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Sony Ericsson to present new 3G handsets at CommunicAsia (June14th) |
chungagoring
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hey guys, i just published the official stuff:
http://www.clubsonyericsson.c[....]08-are-official-no-photos-yet/
too bad i've got no photos yet.
I’ve got the press releases since today morning (Sunday 12) but I haven’t been able to publish the news until now (It’s 2:00am GMT). The good part is that, of course, we have new phones! And Ellen has a pretty new name —S600— and really interesting specs, like 64mb internal memory, HTML browser, 176x220 pixels 262k color 1,8″ screen, integrated double stereo speakers, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, USB support and a bunch of 3D games that can be played holding the phone horizontally (with the support of two extra buttons at the right of the screen), conventionally, or in “L” shape, with the rotating keypad open. The bad part, for the moment, is that Sony Ericsson hasn’t uploaded the official photos to their website and we won’t know if it also looks good until 9:00 am or so (six hours to go).
Zoe, surprisingly, seems to be a nice little clamshell phone with decent features. Its official name becomes Z520 and excels the Z600 with a VGA camera, 16mb of internal memory, MP3 support, USB support, integrated handsfree speaker and a series of colorful leds all around the perimeter of the phone that flash in costumizable fashion (even synchronized with the melodies) when someone calls or an sms is received. The press release highlights the small size of the phone. The internal screen is the same of the Z600 (a TFD with 65k colors and 128x160 pixels), and the external is a 4k color 101x80. The Z520 gets the honour of being the first quadband Sony Ericsson: it supports the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 GSM bands. This two phones use the new charger-data connectors.
The J200-based J210 and the K600-spec’d K608 won’t be any great surprise but we’ll have to wait for the photos to see if they’re any cooler than the phones they’re based in. The J210 upgrades the 128x128 pixel STN display from 4k to 65k colors while keeping the Infrared, 600kb internal memory and triband support. I’ve heard that the K608i will be an operator exclusive but I’d say it could be a sim-free version of the Vodafone V600.
By the way, new accesories have been also announced: the HBH-610 headset with Bluetooth 2.0 support, the HCB-700 car handsfree kit with a screen, the sporty HPS-60 wired stereo headphones and a new PC card that combines UMTS and WiFi access, the GC99. Nothing is said about the future 4gb Memory Stick DUO cards but this was confirmed to me by a Sony Ericsson representative.
S600i (Ellen)
Triband GSM 900/1800/1900
Exchangeable covers and 3 main body colors (Universal Blue, Orchid White, Radiant Yellow)
TFT 1,8″ 176x220 pixel 262k color screen
1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flashlight
Full screen video recording and viewing
Bluetooth
Infrared
USB
MP3/AAC Player
2 integrated stereo speakers with MegaBass and StereoWidening
Stereo headphones included
Radio FM with RDS
40-tone polyphonic ringtones
64mb internal memory
Java MIDP 2.0 and 3D games
OMA DRM phase 1
Preinstalled games: Worms Fronts, Ander Siege 3D, Extreme Air Snowboarding and Midway’s Gauntlet Multiplayer
Access Netfront HTML browser
GPRS class 10
Release date: Q3 2005
Price: 325€
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Z520i (Zoe)
Small size clamshell
Quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Excahgeable covers
TFD 1,8″ 128x160 65k color internal screen
STN 1″ 101x80 4k color external screen
0.3 (VGA) megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom that can be used with phone closed
Bluetooth
Infrared
USB
Integrated handsfree speaker
Included stereo headphones
40-tone polyphonic ringtones
8 external led effects
MP3/ACC player
16mb internal memory
Java MIDP 2.0 and 3D games
OMA DRM phase 1
Release date: Q3 2005
Price: 225€
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K608i
Dual UMTS/GSM triband 900/1800/1900
TFT 1,8″ 176x220 pixel 262k color screen
1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flashlight
Full screen video recording and viewing
Videocall
Bluetooth
Infrared
USB
MP3/AAC Player
Radio FM with RDS
72-tone polyphonic ringtones
32mb internal memory
Java MIDP 2.0 and 3D games
Macromedia Flash Lite
GPRS class 10
Release date: Q3 2005
Price: 400€
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J210i
GSM triband 900/1800/1900
STN 128x128 pixel 65k color screen
Infrared
32-tone polyphonic ringtones
600kb internal memory
Mophun games
OMA DRM phase 1
GPRS 4+1
Release date: Q3 2005
Price: 95€
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nitesh
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Sounds very interesting. Are there any more phones or thats it. I like the s600 very much:-*.
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karlosperu
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No EDGE, No PTT ??? bad bad SE :-(
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fregory
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s600 is cool. but i've heard that it wont have a slot for memory stick
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nitesh
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@Freg pls tell me that you are kiddin. Why cant SE make more handset with memory slot. Grr..
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chungagoring
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just read the specs, they don't have memory slots. we already knew this guys, we knew they were going to be low and mid-range phones. there can't be low range phones with memory slots. yet.
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nitesh
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S600 is a mid range phone it should have a mem slot so it ll be good competator in the market.
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Supa_Fly
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The ONLY improvement I see is their begin to accept the Quadband concept. Lets hope they see it as being more profitable to be implemented across the next line updates and go with it.
I just knew EDGE wasnt happening for us in North America - and other parts of the world. Although I really love the look and camera of the k750 - even the price - I still cannot justify taking a full resolution picture and not being able to send an MMS of it at EDGE speeds. Of course not all networks allow for large size MMS; but we can always use our port 80 data connections for email. |
vergon
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s600 looks pretty good for a mid range
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nitesh
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Btw what is quadband? Is it the frequency band on which the phone works on both 800 ane 900 band?
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Supa_Fly
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@nitesh, you are correct; partially. Quadband is the TRUE worldphone. Any phone that is quadband is able to be used anywhere where GSM based network is. 900/1800Mhz where Europe/Asia, 850/1900Mhz for North/South Americas (Africa?). |
brix25
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Africa uses the European frequency standards.
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mario2002
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Bump :-( That's it ? No wonder they are going back wards.For the price of the S600 one can buy a old 6630 - just compare the specs and price ! I don't know ,I hope is only me getting all this 'wrong'.
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Pallister
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Here are some pics.....
Damn I `m dissapointed 
http://www.mobile-review.com/[....]/2005/se-1306maintemp-en.shtml |
Super G
Joined: Mar 07, 2002
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Z520 is very nice looking. Very japanese
S600 is really ugly.
Others are.... boring
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Posted: 2005-06-13 04:09
