THUMBS UP FOR:

• Brilliant 3 inch VGA display

• cool arc slider design

• 400mb internal memory+microSD slot

• 256 MB RAM

• Inbuilt gps

• cool 3.5 MP camera

• good standby time and talktime

• 3.5 mm audio jack

THUMBS DOWN FOR:

• crampy design

• only 65k colours

• microSD slot can be accessed only after removing battery cover

THE FINAL VERDICT:

And finally we have a windows mobile on a Sony Ericsson phone.The phone excels in every aspect.The phone is a must buy product for business people.It also satisfies the multimedia lovers with its various multimedia options.Fianlly we have an equivalent rival for the iphone!!

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

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STYLE AND DESIGN:

The arc slider phone stuns us with a beautiful metallic finish.But it hqas a controversial the main navigation panel. The main navigation panel has a dedicated xperia button.Underneath the screen is the neatly tucked in QWERTY keyboard.But the keyboard doesnot have the arrow keys and cursor keys.The arc slider design makes the key pressing to be got used to it.Also key pressing cannot be casually done with the thumbs.The phone a 3.5mm audio jack.

DISPLAY ,SOUND AND INTERFACE:

The phone has an excellent 3.0" screen with VGA resolution even though it has only 65k colours.The phone has a touch sensitive screen which works perfectly and a stylus included.This means we have handwriting recognition.The phone has the facilities as in other windows mobile 6 phones.It has the windows media player for playing songs and streaming videos.It has a built in accelerator and the interface is autorotative.

ENTERTAINMENT:

The windows media player supports MP3,AAC & MPEG4.As in all sony ericsson phones,it hasTrackID music recognition.The phone has Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer).It has a built-in gps receiver which supports the maps application given.It has an FM radio with RDS.

CAMERA:

It has a 3.15 MP camera with autofocus and led flash.The hilight of the phone is the video recording in MP4 at 30fps. But recording for 1 minute uses about 20mb.It has a secondary videocall VGA camera.The quality of pictures taken are good.

MEMORY , STANDBY TIME AND TALK TIME:

It has 400mb internal memory.It has a microSD slot which can be accessed by removing the battery covers.It has a standby time upto 833 hours and talk time upto 10 hours.

BROWSING AND CONNECTIVITY:

The browsing become enjoyable with the internet explorer.Opera mini has been given as default browser.
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

DPA 7.2 MbpsWi-Fi 802.11b/g

bluetooth version 2.0

It has no infrared port.

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