ANCIENT IN THE PHONE WORLD, BUT I LOVE IT! (Sony Ericsson W800i)

Member Name: leeanne160480

Product:	Sony Ericsson W800i
Date:	25/02/09 (88 review reads)
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My first Techy review, a lot different than writing about a bag of crisps!

I've had this phone for about a year and a half and I will keep it until it breaks. What happened is my husband has a contract phone and I always have had pay and go. He saw this phone over 2 years ago and chose it for his new contract. I think he had to pay £40 for the phone, but since it was retailing on pay and go for over £350 at the time, then it was quite cheap. The contract he was on as well wasn't extortionate either at £25 a month for a decent amount of texts and minutes. When he got another upgrade at end of contract I got this phone, which I had always loved.

The phone is quite sleek. It is sort of a small-ish phone, but there are smaller ones out there thesedays. As far as I know you got the limited edition Black one of this, but I have the original one.

Some people have said the colouring of these are a bit gaudy, but it's ok. Yes it is not the boring standard black. This is white with an orange strip going all the way around the edge of it.

The buttons on the phone are just the normal number ones. The different buttons are a little joystick to naviate through the menus and a Walkman button. On the side is where the volume buttons are.

So what is the Walkman Button? Well since this is the Walkman phone the main feature is that is stores a lot of music. You can store music on the sim, but mines only stored about 12 songs this way. The memory stick in the phone I believe can hold up to 125 good quality songs, and you can buy larger memory sticks online to hold even more songs and these cost anything up to £20 depending on what G you buy.

The other feature I love about this is that it has a built in radio. It is an FM radio, but you must use the headphones supplied with the phone as they have a built in ariel. if you break the headphones, as can be easy done then you can buy them cheap enough from Amazon and Ebay.

The camera is a 2 megapixel camera and the pictures come out nice and clear, so no complaints about that either. Screen size is quite a decent size in relation to the phone as well.

There are 2 games as standard on this phone, but can handle downloadable games as well. One of the games is like one of those slidy puzzle ones, you know the plastic discs that you used to move about a square and make the face and you only had 1 space you could move the tiles into? The other game Quadrapop is a game I love. It is like Tetris, but with musical notes. So as soon as you get 4 red treble cleff and so on in a row then they pop and you get points. I usually play this at my in laws to make the boredum go away.

Obviously this has all the other main features of a mobile such as Text messages, address book, picture files, music files, Alarm clock, calculator and so on.

Although this may be consirered ancient in mobile phone terms, this has proved to be durable and dependable. Although a few of my buttons are scuffed due to being in my bag without a case and a slight chip out of the bag after dropping it in a supermarket, it is still working great and after all these years I still get approx 5 days life out of the battery and this is when I play the games, text a lot and so on, so it's not a bad life. Also it charges in approx 40 minutes from flat as well.

You can still purchase this phone on Sony Ericsson's website and I think you will still pay about £60 for this, which I think is a bargain. Also there is a lot of people selling this on Ebay and you could perhaps pick a second hand one up for under £40.

A great up to the minute phone, which I would be happy to keep hold of for a good while longer.

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