Michael's K750i review

[DEViANT]

Just read it - as many of you might or might not know I've never been a big SE fan but that is a killer phone if ever I saw one. Picture quality is incredible, great battery life (something S60 phones probably won't ever offer) and good multimedia support. Kind of blows the 6230i out of the water doesn't it? I didn't even look when the K700 came out but this is worth a look (or at least would be if I wasn't on 3 UK). I have to say though, that rohan123's review shows it to be almost as big as a 6680 and for the OS advantage I'd choose that any day. Well I'm waiting for N90 which I believe has WCDMA support. And Michael, that was a great review - detailed, concise and with proper grammar, nevertheless I'm sticking with my 6630...

[omie]

Fantastic review Michael, well done............thank you very much..........impressive phone
Have a good weekend.
Cheers,
:)mie

[cfj03]

I have to say though, that rohan123's review shows it to be almost as big as a 6680 and for the OS advantage I'd choose that any day. Well I'm waiting for N90 which I believe has WCDMA support. And Michael, that was a great review - detailed, concise and with proper grammar, nevertheless I'm sticking with my 6630...

I saw it compared to the N90 and 6680 and while the N90 was HUGE, larger than the 6680 and as big as the p910, the K750i looked much smaller than the 6680.

[mamalik]

Nice review Michael. Thanks.
One question I need to ask is whether K750 calendar function has the ability to repeat the appointments. This function is missing in all other SE phones except for PXXX series. This is the one of the major factors keeping me from SE phones.

[shaheen]

this phone is going to be freaking popular here in aus if it maintains its cheap price tag when released.

i honestly think SE is trying to flood the market with k750s before the N90 is released.

[Chingar]

Great review! The phone is still ugly though. :'(. Awesome pic quality.

[difenbaker]

Just read it - as many of you might or might not know I've never been a big SE fan but that is a killer phone if ever I saw one. Picture quality is incredible, great battery life (something S60 phones probably won't ever offer) and good multimedia support. Kind of blows the 6230i out of the water doesn't it?

yup yup.... except maybe for EDGE, which is absent on the K750 - but is present on the newer SE phones that will be released this year. (zoe and ellen)

nice review indeed.


cheers!

[BigBadBoss]

this phone is going to be freaking popular here in aus if it maintains its cheap price tag when released.

i honestly think SE is trying to flood the market with k750s before the N90 is released.

I think the N90 is too HUGE to be compared with k750!!!
the k750 is not d perfect phone.. far from it!!
but tell me if u guys know any other phone that offers such features at that size! with SE's growing reliability in making phones which have excellent build quality and intuitive software... i think d k750 will have very few competitors in the next 4/5 months
By the way even im thinking of buying it in about a month's time from now... u think the price will reduce till then? Its Rs.20,500 in India (USD 470) now... any chances of it reaching a notch below USD 400 in a month????

[difenbaker]

Nice review Michael. Thanks.
One question I need to ask is whether K750 calendar function has the ability to repeat the appointments. This function is missing in all other SE phones except for PXXX series. This is the one of the major factors keeping me from SE phones.


I think you can - on a daily basis only though, not on weekly and monthly??

from the review:
The task list app allows you to define either a task or a phone call. For phone calls, it will ask for the phone number, and for both types you can set a subject and a reminder. A generic alarm function is also available that allows you to set the alarm to go off daily, but has no other settings for recurrence (such as weekdays only).


cheers!

[difenbaker]

I am more concerned about that "HISS" that Michael said. I remember having this before on my T610, disappeared on the T630 and K700, now it's back on the K750?? Also that "low volume" of the calls and tones, symptoms of the T68?

I hope that we could get a second opinion on this.


cheers!

[shaheen]

I think the N90 is too HUGE to be compared with k750!!!
the k750 is not d perfect phone.. far from it!!
but tell me if u guys know any other phone that offers such features at that size! with SE's growing reliability in making phones which have excellent build quality and intuitive software... i think d k750 will have very few competitors in the next 4/5 months
By the way even im thinking of buying it in about a month's time from now... u think the price will reduce till then? Its Rs.20,500 in India (USD 470) now... any chances of it reaching a notch below USD 400 in a month????

im talking about features and marketing side of it, not its size

[Arne Anka]

I hope that we could get a second opinion on this.


Seem to be specific to his unit and not a general problem.

I think you can - on a daily basis only though, not on weekly and monthly??


If you add a birthday in the phone book for a person, it will appear as a yearly event in the calendar. :)

[difenbaker]

Seem to be specific to his unit and not a general problem.

let's hope so... I'll try to find more reviews regarding this, and post it here.

If you add a birthday in the phone book for a person, it will appear as a yearly event in the calendar. :)

yup, a birthday is yearly. But what about those weekly or monthly events?

(hope rohan123 or marwan sees this post, maybe they can can answer this?)

cheers!

[commedecargons]

Nice review Michael. Thanks.
One question I need to ask is whether K750 calendar function has the ability to repeat the appointments. This function is missing in all other SE phones except for PXXX series. This is the one of the major factors keeping me from SE phones.

Me too~ :) dats why i stayed on my P910.....

this phone is going to be freaking popular here in aus if it maintains its cheap price tag when released.

It's freaking cheap here! RM1575..... cheaper than K700 when it's launched (RM1899)

I think you can - on a daily basis only though, not on weekly and monthly??

Nope, u cant. :(

If you add a birthday in the phone book for a person, it will appear as a yearly event in the calendar.

Dat makes it even more disgusting~ since it had this algorithim for that function..... why not in the calendar?!

Anyway, nice review Michael (as always, dats why i'm here)

[3ple4]

SE seems to have retained the same font style of the K750 with the K700i. I think it's ugly but maybe if you change the font size, it'll look better?

[3gpeasy]

just one font still?

bah.. how easy would it be to have a few?

[Arne Anka]

let's hope so... I'll try to find more reviews regarding this, and post it here.


Do that. The only complain I have heard so far is that some people finds the earpeace volume to low, even when it is set on max (others, say it's fine).


yup, a birthday is yearly. But what about those weekly or monthly events?


Think its limited to birhdays. For other type of events, you need to use the trick with Outlook and sync.


Dat makes it even more disgusting~ since it had this algorithim for that function..... why not in the calendar?!


Don't know. But eventually this feature will make its complete way into the SE products as well (maybe already in K750 with a FW update).

[difenbaker]

@Arne: .... took a glance at howards, no one else seems to be reporting that "hiss" on the speaker that Michael had, so maybe something IS wrong with his unit only.

here's a thread about the k750's bugs:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=644544&page=1&pp=15

... among all those mentioned, the one thing that's common that everyone seems to be complaining about is the sound - about the volume being too low (even in full).

then there's also the reports of the phone "crashing" or "freezing".
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=649184
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=645825




cheers!

[3ple4]

So with regards to the audio, which audio did Michael mean? The earphone volume (hard to hear the caller?) or the volume of the ring tones? Coz I know that the earphone volume of all SE phones are extremely loud to the point that a person sitting next to me can hear the voice of the caller from my phone so basically, people can eavesdrop on my conversation, he he!

[inoe0871]

Hi,

I got the k750i. Can anyone help me on how to:

1. search the phone book with multiple characters/letters (not just the first letter)?

2. change the font size?

Thanks a lot.

Oh, by the way, the k750i is everything michael said on his review. A few problems he mentioned (the hiss, nasal voice, etc.) is there, but it is not that bad, the voice quality is still well above par in my opinion. The phone is simply great! (my last phone was the brick Nokia 6150 that i have used and loved for 5 years, so please excuse my excitement with this little beast).

[difenbaker]

Hi,

I got the k750i. Can anyone help me on how to:

1. search the phone book with multiple characters/letters (not just the first letter)?

on a nokia, when you're in the phonebook, just type the first and second letter of the name or contact you're lookin for... the phone automatically scrolls thru the entire list.

for example, you're searching for the name "mark". So just press M first, the phone will now go to all the names starting with M, then you press A, and the phone now will go to the names that has "ma" as their first two letters. If you still have a lot of names with MA, you should now press R, so the phone will go to the names starting with "mar".

2. change the font size?
Thanks a lot.

Yup, most are saying that it's too big, right? Unfortunately, accdg to the posts above, I think you cannot change the font. Maybe future firmware upgrades will have this?

Oh, by the way, the k750i is everything michael said on his review. A few problems he mentioned (the hiss, nasal voice, etc.) is there, but it is not that bad, the voice quality is still well above par in my opinion. The phone is simply great! (my last phone was the brick Nokia 6150 that i have used and loved for 5 years, so please excuse my excitement with this little beast).

Thanks for the info. So I guess that the "hiss" isn't just on Michael's unit then.

cheers!

[jtntwozz]

so i guess the hiss only affects a small number of units?

[inoe0871]

Thanks diffenbaker,

But it doesn't work on my k750i. When I press 'M' it goes to the first contact beginning with letter M, but then when I press 'A' it goes back to contacts beginning with letter A, not "MA"

Is there a setting or something that I need to check to enable multiple letter search?

[difenbaker]

Thanks diffenbaker,

But it doesn't work on my k750i. When I press 'M' it goes to the first contact beginning with letter M, but then when I press 'A' it goes back to contacts beginning with letter A, not "MA"

Is there a setting or something that I need to check to enable multiple letter search?

it doesn't work? yikes!

mmm... maybe it works differently from a nokia.

check the manual, maybe it's done differently? It SHOULD work.


cheers!

[3gpeasy]

no, it shouldn't. SE's don't do that.

it's one of the main things i dislike about SE, generally i love them but for someone with 400-odd contacts it can be a nightmare. i know 41 people starting with the letter D, for example. pain.

[commedecargons]

i do think it can be done.. or that the firmware dat he/she's using weren't updated? weird. i tot this problem's solved?!?

[difenbaker]

i do think it can be done.. or that the firmware dat he/she's using weren't updated? weird. i tot this problem's solved?!?

yeah, me too, that's why I said that "it should work"...

I remember reading this long thread here in MB discussing that the k750 now has a multi-character phonebook search..... now Im surprised that it doesn't have it??




cheers!

[Ramesh]

We have to copy all our numbers from 'sim card directory' to the 'phone contact'. Just goto phonebook settings & copy all from simcard. In phonebook directory settings choose 'contacts' instead of 'sim card'. Once all data has been copied to phone, you will be able to use the multi character search.

SE's multi character search DOES NOT WORK if you read the phonebook entries from your simcard. It ONLY WORKS if the phonebook is read from the phone directory.

[inoe0871]

It has to have the multi character search, since it is stated on the k750i user's manual:

(quoted from the user's manual)
"To call a phone contact
1. >Contact. Scroll to, or enter the first letter or letters of the contact you want to call.
2. When the contact is highlighted, press "<" or ">" to select a number, >Call"

But I have read the manual for the hundredth time, and tried this for the gazzillionth time, but still no luck. It just jump up and down the contact list according to each character I press, as if it was the first character.

I have copied all my contact from sim to phone, and set the default contact to "phone contact".

My firmware is R1A044, and I have not seen any other people reported that their phone has different firmware.

What gives?

[inoe0871]

@commedecargons,

SE has solved this problem. My wive's 1 year old z600 could search by multiple letters since it has a search option when you open the phonebook/contact. But on k750i, when I open contact, it did not offer the option to search, but goes directly to contact list.

[difenbaker]

It has to have the multi character search, since it is stated on the k750i user's manual:

(quoted from the user's manual)
"To call a phone contact
1. >Contact. Scroll to, or enter the first letter or letters of the contact you want to call.
2. When the contact is highlighted, press "<" or ">" to select a number, >Call"

But I have read the manual for the hundredth time, and tried this for the gazzillionth time, but still no luck. It just jump up and down the contact list according to each character I press, as if it was the first character.

I have copied all my contact from sim to phone, and set the default contact to "phone contact".

My firmware is R1A044, and I have not seen any other people reported that their phone has different firmware.

What gives?


bummer.

so the K750i doesn't have it after all.

sigh.... :(

[inoe0871]

well, it doesn't bother me much. I am used to search only by first letter anyway. It is just strange (and probably careless in part of SE) that the user's manual stated that the multiple character search is possible. I am more concerned that I might have a flawed unit, while other people k750i is in fact capable of multiple character search.

[Arne Anka]

@inoe0871

According to esato users multicharacter search seem to work on 99% :-) of K750 units. Don't know why it does not work on yours. Maybe if you have to many contacts it stop working (due to some bug perhaps ?).

http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=85524&start=1545