Sony Ericsson W888

This is a variation of the W880 for Chinese market. There is no support for 3G networks and as a result no frontal camera for videocalls.

• Class: multimedia, 3G, fashion
• Position in the line: above Sony Ericsson W830c
• Rivals: Samsung F300
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2007, official announcement on the 06 February 2007
  • eGSM 900/1800/1900, UMTS 2100
  • Battery type Li-Ion 950 mAh (BST-33)
  • Battery life:
  • talk mode up to 6,5 hours
  • standby mode up to 425 hours
  • up to 18.5 hours in player mode
  • 1,8" TFT display with the resolution of QVGA (240x320 pixels) and support for up to 262000 colours
  • Сolours: silvery, black
  • Weight: 71 gramms
  • Dimensions: 103 x 47 x 9,4 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook may contain up to 1000 names with completely and partly filles fields. Which is totally a number of 2500 numbers. Personal call signal for a name, own picture.
  • General call list contains up to 30 entries with date and duration specified
  • Organizer - calendar (up to 300 events), to-do list
  • User memory forms about 10 MB, shared dynamically by all applications
  • Expansion connector for Memory Stick Micro M2™ (1 GB included into delivery set)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melodies, 40-tones polyphony
  • Fast dial for 9 numbers
  • Automatic redial (up to 10 attempts maximum)
  • Speakerphone
  • Automatic and manual network selection
  • mp3/aac files as a call melody

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Smiles
  • Concatenated messages
  • Message templates
  • Sending and receiving graphical messages

• Camera
  • 2.0 MP camera, (the maximum resolution of 1632x1224 pixels)
  • Video is recorded as 176x144 pixels, 3GP
  • Digital zoom
  • Multishooting, night mode, timer

• Multimedia
  • Java (MIDP 2.0)
  • Integrated image editor
  • Musical composer, MusicDJ
  • Graphical editor FotoDJ
  • Macromedia Flash Lite
  • VideoDJ
  • Play Now
  • TrackID
  • Mega Bass
  • OMA DRM 2.0
  • Themes, several are preset - not only wallpapers are included, but sounds graphical elements of the interface
  • Walkman player 2.0
  • Supported formats: MPEG4, H.263, AMR, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, m4a
  • Photo album (My Pictures) - set extra pictures and receive pictures from PC or a camera
  • 3D games

• Connectivity
  • Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
  • Instant Messaging
  • GPRS class 10
  • RSS-reader
  • WAP 2.0 (NetFront browser, xHTML)
  • Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP profile)
  • MMS
  • Push-email
  • Synchronization with PC (USB 2.0)

• Organizer and extras
  • Integrated file manager
  • User profiles, profile "aboard" (phone radio part is off)
  • Headbands for phone on and off synchronized with with sound and editing capability
  • Organizer, recurrent events
  • To-do list
  • Search for entries in a to-do list and organizer
  • Notes
  • Dictaphone (the only restriction is free memory)
  • Date, time
  • Alarm clock plain and daily recurrent (totally 5 alarm clocks)
  • Timer, stopwatch with with intermediate results and a plain calculator

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 12 February 2007

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