It’s my B’day again and it almost completes an year with my Sony Elm, which I gifted myself last B'day. After 2 weeks of studying the market and available models, I had finally decided to go for the Elm.
Let me share my experiences in the year which went by.
Camera: 5MP, and brilliant quality. Not only is it a powerful camera, always in your pocket, it’s also replaced our 5MP nikon point-and-shoot in many a family trips. I’ve no regrets on the camera. I even got some photos printed on 8x5 and they are pretty professional in quality. The camera does suffer in low light, as the flash is only best used as a torch. Also the bundled 2GB gets used up pretty fast, but the phone supports up to 8GB.
Connectivity:
Wi-Fi: Fast connection and does not eat the battery like crazy, I use this at night in bed to read few articles online. The wifi does not work with my campus wifi, which uses WPA2-Enterprise. But works on all other Wi-Fi networks that I’ve encountered.
3G: I recently MNP’d to Vodafone and got 3G activated. Speeds are 2 Mbps, though the phone supports 7.2mbps, no idea why. Voice calling is pretty OK, but with lack of a front-camera and a not-so-good speaker, it’s not too cool.
GSM: Signal strength is good. Switching between GSM and 3G is also smooth.
GPS: It supports A-GPS which uses some GPRS data to give location data faster than just GPS. I use mgmaps application(which keeps the maps downloaded on the phone) with GPS. GPS also helps in photo-tagging, which is very neat and fun for trips.
Interface:
Threaded SMS: I love this part, no more un-sorted thousands of SMS in inbox and sent box . Neatly arranged and easy to manage. Also threaded sms works in parallel with normal SMS-by-SMS type display, so you can switch as and when you like.
Menus: Standard Sony interface, easy to use, and good themes. Oh and the user-manual is in-build in the phone, which is also convenient, along with being green( no paper manual included)
Camera: Old cybershot like interface, settings for focus, colours, white balance. I miss having a forced flash (auto or off only).
RATING: 5/5
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