K800i or W850i?

Wang Computer · 2 Jan 2007 at 14:25

As the title suggests, which one would you go for? I'm not incredibly knowledgeable concerning phones, however the only obvious advantage of the k800i is the higher rated camera (which I'm not that fussed on). The W850i has a free 1Gb mem card and potentially better mp3 playback (which I do like).

Any thoughts? Chairs!

EDIT: The latter is cheaper as well.

Raymond Lin · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:17

Depends what you are after really.

The k800i is newer thou, and don't let the 1gig mem card be much of an advantage, they are about £15 online anyway.

garyh · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:27

The W850i is actually the newest of both handsets; and inccidently the one i prefer from the two.

The main problem with the K800i is it uses that darn joystick that is so prone to breaking, it did on my K750i too..

The W850i also is the smaller and better looking of the two IMO...

Raymond Lin · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:37

garyh said:
The W850i is actually the newest of both handsets; and inccidently the one i prefer from the two.

The main problem with the K800i is it uses that darn joystick that is so prone to breaking, it did on my K750i too..

The W850i also is the smaller and better looking of the two IMO...

Really ? thought that was the W950i :confused:

getting confused here.

garyh · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:38

Raymond Lin said:
Really ? thought that was the W950i getting confused here.

Nope, they were released in the following order;

K750i
W800
W810i
K800
W850i
W950.

Raymond Lin · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:46

So i am going to guess a K850i will be next

TripleT · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:59

Hope so, love my SE phones.

I have a k800i as I don't use it for music at all (have an ipod). The camera on it is fantastic which would be enough for me anyway.

Really depends if you want music over a better camera (baring in mind that the k800i is still fine to play music on, even has shortcut keys etc).

Dunno about memory cards for £15 though? k800i's use M2 memory cards which I though were still around £40-£50 for 1gig? The w850i still uses the old duo pro cards.

garyh · 2 Jan 2007 at 16:07

Raymond Lin said:
So i am going to guess a K850i will be next

Nope, the next major high-end phone from SE will be the W880.. A competitor to the Nokia 8800

Pic:

More here

Certainly going to be my next phone

Raymond Lin · 2 Jan 2007 at 16:13

garyh said:
Nope, the next major high-end phone from SE will be the W880.. A competitor to the Nokia 8800

Pic:

More here

Certainly going to be my next phone

That looks really ugly.......at least in your pic, in the link it looks ok.

Solaris · 2 Jan 2007 at 16:19

nokia n95 f.t.w.

garyh · 2 Jan 2007 at 16:22

Yeah I suppose, but where it really shines is in its size.. only 1.9mm thick!

There is also a rumoured successor to the K800 due in Q2 '07 with a massive 5.1MP Cybershot

Spamalot · 2 Jan 2007 at 18:11

garyh said:
Nope, the next major high-end phone from SE will be the W880.. A competitor to the Nokia 8800

Pic:

snip!

More here

Certainly going to be my next phone

Ming!

tonyzero · 2 Jan 2007 at 18:33

garyh said:
Yeah I suppose, but where it really shines is in its size.. only 1.9mm thick!

There is also a rumoured successor to the K800 due in Q2 '07 with a massive 5.1MP Cybershot

some how i don't think it is 1.9mm thick

DDave · 3 Jan 2007 at 15:16

I recently had the same dilemma but opted for the w850i today after having a little play with it in the Carphone Warehouse, not bad for £210 sim free.

MG42Maniac · 3 Jan 2007 at 15:35

Well I had the choice out of these phones but I went for the W950i. It came this morning and its taken a lot of getting used to when coming from a W800i. The W800i looks about 10 years old when compared to the W950i in terms of user interface, I love it.

Where the W950i shines is its multimedia. You can actually watch videos on the phone at full screen and they look damn good as the phone supports upto 650kbps whereas my W800i did like ~150kbps. The only niggle is the fact its got no camera but if I want a camera phone I'll take my W800i. I loaded on the Borat trailer and it looks near DVD quality in my eyes.

My only complaint with the phone is sometimes it takes awhile to do thing like open up SMS inbox or load up media file. But if you want a very decent multimedia phone i'd recommend this one.

TripleT · 3 Jan 2007 at 21:01

That really does look awful

Waiting for the next k phone it is then

tomcullen · 3 Jan 2007 at 21:16

Forget about Sony Erricsion. Go get yourself and i-movile 902. It has an amazing 5 megapixel camera.

Goodluck

Tom

Neb · 3 Jan 2007 at 21:57

MG42Maniac said:
You can actually watch videos on the phone at full screen and they look damn good as the phone supports upto 650kbps whereas my W800i did like ~150kbps.

Does anyone know what kbps the w810i can do?

MG42Maniac · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:17

toosepin · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:22

TripleT said:
Dunno about memory cards for £15 though? k800i's use M2 memory cards which I though were still around £40-£50 for 1gig? The w850i still uses the old duo pro cards.

£26.99 delivered for 1GB from It is a competitor, Big Kev