Sony Ericsson W980i

Sony Ericsson W980i Flip Open Mobile Phone could be a bizarre looking contraption for many, especially for the conservatives and the martinets. A bit of fault can be found in the designer of this gadget as well for trying a bit too hard to stage this device ultra-fashionable. However, in spite all these abhorrences, a good section of the teenagers, especially girls have distinguished it as their kind of gadget. They have simply found the glossy outer casing of this mobile phone quiet appealing with its black-on-black keys with an orange tinge, denoting multimedia functions. Inside, there is more black for the admirer of black.

This mobile phone being a walkman mobile phone predominantly, gives increased stress to its multimedia sector. Before getting into the multimedia part, a short description on this device’s memory part would be ideal for this compact model comes with an overwhelming internal memory of 8GB, although with no expansion slots. The music player of this mobile phone realises a number of audio formats like AAC and MP3. This music player in its turn offers a load of sub-features starting from music controls to smart applications. Music controls that appear on this list refer to playlist shuffle, equaliser, fast forward and rewind as the variety of applications enlisted refer to SensMe, TrackID and PlayNow, apart from a Disc2Phone software. With these, a load of tracks can be transferred to this device from CD through a PC. In addition to these, an FM radio and RDS also fairs here, apart from a stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) technological support. Finally here, an FM transmitter also comes handy for wirefree interfacing of this device with a car stereo or a Hi-Fi System.

Sony Ericsson W980i Multimedia Mobile Phone is a triband GSM device that also uses a 3G band for network enhancement. Its communicaation data download speed refers to a team consisting HSDPA, UMTS, GPRS and EDGE. Bluetooth technological assistance for this phone takes care of its short distance data transfers. The camera of this mobile phone boasts of a 3.2MP sensor. The imaging part of this mobile phone is more than complimented by its main display of 240 x 320 pixels resolution and 262K colours. A sub-display too appears on this device that comes studded with 176 x 176 pixels. The rechargeable battery of this gadget yields 3.5 hours of talktime and 12 days of standby.