Sony Ericsson G700 Review

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Don't be fooled by the simple looking of Sony Ericsson G700. Despite its clean and simple looks, the Sony Ericsson G700 has quite a lot in store for you under its hood.

The Sony Ericsson G700 Simple yet Sleek and Stylish Look

In one look you would think that the Sony Ericsson G700 is yet another standard Sony Ericsson phone without any smartphone features. But it's actually a smart mobile phone with standard T9 keypad. The Sony Ericsson G700 is quite sleek. What you would appreciate too is its solid built. The Sony Ericsson G700 is lightweight but it's never delicate. It feels good and just right to the hands.

The G700 sports a 2.4-inch, QVGA TFT touch screen which may display 256 colours. The display is quite bright and nice with respectable colours. You can also trust your Sony Ericsson G700 to be very responsive tooThe Sony Ericsson G700 is supplied with a stylus for ease of use. What's more, the legibility under direct sunlight has also been improved a lot.

On the left side sits the memory card slot for easy memory expand. You also have the fast port next to ir. The other connectors and buttons ...
... like the microphone, loud speakers and such are also strategically placed.

What Has the Sony Ericsson G700 to Offer?

While you are only provided with the standard T9 keypad, QWERTY key texting and typing is also possible using the display. Since it is a touch screen you can use the stylus to type in messages, notes and other applications. In addition to that, the handwriting recognition feature is also present in the Sony Ericsson G700.

For ease of use, you can set up your Sony Ericsson G700 to have shortcuts to favorite or most commonly used applications and features while the phone is on standby. On the other hand, you can also have a blank screen. If you choose the latter, you will only have the time on display during standby.

Compared with the similar handsets on the marketplace, the Sony Ericsson sports a relatively larger RAM, so it's not a problem at all to install and run more applications on this one very handset. The operations are smooth and pleasant and Java applications also run fast.

Something new to the Sony Ericsson mobile phones is the notes application wherein you can create sticky notes. You can classify each one of them as personal, business, urgent and unfiled.

Just like other smart mobile phones, the Sony Ericsson G700 also has document viewers in Quickoffice and PDF+. Web browsing is also possible using Opera Mobile.

If you choose the media menu you will find a lot of the fun stuff. Sony Ericsson G700 supports many commonmusic file formats so music lovers are in for a treat. They can load all their favorite tracks. There's even the TrackID feature in it too. Player interface is very much similar with the iPhone or iPod. You have player control buttons on the screen too. It's also possible to edit the equalizer. Like most mobile phones, you can also listen to FM radio.

Sony Ericsson G700 sports a 3 MP camera . You can take pictures and video clips as well. While its video and photo viewer is not outstanding, it does its job decently.

As for calling purposes, the Sony Ericsson G700 really does well. Voices are always clear from both ends. The reception is quite good. Saving contact information is very easy as well.

The Sony Ericsson G700 is actually a mid-level mobile phone. But its features can be likened that to high end models. It is definitely one of the must haves today.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.