Sony Ericsson K850i: A media-focused phone

The Sony Ericsson K850i amazes the users with its 3G capabilities. This phone is designed keeping the “passionate photographers” in the mind. It is an attractive phone which is compact to carry and hold. The K850i comes with easy to use features and ergonomic keypad, as it focuses highly on the advanced camera and media capabilities.

Design and Display

The solid candy bar shaped phone measures 102 mm in height, 48 mm in width and 17 mm in thickness. The users are given the choice of two colours namely--luminous green and velvet blue. An appealing luminous green coloured casing provides the users with black coloured casing and highlights of green while, in the velvet blue casing option provides a mainly black and grey casing with highlights of bright blue. The large high colour screen comes with a scratch proof protection. The high resolution TFT screen unfurls up to 262 K colours. This usually results in the crystal clear images, text and videos.

Connectivity options:

The Sony Ericsson K850i is a 3G enabled phone that offers its users with all the latest 3G capabilities. On this handset, the users can experience broadband speed Internet access, 3G video calling and video or music streaming. The 3G HSDPA technology is also known as 3.5G technology, as it offers the users with the facility of super-high data transfer speeds up to 384 KB per second. The high speed capabilities allow the users to enjoy quick access while accessing the Internet, participating in the 3G video calls or enjoying email services. The phone is backed with multitasking operations. While calling, the users can download videos, music or games for instance. The EDGE technology allows the users to experience high speed data transfers which is considered as three times faster than GPRS transfers. Moreover, the users can connect with compatible devices with the aid of USB cable connection or Bluetooth wireless technology. The mobile owner can experience world wide roaming on his K850i as the phone network covers signals on GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 networks and UMTS. The users can access the Internet from the built-in browser for music, news, travel and much more information.

Multimedia Capabilities:

An integrated 5 mega pixel is incorporated with highly usable and image-focused features. This will ensure the user gets the most precise and perfect shot each time the button is pressed. Some of the highly used features are auto focus, digital zoom, xenon flash, image stabliser, photo blogging and many more. The auto focus feature allows the users to get crystal clear sharpness. With the help of the xenon flash feature, the users can capture their photos in varied lighting conditions. The digital zoom is used to get close to capture the far-off images. The red eye reduction feature avoids a shot being spoiled by red eyes from the flash. With the help of 3G technology, the users can enjoy a high speed face to face video call with other compatible 3G phone contacts. The Sony Ericsson K850i is a media-focus 3G phone which enables the users to access videos, music and photos with ease. This handset supports video features which allow the users to enjoy recording, playing and streaming video in various popular formats. On the musical front, the users can enjoy music on FM radio and media player. The K850i offers media manager software CD to manage and transfer music, photo and video files. Some of the best music features include PlayNow for quick music download and TrackID feature for music recognition. The phone owner enjoys comprehensive messaging services including instant push email service for direct email service, SMS, MMS and EMS.

Other important highlights

This 3G enabled phone comes with 40 MB of built-in memory which can be expanded using a memory stick micro M2 or a MicroSD memory card. The Sony Ericsson K850i comes with a battery which supports approximately seven hours talk time or four hundred hours standby time from a single full charge. Therefore, without worrying about the battery back, users can enjoy seamless communication.