Sony Ericsson K750i Review

Overall Rating

Heaps of features (read the review)

Cant change the phone cover
Dodgy connection for ear phones and charger develops
The joystick button wears out after little use
Earphones dont last long (lost all bass in my left earphone)
Seems to slow down with larger memory cards

Well ive had this phone now for around about 6 months, and am very pleased with it.

Paid £119 from Argos, with it came a sim card with £10 preloaded call time, the ear phones, and installation disc and charger.

Now for the features, and theres lots of them

Has an amazing display quality, 262k colour screen.

Features a 2 megapixel camera with a 4x digital zoom and auto focus, with either photo shots or video capture, you can adjust the quality of the video or the photo, the pixel rate is 160x120, the next one up is standard VGA 640x480 and the largest of them is 1632x1224, theres a macro shot feature for close up shots, night mode for well night shots! a flash on it aswell, a self timer, and it has the adjustable effects like sepia, black and white, negaitve shots. you can also change the style of the shots aswell, with panorama style shots, frames and burst shots aswell. the video size is either 128x96 pixels or 176x144.

Now with all those features on the camera, your going to need somewhere to store it, with the phone you have either the 34mb on board memory card, or you have a memory card slot known as a pro duo slot, you get a 64mb sized memory card included, but you can upgrade it to what ever size available, I upgraded mine to a 1GB as i managed to fill up the 64mb after 20 or 30 shots, costs as little as £20 for a 1GB one but you can get them cheaper off ebay.

Comes with an MP3/MP4/3GP video/music player. Now whilst listening to the music, you can change the equalizer, ie whether you want to have treble or more bass, there are preset frequenices, like bass, treble, voice etc but there is one preset, unique to Sony Ericsson is Mega bass where its all just pure bass.

You get RDS radio aswell, with frequency updater, so when youre moving it will update the frequency automatically so you dont have to tune it in yourself, and holds a couple of preset radio stations aswell.

It also features a loud speaker.

As for entertainment goes, you can play java based games, you get about 4 included with the phone. You have access to the internet on it as well, not very fast but its better than nothing. You get music dj where you can make your own ringtones which is good fun, you get Photo dj where you get to Muck around with photos you have taken, and also a Video dj where you can get clips which you have taken with your video recorder, and attach sounds to them. you have a USB connection allowing you to transfer files from your PC to your phone.

Comes with Bluetooth connection too, allowing you to share videos, ringtones, pictures etc, along with infrared to connect with older phones.

You can also do picture messaging aswell, along with SMS and voice messaging etc.

The screen is also very durable and doesnt scratch that much either

Now for the little niggles

My phones has developed a problem with connection for the ear phones and charger and is very fussy for when it wants to charge.

My ear phones were very funny, the left earphone lost all bass completely, but i got a replacement walkman set of a K800i for £10 and they are much better. My joystick button has worn out completely only after a couple of months use, and now ive put a 1GB memory card in, it seems to go a lot slower. And you cant change your phone cover, so your stuck with a scratched and chipped one for good!

TIP:-
As i did and got a new earphone set from a k800i, you can interchange your earphones or anything with a 3.5mm earphone jack, what ive managed to do is get a 2 way RCA lead to a 3.5mm earphone, and hooked it up to my hi fi, so i can listen to my MP3s via that lead!

All in all for what I paid for this phone, I've virtually got a digital camera and an Ipod nano in one! its a brilliant phone!

Hope my review was of some use

ATB

tom

Members' Comments onBomBom101's Review

• BomBom101 on 26th Jan 2007

  Just to let you all know - the connection between the charger/earphones and the Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone itself is getting much worse now :(

• BomBom101 on 30th Mar 2007

  Camera button has stopped working, the joystick is playing up now :(
  
  It was a good phone while it lasted!
  
  Tom

• Moonda on 4th May 2007

  I have the exact same problems with mine. Phone doesn't always recognise the charger when connected and the joystick works occasionally. The one thing that really annoys me though, is the fact you cannot save text messages on the memory card. I have 47 messages in my inbox and 17 in my 'saved messages' folder. Now when I get a text, I get a message saying 'messages 100% full, delete now?' I know it's not the end of the world but I send and receive lots of messages and there are many that I would like to keep. I have investigated but cannot find a way of moving them from the sim card.