{"id":210,"date":"2006-05-14T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/14\/sony-ericsson-w800i-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T12:57:39","slug":"sony-ericsson-w800i-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/14\/sony-ericsson-w800i-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Ericsson W800i – not all it’s cracked up to be"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"SonyI’ve had my new phone<\/a> for quite a long time now and although in general it’s a pretty good mobile, there is a little thing that’s been niggling me since I got it and a major fault that has developed in the past week.<\/p>\n

First of all, the niggle. My old T610 had a great feature whereby you could ‘reply and delete’ to a text message so that you didn’t have to worry about your inbox filling up. It’s a little thing, but why oh why<\/em> does this phone not have the same feature? I thought that the W800i was a logical progression from the K750i which itself was bourne out of the T610, so I don’t see why any of the features should regress. Disappointing.<\/p>\n

The major fault is to do with the camera lens cover switch on the back of the phone. It’s a tiny little thing that sometimes gets caught when you pull it out of your pocket, turning the camera on. Not the biggest deal when the phone’s working okay, but the switch has recently developed a fault whereby it is as sensitive as a bad tooth. This means that the camera switches on at any given opportunity – when you pick it up, when you put it down, when the alarm rings, when you go to make a call, and even when you’re doing absolutely nothing and the phone is a hundred paces from the closest moving thing but it has just decided that the lens cover is now open. This would just be a big annoyance if it wasn’t for the fact that the lens cover being open also means that they keypad is then unlocked – if the phone is sitting in your pocket it can then decide, seemingly randomly, to do other things. For example, over the past week it has sent a photo message to somebody that I haven’t spoken to in a long while (sorry, Tijen!) and tried sending two massive video files so somebody else. So now I’m looking forward to a lovely big data bill from O2. I’ve now blu-tacked and sellotaped the button so it’s permanently open and the phone has gone from looking like a sophisticated and sleek orange machine to Jack Duckworth’s glasses. Great.<\/p>\n

If you’re thinking of getting one of these phones – and if when it’s working well it is pretty good despite all of the above – go for the K750i, which is the same phone but with slightly older software (the Walkman functionality is crap anyway) and a much better camera lens cover switch.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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