SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- Sanyo appear the absolution of its handset ‘W62SA’ in Japan market, which appearance IPX7 waterproof to 1m for 30minutes.
Supporting 1-Seg and KDDI’s EV-DO account ‘CDMA 1X WIN’, the W62SA adopts a 2.8-inch affectation with 240 x 400(WQVGA) resolution, a 1.97M camera and an micro agenda aperture abundant to 2GB.
Measuring 51 x 106 x 19.5mm at 138g weight, it offers 300 account of connected calling. It is accepted to be accessible in the end of February.
Sony Ericsson's K618i is a 3G buzz absolute to bounded abettor M1. Only accessible in black, the K618i won't win any appearance awards, admitting we wouldn't alarm it an animal duckling either. We anticipate it's a clean, accessible to use handset that will address to a ample ambit of users.
Design
Weighing in at 91g, the K618i aloof scrapes in beneath the K610i's weight. It's a analytic compact, pocket-friendly handset, too, with ambit of 102 by 46 by 17 mm.
The K618i looks a lot like the K610i. The size, blueprint and all-embracing attending of the buzz mirrors its sibling, with the black-and-charcoal accomplishment appropriate it from the K610i's white, argent and red casing.
The buzz sports a bright, 176x220-pixel awning that supports up to 262K colors. It sits aloft the card buttons which afterglow orange aback pressed. The side-mounted aggregate rocker and music button as able-bodied as rear apostle are absolute in orange.
Features
The K618i has affluence of features, admitting best are appealing accepted in any 3G buzz today.
A congenital 2-megapixel camera can be accessed via the side-mounted camera button which flips the awning on its ancillary for a mural view, to booty photos. The panorama action is a acceptable addition, acceptance you to absorb three photos taken side-by-side into one across-the-board photo. Photos can be beatific via MMS, Bluetooth or, alternatively, the included adaptable blogger appliance allows you to upload photos to a Blogger.com account.
QuadraPop and WPT Tennis are pre-installed games, as able-bodied as several demos, including Tetris, Pac-Man, Ridge Racer and Extreme Air Snowboarding.
On the connectivity ancillary of things, the K618i has Bluetooth, GPRS, and tri-band support. The USB accumulation accumulator affection lets you drag-and-drop files beeline from your PC. E-mail abutment is additionally included.
The NetFront browser is congenital for Web access, which works accomplished on Vodafone Live but doesn't clothing approved sized Web pages that aren't advised for adaptable screens. Any Web folio with too abundant agreeable will become a accountability to annal through. A RSS clairvoyant lets you accumulate abreast with your favourite RSS feeds.
In accession to actuality a phone, Sony Ericsson is blame the K618i as a music device. As such, an chip MP3 amateur is included as able-bodied as a stereo headset. The capital card button and larboard and appropriate abyssal buttons bifold as play/stop and advanced and aback buttons respectively, aback arena tracks. The playback functions are apparent acutely with agnate icons.
Sony Ericsson K618i - Aback and Camera
Performance
The camera does a reasonable job aback able ablaze is available. Photos taken in ablaze lighting altitude looked fine, but account affection suffered in low light, consistent in chapped photos. Surprisingly no flash--LED or otherwise--is provided. A Xenon beam like the K800i would accept been acceptable addition.
Sound affection was appropriate during calls, but was a bit adamantine to apprehend in loud places, alike at best volume. The onboard loudspeaker comes in accessible during times aback you charge your easily chargeless (or aback arena music) though, as expected, it sounds a bit soft.
On a few occasions, affiliation errors were accomplished aback aggravating to accomplish an approachable call. Somehow, the handset gets the consequence we were captivation bottomward a button and recommends a software restart to fix the problem.
Our buzz came with a acceptable 256MB Sony Anamnesis Stick Micro (M2) which, according to Sony Ericsson, can authority up to 230 songs. However, it should realistically fit about 60-70 accepted 4MB MP3 files, which is acceptable abundant for us. Music admirers who appetite to abundance added songs on the buzz can acquirement a beyond anamnesis capacity. We begin the arranged stereo angle able and able for music playback and authoritative calls.
The card formed able-bodied and was appealing intuitive. It was acknowledging and wasn't apathetic like some antecedent Sony Ericsson handsets.
The K618i doesn't accept any accurate appearance that stands out. At S$598 (without contract), it's a accepted all-round buzz that should clothing the needs of best users.
I'm not in the bazaar for a new buzz appropriate now, but I charge accept that the accessible S500 from Sony Ericsson has me casting forlon glances at my crumbling Treo.
Hitting North America in Q3 of this year, the glassy 2.5G (GSM/EDGE) slider is able with a 2-inch blush TFT affectation (240 x 320), music player, Web browser, 2-megapixel camera with 4x agenda zoom, 3D games, and capacity and illuminations that change according to time of day and/or time of year. The pocket- and purse-friendly S500 measures 3.9 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches, weighs 3.3 ounces, and will be accessible in Spring Yellow and Abstruse Green (mysterious, I suppose, because best of the buzz is absolutely black?).
Sony Ericsson hasn't appear appraisement yet, but aggregate abroad is in the
Sony Ericsson alien W61S the new 5.1-megapixel camera buzz from the Cyber-shot alternation with 3x optical zoom and smile bang technology. This slider buzz appearance “Exmor” CMOS matrix, the aforementioned sensor technology (analog-digital converter) from Sony’s Alpha DSLR.
The W61S can assignment in CDMA 1 X WIN networks acknowledging EV-DO Rev.A technology, and supports Bluetooth, so the user can feel chargeless after wires. GPS-functionality enhances photo capabilities of the phone: back you booty a picture, the buzz annal the advice from the GPS-receiver about the place, and again you can see it on a PC map.
In accession to photo and GPS the new Cyber-shot buzz can avowal of a big widescreen 2.8” TFT VGA display, which can be acclimated as a abridged TV display. If the this affectation isn’t big abundant for you to allotment the content, the developers added a video out.
» Sony Ericsson W61S with 5-Megapixel Camera
(February 2008)
Sony Ericsson W61S Cyber-Shot
Sony Ericsson alien W61S the new 5.1-megapixel camera buzz from the Cyber-shot alternation with 3x optical zoom and smile bang technology. This slider buzz appearance “Exmor” CMOS matrix, the aforementioned sensor technology (analog-digital converter) from Sony’s Alpha DSLR.
The W61S can assignment in CDMA 1 X WIN networks acknowledging EV-DO Rev.A technology, and supports Bluetooth, so the user can feel chargeless after wires. GPS-functionality enhances photo capabilities of the phone: back you booty a picture, the buzz annal the advice from the GPS-receiver about the place, and again you can see it on a PC map.
In accession to photo and GPS the new Cyber-shot buzz can avowal of a big widescreen 2.8” TFT VGA display, which can be acclimated as a abridged TV display. If the this affectation isn’t big abundant for you to allotment the content, the developers added a video out.
Sony Ericsson W61S
Sony Ericsson W61S Specifications:
* Networks: CDMA1X WIN
* Dimensions: 50x114x22 mm
* Weight: 149 g
* Display: 2.8” widescreen, 480x800 pixels, 262K colors
* microSD accumulator cards
* Camera: 5.11-megapixel, CMOS
* Payment, music and aeronautics services
