The Sony Ericsson W610i phone is based on the Sony Ericsson K550

Sony Ericsson K550

The Sony Ericsson K550 is a mid range mobile phone. Announced on February 6, 2007, it was the successor of the K510 model sensor with two-LED photolight and an active lens cover for the camera lens protection and easy camera activation when taking pictures from the phone...

 and Sony Ericsson K610i. It is a quad-band GSM phone, but it does not offer 3G

3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

 (UMTS or HSDPA). The W610i has colour options similar to the Sony Ericsson W880i

Sony Ericsson W880i

The Sony Ericsson W880i is a mobile phone that was released in September 2006. Part of Sony Ericsson's Walkman series, the phone has been popular due its tiny dimensions...

. This phone uses the TrackID

Gracenote

Gracenote, Inc., formerly called CDDB , is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. It provides software and metadata to businesses that enable their customers to manage and search...

 and version 2.0 of the Walkman

Walkman

Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...

 player.

Camera

This mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 has a 2.0 megapixel camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

, similar to that in the Sony Ericsson K550i but without the lens cover. As with previous Sony Ericsson models, it offers an auto-focus feature and uses a photo light instead of a flash. For this model, the focal length

Focal length

The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light. For an optical system in air, it is the distance over which initially collimated rays are brought to a focus...

 of the camera's lens

Photographic lens

A camera lens is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically.While in principle a simple convex lens will suffice, in...

 has been reduced from 4.8mm to 3.8mm.

Specifications

• Display: 262K TFD (176x220 pixels)
• Memory: Up to 64 MB user memory
• Size: 102 x 46 x 14 mm
• Weight: 93 grams
• Colour: Plush Orange, Satin Black
• SAR
  Specific absorption rate
  Specific absorption rate is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency electromagnetic field; although, it can also refer to absorption of other forms of energy by tissue, including ultrasound . It is defined as the power absorbed per mass of...
  
  : 1.31 W/kg (10g)http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/corporate/support/products/sarinformation/w610i/w610isarrowr1amultilingual41711

Features

Music

• Walkman
  Walkman
  Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...
  
   player 2.0
• Supports 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...
  
  , 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....
  
  , AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV
  WAV
  Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...
  
   and m4a
• 512 MB Memory Stick included
• TrackID music recognition software
• Polyphonic ringtone, 72 channels
• Disc2Phone music management software
• Stereo headphones in the box
• FM radio with RDS
• 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...
  
   stereo streaming support (A2DP)
• Java MIDP 2.0

Messaging

• TFD 1.96’’ Display
• SMS
  Short message service
  Short Message Service is a text messaging service component of phone, web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices...
  
  , MMS
  Multimedia Messaging Service
  Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.The most popular use is to send photographs from...
  
  , e-mail
  E-mail
  Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
  
   and IM
  Instant messaging
  Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
  
  

Connectivity

• NetFront
  NetFront
  NetFront Browser is a mobile browser for embedded devices, developed by Access Co. Ltd. of Japan, and was designed to function as an embedded browser....
  
   Internet browser
• RSS
  RSS
  -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
  
   Reader
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• Infrared
  Infrared Data Association
  The Infrared Data Association defines physical specifications communications protocol standards for the short-range exchange of data over infrared light, for uses such as personal area networks ....
  
   port
• USB 2.0

Supported Networks

• GSM 850
• GSM 900
• GSM 1800
• GSM 1900
• HSCSD
• EDGE
  Edge
  - Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...
  
  

External links

• Josephn.net - K550 to W610 - Changing a K550 to a W610
• Official Sony Ericsson W610i Page
• GSMArena