Well, here's just a belated welcome to the newest member of my gadget family - Sony Ericsson K810i. I bought it last August 5, prompted by several things: the breakdown of my then Nokia 3230's RS-MMC during my last trip to Bangkok, the sudden surge of cash when I finally collected my back pay (three months worth), my resolve to have a more trustworthy camphone for my trip to Colombo, and hefty encouragement from my hunny (with much online product research to support his arguments).
So far, I'm enjoying the K810i - lots actually, the camera in particular. Since I bought the phone, the last pic I took was already my 386th. Camwhore. I've yet to learn more at how to make the most out of the 3.2 megapixel Sony Cyber-shot technology. The efficiency this thing has afforded often made me wonder however in the world could I have made do with the slowness of Nokia 3230's 1.3 megapixel camera. I was disappointed with it; sometimes I even missed my preceding and carelessly lost Nokia 3660. I endured like a martyr in a modern-day, cellular-tech-dependent world.
I thought it was a major decision for me to shift brands - I was a Nokia user for the longest time I could remember (though my first short-lived cellphone ownership was actually an old Ericsson). Why I stuck with Nokia is no longer very clear to me: I guess it's the proverbial and forever mysterious "hiyang" factor. Possibly, it could be the lack of courage to go out and try something new for a change. (INVEST could be a better word for it.) I still do sometimes miss the ease of Nokia's SMS functions.
I also look for some kind of reaffirmation for major decisions I make. With purchasing K810i, I found my reaffirmation from another existing Nokia user. My friend, Mark Patrick, is getting increasingly frustrated with his recently bought Nokia N-Series unit. He kept on reminding me to help him sell it. For all the marketing hype on the N-Series, Nokia seemed not to have solved the compromised processor bit that also had plagued earlier models such as my now-archived 3230.
SMS ease??? I’ve always been an Ericsson fan. And, now because I was careless with my longest running K750i (almost 2 years!), I’ve had to get my tita’s freebie Nokia 6300. They said it had the friendliest interface, I totally beg to disagree.
In my Ericsson, you could just press the number of an item in a menu selection. For instance, the sent items in the messages folder is in the 8th position, if I press 8 it takes me immediately to the sent folder. In Nokia, you have to press the down button as many times as it will take to get you there.
Number 2, the dictionary interface of Ericsson is levels above Nokia. Ericsson provides us with a drop down menu so we can see the selection of words. In Nokia, you press one button and the word just changes as you go along hoping you’d get the right word EVENTUALLY. AND, to add to that, it’s additional word memory cannot take the minimal tagalog words I want to add. With my old Ericsson, I can practically text in correctly spelled pure tagalog.
Finally, the most important feature I miss, BATTERY LIFE. I’ve always marveled at how Ericsson manages to save energy. I could last a long weekend without charging even with a few phone calls. My Nokia CANNOT last 24 hours even without a phone call. I’m not a religious charger, just like Lindsay Lohan’s character in her current amusing movie.
With that random memory, congratulations.
Posted by Ari at September 19, 2007, 3:01 amnice gadget! My kuya just bought the same recently and he is very satisfied with it. It’s not a bad decision to witch brands after all. Sony Ericsson is a merger of two high-end technologies.
Posted by parisukat at September 19, 2007, 7:45 amI agree, no more Nokia… I will be going on strike with any nokia phone… hehehe.. I was able to dispose the one month old Nokia N73 Music Edition phone. Thank god! I was wondering myself why I bought a music edition since I have an ipod which I love so much…
Love you Glenn…
PS- my first try on commenting.. you know my fear of writing… little steps…
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hehehe, baligtad ang mundo natin. me on the otherhand was forced to buy the Nokia E50 before my mandatory minimum 3-year cellphone use life because I couldn’t stand my SE K700i and the distributor’s bad service. And I know several people who swore that the SE phone they have/d will be their last SE phone.
Posted by Jojosa ng kagandahan at September 19, 2007, 1:20 am