my new Sony Ericsson K550i

great phone with some troubles

On Tuesday I got my new mobile phone. A Sony Ericsson K550i.
It’s pretty cool!
The keys are a plus for the design but you have to get used to their size. After the first messages they are not a problem anyway.

The rest of the phone is like usual for Sony Ericsson good working, easy to find and just for learning by doing. The menues are really intuitive and you will get along with it very fast.

For further details just visit the SE-Website: Sony Ericsson

The only problem I had was the speaker of the phone. The voice was delivered very crackled and the crackling increased during each call. So I brought it back to the store yesterday and got immediatly a new one.
Same problem again?! That’s disapointing!
I didn’t test it at the store because I wouldn’t have thought that the new one had the same error. So I went the the shop again today.
They told me that the last piece they had was sold yesterday.
As soon as they get the new delivery the will give me a call.
Maybe that’s the best way. I guess that there is a production error within this series and maybe the phone of the next delivery will have speakers from another delivery to the factory too and so the problem could eventually be solved.

The people from the Sony Ericsson Service Center are really great and seem to understand what you are telling them. They told me at once that this goes as DoA (Dead on Arrival) and that I can just go to the shop and get a new one and the rest is up to SE.
The people from the shop were also very nice and it in deed wasn’t a problem to get the new phone.

When I told the lady from the SE Service Center about the same trouble with the new one she was a bit surprised and told me that they haven’t got a message about specific problems with the speakers but I am sure it won’t take long ‘til they get one. On the net I read some articles from people with similar problems with several models.

Now I will just put the K550i back into the packing and wait for the call from the shop.

I really hope that the next one will work fine and Sony Ericsson will be rehabilitated (for me at least). Until now I had a high opinion of them, but now it was slammed to the ground.
I don’t understand why a company that produces WalkmanPhones uses such crappy speakers for the phone.

Hang on for the update when I get the next one!

The Kingdom

Last Friday we saw 'The Kingdom' at the cinema.

The Movie is about an FBI-Team that wants to investigate in an terror attack on a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The diplomats work slowly debating about consequences of an FBI operation until Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assemble an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip to Riyadh to locate the man behind the bombing.
When they arrive they have to overcome a lot of problems and have to fear for their lives.

Suspense-packed and thrilling to the final scene.

First I was worried, that it would possibly be too 'American' - meaning that that FBI-Team are the good ones and all the Saudis are the bad and not trustworthy ones. That's something that often happens when a country makes a movie about problems in another country in which they are involved themselves.
But I would say they did a great job.

You see the terror the fanatic fundamentalists spread among people and you also can see that not everyone with darker skin is a terrorist. The movie even shows that friendship is possible.
I hope that all the stupid freaks out there who think that some people who belong to a certain ethnicity are automatically bad, will have their eyes opened and stop heating up the fire with attacks (verbal and/or physical) on innocent ones.
And I hope that the masterminds of the terror cells will someday stop to harm people for mistakes that have happend generations before the people now killed were born.

There must be some way for coexistence!

Website: The Kingdom

Breach - sneak preview

Yesterday we once again visited the sneak preview in the MillenniumCity.

This time we saw 'Breach'.

Inspired by the true story of the greatest security breach in US history.

'Breach' is based on the true story of former 25 year veteran FBI Intelligence agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). In December 2000, Hanssen, one of the best Intelligence agents at the FBI, was reassigned to the Washington D.C. FBI Headquarters to head up a new division to protect all the FBI's classified information. Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is a young surveillance and computer specialist who hopes to become an FBI field agent one day. O'Neill is recruited to his dream job in Intelligence at FBI headquarters to clerk for Hanssen. Hanssen is suspected of being a traitor and selling American secrets to the Soviet Union for years. O'Neill must discover Hanssen's secrets and bring them to the light of day, before more damage is done to the security of the United States.
This forms the basis of a tense cat and mouse game between the two men. As O'Neill gets to know Hanssen, we see more and more of his character.

I liked the movie. Great characters and an exciting story.
Not a must see but it's well done.

Website: Breach

I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry

On Saturday Julia and I saw 'I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry' at the cinema.
It's about two firefighters, Charles 'Chuck' Levine (Adam Sandler) and Lawrence 'Larry' Valentine (Kevin James), who pretend to live in gay partnership to outrun a stupid law hurdle. Larry's wife died some years ago and now his children would have nothing in case he dies in action, except he marries again.
He figures out a plot and then everything goes upside down.


It was much better then I had expected. Very funny and still delivers a good message about gay rights and people who have problems with that.

Website: I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry