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Sony Ericsson w800i February 15th, 2006 | by Vince Veneziani

Features and Design

I'm sure you're dying to know the specs on this orange beauty. The Sony Ericsson w800i is a cowboy not to be reckoned with. We are talking about some serious firepower here! The w800i is a tri-band GSM “candy bar” phone with a stunning 262k-color screen that runs at a 320x240 resolution. The camera is one of the better in the cell phone world at a whopping 2.0 mega-pixels that will blow older digital cameras out of the water. The phone has 38MB of integrated memory, but comes with a 512MB Sony Memory Stick Duo card to keep your songs and pictures on. An integrated web browser, plenty of video games and Walkman software make this phone one of the best available to the consumer today. You'll also find things like Bluetooth, USB connectivity, and dedicated music controls on the side of the phone. Wonderful stuff.

The first thing noticeable about the w800i phone is that it is pretty sleek. It has a bright candy orange color that makes you fall in love with it right away. Flip it over before you even turn it on and you'll notice that the camera actually has a lens cover with a switch. You'll instantly feel like a photographer when snapping pictures with the w800i and the results will impress you. Looking at the front of the phone, you'll notice the left side has a play/pause button for listening to music and at the bottom-left, a slot for a Sony Memory Stick Duo memory card. The right side features dedicated volume control for the music you'll be listening to, as well as a shutter button for taking pictures on its camera.  The phone also has 2 generic-function buttons with a dedicated Walkman button in the center for going right to your music. Below the Walkman button you'll find a back-button, a joystick for selection, and a clear-button; other then that, there's your basic 12-button keypad, which is quite comfortable and easy to use.

Image Courtesy of Sony Ericsson