The Sony Ericsson W850i is the first 3G slider mobile phone by Sony Ericsson , introduced in Q2 2006. It is a member of their Walkman line, succeeding the Sony Ericsson W600 . The phone made its first public appearance in the 2006 movie The Da Vinci Code , months before its release. It is similar mechanically to the Sony Ericsson K800i , but differs in form factor, use of the Memory Stick PRO Duo instead of the Memory Stick Micro , and camera quality. (2.0 megapixels instead of 3.2 for the K800i, and with some additional features removed)
8-581: The model's features are identical to those of the W880i , apart from the form factor and the inclusion of an FM radio and Photolight on this model. There is a non-3G version of the W850i called the W830c. The phone is configured for operator over-the-air (OTA) music download services, and accepts popular music file formats including MP3 and e-AAC+. It was supplied with a 1 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo. The Golden White version has
16-556: A 1 GB M2 , but can be expanded up to 2 GB via the Memory Stick Micro slot. Other features include photo/video editing, picture blogging, web gallery uploading, QCIF video recording, and 3G data transferring capabilities of up to 384 kbit/s. This model shares all of the features the W850i has except the form factor and the lack of radio and camera light. The phone's CPU is an ARM 9 processor clocked at 206 MHz. The W880
24-409: A 10 second sample. Toor, however, bemoaned the lack of autofocus and flash on the camera, stating that it was only really useful for outdoor use as well as the size of the keys, which he compared to "metallic grains of rice". Furthermore, in testing, he found that the battery lasted nowhere near the 425 hours Sony claimed in its advertising. In conclusion he felt that the drawbacks were "niggles" and that
32-442: A fixed internal antenna. The phone supports 3G telephony, Bluetooth 2.0, infrared file sharing, and USB, but does not support WLAN networks, unlike later Walkman models. The phone runs on Sony Ericsson's proprietary OS, equipped with various applications such as: W880i The Sony Ericsson W880i is a mobile phone that was announced on 6 February 2007 and released in spring 2007. Part of Sony Ericsson 's Walkman series,
40-508: A gold Walkman logo on the back which the black version does not include. The Walkman player contains Gracenote Mobile TrackID, which enables a user to record a few seconds of a song, either via the microphone or the built-in FM radio, and attempts to identify the track. The W850i has a TFT 240×320 display packed in a 116 gram slider body. It was released in two colours, black and white, and can show eight lines of text on its two-inch display. It has
48-518: Is exclusively available to Vodafone . There is also a non-3G version of the phone; the Sony Ericsson W888c. The W880 features a 2.0-megapixel camera (without autofocus and flash) and a secondary VGA camera located on the front which can be used for 3G video conferencing . The phone also comes with Walkman Player v2.0, which gives a faster interface with very few differences from the previous version. The phone comes with 16 MB of memory and
56-526: The phone has been popular due to its tiny dimensions and low weight. At only 9.4 mm thick, the W880 was one of the few phones on the market that were thinner than 1 cm (10 mm), the other notable example being the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic from later that year. The W880i is available in three different colour schemes; "Flame Black", "Steel Silver" and "Pitch Black". There is a fourth color scheme, "Gold", which
64-512: Was Sony Ericsson's thinnest phone when released, and one of the slimmest on the market. There were few phones less than a centimetre thick beforehand, most notably Motorola FONE F3 and Samsung X820 . Supports a wide range of audio, video and image formats, next to software: Writing for Know Your Mobile, Mat Toor praised the fact that the W880i had 3G, a screen that was "easy on the eye [sic]" and its TrackID software which could identify music from
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