Finally, I got my k660i, a mid-range phone from Sony Ericsson. I’ll be making a simple review on this phone and I’ll be sharing to you some of my thoughts about the phone. Before I start, let me tell you something, this phone is sweet!
I got the black color of the k660i. The box of the k660i is quite small and the necessary tools are there, a charger, headset, usb cable, manual, and the pc suite for the phone. GSMarena calls it as a polished 3G bar, which sneaks some high-end goodies into the midrange, and I do believe so. Now, let’s go to the design and construction of the phone.
The phone followed the design of the k810i and the k850i, a glass-like object covers the surrounding of the keypads, which are round, but the keypads are lifted so that you can have tactile feedback when pressing it. When you hold the k660i, it’s very light and comfortable in the hand. The upper portion is bare, only the on/off button can be found here. On the right side of the phone is the camera shutter button on the lower part and the zoom keys on the upper part. On the left side, you can see the m2 card slot. The lower portion of the phone offers the standard Sony Ericsson port. On the back portion of the phone is the camera (2.0 megapixel) with fixed focus, and no flash. Clearly, Sony Ericsson didn’t make this phone as a camera phone. This phone is mainly aimed at the fashion-web browsing part of the market. The phone is neatly designed and what I like about Sony Ericsson designs is that they incorporate the video calls camera on the front of the phone yet it doesn’t destroy the beauty of the phone. Actually, it looks sexy and goes on well with the design. On to the keypads, as stated above, the keypads are round like the k810i, maybe some of you think that with these kind of keypads you’ll be having a hard time texting well I tell you no, I did not have a hard time texting even though this is my first time having the circle keypad. The keys located on the front are the d-pad, the soft keys, the end and accept call keys, the activity menu key, and the clear key (c). However, the keys are not the ones worth praising; it’s the LIGHTINGS OF THE KEYPAD, man! Is it awesome! Incorporated beside the 3, 6, 9, and # keys are the icons for the shortcut keys in web browsing: text input, bookmarks, home page and zoom, respectively. This shows that the k660i is mainly focused on web browsing. The most interesting thing about the k660i is the illumination of the keypads; these are not the common ones. When you receive a text the keypad backlight will blink, 4 times. It will illuminate then fade out, then illuminate again then fade out. When the phone is on standby mode, the keypad lightings are turned off and when you press any key, the lightings will go up and the icons on the right side of the phone, the shortcut icons for the web browsing lights up showing activity. By the way, these icons are colored red and look great when illuminated.
Now on to the multimedia part of the phone, the Sony Ericsson has the optimized media center, a 2 mpx camera with cybershot 2.0 UI, walkman 3.0 with megabass, and the Flash lite themes. The camera part of the k660i is very basic, it doesn’t have AF, as well as flash, however, images are ok. So with this I’ll give it an almost average score. Music player is ok as well, loudness is not that loud not that soft also, music are crisp and clear so an average here again. Nothing extraordinary in the media department.
Another thing that I like about the k660i is what I call the “Smart Search”, this is when you type a number on standby mode, all the contacts starting with that corresponding number shows up below. So when I call my friend for example who has a number of 0916-1234567, when I type 0916 his name will appear below the number along with the others who have the same starting number and when I go further by typing 123 the list narrows down until you have the contact you wish to call, an awesome feature indeed.
Messaging is nothing out of the ordinary but with the keypads it’s very easy and comfortable.
Connectivity is one of the fields the k660i focuses on, web browsing is made possible using the traditional Access NetFront HTML browser, this time it's the latest 3.4 version. Improvements here are the mouse pointer, the webpage map view, the "find on page" and "mark and copy" options.
Now that about sums it up, so to conclude, the k660i is not a high-end device but certainly a mid-end device with high-end features. One of the most interesting things is the “smart search” and the illumination. All-in-all, I am very satisfied with the k660i though the camera feature could have been improved more but that’s ok. Because of this, I would give the k660i 7 out of 10 stars for the mid-range value. I highly recommend you consider this one when you opt for a mid-range phone, nice and fun phone. Camera is the only department that disappoints me.
Pros:
Very light
Nice design
Keypad illumination is awesome
“smart search”
Optimized media center
Walkman 3.0
Nice screen
Nice phone for the price range
Video calls camera
Cons
Camera is very basic
No AF
No Flash
I got the black color of the k660i. The box of the k660i is quite small and the necessary tools are there, a charger, headset, usb cable, manual, and the pc suite for the phone. GSMarena calls it as a polished 3G bar, which sneaks some high-end goodies into the midrange, and I do believe so. Now, let’s go to the design and construction of the phone.
The phone followed the design of the k810i and the k850i, a glass-like object covers the surrounding of the keypads, which are round, but the keypads are lifted so that you can have tactile feedback when pressing it. When you hold the k660i, it’s very light and comfortable in the hand. The upper portion is bare, only the on/off button can be found here. On the right side of the phone is the camera shutter button on the lower part and the zoom keys on the upper part. On the left side, you can see the m2 card slot. The lower portion of the phone offers the standard Sony Ericsson port. On the back portion of the phone is the camera (2.0 megapixel) with fixed focus, and no flash. Clearly, Sony Ericsson didn’t make this phone as a camera phone. This phone is mainly aimed at the fashion-web browsing part of the market. The phone is neatly designed and what I like about Sony Ericsson designs is that they incorporate the video calls camera on the front of the phone yet it doesn’t destroy the beauty of the phone. Actually, it looks sexy and goes on well with the design. On to the keypads, as stated above, the keypads are round like the k810i, maybe some of you think that with these kind of keypads you’ll be having a hard time texting well I tell you no, I did not have a hard time texting even though this is my first time having the circle keypad. The keys located on the front are the d-pad, the soft keys, the end and accept call keys, the activity menu key, and the clear key (c). However, the keys are not the ones worth praising; it’s the LIGHTINGS OF THE KEYPAD, man! Is it awesome! Incorporated beside the 3, 6, 9, and # keys are the icons for the shortcut keys in web browsing: text input, bookmarks, home page and zoom, respectively. This shows that the k660i is mainly focused on web browsing. The most interesting thing about the k660i is the illumination of the keypads; these are not the common ones. When you receive a text the keypad backlight will blink, 4 times. It will illuminate then fade out, then illuminate again then fade out. When the phone is on standby mode, the keypad lightings are turned off and when you press any key, the lightings will go up and the icons on the right side of the phone, the shortcut icons for the web browsing lights up showing activity. By the way, these icons are colored red and look great when illuminated.
Now on to the multimedia part of the phone, the Sony Ericsson has the optimized media center, a 2 mpx camera with cybershot 2.0 UI, walkman 3.0 with megabass, and the Flash lite themes. The camera part of the k660i is very basic, it doesn’t have AF, as well as flash, however, images are ok. So with this I’ll give it an almost average score. Music player is ok as well, loudness is not that loud not that soft also, music are crisp and clear so an average here again. Nothing extraordinary in the media department.
Another thing that I like about the k660i is what I call the “Smart Search”, this is when you type a number on standby mode, all the contacts starting with that corresponding number shows up below. So when I call my friend for example who has a number of 0916-1234567, when I type 0916 his name will appear below the number along with the others who have the same starting number and when I go further by typing 123 the list narrows down until you have the contact you wish to call, an awesome feature indeed.
Messaging is nothing out of the ordinary but with the keypads it’s very easy and comfortable.
Connectivity is one of the fields the k660i focuses on, web browsing is made possible using the traditional Access NetFront HTML browser, this time it's the latest 3.4 version. Improvements here are the mouse pointer, the webpage map view, the "find on page" and "mark and copy" options.
Now that about sums it up, so to conclude, the k660i is not a high-end device but certainly a mid-end device with high-end features. One of the most interesting things is the “smart search” and the illumination. All-in-all, I am very satisfied with the k660i though the camera feature could have been improved more but that’s ok. Because of this, I would give the k660i 7 out of 10 stars for the mid-range value. I highly recommend you consider this one when you opt for a mid-range phone, nice and fun phone. Camera is the only department that disappoints me.
Pros:
Very light
Nice design
Keypad illumination is awesome
“smart search”
Optimized media center
Walkman 3.0
Nice screen
Nice phone for the price range
Video calls camera
Cons
Camera is very basic
No AF
No Flash
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