Sony Ericsson W300i
Encyclopedia
The Sony Ericsson W300i, launched Q2 2006, is a clamshell phone from the W-series of Sony Ericsson
.
This quad-band phone features an internal 20 MB storage, with a Memory Stick Micro slot for expansion, up to an additional 2 GB. Its dimensions are 90 mm × 47 mm × 24 mm with a weight of 94 g.
) can convert other file types such as WMA, and although album artwork is not viewable, the W300i will read track details (via id3v1 tagging): artist, album, song name and sort them for easy access.
According to many owners, the screen has a tendency to freeze and/or go white.
Flimsy parts
The top of the phone is also known to have some flex issues.
Battery cover
It has been stated in some official and unofficial reviews that the battery cover is very difficult to open. The User's Manual shows that you only have to push out the battery cover, yet this is very difficult to accomplish.
An easy fix for this is to put an eraser on the cover and use it to slide the cover open. Furthermore, continued opening and closing of the battery cover causes it to lose its ability to stay on the phone, and instead needs to be taped or glued on. However, it's only stated that SOME of the phones have this particular issue, not all of the w300i series have this problem. Also it's noted that some of the batteries that are inserted into the phone swell up within a month or so.
Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....
.
This quad-band phone features an internal 20 MB storage, with a Memory Stick Micro slot for expansion, up to an additional 2 GB. Its dimensions are 90 mm × 47 mm × 24 mm with a weight of 94 g.
Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Display | TFT LCD TFT LCD Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing... 262K-colour (128×160 pixels) |
| Internal memory | 20 MB |
| Memory slot | Memory Stick Micro (M2) card (sizes up to 2 GB supported). |
| Size | 90 × 47 × 24 mm |
| Weight | 94 grams (3.32 oz) |
| Data | GSM (850/900/1800/1900), GPRS class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32–48 kb/s, HSCSD, EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM... Class 10, 236.8 kbit/s, Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security... , Infrared, USB v2.0 |
| Colors | Shadow Black, Shimmering White, Lime Green |
| Stand-by time | Up to 400 hours |
| Talk time | Up to 9 hours |
| Music playback | Up to 27 hours (continuous playback) |
| Compatible media formats | MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... , 3GP 3GP 3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.... , AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... (LC and HE) in both MP4 and M4A containers, AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate The Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec is a patented audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. AMR was adopted as the standard speech codec by 3GPP in October 1999 and is now widely used in GSM and UMTS... , MIDI, IMY, EMY, WAV WAV Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs... (up to 16 kHz sampling rate), 3GPP 3GPP The 3rd Generation Partnership Project is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations, known as the Organizational Partners... streams |
| Camera | VGA with ability to record 176×144 3GPP video or 640×480 still images |
| Display | 128×160 pixels colour screen |
Walkman music player
The W300i also functions as a Walkman music player. The W300i can read both MP3 and MP4 tracks, and software which comes with the mobile phone (Disc2PhoneDisc2Phone
Disc2Phone is a freeware developed by Sony for Sony Ericsson phones to convert music from a computer or audio CD to MP3 format and send them to a Sony Ericsson mobile phone or to a Memory Stick card.-History:...
) can convert other file types such as WMA, and although album artwork is not viewable, the W300i will read track details (via id3v1 tagging): artist, album, song name and sort them for easy access.
Known issues
White Screen Of DeathAccording to many owners, the screen has a tendency to freeze and/or go white.
Flimsy parts
The top of the phone is also known to have some flex issues.
Battery cover
It has been stated in some official and unofficial reviews that the battery cover is very difficult to open. The User's Manual shows that you only have to push out the battery cover, yet this is very difficult to accomplish.
An easy fix for this is to put an eraser on the cover and use it to slide the cover open. Furthermore, continued opening and closing of the battery cover causes it to lose its ability to stay on the phone, and instead needs to be taped or glued on. However, it's only stated that SOME of the phones have this particular issue, not all of the w300i series have this problem. Also it's noted that some of the batteries that are inserted into the phone swell up within a month or so.