Due for an upgrade, which phone shall I go for?

Wkdwill

Hi

I am due for an upgrade this month and was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations as to which mobile I should go for.

davetrousers

One with a cheaper tarif

Wkdwill

LOL
I am happy with the tarif I have at the moment I was refering to which model of mobile phone.

But thanks anyway.

before_hollywood

what network are you on and what handset have you got now? do you want something similar or a complete change?

deedeeliz

The phone i'll be after when I upgrade is the Sony Ericsson K850i.

It's got the best camera on the market right now and is smaller than the Nokia N95

What sort of features will you be after?

before_hollywood

any camera above 3 megapixel will be hard to tell the difference between (i have a 9mp camera and i just use it at 3 to keep the file size low and can still blow the pics up to a4 size)

deedeeliz

What Before Hollywood says is true, I often have to send photos to my friends via picture message rather than bluetooth them even if we're together as it gives you the option to downsize the image files if you send it through text.

For this reason make sure MMS are inclusive in your text allowance

I keep my current phone (SE K800i) at it's highest resolution though so I can have good quality images when I upload them to my computer as wallpapers etc

teffers

I recently went for the K850i. It was back in the packaging ready to be sent back within 20 mins.

The screen is off-white and far duller than any other phone I have ever seen.
The camera pics are discernably no better than my K800i and when viewed on the handset actually show some artifacting of the jpeg.
The phone is slo but once you play an mp3 it's gui becomes very slo and laggy.
The phone feels cheap, too light, it's too bulky and worst of all it's made pretty much entirely of this cheap sheen plastic that has it covered with smudges and fingerprints in minutes - I can't stress this enough you will NEVER want to show this to anyone as it makes the phone look terrible.
The keyboard is not pleasant to use and texting is made all the more difficult because of the rocker type embedded direction buttons. Also you will constantly press the touch screen buttons at the top by accident.

Ihave a K800i and I love SE phones but the K800i is miles apart in build quality (it's a great phone) and speed of gui etc - it's amazing to see SE drop the ball so badly with the K850i

thesaint

I love these threads where people ask what phone they should get when upgrading, but do not bother to put the choice of phones available.

gaming_guy

teffers wrote: »

I recently went for the K850i. It was back in the packaging ready to be sent back within 20 mins.

The screen is off-white and far duller than any other phone I have ever seen.
The camera pics are discernably no better than my K800i and when viewed on the handset actually show some artifacting of the jpeg.
The phone is slo but once you play an mp3 it's gui becomes very slo and laggy.
The phone feels cheap, too light, it's too bulky and worst of all it's made pretty much entirely of this cheap sheen plastic that has it covered with smudges and fingerprints in minutes - I can't stress this enough you will NEVER want to show this to anyone as it makes the phone look terrible.
The keyboard is not pleasant to use and texting is made all the more difficult because of the rocker type embedded direction buttons. Also you will constantly press the touch screen buttons at the top by accident.

Ihave a K800i and I love SE phones but the K800i is miles apart in build quality (it's a great phone) and speed of gui etc - it's amazing to see SE drop the ball so badly with the K850i

give SE a bit more time.

its a new phone which is based on a new platform (db3150), so expect bugs in the first 2/3 firmwares

starlight_xx

I recently got the Motorola V8 and I love it. Id totally recommend it