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I've only had this phone a couple of weeks.

This is a great phone, with some good features:
Phone
Camera
Music Player
Radio

The phone is good

Tha camera is excellent. I haven't tried all the features on it, but it takes great photos, due to autofocus, auto-flash and image stabiliser.

I've not tried the music player or the radio yet.

There is one downside though - the battery. I found that the battery only lasted a couple of days, until one of your other reviewers (Mobile Phone King) stated that to prolong the life of the battery, change the settings from 3G/GSM to GSM only. This seems to have done the trick. Shame this wasn't mentioned in the user manual that came with the phone. I also don't like it that to fully recharge the phone it takes 2.5 hours.

I had the K800i as soon as it was released in the UK and over the last 2+ years, I have had nothing but sterling service from it from the word go, it has never failed, despite being dropped from my butter fingers and has never complained at all, it is very easy to use and as other readers have said the camera is very good, better, in some cases, to my Nikon and Pentax digitals!
My only complaints are that the battery life is a bit poor at times and alsothe internet is slow but that could be my ISP T-Mobile, and the joystick has started to stick but that could be old age!

Other than that, well done Sony Erricson, I would have no complaints having another and for anyone wanting a user friendly, feature packed phone, you cannot do better.

Great phone but Carphone warehouse sell an O2 version of this phone for £99. O2 DONT lock their phones, Im currently using mine with my old Orange sim, just plugged it in and hey presto.

Before I had this phone I only had two other ones, but I've still got an opinion about this one.
Of course the phone has some good points but some flaws that can get annoying over a period of time.
I was thinking about buying an iPhone soon (but I changed my mind as it was too expensive!)and so I'm going to get a Samsung.

Good points:
- This phone takes very good pictures (and I use the camera a LOT) although it takes a little long.
- You can get to your contacts very easily.
- The Camera Album is fairly organised.
- The battery is okay-lasting.
- It doesn't get damaged easily.

Bad points:
- I'm very dissapointed in the videos. The quality isn't very good and sometimes the sound comes quicker than the movements when you watch them back.
- I don't understand exactly how to operate the VideoDJ, but that might just be me.
- It takes some time (and patience!) to send a text because the phone doesn't recognise some words and you have to add them to the dictionary and click some other stuff and it's just really irritating.
- The camera lense sometimes turns on, even if the phone's on key lock, and then it turns on automatically.

Now that's just my opinion on the phone and I've had it for at least a year now but I think I'm going to get a new one.

If you're looking for something that doesn't cost too much and is reasonably easy to use/takes good pictures/gets yo to your contacts quickly etc. then I recommend this phone although it's got some bad points (that you can maybe overlook from time to time).

I have owned this phone for just about a year, and I do like it a lot. It is my first Sony Ericsson and certainly not my last. This phone offers great value for money with its ample extra features from FM radio to its 3.2 Megapixels camera. However... potential buyers must not assume that its camera produces pictures of a quality equivalent to true digital cameras. I own an actual 3.2 megapixels Cybershot camera (bought in 2004), which produces pictures of a better quality that what the phone camera can produce although the resolution is supposedly the same.

Having said this, I bought the phone to use as a phone... not as a digital camera, and for this I am quite happy with it. The extra office/organizer features such as calendar, notes, tasks, etc. are fully compatible with MS Outlook with which they can be synchronized at the click of a button. This proved to be very useful and something I now use all the time.

The only truly downsides that I have experienced with this phone are the relatively poor original battery life (quite good initially, but rapidly decreased as the months went by), and the cumbersome easily opened-by-accident camera cover. Because of this, I can only give it 4 stars.

As mentioned above, although it is definitely not perfect (nothing is...), I do like this phone quite a bit, and do think it is excellent overall value for money.