Sony Ericsson K700i Review

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The Sony Ericsson K700i tri-band GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900MHz) mobile phone is a nice mobile phone to use. It's not a smartphone, doesn't have a touch screen, but it seems to incorporate all the good features from previous Sony Ericsson models. The K700i Measures 9.9 x 4.65 x 1.95 cm, and weighs only 90g. The LCD screen is 176 x 200 pixels.

The phone has the standard wireless functions like SMS and MMS clients, plus a POP3/IMAP client, a good size Address Book and Calendar applications, synchronisation capabilities (including SyncML and Bluetooth PIM Synchronisation). In terms of multimedia, the digital camera (VGA with 4x digital zoom) is does the job well. In addition to pictures, short movies (MPEG4 format) can also be recorded. It has a MP3 player, although 32MB can be limiting as storage, when no expansion card slot is available.

There is a built-in FM radio. The external stereo headsets are used as antenna (the radio application will not start without the headsets being plugged in).
In terms of battery life it promisses 360 hours standby and 7 hours talk time, which is around average when comparing with my other mobile devices.

The Bluetooth functions are great. The phone implements a long list of profiles, including the HID (Human Interface Device), which is in general used by mouse and keyboard devices. There's a good reason for this: one of the Bluetooth options is a remote control for your PC. The K700i offers three remote control functions. Using the K700i keypad I can control a Power Point presentation, Windows Media Player and the mouse cursor. When selected the remote control function will show the key index on the screen, like a, well, remote control. It's very handy and it works well. The Bluetooth implementation is the real File Transfer profile. It's possible to browse the phone, upload and download files directly via Bluetooth. The phone works really well as a dial-up modem (GPRS DUN) for Pocket PC and Palm devices as well.

All in all the K700i is a solid phone from Sony. Post your reviews here.

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