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I have had my K800i for almost two years now, without any major problems. I still use the original battery, even though I feel that the capacity has lowered a bit since it was new.
The model still has features that newer models don't have, like the xenon flash, for example.
The media player is BASIC, it's OK for listening to music, it has the basic functions to play, pause, fast forward, skip to next, etc, and you can searc my title or by artist, found in the ID3 tags, and you can create your own playlists etc, but several features availabe in the walkman models are missing. The most annoying missing feature is the possibility to see which song is the "next" in queue while playing.
The camera is OK for being a mobile phone camera, but it's nothing compared to a real digital camera. Picture quality is OK in good light, (the xenon flash helps in darker environment, but the capacity of the flash is limited), but the camera is very slow compared to my Canon EOS 400D. camera. The BestPic feature is a very rare feature not found in many newer models, and essentially, it takes nine pictures when you press the shutter button, 4 a short time before the button press, one at the press, and 4 after the button press, and then you can choose to save one or many of the photos. The lens cover is annoying, since it sticks out outside of the profile of the housing of the phone, so that it stucks in things and may open by mistake when you don't want it to. That design has been improved in the K810 model.
For storage of pictures and music, it supports m2 memory sticks, I use a 4GB card without any problems, and I have heard that people have been able to use 8GB as well.
It has a quite powerful web browser which also can read standard web pages, not only wap pages, even though it does not support java applets or macromedia flash etc, and most javascripts is not supported either. It lacks WLAN, and HSDPA which and this is a few issues that makes this phone out of date.
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Posted: 2008-05-30 08:48:25
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Thanks guys its a really tough decission to make but i think k800 may just grasp it because of the awesum value 4 money
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Posted: 2008-05-30 10:23:54
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buy a k810 instead. slimmer, much better lens cover, best batterylife of all
phones (10 h talktime
).
my friend have a k800 with very good sound. he have some modded driver with megabass.
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[ This Message was edited by: plankgatan on 2008-05-30 09:31 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-30 10:28:09
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@plankgatan
ya... thats why i choose k810... it lenscover not easy scratch or open because it is in builded... and k800 is out builded
[ This Message was edited by: eddie2020 on 2008-05-30 13:44 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-30 14:43:53
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IMHO, the K800i is ugly. That was my impression the first time I saw the phone, and I still think so, even though I own one. I did not buy mine for the looks of it, but for the functionality. A much nicer model, with almost the same technical specifications, is the K770i model. It doses not have the xenon flash, but the lens cover is integrated with the housing in a much better way. And the phone is much thinner, almost half the thickness of K800i. Only weird thing with it is that the fastport connector is located on one side of the phone instead of having it placed at the bottom, as it is on the K800i.
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Posted: 2008-06-04 09:13:23
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The K800i is so cheap right now, I've seen it going for just £59.99 on PAYG. Is the K810i that much more expensive though?
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Posted: 2008-06-05 10:32:18
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K810 is a little more expencive than K800.. It is newer model andcomes with 128mb memory stick... That makes the difference in price... But getting K800 is better in my opinion... It's cheaper... My advice:
- get K800
- get large capacity memory stick M2
- get HPM70 (or better) walkman headset
- flash your phone with K810 firmware (and customize it to suit your needs)
I have my K800 almost a year and I wont think of buying new phone until the day it dies totally
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About the media player issue... Some guys say that it is bad or etc... The K800 media player is Walkman 1.2 with some features removed...
So the difference is that you have worse songs and playlist management, but you have stereo widening and etc...
If that's a problem, you can get KD player installed and port it with a shortcut in the main menu instead of the default Music Player...
I hope this helped you
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[ This Message was edited by: strizlow800 on 2008-06-05 11:15 ]
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Posted: 2008-06-05 12:15:26
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if like me u aint prepared to pay stupid amounts for a phone then it's killer. easily modded, great cam (for a phone) plays tunes but most of all, so much content available for it. doesn't excel at anyting just gr8 all rounder. design is personal pref which i like.
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Posted: 2008-06-05 14:39:00
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nice cheap phone. no wifi, edge and hspda. a bit bulky and camera lens cover can be a bit of a problem.
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Posted: 2008-06-05 15:55:58
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I agree that the K800 is best buy for the money. Also, later models will give you more trouble in my opinion. K800/K810 is a good phone though, packing all the good stuff such as good camera, radio, mp3 player. I would have gotten it myself to replace my W800 if my girlfriend didn't get it first. My dad also has the K800. They're both very pleased with it.
You should just pick between K800 or K810. The only difference between them is size and looks.
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Posted: 2008-06-05 16:08:26
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