Was looking at the Z500a Camera/Video Camera Phone.



Available Features
Integrated VGA still and video camera with zoom and brightness control
Video and picture Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) capable*
Mobile Instant Messaging using AOL® Instant MessengerTM*
EDGE high-speed data access
Polyphonic speaker and downloadable ringtones, supertones, and full-audio (MP3) ringtones
Downloadable 3-D games and graphics
High-resolution, full-color display (65k internal display and 4K external display)
POP3/IMAP4 e-mail: pre-configured for Bellsouth.net, SBC Yahoo, and Earthlink)
Text messaging capable*
FastForward capable*
MEdia Net (Wireless Internet Express) capable*
Wireless modem capable with optional USB cable*
Data Connect capable*
510 alphanumeric phone book entries
Personal organizer: Calendar and contact list with synchronization
Customizable wallpapers, screen savers, and themes
Voice activated dialing and answering
Voice recorder
Removable front and back covers
Tri-band world phone: Operates on 850/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS networks

 

Great Phone, but you picked a bad provider, lol

Get T-Mobile man

 

it is ranked one of the highest performing phones out of cing. arsenal. they also sell the worst phone the 237. the z500 has a lot of features at a cheap price, it is supposed to be the best with siganl out of all the cing phones.

every once in a while the screen will go white and you have to take the battery off and reinstall and then turn it back on, and the prob is fixed.

typically SE has always had the shittiest phones in terms of reliability, but thsi one isnt bad at all

 

not a bad phone, but for some reason i can't see it lasting 2 years.

 

I just got this phone, 2 of them for $50

Seems like a good phone, i've always been a nokia man though, this is my first flip phone. We'll see how it holds up

 

I love Sony Ericsson. I used Nokia for the longest time and tried to use one a couple weeks ago...I just couldn't do it... For some reason I think Nokia put a bunch of broken vocoders in their phones. I could never make a call when signal hit 50% with a nokia...but with SE, no problem mon. Chopper, if you show up at the next meet at trancemission's place, I'll show you an SE that'll blow you away.

BTW, the Z500a is a sweet phone! And for whoever was dogging Cingular service earlier...do some research cause T-Mobile isn't the best in a lot of spots like East coast and parts of California.

 

Thats what my sister and I did.

 

Yeah this is my frist ever SE. Finally on the GSM network and works amazingly well at my house, which I always had about 1/4 signal strength with the Digital network, but now I am at > or = half signal strength.

Only complaint, no belt clips for it yet (or at least not at the Cingular store).

 

There's all sorts of tricks to get your phone to get more signal strength...I know one trick but it'll cut your battery life down to about 3-4 hours if you want that. As for the belt clip...I actually haven't seen any, you might even want to check eBay for a generic belt clip.

On another note, ready for a bbq @ trancemissions?

 

what kind of tricks?

 

good to hear they are working well for everyone

 

Remember back in the day like Nintendo had the up up down down left right left right a b trick? There is stuff like that for phones too... You can enable all sorts of weird status screens on the phone.

 

don't forget this

 

its up up down down left right left right b a select start actually.

and wtf are you talking about? what can you enable seriously and how?

 

damnit! That's right b then a .

Yes, seriously...This is the only technical side of phones I have no idea about. All I know is that my parents had 2 problem phones (nokia 8290 and 3390) back in the day. There is a way to increase the amount of power used by the phone to retreive RF...it's been awhile since I get awesome coverage now. It really shoots the battery down though.

 

So I bought the phone. Sis and I got the Buy one get one free deal. Like it so far, LOTS of shit to learn

 

yeah i've always been a motorola flip kinda guy....got my first Sony Ericsson candy bar style phone....i LOVE IT....it rocks.....it just got screwed up from water damage though....highly recommended.

just bought a slider phone.....we'll see how that goes.....