Sony-Ericsson Z310i lives up to its promotional tag, which says “Design coming to life”. For those who are looking for a cool and trendy handset, this is the one. It offers a unique facility of personalizing light effects and themes. Z310i is yet another clamshell phone by Sony-Ericsson. It is available in three attractive colors including jet black, lush pink and brush bronze. The smooth finishing; glossy exterior and monochrome external screen are some of the trendsetting features of this model.
It features a 128×160 pixel screen, built in memory of 14Mbyte, Bluetooth, USB and infrared connections. It offers an awesome battery life of up to 7 hours of talk time and up to 300 hours of standby time. Though the list of features for this phone is lower than other Sony-Ericsson handsets, you get some interesting and handy built-in features. It supports GPRS, EDGE, GSM and WAP. The music software called “PlayNow” supports AAC and MP3 music files.
The phone does not automatically come with all the accessories, thus forcing buyers to purchase them individually. There is no data-cord available with the phone. Hence, in order to connect it with the PC, a complete PC suite software has to be installed. It is available on the Sony-Ericsson official website. The headphones must be bought for its personalized use. Never-the-less, Z310i possesses several features which were not included in its former version Z310.
Despite being a Smart phone, this little beauty is not only good looking but also has appreciable multimedia features. This sleek model measures 106 x 49 x 13 mm and weighs only 99g. You can carry it comfortably in your pocket without producing any bulge.
The TFT touchscreen is 2.4 inches and the keypad carries the conventional design of Sony Ericsson phones, with standard Back and Cancel keys and 5-way navigation pad. Hot keys for Messages and Notes are also provided. The USB/Earphone/Charger slot is situated on the left hand side. A missed call/new messages indicator LED is also provided which a very useful feature SE has incorporated in this phone. Now you don’t need to unlock the phone and look towards the screen every now and then.
The phone uses Symbian OS which fully utilizes the 208 MHz ARM9 CPU and 128MB of RAM. While this is not exactly sufficient for power users, it is more than sufficient for an average user. The main screen has 11 main menu buttons which are totally customizable. You can freely scribble on the ‘Notes’ app, which comes in handy when you have to hurriedly take notes.
A Blue tooth headset accompanies the phone, which is only good for calls and not so much for movies and music. For Internet surfing, Opera 8 browser is provided. WiFi functionality is impressive and the phone also has a blackberry push-mail option. RSS feeds, QuickOffice completes the feature set. The music quality is satisfactory, but the 5MP camera leaves something to be desired. The battery too, will drain frequently if you use many features of the phone.
Overall, while this Smart phone is feature rich, underpowered processor and average battery performance prevents it from becoming the ‘easily recommendable’ one.
Sony launched a wonderful phone sometimes back and it is the K810i. The phone shares some wonderful features with its predecessor the K790i. The K810i is a well built phone with a solid body.
The K810i has 106 x 48 x 17 mm dimensions. The phone is weighed at approximately 103grams. It has a large 2-inch display that supports a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. It has a 256K TFT screen with a very vibrant display so it can be easily read in sunlight.
The K810i also has a well built joystick, which is easily usable with a single finger. The key layout is designed around the joystick and is very easy to use. The phone also has a fast Internet Browser with an easy to use separate function key.
The K810i truly has a very unique keypad. It is made of circle like buttons made of stainless steel. The buttons are well spaced and are very comfortable to use. The keypad is much better than the other Sony Ericsson phones.
The phone also has a camera that can be operated from a button placed on the phone’s right side. The phone also has easy to use volume controls placed on the right side, which can be used for double zooming in and out while in camera mode.
Sony Ericsson revealed 3 brand new Walkman phones for the year 2008. Each of them special and different from the other. The soul stirring music and the sounds from daily life hit you in the ear from the same instrument and that’s a wow.
Sony Ericsson’s W902
W902 is Sony Ericsson’s attempt to surround you in a panorama of sound and images. It’s excellent music feature allows the user to enjoy the highest quality sound clarity from their mobile phone. It comes with a premium set of headphones, stereo, clear bass feature, Walkman equalizer which allows the user to gain the best possible sound for the style of music being played, TrackID, PlayNow ringing tone download feature, SenseMe, Walk Mate, FM and AM radio with RDS. The phone supports a shake control feature which allows the user to change their song by shaking the W902. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony Ericsson has delivered the walkman range for all and the release of W302 proves it. This is going to be the cheapest of the bunch with modest specifications, yet a very attractive and affordable phone to hit the stands.
It comes with a TFT display of resolution 176×220, has a 2mp camera with 2.5x digital zoom, picture blogging and video recording features, 20mb internal memory, expandable memory slot supporting Micro M2 memory cards of up to 8 GB, a built in Walkman music player with PlayNow download feature, TrackID, FM/AM radio with the RDS feature, has USB, Bluetooth, PictBridge, supports EDGE. This quad band technology handset covers four GSM networks but the network coverage is dependent on the users chosen network provider. Read the rest of this entry »
The W595 is another of the music phones in the walkman range from Sony Ericsson. This middle range Walkman music phone is easy to use and looks good too. The W595 is a slide open music phone which is available in four stunning colour combinations which include an active blue with turquoise, cosmopolitan white with a hint of red, jungle grey with turquoise & a ruby black which has a hint of red.
Like W902 W595 has a 2.2-inch display with QVGA resolution, capable of showing up to 262K colors. The user can view the clear colored screen in both slide closed or slide open position and access the curvaceous music keys in either position. The smooth opening system is easy to operate in a single hand & allows the user to open the casing when the keypad is needed. Read the rest of this entry »
