Sony Ericsson Z610 Review

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[Beje]

Good phone. I own one myself and I'm quite satisfied of it. It's been 1 year since I first bought it, and it still works great.It's not quite of a big deal, technologically speaking, but it has most of the things that you need.

DESIGN & DISPLAY

It's a clamshell-type phone, with an external OLED display. The internal TFD screen has the resolution of 176x220 pixels, and 256k colors. The graphics are quite good, clear and nice to see. The external display, however is the BIG THING about this phone. It shows u the hour, signal and several things, like if u have received a SMS, or if u have been dialed. When you are listening to music from the Music player, the display shows the title and artist of the current song, and it scrolls from one part to the other. That's pretty awesome, if you ask me. It also shows the volume, when you interact with the volume control keys. When you are talking with some1 at the phone, the display shows some bubbles on it, which are pretty cool to.
When it doesn't show anything, u can use the exterior surface as a mirror, since it's reflective.
I'll give it a 10/10 for the awesome design.

CAMERA

It has a 2MP camera, but the pictures aren't that good. Not a lot of photo shooting options, fact that makes it, well let's say, not so good at immortalizing memories. The secret is to keep the phone still, until u have took the photo. It's the best that can be done. Photos come out pretty good if you do that, but if u shake it just a little bit...I ain't going to talk about the filming capabilities, just one thing: it can do it.
It also has a secondary camera for video conversations only. You can't use it to make photos.
I'm gonna give it a 6/10 for the camera function.

MUSIC

One of the best things about this phone. The music is quite crystal-clear, even at loud volume. It has a big, loud speaker in the back, next to the SIM card. You won't need to buy phone speakers for this phone, since the incorporated speaker does a great job at playing music, loud and clear. You can create playlists with your favorite music, as many as you want, with as many files as you wish. You need to play music from the Music player, if you want to close the shell of the phone. You can't close the shell if u are listening to music from the file browser. There isn't an option to fast add files from the file browser to a playlist, you have to go to the Music player and add the files from there, which can be annoying. It supports several types of audio files, but I use only mp3-s.
I'm gonna give it a 10/10 for the music capabilities.

VIDEO

Not much to say here. It can play 3GP and MP4 files. No support for MPEG4 or AVI files.
8/10, since u can convert your video files to MP4 using a PC, and then play them on your phone.

GAMES & THEMES

It supports most of the java games out there, in 176x220 screen size. So, you're in for some fun!
Not to mention that you can find lots of great themes for this phone on a great site. 'cause u guys are my buddies, I'll tell u which one: www.mobiles24.com
10/10

FUNCTIONALITY & BATTERY

Easy to use, fast to learn interface. Intuitive menu. On the inside of the phone, you've got 3 shortcut keys to WAP, Camera and System manager, from where you can see running applications, web tags and shortcuts to certain places, like the Calculator, or Stopwatch or File manager. You can configure these shortcuts as you wish. The directional keypad can also be used to access different applications. Ex: pressing the right keypad will open the messaging panel, from where you can wright a new SMS/MMS/Voice mail/Email. On the outside of the phone, we have the volume buttons and a music-dedicated button, which can be used to play the last listened song from the current playlist and stop the music.
Battery is pretty ok, u can play games on it the entire day, and at the end of the day, the phone it still alive. Or u can listen to music for 2 days, without any needs to recharge.
10/10




OVERALL
DESIGN & DISPLAY: 10/10
CAMERA: 6/10
MUSIC: 10/10
VIDEO: 8/10
GAMES & THEMES: 10/10
FUNCTIONALITY & BATTERY: 10/10
FINAL NOTE: 9