PLUS POINTS
Tri Band GSM 900/1800/1900.
T9 text input.
Infrared port, Bluetooth.
Voice Dialling, Voice Answering, Conference Call, Sound Recorder, Volume buttons on side of phone.
Two Voice Lines: Your phone may have two voice lines with different phone numbers (Subscription must support this facility)
Speed Dialling: Shortcuts can be assigned to Number 1 to 9 to dial a particular contact, e.g. just press '2' and then press 'CALL' to call a particular contact.
Closed User Groups function.
We can load new pics, videos, sounds and even themes in phone.
Can also add Templates for Picture Messages.
Dedicated button on side to click photos and record videos. Mirror for taking self portraits.
Night Light/Flash & Settings for Night Shot (although a lot of noise creeps in, spoiling the picture, in very dark conditions only). Option to take a Panorama Picture (combines three shots).
File Manager to Create New Folders/Subfolders & to store sounds, pictures, videos, themes and games in separate folders in addition to pre-defined folders. Can manage many files at the same time for deletion, move or send.
Can save upto 510 numbers in Phone Memory. Can add a picture and a personal ringtone to a phonebook contact. Can Autosave a number after the call ends. Option to save numbers on SIM or in Phone Memory.
Folding Flap to cover charger connector area.
Help is provided withing the phone software for many things.
Phone Lock to prevent unauthorized use if it's stolen.
MINUS POINTS
No SIM Lock Lever to hold the card properly
No gap between Number Keys and Other keys. Can't work faster with joystick. If you have huge fingers, you may not be able to operate joystick properly.
''Curved Hole'' above the camera section, which was supposed to have shutter in that slot but it wasn't fixed due to technical reasons. The ''hole'' looks atrocious.
No CARD slot.
It's a must to plug-in the headset (handsfree kit) for listening FM radio, as it acts like antenna.
OTHER POINTS
Contains both Multitap & T9 Text Input.
Can send one or all contacts to another phone using Bluetooth, Infrared or USB Cable.
Business Card: Can exchange Business Card with PC, PDA, other phone using Bluetooth, Infrared or cable.
STANDBY MODE : Time can be displayed in STANDBY MODE by ''Settings--Display (tab)--Light--Automatic''. It keeps moving from top to bottom of screen with each passing minute. Also some icons such as SMS ICON, MISSED CALL ICON etc. appear alongwith the time in this mode. Press ''+'' Volume button to display time without backlight and ''-'' volume button to display time with backlight. The screen must have been blanked out completely before you use this function.
For completely blanking out the screen and for minimum battery consumption use, ''Settings--Display (tab)--Light--Power save''.
PHOTO/VIDEO: Zoom upto 4x for small size photos/videos. Also have Brightness control, Night Mode, Effects, Frames, Flash, Self-Timer option & Rotate option.
Photo Size: 160120, 320240, 640480, 1280960. Video Size: 12896, 176144.
Phone's ''Photo Section'' becomes slow once you start filling the phone with Photos.
There is no option to mute Camera Click sound, but it's possible to achieve it through innovation.
PHOTO EDITOR: You can edit pictures of the sizes, 160120, 320240. Can't edit these sizes 640480, 1280960.
Tools for editing: Clipart, Frame, Effect, Rotate, Pen, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Text, Color Pallette, Color Picker, Zoom etc.
Can use photos for anything such as wallpaper, start-up screen etc.
Can save animations in phone. File types supported: GIF, JPEG, WBMP, PNG, BMP.
MEDIA PLAYER: Plays all music & video files stored in phone. Supports MP3, MP4, 3GP and WAV(upto 16kHz). Has option to Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward the music tracks. Also Equilizer to control Treble and Bass and Random option to randomize the playback order.
MUSIC DJ: To compose and edit Melodies for Ringtones.
SOUND RECORDER: Can be used to record calls.
FM RADIO: Stores upto 20 radio channels. Stereo/Mono option and Speaker option to listen from phone speaker.
INTERNET: To surf web thru phone. can send an e-mail.
MANUAL: Manual is printed in black and white. You may have to struggle for some topics since everything is not covered.
All other usual functions e.g. Time, Date, Alarm, Calendar, Tasks, Notes (can send to PC), Profiles, Stopwatch, Timer, Calculator, Code Memo (Remembers e.g. Credit Card Code, encrypted in the phone).
Comes with 65K TFT ( 176x220 pixels) screen and 41 MB phone memory.
CAMERA TYPE: VGA
SET COLOURS: Optic Silver & Blue Tinted Silver
I bought my set from UK for £ 110 last year. It's available at same or less amount now a days in India.
Charger and headset provided.
Software CD - PC Suite
PC Suite contains:
-Sychronization software for Microsoft e-mail programs
-SE Mobile Networking Wizard
-SE Sound Editor
-SE MMS Home Studio
-SE Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition
-SE File Manager
-Modem drivers
SE = Sony Ericsson
