kiSAh aKu juGa MerEKa: K770i...my life..

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What my PHONE have.....

‧ Charger
‧ Car charger 12V CLA
‧ USB synchro/charging cable
‧ Wire headset (HPM-62)
‧ 512 Mb Memory Stick Micro (M2) card (M2)
‧ Software disk
‧ User manual

Storage

Sony Ericsson K770i possesses some 16 Mb of integrated memory. M2 expansion cards can be used to extend the amount of storage space, but there is no possibility for hot swapping – it’s necessary to remove the battery cover in order to reach the card slot. A 256-Mb card comes bundled with the phone.

Screen

Sony Ericsson K770i is supplied with a TFT QVGA display (320x240), what’s quite typical of class of devices, but the screen size is disappointing – just a mere 1.9’. The color palette is disappointing as well – only 262k colors as compared to the 16 millions that Nokia phones handle.

In fact the picture is very nice – sporting full contrast, brightness and rich in colors. Not brilliant yet very good. The viewing angles are excellent. The display behaves in a nice way when exposed to the direct sunlight thanks to its mirror backing - the screen information remains perfectly legible.

audio formats:

AAC, AMR, MPEG Layer 3, Real 8, AWB, WAV, MP4, MIDI, iMelody, 3GPP, XMF, M4A, RHZ, WMA.

Vide?:

MPG4, 3GPP, SDP, Real8, WMV.

graphics:

JPEG, GIF87, GIF89A, PNG, SVG, WBMP, BMAs we see, everything is quite all right for a casual phone. The photo or the picture in the message can keep their original size, or automatically scaled down to 640?480, 320?240 or 120?160. It’s possible to turn on the message autoload system, delivery and read report, to select the creation mode (with limitations or warnings), this option concerns the message size

Multimedia

Sony Ericsson products keep traditionally strong positions in this area, including format compatibility. The K770i model supports quite a number of audio formats: MP4 (AAC, AAC+, eAAC+), MP3 (up to 192 kb/s officially, though out tests revealed practical compatibility with higher bitrates), M4A, 3GPP (AAC, AMR), AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WAV, G-MIDI, RealAudio 8, eMelody, iMelody, RHZ, XMF, WMA, and video: MP4 (MPEG4+AAC/AMR), 3GPP (MPEG4/H.263/H.264+3gp/AAC/AMR), RealVideo 8, WMV ASF, graphics: JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, SVG, WBMP. All the more or less common formats are supported.

A 1st generation player is used in K770i, we didn't notice any changes since K750i. It's quite a simple solution yet still sufficient and up to modern-day standards (while K850i utilizes a 3rd generation player). The player can work in the background, there's the support for sorting and playlists, equalizers, playback order customization. The equalizer has five bands, there's an option to tweak the saved presets to your liking - yet there's no way to save the changes permanently. All in all, the player interface is quite standard, it's a bit less appealing in terms of usability and visual appearance as compared to the latest 3rd generation players in numerous latest Nokia and Samsung phones.

K770i built quality is quite good yet not ideal. There's no play between the parts, but the device squeaks if you squeeze the casing, the back side of the cover gradually grows scratched and shabby. Unlike T650i the is no case included in the sales package. As for rhe consdtructive elements, everything is similar to its premium relative. Sony Ericsson have traditionally put the interface socket on the left side. It is also used for plugging the wire headset which only further complicates the usage. One more uncomfortable moment – there is no hot swapping support for the memory card. There is no need in taking off the battery if you want to replace or insert the memory card, but you have to remove the back cover anyway. The latter procedure is not as trivial as it seems because of the inconvenient latch just slightly sticking out from the casing surface. Though everything except these problems is OK – the rest is quite traditional : the power button is at the top, the volume controls are on the right edge and a bit lower is the camera button.

The presence of the lens guard is something of a seemingly low importance, yet in fact it keeps a lot of trouble away. In T650i it’s implemented in such a way that the area around the lens sticks out a bit, so the protective glass accumulates grease and scratches over time. Though the camera module could be easily placed entirely inside the casing without any protruding parts – proved by Samsung. Also the T650i model has a slight gap between the lens and the cover, which leads to greasing. That's not the best solution by Sony Ericsson so far. Both problems were fixed in K770i – the improvements based on the customer feedback are obvious. The extreme pursuit of mobility also means certain inconveniences while sliding aside the lens guard – the tactile friction is minimal and the part doesn't stick out above the case level at all. The one-touch sliding mechanism will grow loose over time, leading to obvious problems. Yet this doesn’t deny the necessity of a lens guard, for example, we dropped the phone for several times down into the wet grass (as a test). The same operation was performed with T650i. The last one got water inside the casing so we had to disassemble the case to get it dry. K770i didn’t get such problem.