I am looking for an update but having looked at all reasonably priced phones,less than £100, the only phone I can find is another Sony Erisson K800i which has far too many items on it than I require.
Go back to making simple everyday phones loud enough to hear and better signal reception!.
I think I will stick to the phone I have.

The mobile is nice, easy and small, however the battery is very very very poor. There must be memory and more options

Don't buy this model and watch other models of Sony Ericsson phones with joysticks you best bet is to buy a Sony Ericsson with out a joystick because their menu system is class and the options on their phones or cool.

From the second day onwards I am facing problems in reception. In interiors the Sony Ericsson K700i phone has absolutely no reception and it can be used as an alarm or a device for setting reminders!!! I gave it for servicing but after-sales service was so poor that they couldn't fix the problem. It really pains when a phone worth so much starts giving trouble on the very next day after you purchase it. Please don't buy any Sony Ericsson models if your are in India, since their after-sales service is pathetic!!

It is a useful mobile phone, and it's the third generation Sony I have had. However, as it went past it 12 month life, it started to effectively fall apart. The battery discharges alarmingly quick. OK, I could get a new one. The power connector socket is broken, and I get an intermittent ring tone when someone calls - I have not figured this one, but it could flip into silent mode. When the Sony Ericsson K700i charges, without any amendment to settings, it beeps, which is fine if you can charge it up away from earshot.

It is a phone designed for 12 months use. My Sony J70 is still going strong, but it has had less use as I use it as a reserve, but it is an old phone. Where did the Sony reliability go?

The Sony Ericsson K700i has a good quality camera and video, a great MP3 player, good games and it has loads of memory, so I have 12 songs on it with a bit of memory left. The screen is good, and it hasn't cracked. The features are excellent and the reception is great. I was in Wales high in the mountains and I still had a signal. The style is great, it looks good and it can fit in your pocket so easily because its small, and it has just enough weight on it so you know it is still there. Great value for money, because you're getting all of these great things and there are some more that I haven't mentioned for £90, so it is definitely good value for money.

If my Sony Ericsson K700i phone worked properly, I'd love it, but for now, I'm afraid that I'm a bit disappointed. Many of my friends have this phone, and have warned me about the joystick and guess what? Mine has now broken as well!
But overall, a great phone for the money.

I would definitely recommend the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone. It is strong and reliable, and it has a loud MP3 player and radio. The reception is excellent. The camera is great, and the memory is also good. The battery life has been excellent for me. It does not come with a USB cable though, so you need to buy one.

Overall, for £90 in The Link, I would definitely buy one, so I give this phone a well deserved 10 out of 10.

Overall, the Sony Ericsson K700i is a good phone. It needs a longer battery life though, and a louder speaker, but it is Sony Ericsson at its best!

The joystick on my Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone doesn't work properly, and as time goes by it gets worse. I have spoken to a few other people who have the same phone, and they have the same problem!
It also has poor battery life.

I love the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone. I love the bluetooth. I love the MP3 player and everything. It has a neat little camera. Orange offer a great service as well.

The joystick is a bit iffy, but then again, not every phone is perfect! Joints on flip phones get loose and break off. The Sony slides sometimes come off... See!

I recommend this phone to anyone who wants a nice little phone.

The Sony Ericsson K700i is a good mobile phone! It has lasted a long time. I usually break a phone after about 2 months, but this one has lasted nearly a year now, so this phone is ACE!!!

The Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone is great! It only cost me £80, and compared to other phones that I have paid £150+ for it is fab!

It has everything on it you could ask for - radio, MP3 player, bluetooth, video, camera, infrared, internet, games, downloads, as well as the usual calender and calculator etc. All are excellent quality, and the screen is crystal clear. I am always tempted to replace this and buy a new more expensive pink phone, but when I think about it, they just don't have the things on them that this one does.

My Sony Ericsson K700i was excellent to start with but after about six months the joystick stopped working properly and it has got worse since. I don't think I would have bought this phone again as it becomes frustrating trying to access things on the mobile.

I am a heavy phone user. You will never catch me without my phone. I so not recommend the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone to anyone who uses their phone to the extent I do. Battery life is poor and only lasts one or two days. However, I have learnt to put it on charge every night. Pictures are blurry unless you stand extremely still. Memory is poor and unexpandable, but this may not effect you if you do not wish to use it as an MP3 player. Otherwise it seemed to be a reasonably good phone.

I bought it in July 2005, and it was fine until 2 - 3 months later. The charger would not connect properly, and the joystick had become faulty. It would also freeze and I would have to take the battery out to turn it off and on again. I took it back to Carphone Warehouse for a repair as I still had my one year guarantee. They took it for 2 weeks, and when it was returned it seemed OK for about 2 weeks but then it slipped back into it's old ways.

I have lived with it until recently, and it has become extremely slow, and today it was even telling me that my phone was charging when I was on the bus. What's going on here?!?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the texting, and the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone is so easy to use!

SONY ERICSSON YOU ARE GREAT!!

I have used the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone for about 9 months now. It is beginning to look a bit jaded (the phone, not me), but still functions generally OK. Battery life is a problem, but I use it a lot and carry a spare battery. I am beginning to find charging a problem too, as the contact on the phone does not always connect properly, and the wire needs to be wiggled to start charging. Being a little deaf I found the volume poor and could not turn it up to suit my hearing. However the Bluetooth facility solved that, as I bought the ear piece which works well and has volume control, but again battery life is the big drawback there too. Not a bad phone, but I'm not sure I would buy another.

The MP3 player and radio on the Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone are great! The sound is really good! Every single thing about this phone is brilliant!!! If you're looking to buy this phone, I would highly recommend it! I love it and can't put it down. The battery life is perfect. I'm on it all day, and I only need to charge it after about 3 days!

The Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone has many good points, but also a few bad points...

*Good points:*

Themes (downloadable)
Pretty loud tones (make sure the MP3 you download is of good quality and loud already)
Pretty large phone book memory
A lot of useful phone profiles
Alarm is very GOOD (wakes me up every morning). You can set MP3 files as alarm tones too
Calendar
To do list
Notes (can be sent as text messages to another Sony Ericsson phone through bluetooth if you don't have anything to do)
Sms counter
Radio (FM)
Phone shortcuts (can be changed according to your preference)
Call timers
Small and light
Easy to text (keys stick out enough)
Pretty good camera (considering it's a VGA camera)
Has a flash feature (but it doesn't really help in taking good night pictures, could be a good torch though)
When the phone is in idle mode, an envelope comes out to indicate messages, and a red arrow appears if a call was missed
Power save feature (doesn't really help in battery saving though)
Templates and drafts (very useful)
File manager gives you a summary on your remaining memory left, and the certain areas of the phone that take up memory (with how much memory it has already taken up)
Pretty good JAVA games
Can erase the default pictures, and sounds etc., so you have more memory (certain files are protected though, so they can't be renamed, moved to different folders or deleted, but there aren't many of them)
Quite durable (I've dropped it a few times already and it's still intact)
Bluetooth is brilliant!
Infrared is pretty good as well (but won't be needed much unless the phone your sending the file to doesn't have bluetooth)
Scratches don't leave white marks on the phone (not like silver Samsung phones)
Red light on top of the phone blinks to indicate low battery (expect that thing to be blinking a lot)
You can segregate your pictures into separate files
Good signal


*Bad points:*

Can't use an MP3 for message alert tones
Sometimes the person's name doesn't come up when you receive a text from them, and you have to save their number under their name again (this happens more than once)
The back cover scratches really easily
Does not have changeable covers
It is TOO bright in a really dark room (for example, if you're asleep and you wake up in the middle of the night because you had to text someone or call someone... the light on the K700i IS LITERALLY BLINDING, and you would need about 5 minutes to get your eyes to adjust to the brightness after just being asleep)
Sometimes, when you call someone... their number is right... but their name is someone else's (you have to edit the contact detail again)
Sometimes, you can't hear the phone when it rings... (depends on the quality of the MP3 files you've downloaded)
Vibrate doesn't really help, especially if the phone is in your bag or purse
The joystick gets ruined easily, especially when you're the type who sticks your phone into your pockets all the time
Sometimes you can't receive messages straight away (they either come minutes later or never come at all)
You are only allowed 95 - 97 SMS messages to be stored in the phone (even though you delete all your picture and video files... the message memory will remain the same)
It can only hold approximately 5 - 6 FULL MP3 songs
If you want larger pictures for your PC, don't take them at the largest setting on your phone (the pictures come out distorted and grainy), I suggest you take them at the MEDIUM setting and just enlarge them using your PC... they'll come out 10x better, but still not THAT CLEAR (unless it's in good light. Good lighting is a MUST if you want pretty good pictures)
The phone needs to be charged every day with regular use (does not last for 3 days - you'll be lucky if it lasts for 2 days)
The calculator will take some getting used to
The rubber flap at the bottom comes loose very easily
The QUICKSHARE sticker will not be there any more in 7 months
Charging youur phone is annoying and frustrating (one slight move of the wire, the message OPTIMUM CHARGING flashes on the screen. It's annoying, especially when you're trying to compose a text message. If you accidentally tug on the wire, the message comes up and you have to press OK before it goes away, and this happens every time you ACCIDENTALLY tug the OH SO SENSITIVE wire)
Pics that are taken in dark lighting are very bad!
The memory is so so (it either needs more internal memory, let's say 92MB, or it needs expandable memory)
Its rather smooth cover makes your hands sweat
After turning it off, it takes a while before you can immediately turn it on again (sometimes it takes so long, you have to take the battery out then put it in again)
Rubbish video (can hardly see anything, especially when you're moving a lot while videoing)
MP3 playback is distorted, especially when you use it for ring tones
The joystick is gone after a few months (which basically means you can't do anything because you need the joystick for practically everything)