Style is something the K750 is not short of, the 100 x 46 x 20.5mm tri band mobile is more like a camera than a mobile with a large screen on one side and a real active camera shutter on the rear, as each new model appears from Sony the phones start to merge with the digital camera design.

While a lot of the functionality and software is lifted from the S700i the K750 is quite different in its operation, this is evident from the moment you fire up the phone with a rather funky light show depending on what action you perform and animated menus.

The screen is the familiar 176x220 pixels, but now it displays 262K colours and is very easy on the eye and bright enough even in the well lit halls of Cebit, we're glad to see that the K750 has a well spaced keypad after the K700i produced one of the most frustrating experiences with its tight spacing.

Apart from the animated menus which take some getting used to we did find the new activity menu key which has been added between the standard soft keys to be very useful, this fully customisable key allows quick access to commonly used applications and even bookmarks.

Where the K750 goes beyond the 700i is in the multimedia applications, firstly you cannot help but notice the transformation of the cameraphone functions, the 2 mega pixel camera turns out some stunning shots with a resolution of 1632 x 1224 pixels. The user interface is the Sony cybershot one and anyone with a Sony digital camera will recognise all the icons and familiar faming tool, plus a really nice touch is the auto focus and camera light for indoor photography.

To activate the camera you merely open the shutter and the screen switches to landscape mode and opens the camera application, images can be stored internally on the 32mb memory but the K750 is also supplied with a 64mb memory stick duo. Given the potential size of 2 mega pixels images this seems a bit tight so an upgrade to a maximum 1gb memory stick duo card may be a good plan.

The other side of the Sony Ericsson K750 multimedia performance centres around audio replay, once again the phone handles MP3 replay with aplomb and the user interface for the SE media player is slowly getting better, there is also a quick access key to get to your music.

A real extra which we loved is the inclusion of the FM radio, nothing special we here you say but wait this is an RDS FM radio, so you get station name rather than frequency and auto tuning when there are alternate frequencies available.

External connectivity is provided by Bluetooth and also the new Sony Ericsson fast port connector which is yet another connector type, but then the older one just ran out of legs when paired to a USB 2.0 port on a host PC.

We didn't get anywhere near long enough to really give the K750 a good going over and as such the review is not all encompassing, but from what we were able to see and ask this is a worthy successor to the K700i which has disappointed a little. The Sony Ericsson K750 should be available in the UK around early July but these may well be branded version locked to Vodafone.

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Published - 18/03/2005

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