Sony Ericsson's eco-loving Naite now available from Sony Style

Following availability on Rogers by just a handful of days, Sony Ericsson is now talking up availability of the simple Naite candybar down south of the border -- but it's not through a carrier this time. Instead, you'll need to stroll into your local Sony Style store (or order online) to get it unlocked and unsubsidized. Oftentimes that's a brutal situation financially, but seeing how the Naite is a rather low-end device, these guys are charging just $159 for the privilege of using a device touting a case made of 50 percent post-consumer recycled plastic and an ultra-eco charger. It's available right now -- a good backup phone, perhaps?

[Haro Posted Mar 3rd 2010 12:02PM]

Looks almost as good as my T700 and it's eco-friendly. Nice.

[CeluGeek Posted Mar 3rd 2010 12:41PM]

Great! The crappy models come unlock and with NA 3G bands, while the high-end phones come without NA 3G, or locked and loaded with carrier crapware!

[sockatume Posted Mar 3rd 2010 12:53PM]

@CeluGeek : Alas high-end, expensive phones don't usually sell at sticker price in NA*, so are dependent on carrier support. So either they come locked and loaded with crapware, or they don't come out at all.

*Ask Nokia how well their unlocked handsets are doing!

[Johnny Rockets Posted Mar 3rd 2010 1:14PM]

Needs more Android

[derX Posted Mar 3rd 2010 3:51PM]

Even for a low end screen made from phones from yesteryear, the device still looks lovely. I haven't had a SE in a while, their graphical UI design was always awesome.

[Haro Posted Mar 3rd 2010 5:09PM]

@derX I agree. What I like about all the SE phones I've purchased is the attention to detail. Even the lower end phones have a nice, solidly built feel to them. For a dumphone the menu is quite usable too, though the one on the Naite looks different from the ones I've used.

[NuShrike Posted Mar 3rd 2010 4:43PM]

May be time to dump the future HD2 option for this. Tired of the hardware, driver, oem, OS issues of a mobile. Step up to a nice netbook and forget playing in the mobile warz trenches.

[williamlau05 Posted Mar 3rd 2010 7:14PM]

Just love the quality of this, then SE have always made good quality build hardware, sometimes eons ahead of Nokia, don't even mention Samsung. It's the software that's bugged them, but I hope they do well this year! Just a nice simple phone, clean design and back to the basics, plus it's camera's probably more than likely better than my HTC Hero's being a Sony Ericsson too.

[putte Posted Mar 3rd 2010 7:53PM]

Too bad it runs Java Platform 8.4. Phones with JP-8.5 have "liberalised permission settings", i.e. they don't force you to select "Yes!!! >:(" every single time an application wants to use the Internet.