My New Cell Phone: The Sony Ericsson K810i
September 12, 2007 by Abdalla Ahmed
It was about time I got myself a new cell phone as my Nokia 6280 was getting seriously old and breaking up to many small bits! Looking down local shops I searched and searched for the perfect phone; I wanted a fantastic camera (2 Mega Pixels+), Bluetooth, Mp3 Player and most importantly I wanted the handset to be unlocked oh and as cheap as possible 
This is when I laid my eyes on the beautiful Sony Ericsson K810.
The world’s your studio
The world is full of pictures. The compact K810i Cyber-shot? phone has all you need to catch the moment - and make it look as special as it was.
Lets Have A Look at the Features
Cyber-shot?
Sony Ericsson?s megapixel digital camera gives you crisp high resolution every time and added features more common to standalone cameras- 3.2 Mega Pixels.
Bluetooth?
Bluetooth? wireless technology frees more than your hands ? it lets your devices talk to each other without tangles, across ranges of up to 10 metres.
Capture the action
Video clips are ideal for those unexpected great moments that happen when you’re out there, enjoying life.
3G
Quick and easy access to broadband Internet. Say hello to video calls, audio and video streaming, Internet surfing, multimedia messaging and email on the go.
RSS Reader
Use your phone to view up-to-the-minute news and other content from selected websites and blogs. Just subscribe to the feed and let it come to you. Yes, you can even read our RSS Feed!
Visually Sony Ericsson K810 doesn’t differ much from the K800. It has the same form factor and pretty much the same color and size. It is several millimeters thinner than K800 and the most significant design change is the new keypad which is unusual for the recent Sony Ericsson line of phones as a whole.
The TFT display takes up the most part of the front panel. It has a mirror-like finish much like the K800 does and in much the same way it catches fingerprints rather easy. Above it there is the secondary VGA camera, the in-call speaker and two multimedia shortcut keys. Those were present in K800 too but here they are more prominent. Now they even have blue icons marking their functions. When the camera is on, the left one can be used to change the camera shoot mode, while the right one changes the Scene setting. When the camera is off, the left one opens the last picture you’ve browsed in fullscreen mode, while the right one opens the camera pictures in thumbnail mode.
The bottom part of the K810 features the regular Fast Port, the in-call microphone and an eyelet for attaching a wrist or neck strap. The top part of the device incorporates only the On/Off key which can also be used for fast switching of the ringing profiles.
Summary:
Key features
* Excellent 3.2 megapixel Cyber-shot? camera with autofocus
* Xenon flash
* 64MB internal memory
* Memory card slot with hot swap functionality
* 3G support with video calls
* FM radio with RDS
* Bluetooth (with A2DP) and Infrared port
* Multi-tasking support
Main disadvantages
* Uncomfortable joystick and soft keys
* No EDGE (K818 has EDGE, but no 3G)
* Records video in ancient QCIF (176 x 144 pixels) resolution only
Get yourself this beauty of a phone now, I got a bargain at only ?100 ($200) when it retails for ?189.99 (cheapest) in shops.
After having this thing for 2 months I have to conlclude joystick is not uncomfortble, its quite good compared to the previous model before this (k800i)
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I had purchased 4 moths before sony ericcsion k810i cybershot series and i found that the joystick is the worst . except that evrything is perfect.