Entertainment, Internet, Storage & Connectivity
4.7
The Sony Ericsson K790/K800 is an entertainment machine!! One aspect I liked a lot were the games included with the phone. The games preinstalled were: Tennis, mini golf and a fishing game. The tennis game was my favorite because it has an interesting feature that not many games have yet, which is multi-player via Bluetooth. With this feature you can play anyone who has a compatible Sony Ericsson phone. Since the k790 and k800 are made for different parts of the world it makes more sense making different versions. The k790 which is for North America has both EDGE and GPRS. The GPRS is decent for browsing WAP sites and has a speed range of 32- 48 K bits per second. The EDGE is a lot faster and you can view normal HTML sites at excellent speed rates, EDGE has speed rates of up to 327 K bits per second. The K800 has HSCSD, GPRS and 3G and is meant for Europe and Asia. Since the K800 has 3G, it also has a secondary camera for video calling located on the front of the phone.
An excellent feature that Sony Ericsson has incorporated into this phone is Bluetooth-internet and USB-Internet. This feature allows you to use the internet on your phone through a connection from your laptop or home PC. Although Bluetooth is a lot easier because it is wireless, some people may not have Bluetooth on their computer, the good news is that you can do that exact same with your USB cable that is included with your phone. Sony Ericsson has included PAN (Personal Area Networking) with a lot of their new phones which makes it very easy to connect to the internet using a home computer or laptop.
The K790/K800 has 64 MB built in and a 64MB card is included with the phone. The K790/K800 are the first phones that include the new Sony memory: Sony M2. The memory is very small compared to the old Sony memory stick duo and is comparable to the micro SD flash memory. M2 is good because the memory is small but also is a bad thing because it is very expensive and is currently limited to 1 GB. Sony will implement this memory in a lot of their new products so it is a good idea for changing memory between various devices.
The K790/K800 has three different types of connectivity. The first one is Bluetooth version 2.0. The Bluetooth v2.0 is a lot better than the old 1.2 standard because it is faster and drains less battery. The Bluetooth also has many features like: Stereo over Bluetooth, Bluetooth mouse, Bluetooth internet and Bluetooth file transfer. Another connectivity type is infrared port which is becoming more and more obsolete because Bluetooth can do everything that infrared can and more. Although infrared is not used often it is good for sending small data files from one device to another. The third connectivity type is USB. With the USB cable you can make the phone a mass storage drive so you can easily drag and drop files you want. The USB is version 2.0 which is excellent for high speed data transfers. The USB also charges the phone when connected.
