Sony Ericsson W810
The Sony Ericsson W810 is the successor of the W800 mobile phone from Sony Ericsson.
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The W810 came in April 2006 on the market. In the global mobile phone sales statistics, which publishes the company Krusell approximately monthly intervals, it passed in June 2006 for the first time at No. 1, in the following two months, it was in second place behind the newly released Sony Ericsson K800i.
Like its predecessor, it uses Sony's Walkman brand and has a two-megapixel digital camera with auto focus. On 20 megabytes of internal memory and a supplied as standard with 512 -megabyte memory card, it offers space for music files and photos. Furthermore, part of a 3.5 jack adapter supplied with, so you can listen to music with any standard headphones. As with the previous model, a Walkman button is also present in this mobile phone, by which you can directly access the playlist. When you turn on the phone there is the possibility to switch to music mode to start, in which videos can be played. In this case, all functions are turned off except for the alarm clock and the Walkman function. This not only has the advantage that you can listen to music thus without having inserted a SIM card, but also that you may use this feature in mobile phone restricted areas, such as airplanes and hospitals. Furthermore, this battery life extended.
Technical innovations
A new feature has the W810 is the first Sony Ericsson phone a native WAP / HTML Browser NetFront - based, with the designed not specifically for mobile phones richer Web pages can be shown relatively comfortable and spacious.
The software has remained the same over long distances compared to the predecessor model. An RSS Reader supports reading of news, via the application button can be switched between different applications. However, this is by no means be compared with a multi-tasking capability. The design has changed: The mobile phone was initially offered only in a neutral black. Later, a white version of the phone has been released in a limited edition. The display and keyboard lighting adapts by means of a brightness sensor on the display to the ambient light in order to achieve a better readability and to save power. In addition, Sony Ericsson did not pursue on this model on the joystick for navigation, which was due to dust malfunctions caused one of the biggest weaknesses of previous models. Instead, a 5-way directional pad is used. The camera cover, which often mechanically failed in the previous model, is completely omitted in this model, which was partly strongly criticized. With minimal modifications, however, leave the rear housing shells of the W800 and the K750 mount on the W810 to unofficially to get a camera cover. This is possible because the W810 is based in large part on the hardware platform of the K750 and W800. Furthermore, also the center frame of the case of a K750 or W800 can use for the W810, which is not officially available in color combinations (eg white W810 front and rear shell, orange W800 center frame ) results.
Supplied Accessories
- Charging cable
- DCU -60 USB cable
- Sony -Ericsson HPM -70 headset with 3.5 mm jack adapter
- Manual
- Software CD
- 512 -megabyte Memory Stick Duo memory card
- Memory Stick Duo adapter for Memory Stick normal
Others
The phone officially supports only up to two gigabytes of memory cards. Although work Unofficially also four, eight and sixteen gigabyte cards, but the speed suffers eg in the file manager with larger maps in some cases substantially.
If you want to take advantage of the promised USB 2.0 speed, you have to reset the phone after plugging the data cable in file transfer mode, which means that you can not take calls during which, SMS etc..
Sony Ericsson indicates that with current firmware versions when playing audio files a noticeable noise is heard in the background. This background noise is more noticeable when the volume is reduced, or just a silent portion is played. The noise made her first appearance after a firmware update of the model, which should reduce audible distortion at higher volumes. Sony Ericsson's customer service has announced that until further notice no plans to solve the problem is because of the challenges faced by the firmware update problems had priority. The firmware update can be downloaded from the website of Sony Ericsson.