Review of the Sony Ericsson K700i
By Peter Rojas 
posted August 3rd 2004 11:21AM
posted August 3rd 2004 11:21AM
MobileBurn has a review of the K700i, Sony Ericsson's new cameraphone which comes with a built-in VGA quality digital camera with flash, a sizeable 41MB of available memory, a large-ish 172x220 pixel color LCD screen, MP3 player software, another application called MusicDJ for creating your own ringtones, Bluetooth, and an FM tuner. The K700i is also one of the first of Sony Ericsson's new line of phones that are meant to be held sideways when you're taking pictures so you can use more like you would a regular digital camera, and it sounds like MobileBurn likes most everything about it except its disappointing battery life. You can't win 'em all.
I was dissapointed with the battery life at first, however after a few charges it seemed to increase the life to up to a few days, generally I charge it every 2 days. The after sales support here in Australia is woeful. The software, whilst is okay for music and stuff, isn't as functional as the Nokia suite. I'm sorry I decided to go for SE.
I got the k700i on the basis that i could play mp3 files on it, and use the same files as ringtones. I was disappointed when i found out that you only have 6 message tones to choose from which are not replaceable. The 41Mb of memory is also a let down as this allows limited songs for playback. Knowing what i know now i should have gone the nokia. The memory card is such a great addition to phones. :(