Phone Review - Sony Ericsson F305

Hi
I recently got my hands on Sony Ericson's F305. The phone is a slider offering from the Austrian-Japanese company.



On the first impression,the phone seems good. The phone i got to lay myhands on was black,and quite glossy. It seemed good with that glossy look. The weight wasn't much,which made fiddling around with it a kid's play. And beingf a slider,its slide mechanism was working good, which reflects Sony does things with perfection. In simple terms,the designing has been good.

The phone is quad band, with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies suported, which means that you cantake it anywhere in the world without any doubts. It weights at 97.5gms, which implies that the phone is quite good when it comes to designing. The phone supports photocall.

On the memory front, the phone hosts 10Mb onboard memory, which is quite less than any in this price segment. However,the memory can be expanded upto 4Gb using a M2 memory card.

Coming to the hardware,the phone has a 176x220 TFT screen. I'd wished that the screen was bigger,that would have made this phone an attractive one. With a 2.0Mp camera, the photographs taken were good,and the clarity was above average - another Sony excellence. Though the thing that irritated me a bit was the slow interface, Sony could have made this phone a lot better by providing a quicker interface and a faster processor. Another surprising fact was that Sony didn't bundle any 3G support in this phone,just Edge.

On the screen portion, there are two buttons. One leads to the last clicked photograph,whereas the other leads to the gallery, this clearly showing that SE designers emphasised to make it a complete multimedia phone.The phone comes with a M2 cardslot,thus sticking to its own storage system.

The phone's biggest feature is the motion sensor. It has 50 in-built games, which support motions,just like the Nintendo Wii. There's even a dedicated gaming button on the menu keypad along the attend call button.

The battery backup for the phone has reportedly been quite decent. The company claims that it has 400hrs standby and 8hrs talktime life of the battery,which varies with the network ,services and conditions of usage. Neither the phone becomes too heated like w350,nor seems delicate.

Overall,the phone is a nice one. Priced at arounnd Rs7000 (or roughly around 150 US$),the phone seems a bit on the expensive,and actually fails to justify the price tag,especially when there are many 3g phones in the market in the same price range.