Strange things take place in the kingdom of Sony Ericsson. Having developed a good platform, the company washes everything on its way in search of gold nuggets. If you want to buy an inexpensive, but functional Sony Ericsson of clamshell format, you will inevitably find yourself in the fork of choice – W710i or Z710i? Let’s discuss everything together.

Design
The first thing that the manufacturer has changed, separating device into “music” and “normal” is a color solution. This is perhaps the weakest point of Z710i. Walkman was painted in the standard for the brand colors: gray, white and orange. Version Z tries to look stern, but without wearing expensive “clothes”.
When you look at Sony Ericsson Z710i, you want to compare it with a luxury Korean car, especially for the domestic market. Yes, they are made good, sometimes even cute, but in the background of the Europeans they seem to be a rattle. In other words Z710i was born as a Walkman, and plastic surgery wasn’t very successful. If we consider Z version separately from W, the image becomes less dark, but it is not still colorful to call Z710i a beautiful phone. It is difficult even to say that the model is not to the point: antenna, chrome, blue backlighting of the keyboard, or all together.
The hallmark antenna-arc in Sony Ericsson Z710i looks absolutely ridiculous. Imagine Maybach 62 with spoiler “dream watermelon Baron”, and you will feel the comic structure.
You will get used to design features, but I don’t think that it will be interesting for you to get used to the screaming colors. How I love the orange color, however, it is very eccentric for everyday devices such as mobile phone. But perhaps this is a matter of taste.

Display
Almost all the rest, the model Z and W are similar to each other that will not prevent us through this maze. External displays are identical, both phones have 1.5 inches (128×128 pixels), which look very solid, especially considering the amount of shell – 88×48x24, 5mm.
Small screen and monochrome models are distinguished by the fact that in Z series supports 4 shades of gray, and W has the same, but with an orange backlight.
The internal display does not produce such a favorable impression as the front one; its dimensions are quite standard – 1.9 inch (176×220 pixels). The TFT-display shows up to 262 thousand colors.
Display has ideal contrast and sharp, with excellent viewing angles. The quality of the screen is comparable with the older models of the company, and in their price range if not given something supernatural, then, at least, nothing inferior to the best representatives of the market.

Keyboard
On other side of the external display there are keys to work with MP3-player in the closed position. Actually the huge display is enough to work with the player. The left side is a place for keys which activate the camera (in the closed position it does not work) and paired “rocker” to adjust the volume.
When the phone is closed, the “minus” shows planned for the current affairs events, and if you click the plus sign, then the important information is displayed by phone: profile, your contacts, and battery power in percentage ( convenient and accurate).
On the right end there are keys which are responsible for locking the phone when it is closed.
With characteristic click, opening the phone, we’ll see buttons – big and small. All of them separately or together are already familiar.
Standard handsets there, took their place, two soft keys, an excellent job with their roles. Below there is a key “return” and “C”. The entire keyboard is made in typical Sony Ericsson style. And only navigational key somehow gets out of the context, W710i, definitely looks more organic. Numeric keys are medium in size, but due to the division into three blocks and a clear course to work with text, or simply dial the number comfortably.

MP3-player
With all the similarities and differences, consumers are interested in one thing – music features. Engineers went to indirect ploys that artificially divided the model. So in Z710i there is no profile A2DP, which puts an end to stereo Bluetooth-headsets.
Thus, the player is simplified, but not fatal.
Yes, a little about the FM-radio. With it we understand what praise for the quality of reception and ease of use is.
The main difference will be the headset. In W710i there is a stereo headset HPM-65, while Z710i has only HPM-60. During the test, I stepped on the Headset HPM-70, which fell out from somebody’s pocket, as the number of citizens in a narrow street, I did my best to return it to its rightful owner but I couldn’t. Since both models have a standard connector Fast Port so we tested with the headset of Z710i.
The output will not be comforting for the Walkman, with a good headset Z710i is not inferior to his brother in terms of musical sound and plays a couple of specific functions.

Multimedia
In this regard, telephones Z and W differ only by a lack of the first section of Fitness and all that is associated with it. Otherwise, as you know, there are no changes. Both phones support EDGE, Bluetooth (2.0, EDR, but without A2DP in Z version), Infrared, Java, themes, radio, powerful organizer and other functions of a modern phone. Both devices also have the support of Memory Stick Micro (M2) card.
Here lies the second major difference in W710i it has only 64MB. Hot-swappable memory card is not provided; it is implemented in the “warm” form. When changing the memory card you have to remove the battery cover.
Internal memory is 10 MB. As before, the device provides a convenient work with files of phone card, or simultaneously with all together.
Another distinctive feature of Sony Ericsson phones has become a function of multitasking. Player, games, calculator – all these and many other applications can run together.
Organizer and work with contacts are made on a solid top five.

Camera
Cameras in phones differ only in the presence of the mirror at Z version. All other features are standard for phones of this class. CMOS, 2 megapixel, autofocus and the lack of an acceptable quality of images, 2.5-fold-digital zoom. Maximum resolution of the image is 1600×1200 pixels, the average size photo is about 400 Kb. It has standard settings like white balance, and a few simple effects.

Video can be recorded in high quality and for MMS which means the resolution at 176×144 and 128×96 pixels, respectively.

Conclusion
As you can see, the differences between W710i and Z710i are cosmetic, just for a marketing purpose. Today the difference between a Walkman and Z is about 2000 rubles. For this money you can still easily buy a 512MB memory card and a good headset like HPM-70. This is in case you need something not orange, but the extent of solid music phone. Our sample even though it was an engineering one, worked very steadily.
710i is equipped with a Li-Pol battery with capacity of 900 mAh that’s just supports the work of up to 3 days in the active mode without problems, but if you choose the mode with disabled GPRS-module, then up to 5 days.
As a result, we have two absolutely equivalent apparatus. Choose with eyes, most of the major differences can be easily compensated.

Introduced in 2005, Sony Ericsson W800i was greeted by critics and consumers. Key factors for success were few, but all of them were verified to the last detail. It was the first phone with a legacy of the famous players Sony from no less famous Walkman brand with all the ensuing consequences. In fact, the phone W800 was really a serious music player. It shows today’s situation in the market, new F300 from Samsung, Nokia 3250 or 5700 XpressMusic. To grow on megapixels 2 million cell phone makers have taken a time out. Secondly, W800i has serious functional content.

Design

Certainly, now thin phones are fashionable, important and sometimes even very practical. However, the overwhelming number of slim-devices is extremely inconvenient to use. In pursuit of millimeters manufacturer forgets about ergonomics, forcing the user to break the nails on the keyboard and when working with menus to twist his/her fingers in the untold patterns.
Fortunately, this fate to a greater extent bypasses Sony Ericsson W880i. Its dimensions are 103×47x9, 4 mm and weight is 71 grams. Thus, the device is long enough, but due to its rectangular shape it has stunning design.

Thickness, or rather its absence, and light weight make it possible to carry the phone anywhere. Whether it is a breast pocket of your shirt or the pocket of tight jeans, W880i looks good from everywhere, more precisely, in jeans, it is imperceptible.

The front part of Sony Ericsson W880i is made of stainless steel, and can be in silver (Steel Silver), and black (Flame Black) colors. In the first version the rear face of rubberized plastic is matte black, while the second one is orange. Both the colors and the presence of metal among the components add to an already excellent design of W800i a fraction of sophistication. Moreover, it is worth noting the excellent build quality of this phone.

Keyboard

When dealing with the keyboard of Sony Ericsson W880i it is possible not to feel discomfort.

But there is an unambiguous claim to the navigation key. It is too small.

And if girls with nails of medium length speak positively about the numeric keypad, than they will scold the navigation. So if you prefer long nails, you should think about shortening them.

On the right side there is a key to access the camera (horizontal mode).

At the top there is a small multi-purpose “rocker” (or even a slider).

With its help you can get into the menu of the phone, adjust the sound volume, or play around with the scale of the photographs. Access key to the player Walkman 2.0 is located on the left end.

By tradition, the Sony Ericsson phones are not usual green and red phones, and their functions are performed by two context keys. Beneath them there is a button fast access to the Internet browser and “My Menu”. Below that are key “return” and “C”.

So we glad to note that the keyboard of W880i is somewhat unusual, but it is viable.

Display and menus

Screen of W880i is rather narrow, but it has dimensions of 1.8 inches, supports QVGA-resolution (240×320 pixels) and displays up to 262 thousand colors. The display, of course, belongs to the premium class – high brightness, excellent clarity, rich colors. Due to its elongated shape, the upper line with the level of reception, battery indication, hours and other information icons are always active when you move the menu (if you have the theme Walkman), unconditional and very significant advantage.

Simple and intuitive menu of W880i consists of 12 icons, and subsections in a tree form.

However, changing the theme to the standard Walkman on “Bits of the City” you can get a stylish black and red menu with icons, arrayed in a row. These moves through the main menu will be accompanied by a mild vibration.

To master the organs and functions of control of W880i can even unprepared person. Anyone who has ever spoken on Sony Ericsson phones over the past three years, the process of learning and adapting to the new product will take a couple of minutes.

Multimedia

Traditionally, the older phones of the Walkman series inherit a full set of features and capabilities of their business counterparts. So the user of W880i gets 16 MB of internal memory, support for memory Memory Stick Micro (1 GB card included) card, Bluetooth with support for A2DP protocol (wireless stereo headphones), convenient and functional web browser Net-Front, Java , support for USB and much more.
Well if living without ICQ to you means not to exist, then go to the menu “Applications” and run powerful client which is able to function (like other Java-based applications) in the background.

The phone works in three GSM and UMTS 2100. This means support for video streaming and video calls. For the latter there is a small camera on the front panel.
In general W880i is a modern phone with classically-considered trifles. Does it have tuned Bluetooth? Does it easily work with uploaded files? Does it have functional organizer? Can it work in Flight Mode? All these questions can affirmatively be answered with the abbreviation of five characters – W880i.

Walkman 2.0 is stuffing, let’s consider hardware. Headset connector (HPM-75 included) is located at the left bottom.

This is quite inconvenient, since the plug is not small, so it still goes on thick wire, which is not particularly flexible. The most reasonable accommodation would be a 3,5 mm input on the top of the phone. Headset HPM-75 has decent quality and should satisfy most of the audience. We have to test headphones Sennheiser CX 300, in order to feel all inside the player. Fortunately HPM-75 is a structure of the adapter and headphones, so that the 3,5 mm input is available, albeit not at the phone.

To start the music application you can use the little orange button or through the menu.

At the start screen “My Music” can sort tracks by artists, albums, play-list or simply the list of tracks.

Play-lists can and should (because 1 GB is about 250 songs in good quality, very easy to get confused) be created directly on the phone.

In addition, the player has a standard set of visualization (animation, or album cover), play mode “in a random order”, repetition, and changing colors of the application.

There is also an equalizer. Unfortunately, it was a simpleton, from the available preset modes you can choose – Bass, Mega Bass, voice, lifting high frequencies.

In addition to these four settings, it is a possible and a manual calibration. Player responded only to the most understated or overstated frequency. And the description on the website Mega Bass Sony Ericsson says “improve bass, let music become more volume, in practice, the sound remains flat. But what pleases me is that only player can be scold in W880i.

The volume is enough comfortably to listen to music not only on a busy street, but in the subway or any other public transport.

Out of interest, just as noteworthy feature, is TrackID. A

gain we turn to the description on the official site – “Just record a song a few seconds and all the information about the track, artist or album will be available within a few seconds”.

Funny opportunity for Walkman with FM-radio on board, but in the case of W880i it is a useless icon on the desktop, because the music that pours from the player to know there is no possibility, as composition should be recognized only through a microphone. Another function of downloading content PlayNow seems much more interesting in this case.

The player supports popular formats such as: MP3, AAC, AAC +, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA, M4A, however, it is difficult to imagine that many users listen to music in the format E-AAC +.

As a conclusion of the player it should be noted that it has many useful features. As for the level of the music, Walkman in this sense is ahead of other phones. However, if you are a music fan beginner, features of Walkman 2.0 will be sufficient.

Camera

In case of W880i camera is more a design element than a serious application. In fact, a small lens with a penny coin and the matrix of 2-megapixels is not as bad as it might seem at first glance.

Using the camera in landscape mode is very practical. The camera settings are standard – resolution, quality, effects, 2.5-fold digital zoom.

Conclusion

A small step for Sony Ericsson is a big leap for the market. Player phones go to the next level, slowly biting more and more of the market. Union of a phone and a music player looks more organic than a phone and a camera. In case of W880i nirvana is aggravated with battery with a capacity of 950 mAh. At 30 minutes of calls a day, using all sorts of functions and player for 2 hours a day, the phone worked for five days. It is an excellent result.

Having examined W880i brick by brick on the components, we have a stylish phone, rich functionalities and a decent player. Definitely a successful model, I recommend to buy it.

Samsung continues to delight fans of thin tubes who are concerned about every free millimeter in the pocket of their jacket or jeans. For them Koreans have launched a logical continuation of a monoblock X820, which was supposed to be named X840, but marketers know it as U100, and now it has entered into a new line of ultra thin phones.

Design
So, a very thin model of the last year has become thinner by 1 mm, which is certainly a pleasant trifle.
When you take this phone in hand for the first time, it seems that an awkward movement and something may happen to the device. But, in reality, Samsung U100 a couple of times was overthrown on the floor, once U100 found itself on the ground, and in general – this was over with a hardly noticeable scratch.
The phone is strong due to ferrule on the phone. It is painted the same color as the shell. I do not know if it will protect in a really critical moment, but it certainly looks nice.
Striving for minimum thickness, the developers have removed all “unnecessary” things from the ends. By reducing they got a slot for microSD cards. Here is left only a volume rocker, camera button and a connector for the charger or USB-cable.
If anyone thinks that the phone has a touch keyboard, he/she will be wrong.
There is no problem with dialing, but the navigation button requires skill and addiction.
The reason is simple – in accordance with the ideas of “thin “, it is not raised above the surface and its direction palpated with difficulty.

Appliances
In essence, Samsung U100 is the continuation of X820 not only in terms of design, but also in terms of functionality. I do not want to play “find 10 differences”. U100 – is a revised X820.
In Samsung U100 there is a horizontal TFT-LCD with a resolution of 220×176. Judging from the test images, the screen can be described as a pretty decent one, though small viewing angles are sometimes forced to keep the tube straight.
Behavior of the screen under the sun is also adequate, since the menu icons and text can be seen well; the colors fade a little bit.
Menu is well-known from other devices of Samsung. I personally like more concise design, which is in the tubes, based on the platform D500.

As U100 is a thin assistant of business people, there is a notebook for 1000 contacts with the ability to record five numbers, e-mail addresses, notes, and the choice of individual melodies and ringtones. It seems nothing extraordinary, but the convenience of using is worth noting.
Voice recorder limits the recording time by one hour, that is more than enough, and memory for 100 events in the organizer will not be filled in one day.
Data transfer speed via BlueTooth from PC to Samsung is about 50 Kbps.
In that case, if you are fond of talking regularly, climb on the menu, often use calendar, from time to time take photos, the battery will last for two days.

Functions for entertainment
Samsung U100 is equipped with a 3 MP camera – a legitimate question arises – whether it is better than a 2-megapixel brother X820? As for the size of the picture, it is more accurate, but the quality is slightly higher comparing the shots. It seems that they are a little sharper, and the remaining is the same.
MP3-player is also known as peeling, as its interface and capabilities are already well known. From the innovations we can only recall the work in the background and support for Bluetooth-A2DP profile to work with stereo headset. The sound quality of the player (of the phone, in general) is good; the volume is enough for most cases, except a very noisy street and subway.
To some extent there is no FM-radio, as the built-in memory can not keep many songs, but fans of music would like to listen to a fresh hit from beloved singers.

Conclusion
As a worthy successor of the model X820, Samsung U100, to some extent repeats its fate, becoming famous, but it remained a niche product, which will not be found in every pocket. In general, the device is quite successful, mainly because of the minimum thickness and business design. U100 can not boast with functionality but it wasn’t the aim of the manufacturer. Samsung focused only on the dimensions of the shell.

Design
If we consider the exterior of Nokia 5070 at a right angle, we can find visible design irregularities and the roughness of engineering. Judge yourself, while Asian budget sets flaunt slim metal body, and design “that won a stylish model”, Nokia launches phone with large dimensions, but the most terrible by it is thick.
Moreover, the phone resembles a model released in 2002, not only in size, but the keyboard, camera location, except that the screen became larger. In addition, the phone is almost similar to the earlier Model 6070. What are the goals pursued in Nokia, letting go of 5070? Make an exact copy of 6070 in the youth corps? This version seems most viable. However, you should bear in mind that 6070 appeared a year ago and there had already been complaints about its functional filling. Of course it could boast with a relatively pleasant design, but then 5070 would like to see a somewhat different guise.

You’ll laugh, but these two models, have even the same weight – 88 grams. Not surprisingly, if the panel from 6070 to 5070 will suit (as it was with 7210 and 7250, for example).
Since the phone is aimed for young people, the manufacturer offers two youthful colors – blue and red. This framework is always white and black, the only change bezel housing.
In the end, after dressing old skeleton in the youth look, the phone itself is not younger. Though it has modern color and style, the wrinkles can not be hidden under any make-up.

Display
The greatest thing in the novelty can be called the display. Again back to Asian counterparts. Here we are dealing with CSTN-dinosaur, looking fit to more or less sane resolution up to 128×160 pixels.
The screen produces not very good impression – pale, not bright, inertia. With such a display it is inconvenient and unpleasant to work. In this reality somewhere in the background is sent to support 65 thousand colors.

Keyboard
Keyboard of 5070 is a removable block of plastic keys on the rubberized basis. Such designs in Nokia phones we’ve seen more than once. It has a distinct advantage – can be easily replaced.
These apparent shortcomings are not seen progress in key middle, work with the phone conveniently. Navigation is the key to a four-input function in the middle. It is the optimum size and should satisfy all the fingers.
In terms of additional control 5070 is fiscally stingy, actually except for two volume buttons on the left side and there is nothing more (the key above the display take power as de facto).

Functions
In this section lies the main drawback of Nokia 5070. But let’s not just point out bad things.
We can note that Nokia 5070 has IR port, support for EDGE, voice recorder for five minutes of recording, FM-radio (stereo headset included).
Now let’s talk about the disadvantages. Let us turn again to 2002, when the first phone from Nokia with a camera (model 7250) was turned out. The latter has 5 MB memory on board. 5070 has only 4,3 MB user available memory.
Other moments, such as the organizer or a phone book (more than 8 fields in the contact group, plus the voice tags) have a good level for Nokia.
Preinstalled polyphonic sounds like something it does not matter, even the firm “Nokia tune”. Volume? Unfortunately you will not hear the device on the street, you should rely on power of vibrating alert.

Camera
Why the manufacturer should put the camera on the phone with 4.3 MB memory, it’s not quite logical. The camera in 5070 is rather for show than for a really useful feature.
If we should make a normal “youth” phone, we must remove it or just put a normal camera.
But anyway, in 5070 we have 0.3-megapixel camera with maximum resolution of 640×480 pixels. The images absolutely lose their quality when displaying on the PC.
As we see, the camera can not give us the sharpness and natural color of the image (although it’s not so bad), and the resulting pictures can hardly claim a place in a virtual photo album.

Conclusion
Each product group has its own life time, and it probably came to the Series 40 of the budget level. These phones do not fit into today’s realities, even strange, why spend money on their production.
Although, if you buy this product (even overpaying), it is someone and need.
In a large barrel with the inscription “Tar” happened to be a piece of sugar under the name “Li-Lion 860 mAh”. Excellent battery life, and for 5070’s appetite this is more than enough.
Phone with 30-minute calls a day, listening to the radio (no more than an hour) honestly worked for five days.
We can recommend this phone only to Nokia adherents and newcomers in the mobile world. However, the senior and having exactly the same functionality (mono headset included) 6070 now costs cheaper.

Design
The phone designed for a business man must meet certain standards of mobile dress code, without pretentiousness and brightness. The device should not attract attention. All these requirements and wishes fully correspond to a new Fly B600 business mobile phone.
The dimensions of this phone are 110×49x14 mm. Weight is also proportional: only 110 grams. The device easily fits in pockets of trousers or a jacket.
The front panel is made of a high-quality plastic. The back part of Fly B600 is made of a soft (it seems rubberized) plastic. Camera protrudes from the shell and has no cover. Thus, you will have to put the phone either on screen or on the lens of the camera – decide which one you need less.
I think that serious buyers can find any drawback in this phone.

Display
Asian manufacturers have accustomed us to the fact that their phones have displays above average. And if you’re skeptical you expect good performance from the screen of B600 but I have to disappoint you. Executed on TFT-technology, the display shows up to 260 thousand colors and has resolution of 240×320 pixels (2.4 inches). As a result, the screen takes up the most space; keypad and the speaker are simply lost in the background.
The first thing that your eye catches is that the display is very, even too bright. But the real shock comes after a short jogging on the settings. Colors are juicy and bright, the image is perceived well, did not catch on for anything. Such a display is perfect for working with text and calendar.
The only thing that upset me are its viewing angles. They are sufficient for comfortable work; however, the image is badly tarnished vertical even when rejecting a couple of degrees.

Keyboard
Dark and light gray buttons harmoniously complement each other.
The screen took so much space that the bottom row of keys, could hardly find a place, and moved gracefully as the fourth column in the right lane. Of course, such a decision is unusual for most users, but it is not so critical that the next day at the level of reflexes fingers themselves find the right path.
Buttons should be sufficient for comfortable work, have an average course and allow you to quickly and carelessly work with any text.
Additional controls are buttons to access the camera on the right end (horizontal shooting mode) and the usual rocker for volume control, on the left side. In addition, one should mention the three connectors (they are all closed strong enough plugs) – expansion slot for memory cards microSD, mini-USB (it also serves to connect the charger) and 2.5-mm headphone input (TV-out).

Menu
The menu of Chinese phone is almost always quiet horror. No eastern colors, all is very succinctly.
The main menu shows 12 icons; with the upper line the system information is available in both the substantive and in any sub-menu. Chapters are arranged quite comfortably and that is important – it is logical. There was only one question. It is unclear why the album is under “Entertainment”, but Video album in “Multimedia”. Agree that it can be called only a minor drawback.
Separately I want to note the high level of localization is another issue of Asian phones. All menu items are transferred without errors, absurd reductions as a result of which it is impossible to understand. Well, the font is very nice; the eyes do not get tired.

Functions
Although we have determined that this phone is suitable for business people. Thus the phone should support applications which business man needs. First, it is an organizer. Menu of Fly B600 consists of a calendar, tasks, alarm and world time. Calendar is comfortable enough, you can assign notes (point of the problem “duplicate this feature, and made, apparently for faster access) to the date and time, while adjusting items such as: light, repetition, timing, number of repetitions. The only drawback of the calendar is the weekly view.
The user provides three independent alarms, each of them can choose the time (including on the day).
Business phone should have a convenient phone book. Again, and this parameter B600 demonstrates enviable results.
Your phone can store up to 1000 contacts together with name and number there are 5 additional fields of information where you can indicate birth date and picture, video clip, tune and add to the user group.
The phone book displays contacts, both from the internal memory, and located on the SIM-card.

As we see, business indicators of the phone are up to date. But there are also additional functions. For example, an MP3 player with good mid-level (headset included, but the 2.5 mm input lets you connect via an adapter and more serious headphones).
There is FM-radio, a simple photo editor, composer, Java (games and programs in Java is not preinstalled), calculator, converter units and currencies.
But what is most interesting is that this phone has some exceptional abilities. First recall the aforementioned TV-out (cable included). Easily connecting your phone to your TV provides great opportunities for both presentations and to view photos in the family.
By connecting the telephone to a computer via miniUSB cable (included, but not with a standard connector), you’ll see a menu of three items: use your phone as a modem, a flash-drive or as Web-camera.

Fans of honor on the road will appreciate the availability of reading “electronic books”. Settings are enough for comfortable reading. Of course, you can find a replacement in the ranks of Java-applications, but the existence of such a function is inherent, whatever one may say, plus.
Finally comes the function that you’ve encountered only in smartphones running Symbian and then as an alternative software. This is the background sound, overlay tube during a call. You can adjust the volume, duration and interval. You can choose from 10 preset or 10 of your (possible record with voice recorder) ringtones.
When you activate this feature you can lay on the couch, honestly say that standing there in traffic and the phone will simulate car horns, noise, uproar, and all that you want. Of course, it’s not fair, but – rather funny.
You can connect your phone with the rest of the world through the miniUSB cable, Bluetooth 1.2 (support SPP, DUN, OPP, FTP, A2DP profiles, and remote control) and GPRS (WAP 2.0, built-in POP / SMTP-client).

Camera
A 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus is already a matter of respect, though photos are not of the best quality.
As we have already mentioned, you shoot in a horizontal position.
The camera cannot turn into a camcorder. The latter is a separate program and is available from the “Multimedia” menu. Rollers can record the entire free memory at resolutions 176×144 and 352×288. Codecs are MPEG4 and H.263. Video has good quality, it is quite enough for viewing on the phone and share with friends. As for the camera, it works very slowly. When shooting with a maximum resolution (2048×1536 pixels) by pressing the capture button to direct the photograph, is about a second or two, during which you are sure to slightly move the phone, and this guarantees blurry picture.
It is noteworthy that when shooting from 1600×1200 and less, you can not notice such things. There is a problem with low productivity of the processor.
You can save your photos or video in 87 MB internal memory and microSD memory card (not included) up to 2GB.

Conclusion
Even though the phone has two stereo speakers, it is virtually inaudible in the city noise.
The situation could partly rescue the vibration, but it is very weakly expressed, as in the pocket of pants, it is hardly felt.
It is very uncomfortable to type SMS-message. For example, standard things such as capital letter after full stop.
You can find a few more minor soft-roughness and irregularities. But let us remember the low price of the novelty above opportunities. Thanks to TV-out all the deficiencies can be forgiven at once.
Despite the huge display, Li-Ion battery (940 mAh) copes with its task. Telephone works up to 4 days at 20 minutes of talking time and use of various functions. But even with such a very decent performance, the manufacturer added the supplied spare battery, just on the safe side.
As a result, Fly B600 is very pleasant and worth much money. If you want a modern, reliable, functional assistant in the cheap price range, Fly B600 definitely can rightly be considered one of the best mobile phones.

Release of a mobile phone, like any other mass product, is a very fascinating process. At the beginning of induction the manufacturer defines the framework of engineers and designers who will work on the novelty. A number of factors play a significant role in its final appearance like a platform, price category, design and much more.
At each stage of development we must try to cope with the flight of fantasies and eventually land on the desired results.
In the industrial design people are servants of the convention. There are rare cases of cooperation of companies with well-known designers, as a rule, they create interesting, but uncomfortable phones.
Nevertheless, there is an interesting question – what would happen if you take the gurus of design and place it in a golden cage, entitled “Express Yourself”. The answer to this question in the literal sense of the word “lies” on the surface. Moreover, it has a name – Samsung E590.

In creation Samsung E590 was actively involved by an English designer Jasper Morrison. Morrison design is called an “honest simplicity,” and his work in the media is defined as “no-design”.
That’s why he is so loved in Asia: for those people he is a kind of an English Zen. He has a philosophy of silence, modesty and diligence. The “Jasper Morrison Ltd.” company is engaged in the development of furniture, appliances and everything that surrounds a human in everyday and working life.
Now you know who has worked on innovation from Samsung under the number E590, and nothing prevents us to start our review with the traditional section, which, due to circumstances, acquires a deeper meaning.

Design
If nobody knew who has participated in the development of Samsung E590, the novelty would be considered as a regular, albeit high-quality creation of designers from Seoul. It should be noted that when testing we had black version of E590, but in its white incarnation phone looks rather interesting. Moreover, there is information that Morrison has created just the white version, and the black analog is already a conditional mass product.
Nevertheless, Samsung E590 is a monoblock with medium by today’s standards size (94×42x14 mm) and fairly solid weight – 95 grams.
There are no interesting discoveries and solutions in the form E590 seemingly unable to grasp – minimalism is everywhere. Another amusing fact is that the designer worked on the characteristics, positioning, as well as telephone. We are used to design devices of thousands of dollars and above. Now we obviously have to get used to the idea that there are phones from the world of avant-garde design and they cost four times less than usual.

Display
The screen is the face of each phone. In the case of Samsung E590 there is no need to worry – excellent TFT-LCD with decent for modern phone features – 260 thousand colors with 220×220 pixels resolution.
Static and dynamic image is flooded with paint.
It has many drawbacks. First, it has almost catastrophic vertical viewing angles. The slightest deviation from the straight line fades the whole picture.
Secondly, under the sun it’s impossible to identify the image. It is not comfortable to work with the phone on the street.

Keyboard
All the buttons on the phone are made in one style – in oval shape. System and digital buttons have the same size, thus they are perceived as a single array.
There are two soft control buttons, “the tube” and “C” key. All symbols of white (pale gray) color, however, we have already met in the phones of Samsung. Bright lights and milky-white fine finishes E590.
With regard to navigation and work, the first is implemented by using a small joystick, and the second is quite nice and comfortable.
Additional buttons are extensively represented at the right end of the phone and all are designed to work with the camera. “Mode” button will quickly adjust the camera, two-position button starts the camera in a small size, but the usability is not affected. For the “Zoom” function there is also a separate button.
On the left side there is a rocker-volume control as well as headphone input, battery and memory card slot. It’s simple, familiar and comfortable.

Menu and Functions
Samsung E590 is built on the platform of Suwon and it can be considered the ancestor of D900. The main menu consists of nine icons and moving between them is pleasantly animated.
The user is allowed to choose from two color schemes – white and black.

Using the menu is intuitive, logically laid out all the possibile sections. The effect of “memory” (if the “Organizer” you came to the position of “Calculator”, you will go ibid.) should come to taste of many users. It has a navigation with the support of a digital keyboard, pop-ups and cross-cutting scrolling easier access to desired functions.

Functions and features are not presented absolutely without surprises. Everything is done in the style of Samsung. If you have ever worked with the devices of this brand, you will find familiar and very comfortable for daily use the organizer, alarm clock function (3 pieces), a decent MP3-player, voice recorder, photo editor, FM-radio, Bluetooth 2.0 and Java-based applications.
Samsung continues the practice of trial applications, so all the most interesting games are available in trial mode, but for a fee. As for the execution of all the above and many unmentioned ones, believe me on the floor during the test there was only one trouble. We had to quickly write down the address and the arm came across the field “e-mail” editor contacts. It’s bad when the mobile phone considers itself smarter than the owner. Fortunately, such things are extremely rare.

Camera
In many respects the uniqueness of E590 is not only a secondary phone price level, in the work on which are engaged world famous designers, but also in the fact that it is an affordable camera phone.
The matrix has 3-megapixel resolution and autofocus. Again, we can not say one hundred percent (adjusted for a test instance), but the iron is clearly not coping with the appetite of three megapixels. The quality of the pictures is sometimes higher than the Chinese machines’.
Camera settings are enough to really affect the results. ISO settings are from 100 to 400 (auto is available), white balance, effects, frames, macro, timer, multi-shooting and panoramic shots.
With regard to the quality of the images, they are of about the same level with D900, which means that the quality is at a decent level, but not excellent. Was Samsung, positioning the model as a camera phone? Perhaps they know this better.
Photos and video files can be saved in 85 MB of phone memory and on a standard microSD card.

Outcome

Model E590 turned out to be well enough, though there are also controversies. The main advantages, which Samsung emphasizes, are decent design and camera.
I was pleasantly surprised by the battery life. On Li-Ion Battery with capacity of 800 mAh, telephone worked 5 days (up to 20 minutes of conversation and an hour of other functions). Rather high results for such a phone.
We started with an honest expression, it would be logical to finish in the same way. Model E590 is a great phone with a couple of reservations.

Quite rare, but almost always aptly the company Nokia mobile pleases the public with its vision for peripheral gadgets. Another interesting fact is that, not being a pioneer in this field, Nokia produces unusual and always interesting solutions. Whether it’s the usual Bluetooth-headset or BT-digital pen any of these accessories always deserved attention of the public.

Today the company pays special attention to musical theme. Walkman line from Sony-Ericsson is sold well; it’s time to act. Along with increased attention to the musical equipment of phones on the market came several mobile speakers. Such accessory is not something that is desired or vice versa completely useless. Many people want to listen to music on the road or on a picnic, but the difficulty lies in the choice of a number of conventions, which must be tolerated. This is size, mobility and interoperability.
The market offers four accessories with the “MD” index for mobile music lovers from Nokia. There are currently fashionable Bluetooth-dynamics (MD-5W), folding mini-speaker’s (MD-4) or average – MD-3, which we will discuss in our today’s review.

The Set
MD-3 is packed as a good phone in a fairly standard box for Nokia design with already classic white-blue-green colors and positive pictures of happy owners of this device. Inside, the interested user will find the speaker itself, a simple user manual, three finger batteries, charger (AC-4E) and two adapters.
Audio Adapter AD-15 connects link between the standard for the phone Nokia Pop-Port and stereo headphones with a 3.5-millimeter plug.
By the way, this adapter itself also serves as an antenna for the FM-radio. This little Nokia AD-50 is an adapter for the phones and players with 2,5 mm-input which allows to connect standard 3,5 mm headphones to the telephone.
As you can see, the set allows you to connect any modern audio equipment and operate from the network, as well as from the batteries.

Nokia MD-3 Speakers
Let’s talk about the design – the speaker is implemented in very high quality and in silver-black unity. The size and weight, of course, do not allow wearing MD-3 in pocket, but it causes no problems in a small bag of its size.
All indicators and controls are located on the top of the device. Among them – the power indicator, volume control slider and power button.

Asceticism in this case plays into the hands of MD-3, but in our view a simple battery charge indicator would be to the point.
From the use manual: “If the sound of dynamics is too low – change the batteries”. But we live in the 21 st century, so we ought not to measure sound with the help of the charge of batteries. Moreover, once the manufacturer supplied MD-3 with standard for Nokia phone charger, it could place a standard Li-Ion battery. This would increase the attractiveness of this device.

The wire with 3,5 mm plug on the end is made as a strap, it is rather thick and short to become entangled.
While switching on stereo speakers we hear a very loud and fairly clean sound. For the average living room without mentioning the kitchen, the volume should be enough. In the open air MD-3 also shows rather satisfying results. The speaker was tested with such smart phones as Nokia 6630, Nokia 5300 Music and the player iPod of the fifth generation.
In general, even the resources of 6630 are enough for a comfortable listening to music. Particularly harsh rock compositions in collaboration with the iPod, MD-3 did not withstand its own pressure and fell down. The stability of the device was not up to scratch and it should be considered when placing MD-3 on the railing, and other narrow areas.
The quality of the music we analyze with the help of examples. By the way, pop music was played easily and cleanly even at maximum volume. Rock in “heavy styles” turned into a rather unpleasant wheezing. But it must be emphasized – only at maximum volume.

Conclusion
Music Speakers Nokia MD-3 left a pleasant impression. For a picnic or countryside or just for any other event where you can not use something less dimensional, MD-3 is a suitable device. But it is suitable only for background music in the open air or for the individual listening in the room.

Last year Samsung released E900 model of a slider phone. The success of the model depends totally on the price, design and functionality of this mobile phone. These three features are the main characteristics that attract buyers when choosing the phone.
Today we’ll talk about the successor of E900 – J600E primarily designed for women. Modern eye-catching design must come to taste of a every fashionable woman. If we talk about the inner content, it has a solid intermediate level.

Design
Considering Samsung J600E as a whole, while stressing the major pluses, it turns out that the strongest side, of course, is its design. The exterior is certainly designed for women, although to some extent for men too. The four available colors (blue, pink, silver, gray) consider it to be a unisex direction of mobile phones.
Today, ergonomic device can not be expressed in one thing. The dimensions of this mobile phone are quite fashionable: 91×45x18 mm and 99 grams.
As you can see, Samsung J600E is a little bit elongated and narrowed (in the form of rectangle).
In the hand the phone is excellent. The navigation buttons are located above the thumb, so the process of opening this phone should not cause any difficulties.
Returning to the design of Samsung J600E, we’d like to mention the successful combination of slightly shiny metallic colors.
Top, bottom and back of the phone are deprived of any kind of controls, connectors and other things. But on the left side there are slots for charging the battery and headset, shortcut key for the quick access of the camera.
Both slots are closed with plastic plugs which give the impression of a long-playing mechanism. The right side turned on to be “poorer” and can boast only about volume buttons and a memory card slot.

Display
At first sight, the characteristics of the screen J600E look quite decent. Indeed who would have thought that the TFT-matrix with the support of 65 thousand colors and a resolution of 128×160 pixels will disappoint.
The problem lies in the ratio of the diagonal of the display and the resolution. As we can see in J600E, a 1.9-inch screen with 128×160 pixels resolution is very small. Hence there is grainy and generally unpleasant sensation of viewing images.
Many claims about the screen arise when typing and surfing on the menu – the quality of display animations, pictures and photos leave much to be desired. As for the brightness and contrast, there is virtually no claim, moreover taking into account its characteristics they are even good.

Keyboard
Tactile keyboard today does not surprise anybody. However, this feature is still a tasty morsel. In the case of J600E it seems that touch buttons are the only available solutions to the problem of visual excellence.
When the buttons are inactive, they are totally invisible, when the phone is opened or activated by the keyboard, all four sensory start flashing in a pleasant blue color.
Is it convenient to use the touch keypad, or it is just an extravagant whim of the manufacturer? This becomes clear very quickly. The sensitivity of the buttons is high. A light touch is enough. However, during navigation, or when writing messages you can easily press on them, in consequence of which there happens an abolition of the selected operation.
The navigation button has a nice ribbed structure and the relatively slow speed, combined with a strength of character.
Against the background of the touch keypad, the numeric keypad looks a little boring. Standard eleven separate keys are arranged in a nice and clear way.

Other Features
Menu is standard for the latest generation of Samsung phones. It is convenient, comfortable, but without any novelties. First submenus seem somewhat irritating, but soon, the user can really find freedom in controling it.
One of the interesting features is the communication capabilities. USB and Bluetooth 1.2 provide connectivity (up to about 50 KB / s). For the Internet there is WAP, GPRS and EDGE, this is also rather poor. Wired Headset in collaboration with MP3 player and FM-radio will open the doors to the world of music.

In the literal sense there is nothing outstanding (compared with everything we have met before), but the sound quality is very decent. There are five games preinstalled on the device, three of which have already been well introduced in Samsung phones, they are “Miner”, “Tetris” and “Sudoku”.
The phone has about 20 MB of memory available to user. But you can add megabytes with the help of microSD cards (not included in the set, but they are not expensive).
The device without recharging will operate three days, and in the mode of an active use you have to charge it in a day.

Camera
The general concept of J600E is expressed in the camera. Instead of the almost standard 2-megapixel camera, we have only 1,3 megapixels. In reality the phone is not bad, but, remembering the same E900, ot is somehow offensive.
Maximum image resolution is 1280×1024 pixels. As always, there is a certain minimum set of options with which you can influence the final result of the image. In addition, there are modes: multi-shooting, matrix and night mode. I can not get away from the simple effects such as: black and white, negative, sepia, relief, sketch, orange and others. The display in the viewfinder does not even think slowly, and the resulting images are recorded as fast as the phone memory and on the card.

As for the quality of the photos, they are somewhere between good and excellent, of course, in relation to the cameras pf this class.
Video recording formats are MPEG4/H.263 (AMR, 352×288, 15 fps), which is quite enough.

Conclusion
This is a beautiful, high-quality phone and a cheap phone from Samsung, if I may say so.
So, if you want a stylish and prominent model without unnecessary features, then J600E is definitely what you need. The only thing which I’d like to notice once again is the display. It is not bad, but is rather peculiar, so be sure to pay close attention to the screen. Otherwise, the phone is not bad and is worth money.

Sony Ericsson has a new flagship model K850i. This is a heir of serious phones like K810i and K790i, and like no other device it deserves the “brutal monoblock” definition.
If you look at a brand new device Syber-Shot from Sony Ericsson K850i, you’ll understand that this is a real flagship, a kind of severe male phone for touch fans.

Keyboard
I don’t want to play “find 10 differences from K810i”, although some similarities can be traced in the appearance of both typesetting keyboards. Unlike its predecessor, the buttons are not circular and made of metal. Buttons are square.
But the principle of location of these buttons has remained the same. There is a distance between the “squares”, so no mistakes occur while dialing numbers. The proceedings of the buttons are small, fixation is not very clear, however, no inconvenience arises.

Display and menu
K850i does not have a touch display. TFT-screen with a resolution of 240×320, caresses view of quality and natural color reproduction, ultra-fine grain (if you notice of course), high contrast. Out onto the actual settings, there is only brightness.
In the sun, just under the rays, the screen behaves properly, ie the image quality is good; the picture fades slightly, so you can work almost at any lighting. Yes, probably, under the rays of the North African sun, you have to cover up the display with a hand, but it’s not a problem.
K850i menu will be familiar to the owners of Sony Ericsson, because the principle remains the same. Bold icons, clear “image”, known from previous models.

Multimedia
Though this is a Cybershot and not a Walkman phone, K850i is one of Sony Ericsson’s flagship phones, and the K850i’s music-oriented feature set is identical to most Sony Ericsson Walkman phones. Auto-rotate of the display works in the Media suite of applications, and it’s generally fairly responsive. Video playback performance is better when auto-rotate is turned off. The display is one of the best we’ve seen on a mobile phone: extremely bright, sharp and saturated.

Media uses Sony PSP interface which is both intuitive and cool looking. The app handles photos, video and music. The FM radio with RDS has a good reception. The FM radio app can save favorite channels and play the radio in the background. K850i has Sony Ericsson’s free TrackID service that identifies songs playing on the radio or in the environment, and this feature works quite well (it requires a data connection since the track info is downloaded over the Internet using the phone’s browser).
The phone supports a wide variety of audio formats including MP3, Podcasts, Audiobooks, MP4, AAC, RealAudio (.ra, .rm), WMA, XMF, M4A, WAV and midi. Video formats include MPEG4 (MP4 with AAC or AMR audio), 3GPP, WMV (.asf, .wmv) and RealVideo 8 (.rv, .rm). The K850i supports OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0 for copy protected music, video and Java applications.

Camera
Obviously, the 5 megapixel camera with an autofocus lens and Xenon flash is the centerpiece of the Cybershot K850i. And it didn’t disappoint us, in fact for the first release firmware, the camera was stable, and overall did an excellent job of imaging. The SE isn’t as fast as a dedicated digital camera, but it’s quite usable and you just might manage to catch a fleeting moment.
K850i can shoot photos at a maximum 2592 x 1944 resolution in 5MP mode and has a variety of lesser resolutions from 3MP down to VGA. The camera can shoot video at QVGA resolution (320 x 240) at 30 fps. The phone has a hardware slider button that you’ll use to select photo, video or playback mode. There’s a tiny camera application launcher button that turns the camera on and off as well as controlling the lens cover. When the camera app is running the entire screen becomes a viewfinder and it runs in landscape orientation.
Photo quality is excellent, with more usable data than K790i and K800i’s 3MP images and better exposure (no white haze or washed out effect which we sometimes noticed with K800i). Colors are accurate, if not sometimes understated and we couldn’t find a hint of color cast in outdoor shots. Indoor shots became overly warm as the camera didn’t compensate well enough for incandescent lighting in auto exposure mode with the flash on (turning off the flash fixed the problem). Indoor evening shots in poor light were pleasing with good blacks, but surprisingly the N95 managed a more exposed shot.

The K850i’s Xenon flash illuminates close subjects very well, but doesn’t add much ambient lighting, which means your subject will be decently exposed but awash in a sea of near blackness. For all but dark club shots and outdoor night shots, we recommend experimenting with turning the flash off – we consistently got brighter and more balanced shots while it was off. The camera uses a LED (actually 3 tiny LEDs) to illuminate the scene for focus and fires the power-hungry Xenon flash only when snapping the photo.
Should K790i owners upgrade it, based on the higher resolution camera? That depends on what you do with your photos: 3MP is really good enough for viewing on the average monitor (if you’ve got a 30″ LCD display, that’s a different story), and you won’t be able to view a 3MP image at 100%, let alone a 5MP image. But if you want to print photos, the extra pixels and sharper images are worth it. From what we can tell, the lens quality hasn’t improved.

The camera has a wealth of manual settings for ISO, white balance, flash control, auto/infinity focus, metering mode and 7 scene modes. Sony Ericsson’s BestPic feature shoots several shots with varied settings so you can choose the best one, and Photo fix lets you tweak photos you’ve taken before transferring them to a PC. The camera has 16x digital zoom, but alas no optical zoom (that’s still a rarity on camera phones). Video quality is very good with no jerkiness or blockiness. Colors are strong and accurate, even in low light, and the sound is clear.

Working with K850i
When you connect your phone via cable to the USB-port on your computer, mobile phone becomes visible as a normal flash drive, for ie it is available as a card, and built-in memory about 40 MB.
Data transfer rate floats from 75 to 60 kB / s, for example, the absence of the cable makes it easy to transfer a few tracks in MP3-format into the phone.
The battery power is enough for about two days: you can listen to music, make few shots a day and for an hour and a half use the Bluetooth-headset and talk 15-20 minutes a day. If you find yourself a more active user, then the battery life will decrease accordingly.

Conclusion
We get a very feature-rich (and not in vain) phone that can compete with brand new smart phones from top manufacturers.
Significant functional and somewhat dramatic appearance make K850i unless a bestseller, and surely one of the most cherished and sought after market mobile phones.

Today, not much is left for the manufacturers of communicators on Windows – on one hand to reduce prices, but on the other – make windows-system more functional. The hero of our today’s review, apparently, is created precisely in this way. Rover N6 is not an expensive device and has a built-in GPS-receiver.

Design
Let’s start with the packaging. A simple black box, on the front side depicts the hero of the review, and on the back has briefly listed specifications. In the kit are supplied: wired headphones, headset, with a button to answer an incoming call. These headphones are also the antenna when using the built-in FM-radio. The sound quality can be described as acceptable, but it should be understood that the reference to expect cleanliness and quality of sound from a supplied set of headphones with the device is at least reasonable (especially considering the retail price of the communicator).
Rover N6 is entirely made from soft plastic. With this coating device does not slip out of hands, as well as from the plastic front panel of the car.

Colors of this device are black, matte, after a while small stains and marks sometimes appear on the shell. However, they are easily removed with a napkin. So if you want your N6 always look like new – wipe it frequently. I would rate resistance of the coating as high – scratches or scrapes do not appear on the case (although I sometimes treated this smartphone rather unceremoniously – I carried it in a pocket with a bunch of keys without the protective cover).
However, I still prefer to have a removable plastic lid, such as the ancient PDA hp iPAQ 2410. Another minor defect, or even, rather quibbling – between the case and the screen is located on the perimeter gasket and there is a small gap. In that same gap you can find extraneous things that in abundance “are found” in every pocket.

Control and Ergonomics
The control of Rover N6 is reduced to up 6 buttons, plus a 4-way joystick with the button “Ok” in the center of the bottom of the screen. There are also other buttons to which I have claims.
For example, the camera activation button located on the right side of the shell is only slightly above the button “cancel the call”, and I often accidentally pressed on it.
The power button is on the left side of the shell and in contrast with the camera button, to find erors here is simply impossible – even in my pocket, I never accidentally clicked on it. Rover N6 supports microSD memory cards, but it is not compatible with a subset of standard SDHC, so that memory cards are limited to 2 GB.
The stylus is taken out from the lower right corner and it tightly sits in its “nest”.
In addition, the stylus is not simple and extendable – made of metal – for me this is a plus, though, the cold chilled fingers. The size and diameter of the stylus is very successful – it is well balanced.

Display and Camera
Another advantage of Rover N6, in my opinion, is the LCD display. Rover N6 has a display with a diagonal of 3.2 inches, (but not 2.8 as most of its competitors).
On this display, I easily and naturally read the things that interest me, moving around the city by public transport. In addition, due to the large diagonal and relatively low resolution – only 320 x 240 pixels you can easily control the device without the stylus – on-screen buttons are large enough.
Only in direct sunlight the display “blinds”.
The camera is another big claim. This is a kind of “visual notebook” if only because there is no built-in flash and autofocus. All camera settings are displayed as a semitransparent menu on the screen of the communicator.
The buttons on the screen are rather large and easily pressed with your fingers.

Hardware capabilities
Communicator is based on processor from Marvell – PXA270 with 416 MHz.
For all the time using the device will shut down only once, while keeping one phone call at the moment of switching on the second incoming number – help “soft” reboot. By the way, the button “soft” reboot is under the battery cover. When you use the communicator as a phone N6 provides average quality of reception and the same average quality of the voice through the speaker.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are working steadily, the machine does not hang, though, the battery power significantly decreases. Device supports Bluetooth-A2DP profile for wireless stereo headphones. We have saved the N6 “tasty” part for the end; it has a built-in GPS module.

The only disadvantage, which is rumored to be corrected by the new firmware Navigator is the so-called “cold start” receiver. Depending on the position it takes from 15 to 20 minutes, but “hot start” is very fast – about 20-30 seconds.
GPS-satellite receiver does not lose, but it puts the battery very quickly, so that for use as a GPS-system in the car, car charger is very, very necessary.
If you use the communicator as a phone – at an average intensity of the conversations of 20 minutes a day and a dozen SMS, plus about an hour a day as a player including Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, the device operates about 3-4 days.
It has a 1500 mAh capacious battery. The call is fairly loud, it is heard, even on a noisy street, but the vibration is a little weak – in the pocket of the jacket the user won’t feel the vibration.