Motorola E398

This device built on triplet platform (analog of Motorola v300, v500, v600) is focused on youth. It has two stereo loud speakers, light themes, changeable memory cards and improved software.

• Class: youth
• Position in the line: above Motorola v300
• Rival phones: Sony Ericsson K700
• Test based description

• General features
  • Announced in February 2004, in the market since July 2004
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Color screen shows up to 65000 colors (TFT), the resolution of 176x220 pixels, up to 8 text lines + 2 service lines.
  • Battery type Li-Ion 700mAh
  • Battery life:
  • talk time up to 525 minutes
  • standby time up to 210 hours
  • Built-in digital camera with VGA resolution (640x480 pixels), flash
  • A possibility to set the order of menu items, tags
  • Weight: 107 g
  • Dimensions: 108x46x21 mm

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 1000 names, several types of phone numbers but only one number for a name. A possibility to keep e-mail address, a photo or picture can be assigned to a name.
  • Call register of 10 dialed, 10 received, and 10 missed calls
  • 5 MB of memory for application and data
  • Changeable memory cards TransFlash, a card for 64 MB is in a delivery set

• Call management, ringing tones, voice management
  • Vibrating alert
  • 32 ringing tones and melodies, a possibility to create your own one (up to 32)
  • A possibility to use mp3 or wav file as a call signal
  • 24 tones polyphony
  • Two stereo loud spaekers (each one is 16 mm in diameter)
  • Light schemes, son of lumiere ("haptics")
  • Different types of vibrating alert, schemes
  • Voice dial for up to 20 numbers
  • Voice tags to access menu items (up to 9)
  • Dictaphone for 2 minutes

• SMS
  • MMS
  • EMS
  • Nokia Smart Messages
  • Predictive text input iTap

• Connectivity
  • GPRS(4+2)
  • Bluetooth
  • WAP 2.0
  • No IrDA
  • e-mail (POP3/IMAP)
  • Synchronization with PC (USB)

• Organizer and extras
  • Biult-in digital camera
  • J2ME (MIDP 2.0)
  • Calendar, date, time
  • Calculator
  • Currency converter
  • Organizer with alarm clock, 500 notes, different types of events
  • Games (5 preset)

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 11 May 2004

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