Hanging on the telephone

[venta]

My mobile phone is beginning to disintegrate - if you ring me up, and you can hear me but I don't be able to hear you, then don't worry. This is currently one of its normal modes of operation. Some of the keys stick, and it crashes occasionally.

Yesterday I ran Vodafone to see what they might offer me as an upgrade. I can have another Motorola (no thanks, I'd rather use some tin cans and a bit of string), a Sharp (plausible) or the one I'm currently favouring, a Sony Ericsson V800.

Has anyone out there got a V800, or used one in anger ? Got anything to say about it ?

It seems to satisfy my major requirements, ie it's clamshell, it should function as a modem, it has an infrared port (woo, wasn't expecting that one), and it appears to make calls and send messages. I might like the buttons to be bigger (there's all that space, why make them so damn small!?) and I've heard reports from one user that the camera isn't nearly as good as you'd expect for 1.3 megapixel. The phone itself is pretty ugly, but then I think that about most phones - I have no idea why phone designers can't make a sensible, nice-looking unit any more.

I'd like to know if the V800's PC synchronisation stuff is any cop. And indeed whether it would actually do what it says (unlike my current phone, which doesn't do what it says.)

My memories of my last Sony Ericsson phone suggest that the predictive text should be competent (unlike the prediction on my current Motorola which sucks donkeys). The games stuff, downloadable ringtones, blah de blah de blah I don't give a flying stuff about.

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Are you using the most recent version of iSync? I've not had problems syncing with any of a succession of SEs (a t68i, a t610 or my shiny nu s700i), and yours is listed on the compatible devices page..

Oh, aside from all-day events only getting support relatively recently.

btw, Blondie of course :)

[j4.livejournal.com]

AFAIK I'm using the most recent version (I just do the updates when they come through), though to be fair I haven't kept trying to sync the phone every time an update comes through...

I tried following the "how to make your p900 sync with a mac" instructions [PDF] too, and no success, but that's geared towards a slightly earlier version of OS X than I was running by that time.

Maybe will try again, but the phone's falling to bits anyway by now (there's only about 1 square cm of space on the screen where the stylus will still work) so I may well be upgrading soon anyway. Tempted to go all retro & go back to a phone that just makes phone calls. 8-)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Poo. Sorry to hear that.

As for 'just making phone calls' - I was tempted for a while after my t610 died, as I felt I'd made very little use of the features it had beyond those of the t68i. I already had a T105 that came almost for free with the sim card I got when deemigrating back to Australia, but after a month of that as my only phone I was really missing the addressbook and calendar syncing, and missed having a camera all the time too.

I was also getting bored of having to ask Jeanette for addresses - her Siemens S55 had them and none of my phones ever had .. until now :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

btw, Blondie of course :)

Of course :)