Sony
Ericsson K810i
Available
now 6th February 2007
At the end of last year, we crowned
the Sony
Ericsson K800i as our phone
of the year for 2006. For us it was a perfect combination
of high tech features and usable design.. so when Sony
Ericsson announce the SE K810i,
we were pretty exciting. Surely that must be a phone
that would be better than the K800i? Yes?
The long and the short of it is that
the Sony Ericsson K810i
appears to be exactly the same as last years K800i..
there's a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, a Xenon
flash and multishoot capabilities. The K810i
is a UMTS 2100 phone with
tri-band GSM support, a 2.0" QVGA display,
expandable memory, a comprehensive software suite including
an email client, web browser, RSS newsreader and blogging
support and a whole host of really cool features.. but
they seem to be exactly the same in the K810i as the
older handset.
Being
sad sort of techie types at Mobile Gazette, it
took us a little while to look away from the specification
sheet for long enough to actually examine the
K810i itself and of
course then it was obvious.. Sony Ericsson
have changed the keypad. Well, alright, they've made
a few cosmetic changes too.. but ultimately the most
significant different that we can see is the funny little
round buttons where the K800i had a conventional number
pad. And the K810i
has gone a bit shiny too, as is the current fashion.
Now.. we haven't tried the K810i's
keypad and heck, there might have been good reasons
to change it.. but to us, this looks like a silly cosmetic
change that might actually put off buyers. Yes, it's
quite possible that Sony Ericsson
have taken the old K800i and have spoiled it.
If you can live with the strange keypad,
then the Sony Ericsson
K810i promises to be the
same excellent camera phone as its predecessor. If you've
got a K800i.. well, best to keep hold of it for now
as Sony Ericsson
are bound to have something more interesting up their
sleeves for later in the year.
Sony
Ericsson say that the K810i
should be available from Q2 2007 in Noble Blue and Golden
Ivory colour combinations. There will also be a non-3G
K818c variant for China.
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Sony
Ericsson K810i at a glance
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Available:
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Q2
2007
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Network:
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GSM
900/1800/1900 + UMTS 2100
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Data:
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GPRS
+ UMTS (3G)
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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3.2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
monoblock 106 x 48 x
17mm / 115 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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Memory
Stick Micro
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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2.5
hours talk / 16 days standby
(3G) 10 hours talk /
16 days standby (GSM)
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