Apparently, tomorrow at noon we get this. I am quite confused, and unsure what I should wear.

Anyone?

This is my first non-Nokia phone.

The reason I went for the W800i. was that I wanted to sync my phone with the Mac. Unfortunately, Nokia support is somewhat lacking, so I had to go with Sony Ericsson.

At first, the phone had little trouble syncing. The only trick was to allow it be used for Internet connections. It doesn't actually use it, but seemed happier if you let it think that you would. I could even move my mouse around via the phone.

Then I realised that I could not SMS. Photo messaging? Yes. Voicemail messaging? Yes. Simple text messaging? No. So I called up Orange and the lady claimed it was common on these phones. So they sent me a SIM update. Now I could text message. However, it broke all the syncing that I had previously set up.

I deleted all references to the phone. Deleted all references to the Mac on the phone. Deleted all the contacts on the phone. All proved fruitless. Only after reseting the phone and going from scratch again, could I sync again.

The camera is okay, but I would not use it for anything except adding a bit of colour to a blog entry. This photo was taken this evening, at the LRUG meeting.

I am still getting used to the keys. It's almost like a Nokia layout, but not quite. Why is the space the hash key, and not 0? Why is the key sequence to lock the phone the exact opposite of the Nokia sequence. Why is the cancel/return button on the other side?

Ah well, that's what I'm stuck with for another year.