Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Limpag: Another gorgeous Sony Ericsson phone By Max Limpag Celltalk
K320i. Sony Ericsson unveiled late last month a line of new cellular phone models. Among the models is the K320 (see photo) camera phone. The unit will be marketed as the K320i in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region and will be available starting this month.
The phone is among the first Sony Ericsson units with automatic Bluetooth pairing. According to a company statement, this feature allows users to connect the phone to a compatible Bluetooth accessory without having to enter a pass code when linking the devices.
However, the Bluetooth headset that comes with the phone, the HBH-PV705, does not support auto pairing so this feature is useless unless you buy an accessory that supports it such as the HBH-IV835.
FEATURES. Among the sexy features of the phone is its ability to display RSS feeds. If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, it’s a sexy technology that allows you to read content of sites without having to actually visit the website. You do this by subscribing to RSS or really simple syndication feeds.
Details are sparse on the RSS feed capability of Sony Ericsson phones and I couldn’t find more data on the extent of its support. But it would be great if the RSS capability is akin to that of regular RSS readers, albeit stripped down for mobile display.
The phone comes with a camera although I couldn’t find details of its photo resolution from the Sony Ericsson website except for the fact that it has 4x digital zoom. The phone comes with a 128x160 pixel screen, which makes its screen smaller than that of the K750i.
The phone, as with current multi-media units, can play both digital music and video files in a variety of format. Sony Ericsson is marketing the device as a work phone, one that appeals “to both the cost-conscious employer and the demanding user.” The phone is capable of handling so-called push email using POP3. It is also a speakerphone, which is quite useful for conference calls when your team listens as your boss blows his or her top over a screw-up.
The phone comes with a 15MB internal memory that should be expandable through memory cards because Sony Ericsson is also marketing the unit as a USB mass storage. Its phone book can store up to 1,000 contacts.
The phone also comes with full HTML browser, which means you can open just about any site and not just the stripped down WAP versions of web pages.
