Sony Ericsson W200i is a cute mobile which looks very solid and perfect. This mobile is typically a walkman phone and the walkman symbol is inscribed everywhere on the body of the phone. The navigation panel is very beautifully designed as an ellipse with a circle in the center as menu button and the panel has 4 buttons 2 on each side of the menu button equally sized and looks perfect. Even the number pad follows the same ellipse shape for each row. The form factor of this mobile is bar. The dimensions of this walkman are 101 x 44 x 18 mm. The net weight of this solid bar is just 85 grams. This walkman phone is available in 6 vibrant colours they are Rhythm Black, Pulse White, Grey, Sweet Pink, Aquatic White and Mono Blue. The black colour is very beautiful and looks very solid.
Sony Ericsson W200 has a 1.8 inches wide UBC screen which can display 65 thousand colors at a maximum resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. The screen is not superb but is great for a walkman mobile. This mobile has a VGA camera which can capture images at a low resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. This camera can also be used to record videos at a reasonably good quality.
This mobile is developed for second generation network. It is a tri band mobile which is available in two versions Sony Ericsson W200a and W200i. The former is for Americans and the later is for Chinese Market but is compatible all over the world including Europe. The frequency specifications for W200i are GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz. The frequency specifications for W200a are GSM 850 / 1800 /1900 MHz. Sony Ericsson W200 is well connected to internet using the GPRS class 10 at a maximum speed of 48 kbps. It is also enabled with HSCSD to allow much better speed. To share the data among the compatible devices it uses Infrared Port and USB. Infrared is not used nowadays in the recent mobile instead of that they prefer Bluetooth because Infrared rays require Line of Sight and can transfer data to a very limited distance. So, IR port in W200 is not so advantageous. But the USB port is useful to transfer data at a higher speed to PC or other devices.
Sony Ericsson W200 has a small internal memory of 27 MB which is shared by all applications. Since the memory is very small you can use the Micro (M2) memory stick for additional memory requirements. Since it is a walkman phone Sony Ericsson concentrated much on sound quality. It has built in Walkman Media player version 1.0 and high quality speakers to give perfect music effect. This phone also has a FM radio with RDS which can display the data transferred by the music station currently you are listening to. The FM radio is also of very high quality and gives great music.
This phone supports all the standard functions, messaging features of the mobile. Apart from them, it also has an Image viewer and Picture editor. It has a standard Li – Ion battery which can supply enough power to run the phone up to 300 hours in standby mode or up to 7 hours of talk time.
By: Balachander Ganesan
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Sony Ericsson W200i – All About Music
February 20th, 2010
The advent of Sony Ericsson’s highly acclaimed Walkman series brought a sort of freshness and uniqueness in the world of music phones. And, since then many illustrating and highly efficient gadgets have been added in this series on the regular basis. Besides the obvious music features, various new functionalities have also blended in the overall profile of these phones, but at the same time their prices also shot up. Finally, Walkman series added another sober prodigy or the Sony Ericsson W200i in its series to offer something which does not come with higher price tag. As such, the Sony Ericsson W200i is all about pure music, as it does not carry many of those latest features. And, this became the advantage of this phone, as more and more users can have a Walkman phone without paying a hefty price for it.
Unlike some of the most popular music phones, this phone sports a standard 3.5mm jack. And, it is endowed with 128MB of internal memory, which is surely not enough and you can easily enhance it by using an extra memory card. This phone does not have all those modern tantrums, as it comes with a balanced profile. Like its features, it¬ is quite sleek in dimensions and weighs only 85g. Hence, you can easily carry your music around without feeling any sort of burden.
The Sony Ericsson W200i is all about music and surely offers, what you really like to have in your consummate music phone. Equipped with the latest Walkman media player, it also supports various other assisting features like Mega Bass and sound equaliser. Furthermore, you can also go creative with your music, as you can easily compose your very own ringtones. If that is not enough, then you can tune in to its FM radio to get more music –the way you like it.
Though music has been the forte of this phone, but it does offer something in other features. It is loaded with a video player and a VGA camera. So, you can record all your favourite videos and share all of them with the people you care via MMS. Its intuitive TFT screen provides a compatible platform to watch all the desired stuff. You might not find anything cool in this phone, but it can be your compatible music pal.
By: Alice Erin
