHONE One of the requirements for a mobile phone to have is the ability to be able to phone people! Surprise! many people forget that no matter how many features a mobile phone has, the most important feature is that it can phone people without a problem and that the reception and voice quality is good. If not, then you might as well have just bought a digital camera or mp3 player...

Rogue-XIII 24.12.2007 · Read review
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Shiny Happy K850i

Advantages: A very smart non-Smart phone
Disadvantages: Need workarounds for non-pc users

...There is so much about the K850i to be excited by; the 5MP camera, the touch screen, the shiny black finish and thanks to a special offer from O2 a whole 2GP of memory card. Then there are the buts: I couldn't get the touch screen bits to work and the shiny black went all smeary. I wondered whether I'd made the right choice, but since I am never wrong, ever, I knew I had to give it time. I should state up front that my old phone was a K800i so a) compatibility was never going to be an issue and b) I'd had 18 months to discover workarounds for some of the functions Having shoved the doubts aside I got down to setting up my new phone. • I'd remembered to save all my contacts to my sim before I took it out of my old phone so Contacts was sorted straight away. • O2 sent me my wap settings as soon as the sim was...

lizzielocky 30.04.2008 · Read review
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K850i Cyber-shot

Advantages: Excellent camera and great features.
Disadvantages: Thick and heavy.

...The Sony Ericsson K850i is one of the best camera phone which a wide variety of great features. First of all I will talk about the camera in this phone which is its best feature because it is not any ordinary camera it is a whopping 5 megapixel cyber-shot camera with automatic lens cover, xenon flash, 16x digital zoom, auto focus and image stabilizer which gets it the five stars. It also has many other features which come with the camera, like Photo Fix, Best Pic, Photo Blogging and Red Eye Reduction. The second best thing about this phone it that it records videos in which you can have Video Stabiliser and video zoom where you can zoom into the video while it playing, now that's a cool feature. It is a 3G phone so you can make or receive video calls. Like all other phones K850i can also be used for sending SMS and MMS but it...

Leo16 06.04.2008 · Read review
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K850i - 5mpxl Enigmaphone

Advantages: Build quality, battery life, MP3 playback
Disadvantages: Buggy, firmware issues, camera problems

...The Sony Ericsson K850i Cybershot cameraphone is advertised and heralded as a top-level camera packaged inside a modern and user-friendly phone. The handset, sadly, does not live up to these promises. The camera, while 5 megapixel in size, suffers from some niggling complaints that damage the overall experience. For one, the in-built xenon flash is far too powerful, meaning that low-light shots are either washed-out (too close) or dark (too far away) - the difference between these two is very small, and it's very difficult to get around this. Aside from that, frequent firmware problems have caused many users (including my own) handset to stop working - the camera cover, while a great idea for protecting the lens, refusing to open when a great potential shot is infront of you is frustrating to say the least. As for the phone itself...

jasonandreas 30.09.2008 · Read review
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O-K850i gets the OK!

Advantages: Forward thinking, multi-media phone, excellent camera
Disadvantages: Masculine look

.... Since that time Sony Ericsson have split the market with their brand of mobile technology, concentrating on the mp3 market with their "W series" , and on the Digital Photography market with the "K Series". Since the K750i, over 3 years ago, Sony have since introduced the K800i and K810i as advancements in this series, upgrading the camera to 3.2 megapixels and further improving upon the styling and inbuilt software on the phones. The K850i: The K850 is the first Sony Ericsson to feature a 5 megapixel camera, and again came along after the likes of Samsung and Nokia releasing them onto the market. (N.B. 5 Megapixels is currently the highest quality inbuilt digital camera technology available to mobile phones). In terms of design, Sony seem to be following the stylistics of their PDA phones (W900 and W950i) with the keys being far...

lisacallow 25.10.2007 · Read review
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Walk this way to the W850i

Advantages: good call quality, great camera, 1000 track walkman
Disadvantages: software crashes my laptop and case gets damaged easily

...The Sony Ericsson W850i was the first mobile phone that I have ever opted to buy for the quality of the features rather than just on how well it coped as a mobile phone, and for this I paid £29.99 from the Carphone Warehouse on a contract with Orange. Bear with me as I explain why. I don't have an I-pod of any other MP3 players and I find it embarrassing sitting on trains with a huge CD walkman so this was ideal. The fact that it also incorporates a camera, is fairly small and doesn't weigh a ton was also a major factor when it came to parting with my pennies. The W850i is very small and fits in the palm of my hand without any trouble at all which makes carrying it around not too cumbersome. The official statistics that come with the blurb and instructions state that it is only 10cm long, 5 cm wide and 2 cm deep, weighing in at 120...

splodgeybob 16.04.2007 · Read review
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The Sony Ericsson K850i - Really rather nifty.

Advantages: Excellent camera, great aesthetics, functions very well
Disadvantages: Attracts fingerprints like no other!

...The Sony Ericsson k850i was marketed primarily as a camera phone; its 5MP flash camera was a major selling point and the main focus of its televised advertisement campaign. At over a centimetre in depth, this phone is a chunky little machine, but still a very aesthetically pleasing one and, overall, I found that it was able to suit my needs very well. Before I bought the phone, I heard some complaints that the 3 touch-sensitive buttons were unresponsive, or became so after a few months of use. Having used this phone for almost a year now, I find mine to be just as responsive as they were when I first took the phone out of the box; not overly temperamental, but sensitive enough to prevent me from having to tap at them. I was able to use them with ease and felt that they were a very nice touch, if perhaps slightly redundant; I got...

Spudtastic 09.07.2009 · Read review
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K850i - Overall Unbiased Review

Advantages: Camera, Auto-Rotate, Sound Quality, Spacious Buttons, Battery, Look & Feel
Disadvantages: Heat responding buttons, General software, constant problems

...I bought the K850i from Carphone Warehouse on contract with O2 when it was first released. I liked the look of the phone, the feel (thickness) and the heat sensetive pads. After having a little play on the phone before argreeing to purchase it I realised there were no differences in terms of software in comparison to any other Sony Ericsson phone. However, that was a good thing, it was simple to understand and easy to use. Great! I went ahead and bought the phone along with the contract. I had only had the mobile phone for a few weeks (about 3) when I realised it started lagging and pausing. Effectively it would stop working for about 10 seconds then resume again, the same as a computer frezzes I was having the same problem. I tried looking for a solution on the internet but after reading on forums and other reviews I...

tommo1878 24.04.2008 · Read review
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