Review: Sony Ericsson K850i

I’ve had this phone for about 6 months now and I thought I would review it from that point. I previously owned a Nokia N73 and hated it. I was a bit dubious about switching to Sony Ericsson.
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Look and Build
The phone looks stylish. It has a shiny outer surface and a silver side with a choice of green or blue trims. The buttons seem small but eventually become a joy to use. The phone is a bit bulkier than some phones today and because of this the phone appears heavier than it is. Warning this phone is a fingerprint magnet but putting it in your pocket give it a little clean up when you pull it out to use etc. The phone seems sturdy I have dropped it twice with no problems a few scratches and abrasion here or their.

Features
It makes calls! Only joking, yes it does make calls. It has java for all your gaming needs and lots of handy little programs like timer (I use that one a lot). I like the Track ID on most new Sony Ericsson phones it works well; I used it to identify a song from a car radio. I went from a N73 Symbian(What is Symbian? Click here) phone to a standard phone and I haven’t really missed any features except the crashing!

Cybershot(Camera)
This is the best camera phone I’ve had. The picture quality is really surprising. The flash is very bright, so bright that I used the torch function when we had a power cut and it lit up a whole room 7 meters by 7 meters. Now the only downsides is that sometimes the flash overdoes it making objects close white, and I don’t know if this is just my phone but sometimes the phone takes a picture and it all comes up black (Like the flash hasn’t gone off)

Music
You can also use this phone as a music player if you wish. It has the standard walkman phone features. I have to say I bought a normal headphone adapter for this phone and the sound quality wasn’t great (Please note my headphones are High Quality). Its ok for avid listener and if you just listen to music through phone speaker then you cant complain at all!

Final Verdict
Overall this phone does well is most areas the only problems I’ve had is SOMETIMES the phone restarts itself. It also feels a bit bulkier compared to other phones (N73 is bulkier). If I was to compare this to my old phone this would be a must have. It has a good battery life 2-3 days with general use. If you’re looking for a Walkman and a good camera phone look here.
7/10