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4.5 stars
"Excellent phone"
Pros: Quality construction, excellent interface, good battery life, excellent call quality
Cons: Hard to play certain selections of tracks off of a memory card
Summary: This is by the best phone I have ever had. I've always thought Sony Ericsson had the best designs but this phone proved me wrong. And at about $300 or so unlocked, its not terribly expensive either.
Battery life tends to be around 4 or 5 days of normal usage (i.e. about 30 mins of talk a day plus text messages and listening to music)
Call quality is excellent and I've had many people remark on how clear my new phone sounded.
The interface to this phone is well thought out and executed and it is really easy to operate the phone. The keypad could stand to be a little bigger, but I don't think its as big a deal as the cnet guy does. But maybe for those of you with big fingers it could pose a problem.
My only major problem with this phone, and i say major because there are practically no other problems to speak of, is that the mp3 player is not designed as well as it could have been. It sounds great although i think it is let down by the bundled headphones. It isn't easy to play songs by selecting their artist or album or genre, and so it is necessary to manually select tracks and add them to built in playlists. That can be a little tedious.
The screen is excellent and shows text clearly. The 3mp camera is excellent and nearly on par with my neighbors Sony Ericsson k790. Much better than my old 2 mp canon digital camera.
This phone is really slim and I've had many people admire it. The screen does attract fingerprints and grease, but a quick wipe gets rid of that and returns it to its pristine finish. The screen also is quite good at repelling scratches. I've had the phone for 2 months now and I have yet to have even a minor surface scratch on the phones screen or body. It could be a little easier to slide and the raise thumb grip is kind of useless. There are other ways around this and I found this problem to inconsequential.
World phone support is also a plus, but not essential for all users. I however have recently moved to Australia so it was a must for me. The phone works seamlessly with Vodafone down here.
So as a recap, for those who have forgotten what I said at the beginning, or for the others who saw how long my review is and decided to skip to the last paragraph, this phone is awesome and despite a few minor glitches is the best phone I have ever owned.
And its pretty damn sexy too.
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