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the navigation buttons are customizable to a point that you can for example: press up to activate your bluetooth signal, press left to open your calendar, or press down to start playing video games. the black/grey like color with the silver trim is quite a sight to behold. so i'll try my best to break it down and such. (my sister's sony w810i has a much better camera) but at least it comes prepped with some decent photo editing software in it. it can also shoot video. as for how the phone feels on your hands.
when you open it up, the buttons light up in a nice blue color, andaesthetics- (did i spell it right). unfortunately, it's just not true. as i comes with a 64mb card. but one major flaw is to access your memory card, you have to remove the battery case.
and the call time. well it is a bit thick, even by today's slim as a slice of paper standards. i don't really notice, but i can assume it's somewhat reasonable.call quality- i can't really give it that much of a good score. maybe it's just my luck, (or my network) but some calls come out garbled. here i go.first and foremost, this phone operates under the GSM networks, such as tmobile and at & t (cingular).
and since it's not exactly a very popular phone, it's not very easy to find accessories for it.battery life- pretty good actually, i've gone for hours vibing to the music i jammed into it. oh yeah, before i forget, it has no flash.software- i actually like the software for this one. (i forgot to mention, but i bought a 1gb memory card for about 20 bucks, giving me a lot more room for video clips and music). secondly, if you look at the official product review, it would likely mention that it comes with a 512mb memory card. sure it takes 2 megapixel photos, but the quality is not the best sony can offer. if not, well now you know.
the music application is okay, but like i said before, sony has done better in this field before. again, not good, but something is always better than nothing. so those who want to bring this to sprint or verizon will have no such luck. if you read other reviews, you would likely know of this. but for users who have dealt with sony ericsson phones, it feels quite alright.
(like the w810i for example)hope i helped. internet- unfortunately, i can't rate this because i don't use it.overall- not a bad phone at all, but i'm sure you can find something better from sony. hello readers, in this product review, i'm gonna talk about the sony ericsson z710i. for some odd reason, the outer screen of the phone isn't colored, but maybe sony has a method for it's madness, perhaps.now, i can't always bash this phone for it's shortcomings, as it does have some redeeming qualities:appearance- i admit, one major reason i got this puppy was cause it's a pretty looking phone. but if you hang up and call again, you'd get better resultscamera- not very good actually.
The coolest thing I found about it was you can record phone call conversation with ease. I was hoping that I could use this phone to replace my HP PDA but whe the reminders come up they dont repeat themselves so if you dont hear the reminder you will not be notified again. This is a great phone with cool multimedia features. It has a built in FM Radio but you have to use the supplied head set that has a unique adpater, meaning you cant use anything else. The vibration is not very hard meaning sometimes you cant feel it if it was in your pocket.
The Sony is not nearly as pocketable. What I really don't like is that it doesn't have a dedicated hang up or call buttons.
Sound volume and call clarity are fine in most cases. By the way, the manual is so so; it didn't even mention how to use it with speaker phone.
The controls on this phone are very difficult to use and you will need to read the manual even if your a teckie. Still, it does seem to have good battery life and the screen is far superior to Motorola's especially in bright sunlight.
I purchased this to replace a RAZR that was having "issues" just after the warranty expired. It also does not get as good of reception as the RAZR but is generally acceptable.
The music feature is stupid; you need proprietary headphones and the sound quality is awful.
Note: although the steaming media player is nominally a RealPlayer, non-3GP RealAudio streams don't work. The phone runs other Java apps such as Gmail, Google Maps and Audible flawlessly. Tethering it to my laptop for use as a wireless modem is simple, and data transfer speeds are great. I would have thought the Walkman-branded phones would have even better audio support, but no, so I'm not sure what's up with that. blech.
The support for 3GP streams is super, though at this time the number of providers of that format is limited (Deutsche Welle and CNN Mobile). The Netfront web browser is pretty good (better than that on the W810, which won't load large pages), but I use Opera Mini more. I use this unlocked phone with my T-Mobile voice and data plan and couldn't be more pleased, especially now that Sony Ericsson has released PC Suite for Vista. My official phone is the T-Mobile Dash, which. Sound quality is superb, on calls as well as listening to the radio or music files.
Strangely, the media player even supports Windows Media and Real Audio files (though not streams), which the Walkman phone W810i does not support.
For 235 bucks you wont find a better phone.by the way, the mp3 files sound great.now i dont need to carry my mp3 player, this phone do the job.just buy a bigger card, the 1 GB Memory stick micro works for me.
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