Wanting a New Phone

Necessities and wants. Everyone needs something and others just want them. For some time now I have been wanting a new phone. Yes, I need it because it is necessary for me to know i can reach someone at a whim. However, I want a new one. Mine is functioning very well, a bit of scratches here and there but basically it still functions as it is supposed to. By the way my phone is Sony Ericsson's W300, very good buy around a year ago because it produces very good music and can capture pictures. The reason I want to replace it is that I want a better cellular phone camera. The reason for this is that I cannot have my PENTAX Optio50 fixed for a low price (it's better to buy a new one because the price of fixing it is almost the same as buying a new one). The W300 only has VGA camera cannot produce crisp pictures, well not as near as a 1.3 Mega pixel cellular phone camera, not even close.

Since I like taking pictures and my digital camera does not work as good as it used to and my cellular phone camera won't suffice either, I am looking for a new phone that will fit my needs, as of now. So there, I stated my reasons for wanting to buy a new phone. So what a few demands I want my cellular phone needs to meet?

First, budget wise I am looking for a phone between PhP 5K-15K. It may be very low and unreasonable but, that is as far as my pocket goes. I even like it to be under PhP 10K.(So for anyone who would want to suggest, this is something grave to consider)

Second, my desired features.

One is that I want it to be able to play music, MP3. Well, I do not want to buy an I-pod so I want my music to be integrated with my phone. I want to get the most value of my money that's why I am choosing phones that can do whatever I like it to do.

I also want to have at least a 1.3 Mega pixel Camera, but would greatly appreciate if I could get a 5 Mega pixel, but has to be under PhP 15K. hehehehe...I am such a thrift shopper.

That's basically my conditions for choosing a phone. (As of now at least)

These are a few phones I am looking at and what I particularly like about them.

One thing you will notice, I am only looking at Sony Ericsson phones. I do not like Nokia phones because they cost much and do not boast much of features. However, what is very good about Nokia phones is that when they are Symbian they are programmable allowing the user to personalize his or her phone features he or she wants. Unlike others that limit applications run by java. Nevertheless, I am not so keen in buying a Nokia phone, its so popular that fakes are out in the market.

Sony Ericsson W810i

So far the lowest price I found for this one is PhP 8800. What I like most about its features is that it has a 2 Mega pixel camera, flash, autofocus and macro. Plus, being a walkman phone, it can play music crisply. Further, it has a radio application in case you get bored with the MP3s you have. But most of all the memory storage it uses is Sony's Memory Stick Pro Duo, not as hard to find as Sony's M2, and perhaps not as expensive either. It can support up to 4GB of external memory.

Okay fine, I am so biased into buying this phone because of its price, but I am open to suggestions and other models.

Sony Ericsson K810i

This is one of the Sony Cybershot phones out in the market. It costs around PhP 2000 more than the W810i, but features are good too. It boasts of the 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera with flash, autofocus and macro modes. It can also play MP3s and has a built in radio. The downside for me with this phone is that it uses Sony’s M2 for external memory, which is quite expensive and a bit hard to find. One more thing about this phone is that it looks so elegant, and works well with business attire, unlike walkman phones that looks a bit rugged.

However, I am also a bit sold in buying this one because my friend tells me that I am quite a yearly cell phone buyer, who does not seem to be content. He said that if I buy this one it may last more than a year with me. Haha, he knows me too well.

Now if money is no object. I think I would want to buy any of the following.

Sony Ericsson W960

It is a Symbian phone produced by Sony that has touch screen features. It has a 3.15 Mega pixel camera with autofocus, video in VGA, flash and video call camera (VGA). It is a walkman phone so it can play MP3s with bass settings and it has a built in FM radio. Further, it has a built-in8GB worth of memory, quite a leap from other Sony Ericsson phones. It has other great features, though I am not so keen at looking at them, but it is a great phone for my simple wants in cellular phone features. However, this phone does not have a card slot for external memory, but would you even need one when it already has 8GB.

I am still looking at other phones, but this is what I have in mind for now. I will try to look for Nokia phones that I would want and write an entry for it some other time, so with my other cellular phone wants. But this is it for now.

Photos taken from: http://www.sonyericsson.com