The K850 is more like a camera with a phone added
than the other way round. And it has support for an unbelievable
list of JSRs.
The good:
- Decent color display
- MP3 Player
- Good high-res still camera with autofocus and macro support, so on short
trips I don't need to bring a separate camera.
- Decent video camera with astonishingly good image quality as long as digital
zoom is not used. This camera lens (same as the still camera) faces away from
the keypad.
- A second, lower res webcam for video call use (how's that for overkill).
This camera faces the keypad.
- mini-SD card slot
- Superb Java support
- Stable operation - much better than my newest version Razr
The not-so-good (it's hard to nit-pick this phone, so consider these things which
make it less than perfect, rather than real problems):
- Bigger and klunkier than say a Motorola Razr
- Not a flip phone so it doesn't just fold to protect itself. So it needs a
case to avoid scratching the LCD or (even worse) the camera lens window. You
won't ever want to just toss it in a pocket and go.
- Digital zoom on video camera is all but worthless at more than 2X.
- No support for video quality settings. At high digital zoom the images degrade
significantly.
- No custom white balance for the camera.
- non-trivial setup with T-Mobile if you want to use the phone as a Bluetooth
modem, or even want to be able to receive complex graphical messages such as
the ones Delta Airlines suddenly started sending me.
- The three soft keys just under the display are sometimes not sensed by my
fingers and need multiple presses to be sensed
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