New Jawbone Bluetooth headsets · “We regard them as personal accessories or even jewelery, and, as such, believe they need to be a complete departure from the gadgetry of the mobile and headset industry.”

As mentioned earlier, my mobile phone chose my recent unusually mobile weekend to refuse to charge. So Monday I marched in to Virgin to buy a new one. I have for some time been dithering between two phone scenarios:

• Simple phone: does calls and text and no graphics or camera. Use the money saved to buy a digital camera.
• Camera phone with Bluetooth so I can copy snapshots to my Mac

The first scenario was already catered for by my old phone until it stopped accepting a charge. The second scenario is cheaper so long as I don‘t mind depending on my phone camera for taking pictures with. A phone also needs to be small enough I can keep it in my trouser pocket always; otherwise I’ll never have it with me when I want it. (I don’t like keeping a phone in my coat pocket because I get annoyed a phones ringing while people are away from their desks.)

There are camera phones with Bluetooth in Virgin Mobile’s £70-quid price point (including a very slim Motorola), but in the end I went for the Sony Ericson K700i, which is £99 with a £10 rebate (in airtime vouchers).

The new phone has more features than I know what to do with. I am settling for investingating one feature a day until I run out of features or get bored. So night one was Bluetooth. After doing the Bluetooth pairing thing, I have managed to synchronize my address book and calendar with it (so I have a phone book full of duplicates, because it also has my old SIM card's contacts). It has a Remote Control mode which I believe is supposed to be used to fiddle with my iTunes settings via my phone. I can also browse the phone's filesystem and copy files to my Mac for upload to Flickr (assuming I take some shots worth publishing).

Ooh! And one of the pictures bundled with the phone is in SVG format! I can use my SVG knowhow to make animations for my phone. I wonder if I can then use them in picture messages.

This morning I tried out its FM radio, and found I can set it so that pressing 4 selects Radio 4 and pressing 3 gets Radio 3. I could listen to the radio while walking in to work if I wanted. I found that I didn’t want to, though, so perhaps I won’t use this feature much (except on the train, maybe?). It has a tiny web browser that can visit Google and display my web site’s front page; I haven't tried browsing much yet.