k800i

by Matt Mecham on August 23, 2006

in Reviews

I picked up a Sony Ericsson k800i a week ago and I’m really impressed with it.

The biggest draw is the 3.2 megapixel camera which comes with autofocus, image stabilizer and a built in xenon flash. It’s capable of taking some pretty sharp pictures. It actually gives medium to low end digital cameras a run for their money.
Better yet, you can stick in a memory card micro to extend the phone’s meagre 64mb memory. With a full quality picture weighing in at around 700k it’s not long before you need one. Fortunately they retail for around £20 on eBay which is where I got mine.

Sony Ericsson have teamed up with Blogger.com to enable you to blog right from your phone. Whilst it’s clear that “texting” a long blog is too much hassle, it does allow you to share your pictures immediately and easily. You simply select a picture, choose “Send > Blog” and fill in the title and the body and it resizes the picture and uploads it all via it’s 3G GPRS connection. I’ve got a mobile blog here.

It seems that Sony Ericsson are the new Nokia.

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Bob August 24, 2006 at 12:48 am

I’ve been trying to persuade myself to wait for a fancy wxxxi phone to come out (an updated SE w800i). Y’know, like the k750i is the non-walkman version of the w800i. So I guess they’re going to bring out a walkman one based on the k800i. But I don’t think I’m going to be able to resist temptation!! The w850i looks nice, but doesn’t have the same features as the k800i. and the w950i doesn’t have a camera (O_o) it’s touch screen and looks really good… but doesn’t have a camera… did i mention it doesn’t have a camera?! Yes, in today’s mobile world, a phone without a camera is just, weird (and worth mentioning 4 times)!

On the k800i, a quick question: does memory stick pro duo work with it? I have a 2GB one and if it doesn’t I’ll need to get a new 2GB one for the k800i, I think it uses the memory stick micro… which is gonna be expensive (I’d prefer 2GB (or more) of storage as I use it as an MP3 player as well as phone, e.g., instead of iPod or similar). </ramble>

2 Matt August 24, 2006 at 10:14 am

It uses the micro stick. It’s tiny – slightly smaller than an adult thumbnail.

3 Angus August 25, 2006 at 12:25 pm

Matt,

Have ya tried the K800i MacOS X theme, it look really great on K800! Much better than the default theme! I personally using it now too~~

You can take a look the theme here: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/osx_theme_for_k800i/

4 Matt August 25, 2006 at 1:49 pm

That’s great! Thanks for the link.

5 Tomi August 27, 2006 at 11:43 am

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, I think I’ve just found myself a new phone. oO

My dad just got a Nokia 6265i phone. I was really impressed with the 2.0MP camera. But 3.2MP on this phone? Geeez.

Congratulations on the phone, anyways. :)

6 riccilea haine November 23, 2006 at 7:18 am

evrytime i try blog a picture it says blogging then stops half way and doesnt go any further. how can get it sorted out? if anyone can help please let me know.

7 ko February 7, 2007 at 10:31 am

try backing up everything and do a factory reset.. mine works fine. it’ll create an address for you over in blogspot

8 pds November 15, 2007 at 12:34 am

I got the blog stuff working ok. Problem started when I went to use the token that was sent – I selected my existing blog. Now, I can’t send to my blog (it stops part way through) and the blog that the phone set up now doesn’t exist and I can’t use the name to create one.

Anybody got any ideas on how to reset the target blog on the phone (K800i)

Thanks

9 Kickers December 25, 2007 at 12:06 am

hi, im having a problem with my k800i phone which i believed infected by a virus. the themes were fine but all the font contacts and messages were rearranged and diminished to letter c, a, b, e, d making all words unreadable .. Examples : phone contact will just appear ” oo a b e”, a whole text message will just appear ” a a c e be “

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