Mobilextremist | Sony Ericsson K530i

Written by MobileXtremist
Wednesday, 01 August 2007
What's in a name? People who know Sony Ericsson devices well might see the "K530" designation and assume that this is going to be a fairly standard midrange phone. However, the Sony Ericsson K530i is quite surprising - this is a lightweight 3G phone with a QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera and expandable memory. Plus, the K530i is the first Sony Ericsson handset to work with the HGE-100 GPS Enabler (you can read more here). Weighing just 92 grams and coming in at 14mm thick, the K530i is certainly lighter and slimmer than most 3G handsets. At the same time the K530i doesn't skimp on the specifications - in addition to everything that we've already mentioned, it has stereo Bluetooth, an FM radio, video calling, a multimedia player, email client and web browser. There are a few compromises - in particular the camera doesn't have a flash and appears to lack autofocus. Internal memory is a little limited at 16MB so you really will rely on the Memory Stick Micro slot.. but remember that the K500 series has always offered good value in the past and this is likely to be the case with the K530i.
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Written by MobileXtremist
Wednesday, 01 August 2007
The Sony Ericsson W960i is a "Walkman" version of the Sony Ericsson P1i 3G smartphone, and it can be considered to be a straight upgrade to the existing W950i. Two major improvements with the W960i over the previous model are the inclusion of a 3.2 megapixel camera and WiFi support - the lack of a camera on the older model was an oddity due to the fact that it too was based on another Sony Ericsson smartphone, this time the M600i. One thing to notice about the W960i is the unusually uncluttered design - this is because the W960i uses a large 2.6" 240x320 pixel resolution touchscreen plus a jog dial. The W960i's underlying operating system is Symbian with the UIQ interface on top, which means that there are a wide variety of applications available, possibly also including corporate push email solutions. This makes the W960i an unusually powerful member of the Walkman family. There are a couple of major differences between the W960i and the P1i - the most obvious one is that this has a conventional numeric keypad rather than the expanded version on the P1i. Another major change is that the W960i comes with a whopping 8GB of memory, but this isn't expandable - the W960i doesn't support any type of memory card expansion. Although 8GB is plenty, many people like to be able to transfer data (especially pictures) to another machine using a memory card rather than a cable, so some people might find that annoying.
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