Memory

Phonebook memory for 510 numbers + SIM memory. For a name you can keep up to 6 numbers, e-mail address and other information. You can assign a picture to a name in the phonebook (photo), it will be shown at incoming call.
Users' groups
Organizer - calendar(up to 300 events), to-do list (up to 80 events)
Call log of 30 last calls of all types , you can view separate lists
Free memory available for Java applications, photos and other applications about 256 MB

Connectivity

WAP 2.0, WAP Push
GPRS(4+2)
IrDA
Bluetooth
Mail client(SMTP/POP3)
Synchronization with PC
SyncML
Wirelles Village Instant Messaging
Access NetFront HTML browser
OMA DRM phase 1

Music handsets comparison – which one to choose?

It’s widely known, that comparisons based off real handsets’ specifications often attract attention of wide audience – though once we get to comparing music phones, one can justly say that all conclusions depend on subjective impressions, as tastes differ. Frequencies measurement does not give plain data, which can help in practice either – how can you judge whether device A is superior to device B when both of them have default earphones plugged in and output sound is almost of the same quality? It seems under these conditions such issues are pointless and not worth posting.

However there is something that saves the day – so called focus-groups, which arrive at a conclusion by testing music playback quality and overall feeling of every given device subjectively. These experiments allow obtaining information that are likely to prove useful in practice, and predicting attitude towards the product once it is released. Not a single magazine provided test of this kind, thus Mobile-Review.com has managed to hit the status of pioneer once again. I should stress that in most cases focus-groups are organized by manufacturers themselves, nevertheless they don’t completely fulfill their main objective – rating a device fairly, and pretty often those results turn out to be biased. Before putting our hands on the very experimental results, let’s see which models have undergone our tests.

Comparison participants or the modern market of music handsets

The very concept of music handsets has been developed since Sony Ericsson in cooperation with Sony reanimated the Walkman brand. And the truth of the matter is that this was the first great success of a music phone on the entire market. Simultaneous updates of the rest of the lime-up and presence of other high profile music solutions didn’t affect the sale rates much. It was Sony Ericsson to start the trend of positioning music part as essential in the first place. However this manufacturer couldn’t create enough of handicap to ensure its leadership for a long period – Motorola was also grinding in this field, and this resulted in ROKR line-up launch, which’s first representative E1 was a re-designed Motorola E398 with iTunes support. The model proved to be such a big failure in 2005, that we won’t even include it in the range of compared phones, it’s an outmoded device in many ways. A bit later on, Nokia also joined the race for taking over the music phones market – and this attempt was rather successful, as Nokia N91 announcement made all brand loyal people to greatly anticipate this one. Though, since the device has not appeared on the market yet, we won’t review its capacity here. The second reason for doing so, that this model is positioned as a solution residing in the high-price bracket and has a hard drive incorporated. Comparison with Samsung i300, Sony Ericsson W950, Sony Ericsson P990i would make sense for sure – basically this article is more likely to be written in the near future. This issue doesn’t feature very promising model Alcatel S853 simply because we didn’t manage to get one while the focus-group was working, even now we failed to find this device in retail stores.

This article reviews not all the introduced handsets, but also those, which are only closing in to their release dates – this group consists of another model in ROKR product line, Motorola E2; Nokia 3250, even though it’s a youth smartphone, the manufacturer positions it as a music phone. Naturally, the pioneer of this field, Sony Ericsson, has its representatives in this issue as well - Sony Ericsson W800i, Sony Ericsson W810i, Sony Ericsson W900i. All results, acquired for Sony Ericsson W800i are true for Sony Ericsson K750i as well – all you need to do is to update firmware, earphones from the standard kit and plug in a bigger memory card. (not the best way considering minimal difference in prices, though there are still some people who are fond of challenges).

Music handsets comparison – which one to choose?

Comparison participants or the modern market of music handsets

Comparing – what to and how to?

1.3 Synchronization with PC, music upload, additional software

1.4 General media player’s concept and special effects