My love for Sony Ericsson continues

Everybody around seemed to use a Nokia when I bought my first Sony Ericsson (SE), a K750i. Had used Samsung R220 and Nokia 6610i before but K750i was my first love. A state-of-the-art device, a beauty. It was barely eight months when it refused to charge properly. SE’s highly incompetent service-center people said, there is a corrosion in phone due to moisture in environment. Someone from SE called and told me that it might due to sweat. I agreed, dumped my first love and bought another K750i. I was really taking care of the phone this time (even paid Rs.300 for that transparent screen-care film, scratch-guard. It came off in just 2 months!), but perhaps God didn’t like this, he thought, how can this highly unmanaged person managing the phone well! It was third month running when I forgot my phone in a taxi in Fort. The taxi-walla was intelligent enough, within 5 minutes of losing the phone when I tried, ‘The Airtel subscriber you are calling is not reachable…’. Not everyone is good.

This time, I wanted to try something different. A PDA maybe. But prime criteria was sleekness. No decent PDA is sleek! Still, didn’t want to try K750i. Thanks to GSMArena, could shortlisted Motorola ROKR E6, Sony Ericsson W810i, Nokia 6233 Music Edition, Nokia N70 Music Edition and Sony Ericsson K790i in just 3-4 hours of research. Went to my favourite mobile shop at Vashi, Maaru NX and met Manoj (22-67910575). Discarded ROKR E6 almost instantly as didn’t like weight, highly shiny design, average music and bad camera. Nokia 6233 and Nokia N70 couldn’t appeal either. Was feeling like *upgrade*, hence discarded W810i too and chose K790i.

It’s barely 7 days I bought this device but I am sort of in love again. What I liked in K790i over K750i is, its 3.2MP camera, bigger and brighter display, EDGE (I am going to use it in a couple of days), looks and Radio (reception is better than K750i and it doesn’t have that irritating sound of tin-tin). SEs look fragile but they are quite sturdy, though camera-cover seems to be very delicate in K790. One thing that I am missing from day one is absence of MegaBass, however, since I have HPM-70 headphones, it’s not that big deal.

I had bought my K790i from Maaru NX, Vashi for Rs.12,500. The package included a surprise, a 1Gb M2 memory card. Manoj clarified that the phones he has, have 1Gb cards inside. Sony was offering them under a promotional offer. I wasn’t aware of the fact and was planning to spend a couple of thousand rupees for the card. Overall a nice purchase, I am happy.