VC’s Techie CockTail

Continuing with my thoughts on K660i …..

User Interface ****

The main feature which attracted me about this phone was the A200 platform coupled with 240 x 320 262K resolution screen with flash lite 2.0 support. The phone was slightly slower when compared to my K550 and accessing address book & call logs was slower than normal making it a tad irritating. But features like “Smart search” ( as you type the number the closest matching from the address book are displayed), media player was good. The keypad system is somewhat changed from the A100 platform which confused me a little at the start. The 3 x 4 grid is almost same except the “Alarm” is at the grid now with the ‘File manager’ inside the ‘Organizer’ menu which I didn’t like.

Messaging *****

The messaging app is almost as same as that of K550i , but due to the A200 platform there is no “More” option but there is a “Pop-out” menu key below the top left key. The keys are quite comfy to type with and the T9 dictionary is very handy and there is no lag while typing (which I can’t say for the whole working of the phone). SMS, MMS, Email are all supported. Now messages can be sorted and stored under different category. A “thread” like message system would have been a welcome addition

Multimedia ****

I knew this is a non-Auto focus 2 megapixel camera with no flash but in nice bright conditions the snap was quite crisp and color reproduction was nice other than else the camera is quite a mediocre one. The PSP style media player function was excellent able to handle pictures, music (mp3,aac,wma,ra) & videos (3gp,mp4). It can be used in horizontal / portrait mode. A FM radio with RDS is also present. Memory expansion is via Memory stick micro (M2) cards

More to follow……

written by Vignesh \\ tags: k660i, Sony Ericsson