Outlandish
I’ve just switched to a new phone contract and therefore got the opportunity to pick a new phone. Unfortunately I had to pick it within 30 seconds, looking at them on a computer screen upside down with no opportunity to really look into what each one was going to give me. I would normally spend ages looking through all the available options to see what the best fit was for me, comparing once against the other, thinking what I would be able to do with whatever selection I decided to go for. But I had none of that here, just a quick look at a few pictures on a website. So I went with Sony Ericsson again, this time a k800i. It wasn’t the highest spec phone I could have got, but it was the only one on the website that still looked like a phone. Desperate to make each phone look different from the last, it seems that all the mobile companies have decided it’s time to get more and more outlandish with their designs, to the point where they all just start to degenerate into an ugly mess.
On the surface, it seems like it’s just the same as my last model, the k750i, but it has a 3.2 megapixel camera, a step up from the 2 megapixel in the previous model. Unfortunately they ruin this with the choice of lense covering, a silly, flimsy bit of plastic with little to no weight to it, which has the terrible habit of sliding back as soon as you put the phone in your pocket. Or breath on it the wrong way. I am starting to wonder whether or not anybody actually uses these phones before they’re released to the wild, it would seem that anybody using it for 5 minutes would have noticed that as a fairly serious design flaw.
