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Sony Ericsson K610i

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Although the K610i sports a 2-megapixel camera, the photos and videos it captured didn't impress us. As there is no flash of any kind, night time shots turned out dark and grainy, even when we set the camera to night mode. Perhaps we were spoiled by the exceptional 3-megapixel Sony Ericsson K800i, but there were still a couple of aspects of the K610i's camera that let it down. While landscape and portrait photos focused well enough, we ended up with a whole bunch of blurry pics when we tried to take close-ups shots. Images taken in the highest resolution were jagged when viewed at actual resolution and seemed quite pixelated. Other features absent include autofocus and macro mode.

Video capture didn't fare much better. At 176 by 144 pixels and around 10 frames per second, they don't look too bad on the K610i's screen. However, when viewed on a PC we found ourselves squinting at the footage, which was only slightly bigger than a postage stamp.

In our experience, the pre-loaded NetFront browser didn't cope as well as Opera Mini when navigating graphic-heavy Web pages, although it was good for WAP and built-for-mobile sites. The K610i locked up twice when we were browsing Web sites, both times required us to take the battery out to power cycle the phone.

With only 16MB of internal memory and a rather crumby 64MB card in the box, don't expect the K610i to store much more than an album of music, as well as a couple of photos and videos. With a hotswappable card slot concealed under the battery cover, you are able to expand the memory with Sony's Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards while keeping the phone switched on.

We can't fault what are arguably the K610's--and any mobile phone's--core features: battery life and call quality. Sony Ericsson rates the K610i's battery to be good for 7 hours of talk time on GSM, or up to 2.5 hours on 3G networks. Testing the phone under normal usage conditions--with a 2G SIM--we got around 4 days before needing to recharge the handset.

 
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