Though I’ve had plenty of throw-away phones in my lifetime, all of which were of the cheap-n-tacky pre-paid variety, Gremlin was my first ‘real’ mobile phone.

Purchased as a pre-paid like all the phones before it, it was above and beyond the plastic finish of devices that looked and felt more like toys than telephones, so I was impressed with it from straight out of the box. Solid, sturdy, still functional after a few accidents with slippery fingers that would have killed most of my former phones, I loved it for its durability.

Until Gremlin I’d used Nokia phones for the most part, aside from a bad purchase of a Sagem which left me very disillusioned about phones in general. The interface is intuitive, and not so dissimilar to Nokia that it took more than a day to figure out the menus and the functions and get some applications installed – Twitter and AIM related applications.

I like the candybar shape, and though it houses such a great camera, it’s still quite slim and pocketable in all but the tightest jeans. It served me well, and though I don’t know what to do with it now, I’m not yet prepared to say ‘goodbye’ to such a trusty phone, that wouldn’t have been replaced for another year if I hadn’t had such a good opportunity to upgrade to the C905.

The following is from the Official Website.

K800i – Phone summary

For the digital connoisseur

A quality camera that’s also a phone: a 3.2-megapixel digital camera with all the functionality and connectivity you’d expect in a top 3G phone.

Send your message to the world

Share your images instantly via Bluetooth™, MMS, email or blog – your own blog is created the first time you blog a photo, for friends and family to see.

3G makes it possible

Mobile Web browsing, photo blogging, push email, downloading multimedia content and video calling are a reality with 3G. This phone’s got it all.