Sony Ericsson G series are made to help busy city dwellers to organize their daily life better. The G series are built with convenient organizer and Internet access, which is what a busy city geek needs for getting his life in pace.
The flagship phone of the G series is the Sony Ericsson G900 and it’s been given a review by PhoneArena despite the phone still has some bugs and problems with its firmware and hardware. The SE G900 is based on the Symbian UIQ without making it too hard to use. It offers intuitive work and the OS gives it a better organizing options.
The G900 is similar to the earlier model, G700, in the G line, which is also equipped with a touchscreen which allows you to write or draw notes on. The SE G900 comes with a high-res camera of 5 megapixel and supports WiFi, which seems to imitate the latest digital camera technologies that allow you to shoot quality photos, upload and share it on the Internet.
The package includes great accessories such as handsfree, charger, data cable, additional stylus, software CD, and manual etc. The SE G900 boasts a super slim body which measures only 0.5 inch for its slimness. Some more it’s super lightweight, making it pretty easy to be carried around in a pocket. The touchscreen is 2.4 inch wide and has a resolution of 240×320 pixels. The color it offers seems pale but it’s still kind of usable even under direct sunlight. The touch sensitivity is great but the touch feedback is only available in sound but no vibration, which isn’t convenient when used under noisy environment.
It comes with a pretty short stylus, but it seems giving no much problem as the touchscreen of this cellphone is meant more for inputting text via handwriting recognition, and not for navigation. You’ll get navigational buttons are under the touchscreen, surrounding the 5-way D-pad and are used for going back, delete and shortcuts to the functions important for the model – writing of notes and message.
On the right side of the phone, you’ll find volume controls, the key for locking the display and the keyboard (simultaneously) and the camera shortcut. They all seem to have a short drive and look cheap, making them inconvenient to use.
On the left side, you’ll find the the charger connector, LED (to show missed calls, messages and as charging indicator when constantly lit) and the M2 card slot. The card slot seems to need you to remove the back lit in order to reach it, which is pretty inconvenient. Overall, the reviewer is happy with the cellphone despite it’s still got some glitches and still waiting for SE to patch it.
source [phonearena]
September 9th, 2008 at 8:03 am
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