It's a SONY

Although I have been an avid supporter of SONY, I had decided not to buy another cell which is a sony ericcson. One word is the reason : Joystick. This is probably THE worst thing that sony could've done to their cell phones and I thought they would neva learn! Have had a J200, K610i, K700i till date. But my love was still the J200i(not sure about the model number though :D) just because it had a non rectangular shape, and keys were simple, battery back up was good and reception was purrfect. With the k7001, it was love at first ad. Bought it the day it was launched in india. Cost me a big hole in my pocket but I was a kid who was elated beyond any boundary of imagination! :"> Then after six months, the jog dial started acting up and till date I haven't found a perfect replacement for it. Anyway, so as my friend wanted a second fone, I had to get a new one as the k700i made it almost impossible to scroll. So I went to the nearest local dealer and looked around. Liked the L600, L700 but the fact that I wanted FM didn't favour the Motorola series. My budget was 3k. I didn't want to spend lavishly on some new gadget and blow up my li'l saved savings. So there was this new motorola basic model with FM with the price tag as 3k. It looked good enough but the listening volume wasn't good enough for me. With music blaring at full volume most of the times on my headphones, what do ya expect! Thus the shopping was a dud. Then my friends came by as we had planned for an hour or more of snooker before I had to leave for work. Boda said 'CC payment, buy what model you like dude'. I was tempted........oh boy was I tempted like hell. For the heck of it, went through the N series of Nokia models. Then decided 'no way, not another big budget fone fer moi!'. So then I saw some other models. Half n hour passed. NO NEW GADGET, DON"T BLOW YOUR MONEY etc..thoughts went outta the window flying away and ended up with :



Few review links :

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilephones/0,39051199,39097446p,00.htm

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w810-reviews-1402.php