Sony Ericsson S700i Review

Overall Rating

Ease of use, screen & camera quality, features.

Size but to have a big screen you have to expect a slightly big phone but I don't find that a problem.

I had been looking for a good camera phone for a while but I found that most had too small of a screen on them as I prefer a big screen, so when I saw the S700i I thought this looks just what I was looking for.

Previously I have had mostly Nokias but was not impressed with there camera phones as I found the camera quality to be not very good. But the screen and camera quality on the S700i are excellent quality, the S700i is a camera and a phone where most phones are a phone with a camera on them.

The camera on the S700i has a lot of features that digital cameras have on such as, night mode(lengthens exposure for better sharper pictures)I found as well that putting it on to night mode when taking pictures indoors sometimes gives better results, shoot mode where you can get the camera to take 4 shots at once rather than just one, self timer where you can delay the camera to take the picture in 10 seconds, effects where you can get the camera to take black and white, sepia, negative, polarize pictures, light which will switch the light on the camera so as to illuminate the subject when the light is low, white balance, which you can pick from the type of lighting like automatic, Incandescent, fluorescent, daylight, cloudy, altering it to one of the setting rather than automatic will sometimes give you better results. The camera also has a lens a built in lens cover that you slide over with a little switch this will protect the lens from dust and scratches, when you slide the lens cover over it will switch the camera on or off .

Other features the phone has on are organiser which has a calendar, task list, notes (you can keep notes of things) applications which contains a covering program for converting weights, distances, volume, to metric, a world clock, alarm clock, countdown timer, stopwatch, calculator. Entertainment which contains a darts game, tennis game plus you can download more some for free from Sony Ericsson's WAP site, the graphics on the games are the same quality as the Nintendo Gameboy advance games, radio, Internet for going on to WAP ,and the usually other menu items such as settings, phonebook etc. Also the sound quality I experienced when making calls was excellent very loud and crisp and clear, you can however turn the volume of the conversation up or down while you are having a conversation.

Overall I think that Sony Ericsson have thought of everything with this camera phone, they have done a lot of testing and put a lot of work into getting the camera right, the camera and the screen quality are top notch. I found the phone to be easy to use although I always read the instruction books before I begin. If you are wanting a top of the range phone that will give you great results then this is the phone to get, you will not be disappointed.