
I’ve spent a little time today getting myself set up and am pleased to say that it has been extremely easy and I haven’t had to look at the manual once. The phone itself is aesthetically pleasing, if a little garish with it’s orange theme, and has some great features such as a loudspeaker, MP3 playback, 550Mb (yes, half a gigabyte!) of storage and a 2 megapixel camera with a light. I’ve taken a couple of photos and uploaded them to Flickr – see for yourself how good it is.
I’ve had loads of phones over the years, but the series of camera phones from the T68i, T610, T630 (owned by my wife) and now my W800i must be the best series of phones that I’ve seen. I used to swear by Nokias with (what I thought was) their very friendly user interface but their software started to get buggy right around the time they released the 7110. I didn’t fancy paying for my phone software to be upgraded when I felt it should have been tried and tested in the first place. Sony Ericsson phones seem to be relatively bug-free as well as extremely easy to use; since switching I haven’t looked back.
The main ‘selling point’ of the phone is its Walkman functionality, but as I already have an iPod I think that I’ll be making most use of the camera, especially for mobile photo blogging!
The newer SE’s are FANTASTIC mate – I have the K750i, and the camera really is quality for a camera-phone. And I love the fact I have it with me everywhere – I’m finally starting to take the kind of photos I love.
The USB connectivity – the fact it just appears as an extra drive – is superb, it makes life so easy.
We should start a photography collective!
Sounds good to me! Do you want to start one on Flickr? With a 2 megapixel cameraphone it would be reasonably hard to touch the free monthly upload limit.