Sony Ericsson W380i / W380a / W380c
Discontinued 8th November 2007
At first glance, the Sony Ericsson W380
looks a bit dull. It's a "Walkman" branded
GSM clamshell phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera and
a 176x220 pixel display. The relatively low model number
(i.e. 380) indicates that this is a pretty low-end phone.
And yet, the Sony Ericsson W380 has
a few surprising features that actually make it a pretty
cool phone. Firstly, it's a Walkman phone, so you know
that it's going to have good multimedia capabilities..
but there's more. Perhaps the cleverest thing in the
W380 is a motion sensor which allows you to wave your
hand over the phone in order to snooze an alarm or to
silence an incoming call. This is perhaps a silly thing,
but you have to admit that it's a pretty cool feature.
The exterior media controls are quite funky too, and
the W380 has a fashionably discrete external display
as well. Talktime is a useful 7 hours.
The rest of the features on the W380
are pretty straightforward - stereo Bluetooth, an FM
radio and Memory Stick Micro expandable memory (with
512MB in the box) are the main features. There's an
email client, web browser, RSS feed reader and all the
usual stuff you'd expect to find in a Sony Ericsson.
There's no word on pricing, but Sony
Ericsson say that the W380 should be available in Q1
2008 in "Electric Purple" and "Magnetic
Grey". There are three variants, a tri-band 850/1800/1900
W380a version for North America, the tri-band 900/1800/1900
W380c version for China and another tri-band 900/1800/1900
W380i version for everywhere else in the world.
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Sony
Ericsson W380 at a glance
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Available:
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Q1
2008
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Network:
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GSM
850 / 1800 / 1900 or GSM
900 / 1800 / 1900
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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1.3
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
clamshell 92 x 49 x 16mm
/ 100 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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No
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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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7 hours talk / 12 days standby
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