My cell phone died so I got a new one, a Sony Ericsson z310a, aka Cingular’s “el cheapo” model. It’s got many good and many bad qualities, which I outlined in detail but then my post got borked and WordPress auto-save did NOT pull through – grrr!
Anyway, it looks less cheap and ugly than my old Samsung p207, but feels more cheap and is still not as neat as the slider phones I’d been eyeing for awhile. The front LCD display is monochrome and tiny, even though it looks large because the whole front is shiny.
The inside display is not too hi-res, but it does have these cool light effects along the sides of the phone which you can customize for each caller. Also, I can sync my calendar and backup my contacts list (nerd w00t!), as well as transfer photos via infrared or Bluetooth.
Most of all, though, this new phone was free, and I still like it better than my old phone.
The phone looks like this:
And the inside display contains this picture that I stole from someone on flickr:
Which leaves me pretty darn happy with it, for now, anyway! We’ll see if it outlasts my two-year contract, which my last phone nearly failed to do.
update Okay I’m really annoyed by the fact that I’m going to have to buy a Bluetooth earpiece for this thing. The speakerphone sucks. Grrr!
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