Annoyingly Boring?

I upgraded my cell phone a couple of weeks ago. I am a bit high maintenance when it comes to gadgets, particularly my phones (not that I upgrade often, but when I do it comes with much research and detailed requirements).

My last phone was a Sony Ericsson S710a. It was the first Sony Ericsson I had, and I was really fond of the menu structures, overall feel of the phone, call quality etc. So I was definitely looking at another Sony Ericsson. No matter what brand I wound up with I wanted 3 things out of my new phone.

• A multi mega pixel camera. I tend to use my camera on my phone often, with the kiddos around you never know when you might want a snap.
• A quality mp3 player interface and serviceable storage capacity. I was going to be in the market soon for a new mp3 player so if I could kill two birds, all the better.
• This was the stretch goal - An FM tuner. I like to listen to the radio at work and having a FM tuner on my phone would again just make life simpler.

Turns out that Sony Ericsson does indeed make phones that fit the bill on all counts. I would up with the W580i. Part of their Walkman phone line it had all the features I wanted and came in a neat-o slider design. The phone is quite small too. I won’t do a detailed review of the phone, if you are interested you can find that out there on the net. But I will highlight this one little function that I think is neat….

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With TrackID you can automatically record a snippet of what is playing, the phone then sends it to a recognition service and displays the results (Yes, I know what the song was and didn’t need to use the service, but it was just for demonstrative purposes).