Motorola E380

It is the second middle phone from Motorola equipped with a color screen. According to the classification of the company it belongs to the class of youth or entertainment mobile terminals. Most functions of this model resemble E360. Besides, E380 supports MMS.

• Class: middle, aimed to youth market
• Position in the phone line: after Motorola E360
• Rival models: Nokia 3510i, SonyEricsson T300

• General features
  • Announced in: January 2003, beginning of sales - 2Q, 2003
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Graphical high-contrast display with the resolution of 128õ96 pixels, which can show up to 4096 colours (STN)
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 600 mAh
  • Battery life:
    • Standby time: 72-150 hours
    • Talk time: up to 150 minutes
  • Interchangeable protected covers
  • A possibility to assign different colors of backlighting to names from the phonebook, operates while incoming calls
  • Weight: 85 g.
  • Dimensions: 115.2 x 44.5 x 20.8 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook: up to several phone numbers can be added to one contact

• Ringing tones, call management
  • 16-tones polyphonic ringing tones; up to 128 musical instruments
  • 27ringing tones+ a possibility to compose own melody (up to 5). All tones are polyphonic
  • A possibility to download melodies in iMelody or MIDI format
  • Vibrating alert
  • Different vibrating alert modes
  • Voice dialing (up to 10 voice tags)
  • Voice commands (up to 10 voice tags)

• SMS

• MMS
• EMS (ver. 5.0)
• Predictive text input iTap
• SMS Chat
• Peer-to-peer chat
• A possibility to send a group SMS message
• Instant Messaging (via WAP, OICQ for PRC)

 

• Connectivity
  • GPRS (4+1)
  • WAP 1.2.1, colour support (only interface, not pages)
  • WAP Push

   

• Organizer and extras
  • Screensavers (3 + 2 slots to download)
  • Downloadable icons
  • Wallpapers (GIF format, 5 pre-intalled + space for up to 5 new ones)
  • User's profiles; an automatic profile changing, which depends on time
  • Calculator, currency convertor
  • Calendar, date , time, alarm-clock
  • Organizer
  • 5 games - Smack, Magic, Memory, Torpedo, Racing + network games

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 21 July 2003

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