Wahey! I got my new phone - a shiny new, Samsung d900i sleek gorgeous looking slider phone.
Yes, it has actually got a whole host of lovely features, such as Bluetooth, 3 MP camera with auto focus, the good looks of a new slider phone (I think it is gorgeous), interesting features such as a background that changes at night time - a picture of Big Ben and one side of the Houses of Parliament that lights up at night time and shows fireworks, and birds flying across a changing sky in the daytime, a speaker phone, WAP access and animated textual messages, that when delivered type themselves on the screen and replaces some words with little animations, like 'house' and 'phone' for example. It also has a music player, an FM radio and has expandable memory in the form of a Micro SD card - I've got a 1GB card, but I think it can take at least a 2GB card. In the box, I got a shiny new phone, new sim card, new top up swipe card, charger, headphones (which are very nice in terms of looks and comfort and sound), and a small user guide, as well as plenty of plastic bags and plastic ties.
At first, I loved it. However, as I began to use it, I started to compare it to my old phone, a Motorola v545.
Let me just point out at this moment that my v545 was the first mobile I bought, and I have had no problems with it what-so-ever. Except that on the first day of buying it, I dropped it into a glass of drink that was sat on the table. Was NOT impressed. Luckily, it did no damage, but towards the end of its usage period (about a year, two years? after I bought it) I was having to put every call (outgoing and incoming) on speaker phone just so that I could here the caller, because I think the internal amplifier blew. I also had to buy several new aerials, as they kept falling out, and so I had little signal for small periods.
Ok, so no problems with the phone, much.
I believed when I bought the v545 that it was a really good phone, with enough features (at the time) to keep me entertained, and I was happy at the price - at £110 I think I got what I paid for, it was well worth it and I got what I wanted at the time. Oh, there were several problems with it: one, the bluetooth didn't allow me to surf other people's handsets very well, if at all, I could only receive files they sent me, or send files my self, and although this is probably the main function of bluetooth (it was designed to send sound wirelessly), I was not impressed as a secondary school student at break. Two, the camera really was bad, (it sufficed as a basic camera, but the picture quality/size e.t.c was poor. Thirdly, it had a distinct lack of memory, so to store all the pictures I wanted to take and had taken, I had to reduce the file size; fine but this also reduced image quality and pixels. Couple the large amount of photos with the games I downloaded and completed within two weeks of getting them, and all my textual messages, videos (entertaining ones form friends, such as Angry Kid), and downloaded ringtones - Mine was dare by Gorillaz, and I had virtually no memory for virtually all of the time. But, apart from these complaints, it is still in my opinion, a really good phone that was way ahead of the competition when it was released, and probably still is in some ways. The keys for instance, are set apart, are big enough to touch properly, but still look stylish.
The only really problem is that the large on aerial on the outside of the phone is sometime annoying when you want top get your phone out of your pocket, because it is playing Gorrilaz - dare at you.
The problems I have with my new phone basically stem from features not being present on the Samsung (called Samuel), which were present on my old phone, which is annoying. For instance, I can only change the ringtones and message tones, I can't change the alarm tone and the answerphone message tone at all, as this option simply does not exist. The alarm tone will suffice, but there are limited options just like the massage tone. This is annoying, as my old phone used to go 'ding dong' like a dorrbell when I received a textual message, but now it goes something like 'whir whir weeeup' which is different, but coll in its own way. I can also not change the name of my alarms, and I inly get three: a wake up one and two general ones, whereas on my old phone I had about 6 different ones. However, in all fairness, Samuel does make it easier to set the time for the alarm; I can just type it in now, instead having ot move up and down through all the minutes.
Another annoying thing is that my new phone can access the mobile internet at the touch of a button, and this costs me credit. My old phone could do this too, but no matter. It is more prevalent on my new phone as the button that accesses the net is in the centre of the control pad which I use to get to all my options.
A handy little feature on my new phone i 'My Menu' which allows me to short cut to certain features - I have create new sms text message, calculator, fm radio, and alarms, on mine. Oh, talking about messages:::
Main aggro at new phone comes from new textual messages I am composing:
1) Predictive text is weird, and doesn't work properly.
2) I have to manually select the option to 'save and send' if I want the message to go to my sent folder, rather than it doing it automatically.
In all fairness, these aren't terribly bad things, an I have got used to doing things slightly differently - typing a textual message by pressing lots of keys and selecting the option to save and send for instance.
Overall, I love my new phone. I love it's thickness, it's looks, it's camera, and its memory. I give it an 8/10, but my old phone gets a 7/10. It may have different features, or a lack of them, but it is still worth of this score due to being super duper straight from when it came out of the box.
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