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Phone chatter

So I finally got a new phone...

Things I hate about my new Sony Ericsson K770i:
- too many things are different, even though I bought the same brand: memory card, cables, charger, battery, (still lousy) PC sync software
- the MIDI sounds worse than on my last phone, a Sony Ericsson V800
- can't point the camera at myself and see the screen
- the auto-lock thing (previous was a clamshell)
- can't turn on the flashlight or turn off music without going down the menus?
- two-year commitment to the phone operator

Things that are better:
- 3Mp camera: I can take readable pictures of book pages
- FM radio
- thinner and lighter
- zooming in and out of web pages
- Opera Mini works even better
- free karaoke app
- charges via USB
- Bluetooth stereo (haven't gotten headphones yet)
- can add a GPS enabler
- better Java, faster processor

Still good:
- fast 3G
- music, video
- calendar
- flashlight
- up to 2 Gig memory card

Things that wow me:
- Google Maps is faster and knows where I am without GPS
- TrackID tells me the title, album, and artist of *any* recorded song I hear!

Things I still wish for:
- bigger screen
- browsing with Chinese characters etc.
- TV tuner?
- Wifi (not that useful with unlimited 3G, but still)

I wonder if my next phone in a few years will be Android or Windows (Viigo?!) or Symbian or Apple or ?

Posted by Kai Carver at January 22, 2008 07:41 PM