Farewell Sony-Ericsson, Hello iMate

About a year ago I upgraded my phone to the Sony-Ericsson K700i phone, which has in general served me pretty well. It’s had little things that annoy me – for instance, the keypad is utter crap for quick/easy typing of text-messages, and is a pain in the arse when it comes to words it decides it doesn’t know.

Anyway, come the end of the month it’s going to be time to upgrade/change phone again, and this time I’m heading off to the even geekier end of the market. In fact, the uber-geeky mini XDA, also known as the iMate K-JAM – god knows who comes up with the stupid names, but there we go.

I’ve been thinking about this upgrade for a while, because there’s a lot of stuff I simply don’t give a sod about when it comes to phones. I don’t care if it takes photos – I’m carrying a bloody 8megapixel digital SLR around with me, I don’t need a 1.3Megapixel camera, let’s be honest. I don’t care if it can play MP3s, videos, or whatever – again, I’ve a decent MP3 player (although the new U10 from iRiver looks interesting) and I’ve got the PSP too, so I don’t really need to watch anything on the mobile.

However, I do a fair amount of browsing etc., and at the end of the day, well, I’m a techie. So the XDA looks like it might sort out most of the things I need from a phone. Be interesting to see how the keyboard shapes up though…