Not a bad unit. A bit more than I wanted to have to pay, but I'm 10 months off the mark for an upgrade allowance which means - you guessed it - I had to pay full price for whatever I chose.
Lowest price I was going to get by with was around $300 for anything resembling quality. I'm not in the mood for another phone-fragging, so no more cheap-crap flip-phones.
The SE was $449 with a c-note rebate, which brings it down to the price of the slimmer, though less rugged/less loaded Razr V3 at $350 cash-n-carry (zero rebates). The Sony-Ericsson also takes SD mem cards up to 128mb (as told to me by my Cingular agent) which allows me to make many captures. The kit comes with a USB mem-card reader and 32mb of memory.
The S710a is a slider.... the face rotates, exposing the keypad. When closed, the phone resembles a P&S digi-camera. Hard to tell it's a phone at first glance.
The camera is a 1.3 mega-pixel unit recording stills and video with up to 8x zoom. It has a huge viewing screenfor you chimps - 2.3" and 262k colors. Spot-meter option equipped, though at this time I am not finding the info on that option, so not sure how many degrees, etc. Shooting modes include NEGATIVE, BLACK AND WHITE, SEPIA, & SOLARIZED. There is a WHITE BALANCE selector and a self-timer.
The lens specs are not listed in my documentation. However, I would guess the widest focal length to be around 28mm. I am including a few examples of images shot this morning. All were re-sized from 1280-wide to 600, rotated, etc.
Interesting piece of gear. It suits me as I often find myself wishing I had my camera on me, but I don't feel like carrying an SLR or RF unit 24/7. I always have something in the car, but many times I find myself away from the vehicle without time to run to the trunk to retrieve a shooter. I will post more as I determine certain facts and opinions.
