Sony Ericsson K850i Review

Overall Rating

I have now had the Sony Ericsson K850i for over a year and still very impressed with it. It is slightly heavier and chunkier than most phones out today but with that I have found its less likely to get damaged or for the screen to break when its dropped. Believe me, this phone has had alot drops but the screen has stayed unbroken and unscratched.
I did have to replace this phone after two months because I accidentally dropped it in the washing up bowl in my kitchen! So that's not the phones fault, I don't know any phones out today that are waterproof!!

The battery life is very good, I can go for about a week without charging it, if you play games quite a lot on the phone then you will need to maybe charge it sooner. I have never had the phone 'die' on me so far, which is surprising as the battery bar has been on red (meaning very low) for over a day and still managed to keep on and make calls etc.

I got this phone because of the high quality camera, 5.0 mega pixel. I love the camera; it takes great pictures and videos. When I go out I mainly take my phone to use as a camera, saves room in my bag instead of carrying both a mobile and a camera. Most of the pictures I take, on holiday, days out etc, I have printed off and put them into our photo album, the quality is far better than other mobile cameras I have had in the past.
The video on this phone is also very good, as long as you have enough memory then there is no limit to how much you can record. You can even start recording something pause it and then carrying on recording it all in one video.

The phone also has features to edit the videos and pictures, but to be honest, I haven't used them. The only one I have used is the FaceWarp - this is quite funny, you can edit your pictures to make them look fat, thin etc!

Most of my friends have Samsung phones and they are always complaining about the lack of texts the phone can hold. But with this SE phone I haven't as yet reached the limit - I am not sure even what the limit is. But it is far more than Samsung phones which only hold 200! I have over 200 texts in my sent box alone!

I do have a memory card for this phone but the memory along is quite good, I got the memory card as a gift to hold more pictures etc but I still have room on the actual phone,.