Sony Ericsson S700 - user opinions and reviews

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This phone has no flash? Or GSM arena just forgot to mention it? Please let me know.

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  • 2005-03-21 06:20
  • jT4F
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Also

1)can i download screensavers ???
2)can i put simpsons episodes on it and what the picture and sound like ?
3)full screen wallpapers ?
4)can i listern to radio or mp3 while textin etc. ?

thanks in advance

p.s also the video size problem anyone help me out with this.

Cheers

Chandler

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  • 2005-03-21 01:16
  • iLNH
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played about with one in shop and billy last post is somewhat of a retraction from his last post :-/ but never mind i like the cam as i have a gx30 its better than taht and kills the d500, im pretty sure of the 14 days wait as it says on o2 online shop that please note the delivery on the s700i may take my to 14 days, so it could be less, i was abit unsure about ordering from there but 500 txts only bad thing is bill trough e-mail only :(, wish someone would reply to my post about video sizes :-/

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  • 2005-03-21 01:11
  • iLNH
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Hello its Billy again, nice to see people slagging me off.

Like ive said before, i have had nothing but problems with my phone and nothing has been exagerated because you guys have fingers to type with and can varify whether im talking balls or not by doing a quick google search on s700i faults.

And no, my eyes arent painted on and i do know what a shit picture looks like. If any one wants to see some shit photos i have taken with the camera i will email them to you. And another thing, i got so pissed off with all the faults that i went out and bought a DSS-25 docking station for it so that i could flash the firmware myself and so far so good, no problems.

Its not like i didnt trail around Leeds for 2 hours going into various phone shops to see if they could upgrade the firmware for me because i did and i had no luck with it being such a new phone. I do have the R3K004 version now and before i was told it had one of the earlier versions.

And yes although i do slate this phone off i wouldnt however go out and buy any other phone. The closest thing to this phone would be the D500 but its got a pathetic screen and is limited to 80mb of internal memory with no possibility of upgrading it.

The s700i does indeed have many great features and that is why i have kept it regardless of all the many many faults i have had with it. I can moan about the memory in it but its big enough for so many mp3s and pictures etc. I love the facility of being able to use themes. And i love the little things like getting the persons photo on the screen when they have sent you a text message.

So yes its the features that make it stand out above the rest that keep me from throwing it against a wall and getting another phone. And you just cant fault the quality of the screen because it is excellent. I just cant get over the so called 1.3mp camera because it just isnt that.

Anyways, im sure ill be typing something else soon.

Cya, Billy.

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  • 2005-03-21 00:23
  • mnqy
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cheers for your reply mate! how sure are you about the 14 days wait?! i hope you're right! yeah i was going to ignore billy..phone looks quality! the online offers good too - im sure th 80 quid for the phone will be worth it!

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  • 2005-03-20 22:10
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i too am buying with o2 online coz 500 txts :D you can get it from shops but i will only get 100 txts but its only a 14 day wait on o2 online wait trust me i just took my d500 back for this i played with one in the shop thing a h8ted about d500 was the screen when you look at your phots very dark ok on pc but if i wanted to do that all the time i would buy a dig cam :D stick with this you won't be sorry, and ignore billy he either had/has a very early crappy model or his is faulty or he is just chatting crap

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  • 2005-03-20 21:02
  • MSRn
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i'm buying one from o2 online, but they have none in stock..anyone have an idea how long it will take? or should i go with a d500 instead?

thanks chris

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  • 2005-03-20 16:51
  • Tk88
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Ramesh, what shud I do to check what kind of firmware that I have? Any buttons I can press?? Thx.

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  • 2005-03-20 02:43
  • PGAF
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can someone answer chandlers question ?

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  • 2005-03-20 00:34
  • iLNH
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Can i know whether the s700i gone where?? is it the same as s700? or s710?

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  • 2005-03-19 18:39
  • MfAF
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just took my d500 back for this but they had none :( so ill wait but i played with one in the shop and GREAT :D only prob was when i watched a recorded video it was tiny and i mean tiny , is this normal or was the phone i played with (shop demo model) set up wrong ??? if its this small when i watch video and watch 3gp files that i put on there i will not get it but i love the camera billy your blind best camera ever was inside carphonewarehouse and its was stunning beats my gx30 :) and no lag when takin picture :), please could someone tell me honestly about thew video size plz cheers

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  • 2005-03-19 17:22
  • iLNH
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Just went to a SE certified service centre. The phonebook thingy is a sw fault. It appears that the phonebook may be corrupted. They will need to re-customise (re-flash firmware) the phone. It makes certain caller's name not appear even though its registered in the phonebook. My k700 is just fine now. They did a marvelous job. Some S700's have this problem & can be rectified easily by visiting the service centre. That's what makes SE the preferred choice just like Toyota cars, after sales service is the best.

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  • 2005-03-19 10:49
  • TST8
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billy is the most interesting guy to listen to when looking for a decent review of a product. he's is either that, or some kind of Nokia's (or Sharp's or whatever) repsesentative trying to talk people away from S700i (unluckily he won't cos there are enough users of S700 that can tell people about the phone.
I wont reply to EVERY crap sentence he wrote because some of them everybody can understand that are damn! but to the things that someone might have thought were true.

1. About the weird recall thing that doesn't show the last number you dialed, instead he says it shows another number from the names book. R U a complete retard or what??? the phone doesn't always show first in list the last call you recieved because it shows hierarchically the outgoing calls and THEN the incoming or missed even if they happened at oposite time, just for your convenience which I have found useful many times. it NEVERS just comes up with a number you didnt call, recieved or missed in the (say 5) last calls. How on earth did you find this???

2. The phone has absolutely no lag problems, there is a tiny time (0.25 seconds) since you press the buttons which is a very reasonable time for such phones, and its of course a matter of getting used to it, (stop going nuts and pressing 11212123 buttons per seconds u fool!!!)

3. I have used many mp3s directly to the phone as ringtones without any stupid sony ericsson converting software, either through infrared or bluetooth. (maybe its your fault you bought a provider locked one, but surely not Sony Ericsson's!). Also with r3k software version (maybe and the old ones) I have taken video of 12:33 minutes (cos I didnt have more free space) so no problem with that.

4. JUST TO SET THIS STRAIGHT---->>>>
WITH BOTH SOFTWARE VERSIONS I HAD (R3F AND THEN R3K UPGRADED FROM SE SERVICE) I COULD ALWAYS TAKE PICTURES WITHOUT A SOUND IF THE PHONE HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY SWITCHED TO SILENT (PRESS C). this happens with all genuine s700i's but maybe not with the vodafone locked ones!! I dont care about locked ones and neither should sony ericsson worry about it because its the stupid provider that f*cks the phone like this, NOT S.E.!!!

5. about the camera quality you must probably be blind or smthing like that so better visit your doctor. EVERY person in this planet that has checked the phone has agreed that has the best PHONE-CAMERA in the market so far. it's absolutely true that it doesn't compare with even a 2.1 MP normal digital camera but who said so???? Who expects it to be like even a 2mp camera? no my friends, phones have not reached this level yet 9maybe in a year or so) and anybody saying that his s700 is like a true camera is a liar. HOWEVER! it is true that you get medium quality pictures which afterwards you can even print and enjoy them at least but not top quality ones, that is obvious.

Now I dont remember what other kind of nonsense he talked about, but I am free to reply to any questions just because Ihave the phone for two months and apart from 2 freezes (every single f*cking phone made the last 2-3 years freezes) I have experienced NONE of the so-called faults of billy's phone. (hello billy! how u doing?).

The only reason SOME of these may be true ( i mean the stupid "faults") is because either:

a) you got a faulty phone which needs replacement (then you cant blame the phone but your luck) OR

b) you have a vodafone (or other provider) locked phone which maybe be completely f*cked up from the provider, and that is not sony's problem either.

PS. the phone has a lot of hidden features that make it incredibly handy for everyday use and are not mentioned anywhere but u find them as you use it. smart lighting, easy arrangement of messages and calls and many many others. for example maybe you are in a menu that has many selections according to the button u press. if you;re in dark conditions and the light turns off u will probably want to turn it on immediately by pressing a button, BUT this button may do something u dont want it to do just because at this time its under a specific menu. So what s700 does is NO matter whic h buttons u press (maybe you re in a call and press the one which would disconnect you!) the first time you press a button when the light is off, it just turns the light on so you can see where yo are. THEN! the actions of the buttons come active again, THIS believe me has saved me many times.

PS 2. there is a clever and incredibly fast way to transfer images, mp3s & videos to the phone rather than wait 10 minutes for a 6 mb song through bluetooth or IR, if you have a multimedia card reader (many of them are part of modern printers, so check yours immediately!!) if it has a MM card reader, then you take the memory stick out of the phone (even while turned on theres no problem despite what the manual says) and put in the MS DUO adpater included in the package, then you transfer to the removable disk (suck a USB flash disk) everything you want from mp3s to pictures and videos with a USB 2.0 speed (in case of a usb 2.0 printer). it took me 45 seconds to transfer 2 tracks of 8 mb total with this way!!! and you can listen them or have the mas ringtoens immediately... amazing or what?

cheers...

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  • 2005-03-19 01:32
  • S7U3
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superb but too expensive everywhere only prob maybe a bit big

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  • 2005-03-18 21:48
  • iIR0
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had my s700i for 3 months and i can not find i thing to complain about,this is the best phone so far,the only thing that i could say about it is if it had flash memory but where do you stop.defenatly a PERFECT PHONE.

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  • 2005-03-18 17:52
  • iLVH
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I have S700i for 3 months now & it still rocks. I love this phone very much. The design is so futuristic as cybershot design. Ever wondering how, what, & when is the next generation of this S series? (S750i?) I can't wait. For now my target is K750i for my 2nd phone (change my old K700i). Still... can't wait for the next S series eventhough I have K750i. The camera probably 3mp but I still hope to be 5mp like Samsung. Big resolution. Swing...swing it... Animation & other functions probably the same as K750i (as S700i with K700i).

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  • 2005-03-18 15:07
  • UDNa
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d500 or s700i ??? i have a few days to change my d500 is need be, come on please

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  • 2005-03-18 13:17
  • iLNH
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I'd like to buy a sony-ericsson S700.I'd like a true opinion:does it worth it?in my country i can buy it at 450$.is it that heavy and big?10x

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  • 2005-03-18 10:00
  • mYbG
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"8. When someone is calling you, the phone will often not even bother looking at the numbers you have stored on the phone or the sim card and it will just come up with the persons phone number. This is one of the most annoying things. If you arent rainman and dont know everyone stored on your phone by their phone number then you are in trouble. If your s700i isnt doing this yet, trust me it will do."


Billy is right, that also happens to mine. However if the number only shows up, make sure you have "1 + the area code" in front of the numbers. Also, the call log will also display a random person's name, causing confusion. The camera quality is only good in the correct lighting, but too much light causes the phone to lag. however those are the only 2 problems I have experienced. In the 3 months I have had it, nothing else has gone wrong.

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  • 2005-03-18 01:55
  • jAG$
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Billy, u are nuts! I have s700 for 1 month and I dont have any problems at all. Camera is good, pics are clear crisp. I guess Billy just try to badmouthing s700, cause he doent want other people to own this great phone so he can be the only one to show it off.

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  • 2005-03-18 01:22
  • PGAF
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