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Sony Ericsson has introduced six new mobile phones at its Press Event in New York, today. The new devices include two high-end K750 successors - K800 and K790, the clamshell walkman phone – W300 as well as three mid-range camera phones – K510, Z530 and K310. All these handsets are expected to be commercially available in Q2 2006.
To emphasize their digital camera capabilities, the new Sony Ericsson K800 and K790 phones will carry the Cyber-Shot brand, which is used by Sony's digital cameras. Turning the phones horizontally and sliding the lens's cover downwards starts a user interface similar to the Cyber-Shot one. A new feature called BestPic enables the phones to captures 9 images with a single shutter press - 4 pictures before and 4 pictures after the actual image you captured. All 9 pictures are displayed as icons on the display. Simply scroll backwards and forwards through the 9 images and save the ones you like best.
Both phones are physically identical, with K800 being a tri-band GSM/GPRS with 3G support, while the K790 is tri-band GSM/EDGE. Compared to their K750 predicessor, the new devices have their camera upgraded to 3.2 mega pixels, the screen size increased to QVGA (240x320) and instead of Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Micro (M2) is used. K800 also features front mounted VGA camera for video calls.
Both products will be commercially available in Velvet Black.
Main features of K790 and K800:Dimentions: 4.17 x 1.85 x 0.71in (106 x 47 x 18mm)
Weight 4.05oz (115g)
3.2 Mega pixel camera with auto Focus
Xenon Flash
2.0" QVGA 262k display
Push email
Bluetooth 2.0
IrDA
Full HTML browser
Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory expansion
K510: K500's successor has its camera upped from a VGA to 1.3 mega pixels with screen colors increased to 262k from 65k. The bar-designed tri-band GSM phone will be available in two colors - midnight black or polished purple. Unlike the K500 which did not have a US version, the K510 will come in three versions K510i (900/1800/1900 Mhz), K510c (same as K510i but for China) as well asK510a, which is a GSM/GPRS (850/1800/1900MHz) for Americas. The device main features:
262k colour TFT display
1.3 mega pixels camera with flash and video capture Media Player (MP3/AAC support) Push email
Bluetooth/USB/IRDA connectivity Built-in speakerphone
Z530: a tri-band GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900MHz) clamshell phone that features:
65,536 color UBC (ultra bright color) main display
Monochrome sub-display
VGA camera with flash and video capture
full HTML Internet browser
Push email
28 MB memory
Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory expansion slot
Media Player (MP3/AAC support)
Bluetooth/USB/IRDA connectivity
Built-in speakerphone
K310: a bar-designed tri-band GSM phone that comes in three versions - K310i, K310c and K310a, which is a GSM/GPRS (850/1800/1900MHz) for Americas. It features:
65,536 color UBC (ultra bright color) display
VGA camera with video capture
15 MB memory
Media Player (MP3 support)
Push email
Bluetooth/ IRDA connectivity
Built-in speakerphone
W300: a quad-band GSM walkman phone with clamshell form factor, available in two colors - shimmering white and shadow black colour. The main features are as follows:
262k colour TFT main display
Monochrome sub-display
VGA camera with video capture
GPRS/EDGE high-speed data
20MB internal memory
Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory expansion slot
Media Player (MP3 support)
Streaming Audio/Video
Bluetooth/USB/IRDA connectivity
FM radio with RDS
Built-in speakerphone
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