Sony Ericsson K300 / K300i / K300c / K300a

Discontinued
1st March 2005

The Sony Ericsson K300 is a compact and low cost camera phone with a 128x128 pixel display in 65,000 colours, VGA resolution camera and 12Mb of internal memory. It's a reasonably lightweight handset at 85 grams, but it has an impressive 7 hours maximum talktime.

Aimed primarily at the consumer market, the K300 is at heart a pretty basic camera phone but there's a certain style in this little Sony Ericsson device that makes it stand apart from many other low cost camera phones.

The full feature list is pretty good - with a WAP 2.0 browser, Java, 3D graphics acceleration, MMS messaging, video recording, email client, media player, and PC synchronisation.

This is a pretty crowded marketplace though, and it's a little bit surprising that Sony Ericsson are competing in this arena when their strengths are more in high-end handsets. Still, the K300 leverages a lot of existing technology into a competent and attractive package.

This K300 will be available in three different tri-band variants, the K300a will be a GSM 850/1800/1900 device for America, the K300c is a Chinese GSM 900/1800/1900 variant and the K300i is a 900/1800/1900 GSM handset for the rest of the world. Shipping should start in Q1 of 2005.

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