The Sony Ericsson K700i is a more conventional phone no flash hinge arrangements and no pretending to be a video camera this is a more honest phone, one for the guys in the office who want a ring tone that sounds like a phone ringing and a phone that looks like a phone not an Edam Cheese.

Well maybe honest is not quite the right expression as the Sony Ericsson K700i does have quite a few bells and whistles, for a start it can play MP3's as ringtones (but it does also go ring ring). Sadly the K700i will start to disappoint the laggards at this point as Sony promote it as being "dual front" whatever that means? The man demonstrating the K700i to our chap in CeBIT kept saying "its as much phone as camera" anyone had think he'd been programmed to say that but this is clearly the message its no good just being a phone anymore you have to have a trick.

Which is strange as the K700i camera is just a VGA resolution webcam, where as the S700 is already over 1 mega pixel and the anti is sure to be upped in the run up to Christmas as almost every phone has a camera so the next step is who has the highest resolution.

Away from the glare of the stand our man got a chance to play with the K700i and found it to be a competent phone, designed as the replacement for the T610 it has a lot to live up to, it comes equipped with Bluetooth and IrDA and is in itself a tri band phone offering GSM 900, 1800 and 1900. The screen is excellent offering 65k colours and a resolution of 176x220 pixels this is primarily for viewing the somewhat soft photos taken by the other "front" and perhaps you would like to make them even more grainy by using the 4 X digital zoom.

And then there's video Doh! so it is a video camera, well not quite its only good for small clips using the 41mb onboard memory, in fact Sony's promotional material suggested that you could take pictures all day with just 41mb maybe they know something we don't?  The Sony Ericsson K700i does offer some great gaming with 3D java games on board to start or available to download and the MP3 replay ability combined with a bigger memory stick could help it double up as an MP3 player.

In sleek aluminium with a brushed finish the 46.5mm wide 100mm deep by 19.5mm high creation is certainly stylish and very pocket able weighing just 93 grams, if you can ignore its bells and whistles you will find this a very good phone for being....well a phone!  But if you follow the Sony Ericsson marketing you'll be expecting a leap in mobile technology and we're afraid you'll be disappointed as the Sony Ericsson K700i is just a re-hash of existing goodies already on the SE range. Its unlikely to take the crown of the T610 the S700 is far more likely to get that accolade.

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