Sony Ericsson W800i Walkman and K750i
previewMarch 13, 2005 By Olav
Hellesų-Knutsen
After playing around with the K750i and W800i Walkman for a
couple of hours I believe Sony Ericsson has managed to created
two new best selling phone models. At first glance, the K750i
and W800i looks and feels like the popular Sony Ericsson
K700i. They are all around the same size and the form factor
looks similar. Very few new features have been added. The 700
to 750 upgrade is more like an evolution than a revolution.
Number of Megapixels is now counting 2 and that's quite
reasonable for a device on it's way out on the European
market. The majority of the mid- to high-end phones on display
at the CeBIT trade fair had a 1.3 Megapixel resolution camera.
Even if internal available memory for user storage is
decreased to 38 MB, you can now store up to 1 GB user data on
an additional Memory Stick Duo card. That's around 2-300
songs.
The Sony Ericsson K750i
Sony Ericsson W800i Walkman mobile
New connection interface It has
probably been hard for Sony Ericsson to make the decision to
go through with this modification, but they have created a new
connection interface on the W800i and K750i. This means that
you now can throw your old collection of accessories. They
will not work with older devices. New accessories made for the
K750i and W800i will not fit on to an older Sony Ericsson
mobile phone either. All manufactures change accessory
interface from time to time and since I have been able to use
the Ericsson T39 charger on my S700i it is probably time to do
an upgrade. The new connection interface is called fast port.
The connector is optimized for fast transfer of images, music
and other data between phone and other devices.
2 Megapixel camera The K750i camera lens is
protected with a sliding cover that's easy to open and close
with one hand and without turning the phone around to find the
opener slider. On the W800i you protect the lens with a small
protection lens operated by a little slider key.
The K750i and W800i camera application operates in
horizontal mode so you will have to turn the phone 90 degrees
counter clockwise to capture pictures and adjust camera
application menu settings. A new feature found in the K750i
and W800i is auto focus. This might improve the picture
quality by keeping correct focus, but I found this feature
very disturbing. When you press the capture button, auto focus
uses a couple of seconds before the picture is captured. I
talked to some of the Sony Ericsson representatives about this
and they also though this was strange. A half press on the
shutter button is supposed to indicates focus, and a long
press means taking a picture. It did not work out very well.
It might of course change when the final product is released.
Another new feature is macro focus. This will probably increase picture quality when
taking close up pictures. I have not checked the quality of
macro pictures on a large display, so I can't verify if this
works. The two new models have also adapted many of the
possible camera application settings from the S700i model.
These include picture quality, night modus, picture size,
self-timer, effects and lights.
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Edit video clips with
VideoDJ | Video editing
application A new application called VideoDJ let you
create and edit movie clips. You can trim and add stored
movies, add pictures and text with various backgrounds to a
movie. The result clip can be stored for later usage or sent
by MMS or email to one of you contacts. The PictureDJ
application let you edit pictures by adding text, draw lines,
rectangle, rotate, zoom and more. MusicDJ application also
found in earlier Sony Ericsson model makes it easy to create
short sound clips by mixing a set of pre-installed sound beats
and instruments.
Playlist K750i also introduces a new feature call
"Playlist", also found in the W800i Walkman model. I have felt
the need for this type of feature since the launch of the
first MP3 playing mobile phone model. This application
organizes audio and video content in lists/groups. If you for
example have saved both polyphonic ringtones and MP3 files in
the same directory and you want to play only mp3 files, you
can create a playlist with the MP3 files. Another name for
Playlist could be Favourites.
Menus The K750i and W800i menus are similar to
the one found in previous models from Sony Ericsson. Some
rearrangements have been done by moving a couple sub-menus to
other part of the structure. The button located right below
the display will take you to a new menu called "Activity".
Here you can view missed calls, new text and picture messages,
task reminders, shortcuts and get quick access to favourite
Internet bookmarks. It is also possible to get a direct
overview of applications that are running in the background,
for example the media player or the FM radio.
Conclusion Finally I must admit that I
can't see much difference between the W800i Walkman and the
K750i. All comments above except the camera lens hardware
applies to both the Sony Ericsson W800i and the Sony Ericsson
K750i phone models. The few difference between the W800i and
K750i I have seen are: W800i has Walkman icon in main menu and
printed on the cover, a dedicated button that probably will
take you to the media player (in this pre-release version, it
took me to the activity menu). That is probably the main
differences. I don't know what kind of accessory will be
enclosed, but the W800i Walkman could be shipped with better
headsets. W800i will be bundled with a 512 MB Memory Stick Duo
card while the K750i only will have 64MB included. Both models
can support up to 1 GB memory with Memory Stick Duo Pro
cards.
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