My new camera comes with a phone
Got the Sony Ericsson k800i, a 3.2 mega pixel Cybershot Camera with a UMTS (3G) phone. It's a pretty cool device.
It has got a nice RSS reader pre-installed. The camera is similar to the one I loved in the K750, only at a 3.2 pix resolution. The phone is only slightly larger than the K750, put quite a bit lighter.
The screen is pretty large (240x320 pixel), text is very readable and the way you handle pictures is much advanced to previous camera-phones, with timeline view (day, week, month), list view, list view with icons... nice.
Connecting via USB to my Mac works without extra plugins to stop the Mac from freezing and the E-Mail setup is easy and works nicely. I'm very happy with this new toy. There is an OK browser installed, but as before, I recommend the excellent (and free) Opera Mini.
OS X 10.4.7 iSync doesn't work "out of the box" with this phone, but there's an easy to install third party iSync plugin available from mobile.feisar.com (thanks guys!).
The downsides are: the outside speaker is not so great (is excellent in the K750 - we used it as a modest boombox on the beach!), the battery life isn't great (probably that big bright screen...) and the M2 memory card is a Sony Ericsson proprietary format (I bought a SD micro card first which didn't fit of course) - this sucks. The 1Giga M2 micro card costs CHFr. 94.- as opposed to the CHFr. 70.- the 1Giga SD Micro costs. I only have it since a few days and I haven't tested the music player much, because I haven't got my 1Giga memory card yet (they're currently out of stock...). It plays MP3 and AAC files like the K750. Maybe I have more to say in a while.
Almost forgot what's one of the best feature for me: finally I can store a 1000 addresses on the phone memory, instead of the 500 or less I could get on my previous phones. It's a great relief, as I have about 750 addresses (god knows why - probably too lazy to tidy up my address book).
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chregu
@ 04.08.2006 07:05 CETHehe, got mine the day before yesterday and wanted to blog about it as well. Will do over the weekend :)
kev
@ 04.08.2006 10:08 CETAh nice! - so I finally get to test the video telephony function with someone ;-)
kev
@ 04.08.2006 10:45 CETYeah - sure it costs a fortune.. you know about the prices? I don't (and I'm with Orange). Probably best not to even bother.
chregu
@ 04.08.2006 11:13 CETI'm at sunrise and they state it's the same price as a phone call :) no idea about orange..
kev
@ 04.08.2006 11:42 CETI checked: Orange (Switzerland) charges an outrageous Fr 0.49 per minute to any network for video calls. Mobile Internet cost Fr 0.15 per 10KB or Fr. 0.10 with an extra Internet-option that costs Fr. 5.- per month. Madness!
Sunrise has offers at a fraction of this price (between Fr. 0.035 and 0.050 per 10KB - note the extra zero after the dot!!).
chregu
@ 04.08.2006 12:07 CET0.49 per minute for (video)-phone-call is what you usually pay in .ch (ok, I pay less, 0.39/min to orange and swisscom mobile and 0.39/h to sunrise and fixnet, but still approx. the same ). But I agree, still outragous the interconnect prices.
But yes, the datarates are way cheaper at sunrise. I got the 100MB for 20.- a month "flatrate"-subscription. More than enough for my needs .) after 100MB used, i'd pay 2.50 per MB (== 0.025/10kb), but I never exceeded that.
Looksl ike you should change your provider :)