Sony Ericson K700i or Nokia 6230

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gunna order a contract fone, and after lots of thought i was gunna choose the 6230, but last night i had a play on a friends K700i and now i'm torn again! the video and camera are v.good but so is the 6230 infact most of their features are similar except the k700i has a light on the camera!

are there any other features or things ppl know which make one fone better than the other?

help deciding appreciated :p

[BGM]

i chose nokia cos i like nokia software more, and i liked the big middle button better on it

they are both very good phones, i think its just gonna come down to personal preference

go try them both out again

also, if you get one uve got 14 days to change your mind :D

[timsweb]

i got a K700i, had it since september and cant stop loving it, even now i find new features lol

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i've always liked nokia myself cant beat the 3210 ;) but after playing with the K700i i kinda like its style and the advantage is that is has a light and has clearer video.s i have just been on the K700i site and come across the S700, this looks amazing the camera quality is really good... what about that phone is it better than the K700i and is it quite large?

[DerkPY]

K700i.

[Damian]

i say go for the N6230 (Y)

[Gowcra]

k700i, i got one. There GREAT! Go with orange.!

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looks like its the k700i, no1 seems to has reccomended the s700 and it only has 32 memory where the k700i has 41mb... do they not support sd cards or anything? thats an advantage to the 6230

[Razorwing]

I"m dying to get my hands on a K7

[vjsz]

well..the K700 its a little more high end thatn the 6230, its has a better camera.But nokia software rocks..

Wait 45 days and get the 6230i, it has a 1.3 Mp Camera, better screen and new Interafce

[Timmah Veteran]

i've always liked nokia myself cant beat the 3210 ;) but after playing with the K700i i kinda like its style and the advantage is that is has a light and has clearer video.s i have just been on the K700i site and come across the S700, this looks amazing the camera quality is really good... what about that phone is it better than the K700i and is it quite large?

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When I played with the S700 i didnt like it (as a K700i user). It felt quite cheap, and the turny screen thing would really p?ss me off when I needed to answer it...

k700i, i got one. There GREAT! Go with orange.!

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AMEN to that.

Best thing about the K700 is the MYRIAD of themese available.

I recommend when (or if) you get your K700i you get it on Orange, you get a DSS-25 sync station (around ?15) and you update to new firmware.

My syncstation's in the post. At last I can put 100s of themes and Java games on there!

K700i r0x0rs. Really, better than any Nokias I've ever used and they do actually update their firmware once in a while.

[amitsaraf32]

Maybe I'm biased since I have used nothing but Ericsson and Sony Ericsson all my life. I started out on the Ericsson T20, moved to a SE T100, then to a SE T610 and then finally to a SE K700i about 7-8 months ago.

I havent found a phone better than the K700i yet which has the same all -round performance that the K700i does. The only phones cooler than it are the ones which have 2 cameras and /or have video transmission built in.

Nokia may have market share, but nothing looks as good or feels as cool as a K700i. Trust me. You won't regret it. I never have.

[t0lerence]

Im using a K700i, have been using SE phones for a long time, mainly because of their innovations and features (colour screen with bluetooth anyone?) but it has its fault as well. One of the most annoyingest thinigs about the phone is the speed, its quite slow in comparision to a 6230 and the battery life isnt as good. But then saying that though the interface design is miles ahead of the competition!

In my opinion,the camera quality of Nokias have always been better looking and clearer, but then SE have always used higher resolution screens (view a picture taken on a 6230 on a k700 and ull see wat i mean). That said though, the 6230 is much faster because of its simple menu system (unlike the heavy graphics based, with transparency interface on thek700). Also the 6230s idea of theme support is a joke!

well..the K700 its a little more high end thatn the 6230, its has a better camera.But nokia software rocks..

Wait 45 days and get the 6230i, it has a 1.3 Mp Camera, better screen and new Interafce

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This is true to a certain degree, the 6230i is to be released soon with a 1.3Mp camera, not sure about the screen improvements, from wat ive seen its the same with maybe a slightly higher resolution a for the new interface erm yes :D Think of safe mode in windows, u know how u get 16 colors instead of normal32-bitcolours? Thats wat it looks like, a safe mode version of the k700 interface

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If u want a better camera, wait for the 6230i, for anything else and that wicked torch (comes in so useful i love it!!) get teh k700. There wont be a replacement for the k700 until summer i think.

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thanks for the posts, ive ordered the k700i off the orange website! cnt wait :D

[reVidia]

good choice :D

[Pajter]

Aww.. bad choice :p

I have the 6230, and my brother has the K700i. My cam is way better than his, the videos are also much better. They have a very good framerate compared to the K700i.

The only thing the Nokia doesn't have, is the light on the camera. But I don't care about that at all. I think the Nokia is better in a lot of ways. The biggest advantage still is the ability to have MMC cards in your phone. That's something the K700i doesn't have.

The K700i isn't a bad phone, but I just think the 6230 beats it in many ways. :yes:

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i care about the light, so thats a good thing, but yeah the fone only has 41MB memory and not being upgradeable is a bit of a disapointment... saying that i have used the fone and he has ALOT of mp3's pictures and video stored and has quite a bit of free space left. i've also seen some videos on the 6230 and when it's moved (while recording) it bcomes somewhat pixelated, never taken a video with the k700i so i dunno wat its like... anyway al soon find out :)

[LegendaryRamzi]

I have the 6230, and my brother has the K700i. My cam is way better than his, the videos are also much better. They have a very good framerate compared to the K700i.

I've got to agree...

The difference is HUGE, the nokia camera is much better...

[Pajter]

i care about the light, so thats a good thing, but yeah the fone only has 41MB memory and not being upgradeable is a bit of a disapointment... saying that i have used the fone and he has ALOT of mp3's pictures and video stored and has quite a bit of free space left. i've also seen some videos on the 6230 and when it's moved (while recording) it bcomes somewhat pixelated, never taken a video with the k700i so i dunno wat its like... anyway al soon find out :)

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It does get pixelated, but that's the same with the K700i. My brother made a video of me, where I was drumming. Well I can say, I couldn't even see myself move properly when I saw the video. It was very slow.

Then I did the same thing with my phone, when my brother was drumming. You could see the difference very well. I could see everything he did very clearly, just because of the fast framerate of my phone. :)

[ienhz]

The k700 has a way better screen. if im going to get a mid-end phone i sure as hell am not going back to 128x128.

[blik]

You chose the right phone... K700i > 6230. And to respond to people complaining about the limited space of 41MB, try putting a file greater than 6 MB on your 6230 ;)

[ienhz]

You can fit more music in your K700i by compressing to MP4 format. (Y)

[drgrudge]

why 6230 is better :

* EDGe phone

* better compactiblity

* smaller than SE k700i

* expandable memory

* hot swapping of memory cards

* Express on covers or changable covers

* also the night mode operation of K700i sucks

go for 6230 :mobile:

[Pajter]

You chose the right phone... K700i > 6230. And to respond to people complaining about the limited space of 41MB, try putting a file greater than 6 MB on your 6230 ;)

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Did that so many times. Not a problem at all :yes:

And compression is no good.. :no: It's better to have a 1GB MMC card in your phone. You won't have to compress anything then ;)

[autodefe]

You made a good choice. I started off with Nokia phones many years ago but have been a dedicated SE user for the last 2 years. Lately I was wanting a new phone so I got the S700i which is an excellent camera/multimedia phone. If the S700i didn't exist, I would have surely gone for a K700i which is pretty much the same phone with a smaller camera and smaller screen size and expandable memory.

Nice choice :yes: