VC’s Techie CockTail

Welcome Techies !! Hope you like my Techie CockTail now shifted to a wordpress platform….As my first exclusive post on my new blog I will like to put some Jive & Jazz with the Sony Ericsson W200i.

This phone is a close kin of K310i / K320i (& you can read about my views on K320i too ) …its in Sony Ericsson’s walkman range and in the budget category for those who don’t want to break their bank account.

Initially there were only 2 colors (black & white), now Sony Ericsson has introduced 4 more of which this Mono blue looks a class apart even though this is a budget phone (approx 4600 Rs => 115$).

• Feature wise its 90% similar to K320i except it has a flight mode to use only the music player without switching on the phone
• Phone wise its audio , network reception, messaging were good
• Music wise the walkman player has a good set of features, with a Memory stick micro slot you can expand the capacity to 2 GB, music quality through the provided bass reflex headphones were excellent. Video playback was ok, but the 128 x 160 screen was dull.
• Camera wise , there is nothing to write about a average quality VGA camera for your snap shots, but at this budget a camera is just a gimmick
• Customization wise , there are themes which change the entire look of the user interface, wallpapers, themes, ringtones can be downloaded via internet, usb cable to your phone

At the end of the day this is a phone who wants to have a music phone in a limited budget, but interestingly in a long time i would suggest a worthy competitor to this phone in my next post..ciao ..keep reading / commenting

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Sony Ericsson

Ever since I wrote about Moto Ming , I was very impressed about its musical twin Moto Rokr E6. And my buddy HoneyKing, (he has posted photos taken from his mobile so you could check out E6 camera prowess on his blog) who was looking for a good all round phone has currently bought this phone for Rs. 11,000/- (275 $)(without the stereo headphones).

First and foremost, as I said its feature set are 99% similar to Moto Ming. But some of the features which I tried and impressed me most were,

• It looks much sleeker and cooler than Moto Ming
• It has 3.5mm audio jack to plug your high quality earphones
• Music quality is very good, but the inbuilt realplayer is not upto the standards of a SE Walkman 3.0 in the latest SE walkman range
• Provided with a 1 GB micro SD card out of the box, and with a mini usb cable it shows a portable drive in your PC, so drag & drop and you are ready to go with your music
• It doesnt mean this phone is only fun and no serious stuff, it has a biz card scanner, office doc & pdf viewer, email and a internet browser.

Here are some features which stumped me as well,

• I converted a video to a 3GP file (which my K550i would have played) but the real media player said it was a invalid file
• Even though its a smartphone (linux based) it had very few customization features.

People who want a combination of multimedia and PDA features and on a limited should definitely try this.And people who had already brought it should visit motorolafans and modmymoto for goodies.

written by Vignesh