It's the sort that is ideal for long-haul flights 'cause the unit gives you a choice to use the walkman only function or the phone function (with walkman) when you turn it on. So if you use the walkman only function, you don't interfere with flight regulations regarding the use of mobile phones onboard flights. And you can store lots of mp3 files in it 'cause it has a 512mb memory stick duo apart from the internal 64mb memory capacity. Upgradeable up to a 2gb memory stick duo. No more iPods. Heehee! Uses USB to transfer files between PC and phone. It also has FM Radio. And you don't always need the headset to listen to them. The phone plays like an actual radio using its speakers. Cool.
And then, I love the camera features 'cause among other things it has B&W, (photo above from mobilemag.com)
sepia, film negative, and solarize effects. It's 2 megapixel and it's handy for those times when I can't use/bring my Canon Powershot (a more serious, but bulkier digital camera which I can't always bring with me everyday wherever I go).
You can still listen to it play even as you navigate your phone functions. My only gripe is its rather stiff keypads. In everything else, am glad I bought this. No need for a cumbersome separate Mp3 player unit and a separate camera anymore.Here's a joke forwarded to me by an Aussie ex-colleague, who was a Managing Consultant in the Sydney office of one of the IT/mgm't consulting companies I worked for:
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A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure."
The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his notebook and connected it to a cell phone , then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep."
"That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car.
Then the shepherd says: " If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?"
"OK, why not." answered the young man.
"Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd.
"That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business. Now give me back my dog."
