I bought a new cell phone!

Two days back, I bought a new cell phone - Sony Ericson 800i through one of my friends in Singapore (for this model is yet to be released in India). It is a cool phone with several cool features. Previously, I had an much older model of Nokia - 3310, that I bought some 3.5 years back. I have never used any other phone till now, so everything about this phone seemed quite new and awesome to me. But, notably interesting to me were its camera and organizer. The camera is absolutely fantastic, no doubt, with its 3.2 Mega-pixels, zoom in/out, its inbuilt Xenon flash etc. The model is named cyber-shot, to announce its linkage with the cybershot digital camera from Sony (I'm not quite sure if the technologies are the same). Its organizer supports most things that the MS outlook too supports - appointments, tasks, notes, contacts etc. I am told that most models of existing mobile phones too supported this feature. I am a fan of organizing things digitally, using calendars and so on, and in fact was one of the reasons I even set out to buy a new mobile. In my opinion, the ability to synchronize your MS outlook appointments in your PC with your phone, and getting reminded of them even while on the move, is one of the coolest things that mobile designers ever invented.

There are of course lots of other features also, like video calling (there is a separate VGA camera in the front panel of the phone to help this), video recorder, internet access, music player, radio, games etc, but all these were secondary to me. I am not a great reviewer of technologies and don't know quite a lot about cameras and absolutely nothing about the latest technology available in today's cell phones. May be because of that, I am impressed by what I got. The price of course was a bit high (near to Rs.19000/-). I read through most of the reviews available in the web about this phone, and its comparison with others available in the market, but this one and this one was perhaps the most exhaustive and the best. These reviews really helped me choose the right model...