Sony Ericsson announces eighth Walkman phone: "Sony Ericsson today Liberacéd up its Walkman music phone line, adding a new W700 candybar model kitted out in a "titanium gold"-coloured casing"

I've just crossed over to the dark side, swapping my Nokia N70 for a Sony Ericsson K750i - and I have to say I'm mightily impressed. The form factor is way superior, it's lighter, battery life is significantly better (though it's GPRS as opposed to 3G), and the real killer... it actually syncs with my Mac. The N70 had started dropping contacts, losing them, failing to sync calendars, and so on.

I was also pleasantly surprised to find some solid UI improvements over Nokia, particularly in choosing destinations for text messages, handling missed calls, and so on. So 3 days in I've no regrets; I suspect there'll be some native Symbian apps I miss one day, but not yet...

Update: battery life on this thing is very impressive. I've just had 4.5 days of usage out of it before needing a recharge...

Comments

[nedrichards]

As you possibly know I've been a k750i (and k600i sometimes) user for a while now, also bailing out of Symbian. Add in Opera Mini and Shozu Java and there's nothing I really miss. Also you can send quality Voice MMS' which is always handy.

[Tom Hume]

And it... it... it's like a PHONE!

[nedrichards]

Very similar in every respect.

[oliverw]

As a long time SE user (and usability/UI guy), I agree wholeheartedly with you. However, I do have a couple of gripes. The first is the ease of installing Symbian Apps and the breadth of those available. The second is that the SE browser is notorious in it's rendering of XHTML. having been involved in the design of a carrier mobile portal, the SE's probably gave us the most grief. My favourite short-cut is the press-and-hold for finding contacts in the phone book really quickly.

[oliverw]

sorry, just to clarify, I know you can't install symbian apps on an SE, what I meant was that the breadth of symbian apps available and their ease of instalation...