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Sony Ericsson K790 Review - Display & Audio



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Fareed
Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006
by Fareed, Cell Phone Editor
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Display & Audio

Editor Rating: 4.7
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Sony Ericsson K790The display of the K790/K800 is an excellent upgrade from the k750. The display is QVGA 240x 320 while the k750’s display was only 176x 220. The display is a major improvement, not only in quality but in size too. The screen is capable of displaying 256k colors and is excellent for displaying pictures, playing games, and browsing the net. The display is the same size as the S700 and W900 models. It was a wise decision to make the screen’s resolution better because you can now read text more easily and view high quality pictures. 

Although the Sony Ericsson k790/K800 is not a W-Series phone does not mean it is not meant for listening to music. The k790/K800 has an excellent speaker which is located at the back of the phone near the camera cover. Although the speaker is sufficient it could be a bit louder. One thing I noticed is that the ring tones on highest volume is louder than the maximum volume in the music player.

The provided headphones are excellent. They go very high in volume and have excellent sound quality. The K790/K800 also has built in stereo over Bluetooth which is becoming more and more common on new phones. This feature works great with the new Sony Ericsson HBH- DS970 Bluetooth stereo headphones. The new HBH-DS970 is expensive but is certainly worth the money. The headphones are not like the normal Bluetooth headphones which cover your ears, they are ear buds. Another cool thing about these headphones is that it has a built in display and shows caller ID. Although these headphones work great with the new K790/K800, the caller ID did not work on my HTC Universal and some other windows mobile devices.

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