Ericsson R320s

One of the first business phones from Ericsson. It was one of the most advanced models and rather expensive while coming into the market. Some problems with a receiver (rejects) forced the company to decrease the price to 100$, what maked it a leader of sales (in Easten Europe).

• Class: business
• Position in the phone line: under R520
• Rival models: none today, beyond comparison in price (in Easten Europe)

• General features
  • Announced in 2000
  • Made in Sweden
  • Dual band GSM900/1800
  • Graphical display, which shows up to 5 text lines; emerald backlighting
  • Battery type:Li-Ion 850 mAh
  • Autonomy:
    • Standby time: up to 65 hours
    • Talk time: up to 280 minutes
  • Dimensions: 130x51x15 mm
  • Weight: 95 g.

• Memory
  • Phonebook: 99 phone numbers and 10 e-mail addresses
  • The list of the last 30 received, missed and dialed phone numbers with date and time indication

   

• Voice functions
  • Voice dialing for up to 10 phone numbers
  • HR, FR and EFR support
  • Voice dialing
  • Automatic answer (works with headset or in handsfree mode only)
  • Dictaphone: 92 seconds (good quality) or 36 seconds (high quality)

 

• Ringing tones, call management
  • Vibrating alert
  • 10 ringing tones + a possibility to compose up to 4 of your own
  • A possibility to assign ringing tones to the phone numbers (up to 10)

• SMS
  • Group SMS

 

• Connectivity
  • IrDa
  • WAP 1.1
  • Modem
  • Synchronization with PC, data synchronization with MS Outlook, a possibility to create SMS messages on PC

• Organizer and extras
  • SIM Application Toolkit
  • Calendar with the organizer features, 3 types of notes: Event, Call and Reminder (up to 100 notes), monthly, weekly and daily view
  • Alarm clock
  • Countdown timer
  • Stopwatch
  • Code memo - similar to a phonebook, where codes and passwords are kept, it is locked by the specific password
  • Calculator
  • Date (4 ways of information viewing)
  • Profiles
  • 2 games - Tetris and Klondike

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 18 April 2003