Mr Mist’s Blog

got my k800I today. It’s quite neat.

There are lots of buttons all over. I am currently finding it hard to hold it without pressing one button or another. I imagine that this will change as I get used to it. It is so much smaller than my bulky old P800, but still has enough weight to it to not feel plasticy.

One of the selling points is the 3MP camera, so I’ve taken some quick test snaps with it, the auto focus seems to work fairly well, though is a tad slow. The best pic feature is fairly neat, you can choose from a number of pics snapped around when you press the button. At some point I’ll take some comparison pictures with the phone compared to my DSLR, as with 3MP you should be able to get a reasonable picture.

There’s a USB cable supplied, and I’ve been able to transfer a music file from the computer and play it on the phone, sound quality is fairly good. There’s about 60MB of memory in the phone as supplied to me, you can get memory stick micro to add more.

I cannot discover how to remove the cover for the memory stick micro slot. If anyone knows how it opens, let me know.

A couple of things.

Thanks to the register, I had my attention drawn to this column about myspace (and online / real life in general) [www.securityfocus.com]. It’s an interesting read, looking at some of the cases that have been brough to the media’s attention that revolve around myspace and it’s affect in the real world. (For example, where people have met other people after meeting on myspace, and things have gone wrong.)

The article makes some good points about levels of responsibility. Most of the events are entirely beyond the control of myspace (or whatever), and yet, when things like this happen, the public / media are so quick to blame “the internet”, as if “the internet” is some kind of evil-doing entity. This annoys me no end, because it’s yet another example of pushing responsibility for your own actions / your kids’ actions / actions in general, onto someone or something else.

Anything not to have to take responsibility for your own actions, eh?

And with that, let’s look at something that does require responsibility, knocking a building down. I took a few snaps of one of the old tower blocks being pulled down near Sheffield station. I was shooting through a grate, so there was a deep shadow across the left side. In the gallery there’s a couple of my attempts to fix it.