Mobile phones have entered a veritable renaissance in recent years, with new features and platforms making the old obsolete and the new continuously evolving. The newness of all this is debatable, though, since one could say that mobile phones have been transforming in that particular way since they broke onto the scene all those years ago. However, smartphone platforms and touch screens have combined with aggressive online integration to make this a truly new age for mobile phones, one that has rendered the old guard more dated and less attractive perhaps more than any other new age has done before.
Sony Ericsson offers a new model that is emblematic of such an evolution, with a great combination of clear and sharp display, easily-accessible and problem-free navigation, excellent multimedia features and diverse tools in the Sony Ericsson Naite. However, the phone is somewhat hamstrung by its lesser features: a cramped dialing keypad, lackluster speaker and nonstandard headphone and charger jack. Nevertheless, it more or less achieves its promotional purpose as an eco-phone with a somewhat smaller carbon footprint [the Naite is made from recycled plastic and packaged in a compact box that uses less cardboard], faults and all, and manages to pack in a good deal of mobile quality along with that.
The sleek candy bar design of the Naite shows off a classy 4.3-inch tall, 1.9-inch wide and 0.5-inch deep phone made from water-bottle and compact-disc-recycled plastic material all sculpted into an attractive black/silver [Vapor Silver] or Ginger Red frame that fits well in purses and pockets and hands. Under the hood it’s similarly solid: a sizeable 1000-contact address book can hold an image, seven numbers and an email address for each contact. The phone doesn’t support caller groups but can let you initiate and run a conference call with up to five of your contacts. Polyphonic ringtones, a vibrate function, and a speakerphone round out call making and receiving features.
Email functionality is also good, with POP3 email syncing for Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mailboxes, as well as IMAP4 for everything else. Typing mail out doesn’t work quite as intuitively on the small frame as on a larger full-QWERTY, but it’s serviceable and the variety of network options depending on the plan you use helps as well. Either way, the Naite is a good Internet browsing phone, affording users ease of searching and bookmarking, copying and pasting text, page saving, and link forwarding via email, MMS or Bluetooth.
The phone’s camera is also worth noting – while certainly not spectacular at 2 megapixels, it’s bolstered by a 2.5x digital zoom and options to switch to standard, burst, frame and panorama modes, a night shot mode, self-timer, and sepia tone and black-and-white effects. Editing tools for zoom, color adjustment, and various other small effects can help improve snaps as well, before sending them to Twitter or a webpage or directly to others via MMS. You can also associate a snapshot with a contact or set it as your wallpaper using the Media Gallery options.
The FM Radio, audio recorder, Shazam-style music recognition application, and ringtone composer are other interesting features that round out the Naite’s multimedia capabilities. Soundquality is decent, especially for voice calls, although the consistency of this varies with signal strength and location – and speakerphone quality is generally low. Nevertheless, the Naite provides a good deal of bang for its buck, and helps you help the Earth at that.
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