Sony Ericsson W810i - My latest crush !!

Last weekend, I bought myself a spanking new Sony Ericsson W810i, a high end mobile phone from the Sony Walkman stable. And boy, am I pleased with it...

If you know me a little, you would know that I have never been a fan of these high end mobile phones that give you a wide array of features. I have resisted buying one of these for all these years and even might have recommended friends against buying themselves..

But I guess I got smitten by this one. All this time, I always felt that these so called high end models were really over hyped with really no substance. They boasted of cameras but what resolution - 1 megapixel or VGA.. They would claim to play MP3, but the quality of playback and earphones was crappy at best. And then the LCD screens these models boasted were soo tiny and dull, it wasnt worth all the money.

When I set my eyes on W810i, I was blown away. Here was a phone optimised as a musicplayer, it has special dedicated keys for music playback, its loudspeaker plays out as good music as is practically possible on a mobile device and they were giving out a high end earphone in the kit, which could even connect to a conventional earphone as well (using the in the kit adaptor). And they give you a 512 MB memory stick in the kit as well, leaving you fully equipped to start using
the device as an MP3 player without a need to buy accessories.

And then there is a 2-megapixel camera as well, the results of which, not paralleling digicams
though, but are still classy enough, specially in the daylight.

And the designing with its satin black finish is alluring.

I am kinda busy to write an indepth review on the phone, but take my word for it, its the best damn thing that you can buy below 15K. The only drawback I saw when buying this one is that this is not a Symbian device. So all the Symbian apps on the net wont work on it. In short, if you want a business phone, wherein you would like to read/ create word or Acrobat docs, this isnt the model for you. But I didnt feel I would use it too much as a business tool, and went with it.

So, W810i rocks !!! :-)