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Sony Ericsson K510: Unexpected contender

29 May 2006 | Read the review | Post your comment
Sony Ericsson K510: Unexpected contender - read the full textSony Ericsson K510 is a new tri-band bar phone with the classic Sony Ericsson K-series design. It will be sold at a reasonable price and as far as our impressions go it would become a price/performance champion. The tri-band GSM 1.3 megapixel camera phone will be labeled K510i for the European market, K510a for the Americas and K510c for China Mainland.

 

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> In reply to jt @ 2007-09-22 06:13 from P@cego in the settings and there is a display option brighten the colours if the problem is with the camera than turn on the camera and select the option more which is on the right side of the screen go on effects and if there is any effect runnig turn off that effect and the camera will be fine if there is any other problem regarding the white or greenish colour or the resoulotion plz claim your warranty...

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  • 2008-08-18 18:03
  • PT7S

I've had this phone for 7 months, and the joystick has died. i'm not impressed as this is the second ericcson phone i've had that has had this problem in less than two years and i'm going to replace it tomorrow morning. i can't send or recieve messages, make calls, nothing that involves a menu - it's useless. i won't be buying an ericcson again.

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  • 2008-03-04 21:32
  • MBHx

k510i is a nice phone i've ever had, but it has low memory, there's no radio, but the phone have good camera 1.3mp, but it almost the same in k310i, lack of features, i prefer k700i, because lots of features, and animated themes, and the quality of pictures, is all the same with k510i, because k700i, has a 1mega pixel.. the camera of k700i is sharp and clear, i compare this two phone, but k700i is excellent phone..

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  • 2008-01-28 08:34
  • M@T2

I am using K510i for a year.Only problem is Joystick. Battery is really good .Change the set with extra memory now it has only 28MB memory it is not sufficient one in nowadays. Mp3 player and their Chillness are really well and good.I am very happy to use this Mobile...

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  • 2008-01-21 11:49
  • PA71

Hope you guys can help. My k510 camera's great. The only problem is(besides having no memory card), it can't handle white color well, it becomes greenish. The pictures are great on good, adequate light, but too much light, anything white becomes glowing green. Can firmware upgrade/update fix this?

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  • 2007-09-22 06:13
  • P@ce

I have the phone for more than a year. The keypad's backlighting is very good. In direct sunlight the display is not very visible (but most of the phones have this problem). I think the display colors are very good, and you can use as a wallpaper any photo, at any size/resolution, it will fix perfect on the screen. And the camera is the best 1,3Mp phone camera. Music player is good, MP3s sounds well and quite loud on the speaker. I had no joystick problems.

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  • 2007-09-05 12:46
  • nDA2

I've had this phone for a long time now, Sony Ericcson K510i that is.
I seemed to have dropped it in some water a coouple of months ago, i opened the phone apart overnight and left it to dry until the next morning, i put my sim card in the next day and it worked perfectly. A couple of weeks later it started giving me some problems, now it refuses to even switch on, it keeps telling me i have a USB connected when in fact i do not!...and as you know when you have a USB connected no functions will work, so i do not know how to fix this! HELP!!..
THANKS!

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  • 2007-08-27 15:44
  • MSRn

A few points I do not like:

None is fixed after latest firmware upgrade.

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  • 2007-02-20 07:22
  • mPSU

complete review of a great and unexpensive phone.
i like its mic sensibility which is great if you need to use its voice recorder.

A few points I do not like:

* no flight mode. an incoming call will stop voice recording.

* counter in pictures & recordings. When I move those items to my PC the counter allways resets to 0. I need to create a new folder every time.

* should search contacts by fist and last name at the same time.

* no shorcuts in main buttons. (I can live with this)

maybe some are fixed in new firmware releases. I have r4ch003.

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  • 2007-02-03 08:47
  • mPSU

Could any1 please tell me does the phone support MP3 ringtones as Alarm? Currently i am having Nokia 6030, but looking forward to buy Sony Ericsson K510.

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  • 2007-01-26 06:19
  • 2SB8

K510 is a upper middle class phone. No mem card? Don't worry. I have 19 apps, 13 games, 29 sound files (MP3,MIDI,AMR), and many pictures and I have 7.5 MB free! Could you belive? The camera quality is great, the music player is good, and no radio is no problem. There are pocket radios with lower prices and easier use. No flash? SE has a portable flash. I think it's one of the best phones ever released.

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  • 2007-01-17 08:42
  • prmY

excellent review

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  • 2007-01-10 06:01
  • T3Ut

It is Internet connectivity is very good. I like k510i mobile. But its memory is only 32 MB. Plz send me how can be add memory card.

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  • 2006-12-08 14:31
  • T2$R

I just picked up this phone last week and so far I'm very impressed! According to the review, the backlit keypad was barely visible in dark rooms, but mine (K510i) has a green-backlit keypad. Very visible in dark environments.

Standby battery time varies greatly (if you use camera, bluetooth and other high-drain functions) it will be about 2-3 days. With normal use (SMS, calendar, a few minutes of calls per day) it lasts me about 5-6 days. No complaints there.

Also, for those who asked, MP3's CAN be used as SMS alerts. I can confirm this.

All in all, I'm extremely satisfied with my purchase of the K510i. Recommended.

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  • 2006-10-19 17:57
  • wvJb

Sure it's very reliableand and I wouldn't call it upper low-end. It has good quality displayer(262K col) and 1,3 mpix camera. We can say that mtorola L6 is low-end due to very small dispalyer and poor camera. This is typical middle-class phone in very good price. It's much better than nokia 6070. Nokia loses in everything.

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  • 2006-09-12 23:29
  • Sg{G

I want this phone, my sister has got the k700i but i would like to know what the difference is ? (apart from the memory card) Roughly how many pictures,videos and MP3s can you fit on there? Please can someone help!:)

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  • 2006-08-30 21:06
  • nEI%

Iīm doing what I can to get the money to buy this phone. The idea is to replace my Z300 (nice looks, poor functions). Here in Aregntina, the price without contract is 300 dollars, with a 1 year contract is 170.
I really love its capabilities, the camera is awesome, and a card slot could be lovely, but itīs OK this way. Is the gap with the K750 that big??? I hope not, īcause I canīt buy the 750.
Conclusion, great phone, great features, elegant and subtle design, a strong and more than capable contender.

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  • 2006-08-01 00:07
  • PwE6

I had just bought this phone k510i 2 weeks back. last week, i had downloaded some songs, next day while i was taking pictures it suddenly crashed, switch off/on, removing battery didn help.

the sony-ericsson repair center reloaded the software, it worked again, he said songs i had downloaded must have had virus.!!! (but it was clean). later after reloading software. the battery backup became very poor. only 1/2 day. now i have given the phone back to the repair center. if u have any comments on this. pl. help me out on this.

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  • 2006-07-27 14:32
  • ymt3

i like the phone! since i lost my k300i, i want this cute phone, but can i use the mp3 for my sms alert? coz one thing i hate about my k300i is i have 6 boring sms alerts, in addition, does its joystick wont hang after months of usage? i exprience that kind of problem on my k300i. one more thing, the price of this is really reasonable for its features and functions! uve got an advantage if u buy this, i saw its price yesterday and i think i can earn it easily. please answer my question...

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  • 2006-07-20 16:26
  • PSwY

Just a comment. The camera does support zoom (2x and 4x), but you need to put the image size to 1280x1024 (full size) for 4x (320x280 output) zoom and 2x zoom (640x480 output).
With image size 640x480 only 2x zoom is available.
Utilize to zoom with the Joystick.

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  • 2006-06-07 13:29
  • nuRT
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