K, so i bought a new phone a few days ago. by now I've had suffiecient time to get  used to it and find its good and bad points, of which there are many of both. the point of this thread is half a  review of the phone  and half a  question to anyone else here who has one.

PART 1: REVIEW

for £30  you  certainly get a lot for your money. 3G, 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, MP3 player, 2gb memory stick supplied free and all your other standard phone features. the phone is made by an indian  company called HuaWei and uses Sony Erricson firmware. it wors ok but  isn't the most stable firmware in the world. (occasional crashes and lockups). the camera quality is average but not too bad. in low light it  struggles to get a blur free picture but has very little noise in the photo  (less than my normal camera). The music player leaves a little to be desired though.it will play most popular formats including AAC (LC and HE), MP3, AMR, WAV (pcm) but not WMA. the sound quality is fine at low-medium volumes but starts to distort at the second highest setting. Battery life is pretty good although i havn't really had a chance to test it properly. in the 4 days that I've had it I've charged it once  and so far the battery meter hasn't gone below 2 out of  5 bars. One of the most annoying problems though, is  the fact that you can't feel the edges of  the buttons. this makes touch-typing style texting impossible. when pressing the 1 or 3 buttons its very easy to hit the star and end call buttons accidentily. Also the battery cover is very difficult to remove using only your hands. you will sometimes have to resort to using a knife  or a screwdriver to prise it away from the rest of the phone. in an attempt  to solve this problem i shaved away a few bits  of plastic woth a knife but now it won't stay on without a blob of blu-tack.

all in all  its excellent value for money.  its capable of most of the things that my dad's phone (a SE k800i) is capable  of. by far it is the best phone you can buy for £30.




PART 2: QUESTION

Does anyone here know how to install java applications on the phone? The phone supports java and according to the  instruction maual its just a case of copying the *.jar and *.jad file to a folder on the memorystick, browsing for them on the phone and installing them from there. I've tried and every time i just get a message 'Failed to verify'. I've tried different apps, making  sure they are meant for this model of phone but no success.

anyone?

After a quick google it seems that the jar's need to be downloaded and installed via the phone,

PC Assistant does not seem to work and always gives the "Failed to Verify" error message,