The other day I decided to upgrade my phone from the Sony Ericsson T68i. I'd had mine for probably close to a year and while it has been a pretty decent phone, I'd been waiting for the ability to take the next step up for a while now. Luckily, AT&T started offering the Sony Ericsson T616, and was letting me get the rebate on the phone so that it was pretty cheap. I've had it for two days now and love it. Here's some initial thoughts on the phone.

One of my biggest complaints about the T68i was the screen. Yes, it was color, but it was small, and I always felt like it would be nicer if it was a little bit bigger. The T616's screen is beautiful, very much an improvement over the T68i. The next thing I really like on the phone is the T9 support. It always felt fairly kludgy on the the T68i. The interface to it on the T616 is much cleaner, making it very easy to add words to the dictionary and switch to the old fashioned method of typing in words.

The next cool thing is the camera. It lets you take pictures at either 288x352 or 120x160, and then lets you either send them via MMS or an email. Pretty slick. So far I've enjoyed it a bunch and even started posting to the new part of my blog with it. The phone also comes with bluetooth support, which is a must for me (and made moving to the phone very easy). And it even lets you play games on it (though I could care less about that feature).

Moving to the phone was trivial. When I bought the phone the salesperson (who was extremely helpful and helped me figure out if I should update my service or not). And all it took to activate was moving the SIM card from one phone to the other. So far, I'm digging this phone a lot. My only complaint is that it is taking a little to get used to the buttons on the phone, they're just different enough in feel from the T68i that I can't dial w/out looking... yet.