games for my SE K550i

Finaly I found some nice games for my mobile phone.
The sites - containing freeware and demo games and applications - are listed at the end of this post.

Games on my mobile:

3D Battle Chess
Cool chess game. Board and figures are displayed in 3D. When you hit the oponents figure (or vice versa) you see a short battle sequence.



Boulder Dash ME
It was one of my favorite games when I still had my old Commodore C64 many years ago. And it's still fun to play!
For those who don't know the game: You have to make your way through a mining gallery and collect gems. You have to watch out for hard rocks which can fall down and smash you.

Bubble Bash!
It's another adaption of good old Puzzle Bobble.
In the arcade mode you are on an island and have to solve some levels to get to the next section of the island. Some of the levels are pretty tough.
It's very nice and funny!

The Fast and the Furious - Fugitive
Nice racing game. As good as the can be on a mobile phone.






Guitar Legend - Get on Stage!
It's the mobile version of Guitar Hero. Great game on the phone too!






Heroes
Action game to the TV series.

Need for Speed Carbon
Nice racing game. As good as the can be on a mobile phone.






Puzzle Slider
That's the only game that was originally on the phone. You have to rebuild a picture or a row of numbers by interchanging two of the tiles.

Taxi
In this game you have to find passengers and bring them to their destination to earn money.

Tomcat Dogfight
Some kind of flight simulator. You sit in a F-14 Tomcat and have to shoot enemy planes.

Transformers
Mobile game to the movie. Very well done. Only soundeffects are missing. Especially the transformation sound would have been great.
Not to hard except for the boss fights.

Truck Depot
You have to drive a truck to the depot and clear the load before time runs out. Rather hard.

300
Mobile game to the movie. You lead a group of Spartans and have to fight all the enemies which are coming in small groups. I like it!






Websites:
Lasyk (different mobiles),
Getjar (different mobiles)

Sony Ericsson K550i – 2nd part

On Tuesday I got a message from the shop the the new delivery had arrived. So I went there once again yesterday.
This time I tested the phone immediately at the shop and this time the speaker is ok.
I think I will stay with Sony Ericsson. :-)

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!