"THE" SE K610i

For two weeks now, I have gotten my new cellphone. its a company issued phone. For the past 3 years, I never use my company cellphone. IT'S USELESS!!! But I guess this is about to change... The Sony Ericsson K610i is a great piece of equipment, it offers every cellphone or techie nut like me all the bells and whistles you may want in a cellphone right now, at a great price (Php11,500.00 on the streets).

First off, the unit is sleek. It is said that the unit is Sony Ericsson's slimmest candybar phone to date. The keys and make does not feel flimsy and cheap (a nice touch by Sony Ericsson). For the features, well, its 3G (third generation). You can surf the net at DSL speeds, you can of course make video calls (husbands all over! our days for seedy and kinky night outs are about to end.), its Tri-band, its a music player; plays almost all major file types (atrac, mp3, wav, wma and etc), its also got a decent video player (3gp & mp4), the k610i also has a 2mp camera attached to it. It can record video at 30 fps and it is limited only by the memory you have on your phone. Speaking of memory, the unit's can be expanded via Sony's proprietary Memory Stick M2 series (what jerks, its expensive as hell). You can of course use the gadget for voice calls, sms, mms, email, its got the usual calendar functions, task list, notes, calculator and other stuff to keep you organized. Best of all, you can sync it with your computer via bluetooth or usb cable (included), to keep your data up to date and backed up. There are still a ton of features i did not mention, you just have to read the manual or find it out for yourselves. you can go to this link and check it out for yourselves. http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=ph&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10389&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10389

Now, for the not so good, the camera is decent but without led flash (no night pictures!!!). Its got no IR port (although jurassic as a tech, it is still very usable and dependable). And since its not using the Symbian software (unlike Nokia), third-party software are limited to Java kind. To keep the price low, SE decided to give us the bare bones package, no head phones and the Memory Stick included is a measly 64mb!!! and lastly, if you are the type that fiddles with your phone a lot then daily charging of the unit is a must, the battery capacity is kinda low.

But the good far outweighs the not so good, overall I consider the phone a buy, specially for the budget conscious techie who wants to jump over the 3G bandwagon but does not have the clams to buy themselves a high end Nokia Nseries or SE P990i. Go ahead and take the K610i for a test drive I'm sure it won't disappoint.