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4.5 stars
"Almost perfect, incredibly functional"
Pros: 3G, beautiful screen, 3Mp cam, xhtml, easy to navigate, long battery, TONS of features, small and lightweight, great sound quality
Cons: Expensive, keys a bit too small, slightly quiet
Summary: This phone is amazing. For a true gadgeteer, you'll be in heaven. The 3mp camera is great (video is eh...) and the keys are a bit too small, but the phone is beyond useful, intuitive and well planned out. Menus are easy to navigate, and there are more settings, options, and smart setups than you can shake a stick at! The phone is highly intuitive and flexible (from the 6 Alarms to the "profiles" for having a certian ring volume or answering settings for certain places like the office, home, car, etc...)
It's very small, easily fits in the pocket. The only thing that is slightly difficult is getting used to where to place the earpiece to optimally hear the call, but if you've had a Sony before, you'll be fine.
Haven't made a video call yet (not available in my area) but it's easy to do. Text messaging is a breeze and even tries to anticipate the next word you want to type.
It's expensive because it's not linked to a service (unlocked) but I wanted an unlocked phone that I could take to other counties and slip other Sim cards into. One last thing is the memory slot. The M2 sticks aren't available yet in the US and are very expensive on ebay so i've held off adding a memory card, but I do currently have 65mb of free space in the phone right now. When I get the memory stick I'll be adding MP3s immediately, videos, and taking even more pictures.
Camera is slightly less intuitive than the rest of the phone, no rapid fire shooting here. But it's still a good camera.
Ear piece is slightly quiet but very high quality, works well with a bluetooth headset. and the FM radio is a nice touch, although it requires you to plug in the headphones to use it... can't blast the radio through the speakerphone, just mp3s... darn
GREAT PHONE!!! If you've got the cash and want the features, you can't get a better phone in this class!!
- 4 replies to this review
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As a phone it's no better than many others like Razr or Nokia's. It strength is its camera. Full stop.
But it has a terrible set back, its speaker. After some many fine MP3 phones from sony, you had thought they can only improve but the speaker of the k800 is so terrible. Its worst than any speaker from motorola or nokia. -
Hello I know you can listen to music through its external speakers but was just wondering how loud they are.
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it does have that capability. though you cannot hear the shutter releases like in k750. it's called the best pic technology. after focusing the cam takes 4 shots b4 pressing the shutter release button then 1 when the button is pressed then 4 shots after the button is pressed. so all in all you took 9 pics. unlike in k750 you can only take 3 shots. hehe
happy using with the best pic mode. -
I've only had mine for three weeks and i too very beautiful pictures with it, suddenly it started giving distorted images anytime i open the lens cover.
i doubt if i'm doing anything wrong but i need help as t how to put it right
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