Sony Ericsson’s K810i improves only slightly on its predecessor
I have been a Sony Ericsson K800i users for almost 9 months. It was a fantastic phone, no doubt. But when they launched the K810i, my 1st question was, "What is the difference?"
To me, K810i is supposed to be an improved version of K800i & at 1st glance, the difference is purely cosmetic. The new K810i feels great in your hands cos it's slimmer and has an unobstrusive camera lens hatch. It also comes with round metal buttons instead of the rectangular rubber ones on the K800i. Does the buttons look ugly? Nah… I don't think so. I think it's cool!
Another thing, Taking pictures with the K810i's 3.2-megapixel camera is also a breeze now.Just turn the phone on its length, slide the hatch open and click away. The BestPic function – which captures 9 images with one click of the shutter button – means that photo-taking is almost idiot-proof. Your hands can shake as much as you want, your subject can move as much as he or she likes, but you are bound to have at least one decent picture from the lot. User-friendly features like the illuminated hot keys for photography (buttons 1, 4, 7,and *) allow you to quickly change the flash and focus settings as well as shoot mode, without having to call up the menu. There is also a new function PhotoFix which is useful to treat underexposed pictures without having to rely on Photoshop. However, it can be a bit too powerful. So if your picture is only mildly underexposed, using PhotoFix may make it too washed-out.
And with the internal 64MB memory, and the support of the Memory Stick Micro, you have plenty of space to save your photos as well as your music.
For music lovers, the Track ID function lets you identify the song title, artist and album information by recording a few seconds of a song through Internet access. Of course, you could just nudge the person next to you and ask if they know the song.And that is about all the new extra features that come with the K810i.
Apart from that, you get the usual range of Sony Ericsson functions.
Oh well, it is a good phone if you do not have one.But if you are holding on to a K800i, there's no real compelling reason to upgrade. And knowing how Sony Ericsson always has a few tricks up its sleeves, I'd suggest you wait for the next big release.
