Sony Ericsson S700 - user opinions and reviews
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8.2
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8.2
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8.2
- Billy Bifocals
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Hello its billy, not one thing I typed earlier is a word of a lie because I have better things to do that rant about my crap phone, I just needed to get it off my chest, because far too many people hype this crap phone up. Especially the so called 1.3mp camera, I dont even want to think about that.
And yes I respect your opinion of calling my tthread crap but look into it before you come out with something like that. Do a google search for "s700i faults" etc and its not just myself that has very bad experiences with this phone.
And its not true about my experience of phones being limited because I have had many nokia phones etc aswell as a GD87, 6600, GX10i, GX20, GX30 and now a S700i. I am a very much into photography and have a cannon powershot A95 and used a powershot G5 with great success in photography so i know how to take a decent photo and i know what 1 mega pixel is supposed to look like.
Im sorry but this camera isnt a patch on the camera of the GX20. That takes amazing photos and that isnt even a megapixel camera.
I just hope people dont go rushing into buying this phone because even now its not cheap. But like I said, its not just myself thats got a duff s700i its many people, just check google for yourselves, just because you have an s700i that seems to work fine theres no need to be ignorant to another person that has had bad experiences with it.
Ive said my piece, just remember that yeah i may have duff phone but so do a great deal of other people. Oh yeah the phone was also on watchdog as a result of all the complaints, although i am not on 02 but vodafone, 02 have stopped selling the phone all together because of the shear amount of complaints they got. My mate in 02 says to this day they still havent fixed the phones problems.
Thanks for reading
Billy.
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- 2005-03-18 01:19
- mnX2
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- mez
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BILLY:
That was a complete waste of your time writing that and mine reading it. Coz most of it was complete crap, like I dont have to do all that pants which you said bout using mp3s as ringtones( you just select the mp3 and go to the option 'use') and the camera is the best 1.3 mp phone camera Ive seen, kicks the d500 to the ground, coz my m8s got one and we were comparing photos and the s700i were always clearer,crisper and more to true life!
So either you got a faulty phone or you dont know quality when you see it!
So for me its s700i all day long!!!! :oP
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- 2005-03-18 00:47
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- Chandler
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well well well.billy i read yours and am glad i got the d500 but then i read under you post at ppl saying how great it is i now have about 7 days to choose to keep d500 or change it for s700i :S maybe it was just your phone that was wrong billy, anyone else have these probs ?
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- 2005-03-18 00:18
- iLNH
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- Billy Bifocals
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Well where can I began. I got this phone back on the 4th of January and I have had nothing but problems and dissapointment with it.
1. For a start the camera is garbage, it has never seen a 1.3 mega pixel camera, the photos really are shocking and this was the main selling point for myself.
2. It can only handle 128mb duo memory cards, SE has obviously done this on purpose because the cards cost at least 50 quid a piece.
3. It takes me 3 whole minutes to load the phones crap media player. The player only supports avi and mp3, very small gif files at a push if you want to see your phone freeze.
4. Oh yeah, the phone will randomly vibrate while on a call then the screen will flash on and off and restart.
5. Phone will often freeze when you are transferring files via bluetooth, this happens when using both a windows xp machine or another bluetooth equipped phone. When the phone freezes you have to rip the battery out of the back.
6. The back of the phone is an absolute ass ache to take off, it took 3 guys in a phone shop to finally remove it while they were trying to sell me it.
7. You cant use your own mp3s as ringtones unless you convert them with sonys Digital Rights Management Software. And when you do this you arent able to send those mp3s onto other people. This is a problem with vodafone branded phones i believe. Its absolutely rediculous.
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.
9. After you have finished calling a few people if you check the call log it will often display people on there that you havent even called. Try it out, call someone and then go into the call log and dial the last person in there, its often going to be a random person in your phone book that picks up the phone.
10. The inability of silencing the shutter sound when taking photographs. This isnt a problem because you will hate using the camera when you see the garbage quality on them.
11. When you turn on your phone from standby and it asks "How are you" and you select "ok", there is so much lag after you press the button that you will often end up calling the last person you dialled.
12. Again its the big problem with the lag of actaully pressing "ok" etc and 5 seconds later getting a response from the phone, its truly appaling.
13. Lets say you manage to transfer a picture or any file to the phone via bluetooth without it crashing or freezing, it displays the message "file recieved" or something like that and you can select "ok", by the time the phone picks up on you pressing the button it thinks you have selected the option on the next screen that asks "do you want to use the file now?" So before you know it the file is loading up despite you not wanting to load it up.
14, When you want to take a photo with the crap camera, you first have to close the whole thing up. Then it tells you to open the shutter. Lets say you want to take a photo of someone stood up, ok with an extremely steady right hand you are now expected to press the the shutter button on the far right hand side of the phonr with your left hands index finger. Yeah it truly is a shambles to take a vertical photo.
15. If you do manage to do the above and actually take a photo of someone stood up rather than laid down you will notice when you come to viewing the photo that the phone thought it would be a really good idea to rotate the photo around so you only see half an image. Thats great isnt it. What you now have to do is go into each and every one and choose "edit" then "rotate" in order to sort it out so it looks like what you photographed.
16. Dont even think of trying to send photos of large resolution to this phone e.g. 1152x 864 because the phone wont be able to display them, if you try to display it the phone will either freeze or it will show you a small picture of something snapped in half as if the photo was corrupt in the first place.
What you can do if you have a good art package is load the image up and then resize it so that is 25 percent of its original size, both horizontally and vertically using "bicubic" pattern or something like that.
17. And yeah the battery life is crap, im lucky to get 3 days out of it without using it. God knows where they have got 300 hours of standby battey life from.
Well thats a huge load of my mind, just take my advice and dont regret getting this phone, go for something else instead like the D500. I do hope my comments and truth about this phone have been useful to you.
Cya later, Billy.
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- 2005-03-17 19:52
- mnX2
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- Johnny
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This is the best phone I've had! Looks good. Sounds good. No detachable speaker (which gets lost) like the Samsung D500. Screen is a good size. Some havbe complained that when the phone is opened out, it's huge. Once you have your contacts saved into the phone you only really need to open it to sent a text message and even then it's not that big. I recommend this phone to anyone
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- 2005-03-17 13:05
- mnry
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- Cool
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This fone, iz da best fone dat iz eva made in diz wOrld!~ ^^ I'm soOoooo happy dat my bro bought diz fone for me~~~
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- 2005-03-17 07:40
- PMdg
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- Shell
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I love this phone. Sony Ericsson is just one of the easiest to use, yet best featured phone. It communicates via bluetooth with my iBook very fast and reliably. The interface is pleasant, with a lot of new stuff (eg programmable shortcuts) that the old phones didn't have. The zoom on the camera is rubbish, but that's pretty much the only quibble I have with it so far...
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- 2005-03-16 17:55
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- Moose
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Everyone may i have ur attention!!!
Get this phone if u want a new cell phone. THis phone is one of the best phones i ever knew. Forget about all the nokia phones in the world. Sony ericsson's bluetooth is far more sensitive than nokia. And look at the design, camera, features... Everything is beyond expectations. And as almost everyone in the world know that the Sony Cyber-shot is one of the best digital cameras and this phones uses Sony camera lenses 2 make this phone so there is no doubt that this phones camera is bad.
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- 2005-03-15 08:15
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- Chandler
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abx can you put simpsons episodes (avi.) onto the d500 ?
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- 2005-03-15 00:17
- iLNH
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- abx
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v gd choice chandler.
i was also gonna get dis phone but it is the largest brick ever produced and is to xpensive 4 a phone. i resently purchased a d500. i would recomend it to every1 in da world. awsome phone. every feature sept mmc slot.
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- 2005-03-14 20:53
- mXDA
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- sky
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errrr, u can use even 1GB memory stick on it dude.... even more...
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- 2005-03-14 11:06
- TST8
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- Chandler
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after much debating i have decided to levae this phone as i find it to be big and not as fun a the samsung d500 so im going with d500, wise choice ?
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- 2005-03-13 22:48
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- avinersan
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I ve noticed that some people are wandering about buyng this phone becouse samsung anounced a 5 mpx phone and many other well
now let me tell you that i alredi hard about that [hone becouse it alredi exists in some contrys and the people how seen it sead that its a ugly heavy an very expensiv phone
and i wasant sore if i wod do god if i buy it but after i playd with it for 5 min i was sore its a exelent phone
and it douse suport mp3 as ringtone and the camere is displeyd in ful screen when used
and the games ......
its a very god fone buy it
scuze my english i rite very bad from bucharest romania go go go sony ericsson
specely with w800 when it comes out bye
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- 2005-03-12 23:00
- mAM9
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- cuber
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Anyone know what's the maximum memory size for S700? Can I use 256MB memory stick duo on S700?
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- 2005-03-12 22:46
- PVgb
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- ah_wei
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hi... i would lyk to know wat is CCD camera??? izit diff frm other fone camera??? n can u use mp3 as ur ring/sms tone??? thx
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- 2005-03-12 12:48
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- sherman
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anyone know where can i get free MPEG-4 format in video converter program? pls...
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- 2005-03-11 17:35
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- bako
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very superb fone (till now), but don't put ur fone in ur jeans pocket. it will scratch the body of the fone a lot...
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- 2005-03-11 04:44
- PFKV
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