I strongly recommend you do not buy a Sony phone. Do not be duped by the marketing, like I was. Having used Nokias happily for years, but frustrated at the lack of support for my 6310i in iSync, I bought a Sony K700i. This was inspite of warnings from a friend who had made the same mistake and already swapped back to Nokia. I thought I knew better. After all it promised better battery life, bluetooth iSync, camera, colour etc etc.
In practise it is almost useless as a phone.
1. The joystick does not work. Sometimes not at all, othertimes it selects instead of moves. It's clearly a rubbish design.
2. The GUI is terrible. Really bad. It's easier for me to type numbers in full than look them up in the address book. What took 2 button presses on a Nokia takes, 3 or 4 on the Sony including having to use the infernal joystick. I invariably end up calling the wron number as it selects instead of scrolls.
3. The synch with iSync is extremely buggy. It often crashes and locks up the phone. It duplicates entries. Address Book entries which are Companies appear with a blank name on the phone. Great.
4. Battery life is about 3 days of moderate use. I got 7 days plus out of my 6310i.
5. Build. It just feels cheap plasticy, despite the fact it looks rather nice and metallic in the press shots. It has horrible hard plastic buttons.
6. Text messaging. I don't text anymore. It's just too depressing trying to navigate around to be able to send a text and select someone in the phonebook to send it too. Quicker to make a phone call.
As soon as I can upgrade I will go back to Nokia. Probably a 6230i. AFAIK it doesn't synch with iSync. I don't care it will at least function solidly as a phone.
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I strongly recommend you do not buy a Sony phone. Do not be duped by the marketing, like I was. Having used Nokias happily for years, but frustrated at the lack of support for my 6310i in iSync, I bought a Sony K700i. This was inspite of warnings from a friend who had made the same mistake and already swapped back to Nokia. I thought I knew better. After all it promised better battery life, bluetooth iSync, camera, colour etc etc.
In practise it is almost useless as a phone.
1. The joystick does not work. Sometimes not at all, othertimes it selects instead of moves. It's clearly a rubbish design.
2. The GUI is terrible. Really bad. It's easier for me to type numbers in full than look them up in the address book. What took 2 button presses on a Nokia takes, 3 or 4 on the Sony including having to use the infernal joystick. I invariably end up calling the wron number as it selects instead of scrolls.
3. The synch with iSync is extremely buggy. It often crashes and locks up the phone. It duplicates entries. Address Book entries which are Companies appear with a blank name on the phone. Great.
4. Battery life is about 3 days of moderate use. I got 7 days plus out of my 6310i.
5. Build. It just feels cheap plasticy, despite the fact it looks rather nice and metallic in the press shots. It has horrible hard plastic buttons.
6. Text messaging. I don't text anymore. It's just too depressing trying to navigate around to be able to send a text and select someone in the phonebook to send it too. Quicker to make a phone call.
As soon as I can upgrade I will go back to Nokia. Probably a 6230i. AFAIK it doesn't synch with iSync. I don't care it will at least function solidly as a phone.
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