![]() We also found it a wee bit too quick to accept our selections – pause for a millisecond while you're running through the options and you'll have to go through the process again. This is because the outer parts of the screen are taken up by the touch buttons, and the picture has to fit into a smaller area. The ice blue icons look great and it's easy and intuitive to use but the way we see it there are two problems with this system, the first being that the 262,000-colour screen is smaller than you would expect (and smaller than the previous K850's come to that). These include the shoot mode (including panorama and frames as well as BestPic), flash, face detection, timer, macro and infinite focus, plus white balance and scene selection. There's a surprise in landscape camera mode (the onboard accelerometer automatically switches the orientation for you) when the display takes on touch screen abilities to offer eight buttons along the top and bottom of the screen. It's got the usual multishot abilities of course, including the rather marvellous BestPic option, which allows you to take four pictures after and four pictures before you press the shutter.įace detection is now on the agenda, which means the camera will find and focus on a central face in the frame, plus there's red eye reduction and an image stabiliser on board. Sony Ericsson's cameras have been getting steadily more sophisticated over the years and this 5-megapixel number moves things along still further. ![]() A lovely little slice of ice blue lights up when the camera starts up too. It's a much sturdier form of protection than the usual strip of a lens cover and feels securely built. In fact, the whole phone case slides out to the side to reveal the lens. Looking at the back however, it's not immediately obvious that there even is a camera, since there's no lens in sight and no lens cover. The C in the name, by the way, stands for camera (and also Cyber-shot, which makes sense, replacing the old K for the Swedish 'kamera') and that's not surprisingly the focus of this phone. With a little faith and practise though, the angle actually does make it easier to press the keys with your thumbprint, which is probably a more natural way of doing it, when you think about it. The J110 and J120 phones, which lack a camera, offer large legible keys and easy navigation.But the keys on the keypad aren't flat but are actually angled downwards slightly which feels a bit weird, especially if you're used to pressing on small keys with the tip of your thumbnail. The K220, another camera phone, has an integrated FM radio, which can store up to 10 stations. The K200 phone has a camera and a central navigation key to give one-click access to key features. Prices were not available.Īmong the other new products is a series of low-end, easy-to-use handsets, which Sony Ericsson calls "candy bar" phones. The W880 music phone will be available in selected markets in the first quarter, with the W610 to follow in the second quarter. Sony Ericsson will also provide a GSM variant of the Walkman music phone, the W88, without video telephony capability, for the Chinese market.Ī slightly larger Walkman phone, minus a few features, is the W610. It offers a range of communication services, such as a push e-mail, Web surfing and video streaming. The W880 music phone is based on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard and supports both the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and 3G (third-generation) technologies. In addition, the phone provides a flight mode for use on airplanes and is equipped with a battery capable of playing music up to 20 hours or offering 6.5 hours of talk time. This discreet accessory uses short-range wireless technology to stream music from the user's phone directly to a home or car stereo, using the phone as a remote control to alter the volume or skip through tracks. The handset also features a 1.8-inch QVGA, 262k TFT (thin-film transistors) display, a 2 megapixel camera and the Bluetooth Music Receiver MBR-100 system. A 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card, capable of storing up to 900 tunes, is included in the box. The W880 packs music features into its 9.4 millimeter-thin mobile phone design: the handset comes preloaded with Walkman Player 2.0, Disc2Phone music management and TrackID music recognition applications. The product is one of several announced Tuesday ahead of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week. Responding to demand for ultra-thin designs, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has announced a new Walkman music phone - its slimmest handset yet.
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