mobiles: Sony Ericsson T303

Sony Ericsson T303 is a great mobile phone that lures the customers. It is a flip handset that looks very attractive. The dimensions of this device are 83 x 47 x 14.7 mm and the weight is just 93 grams. Its 1.8 inch TFT screen can show 65K colours and one can view the pictures of 128 x 160 pixels on it. This multimedia phone has a 1.3 mega pixel camera. Its camera is based on the advanced technologies and has support for auto focus, zoom and optical lens facilities. The music quality of Sony Ericsson T303 is appreciable. Its music player supports all kinds of files formats and hence gives a great experience to the users. A FM radio with RDS and TrackID music recognition facilities have also been given in this device. Up to 9 hours of talking time and up to 400 hours of standby time are provided by this gadget. It has got 8 MB of internal memory in which wallpapers, pictures and other information can be saved.

Sony Ericsson have announced a new model in their T-Series of cell phones in the form of the compact T303 slider which, in sporting a highly polished, mirrored screen, metal housing and chrome finish has, according to Sony Ericsson, been designed from the outset with the acutely style conscious squarely in mind.

Billed as being a pocket sized phone (as opposed to an ‘completely un-pocketable’ sized phone, we suppose), the new Sony Ericsson T-Series T303 slider cell phone hardly swaps style for substance but certainly fits neatly into this category more than most and, in our opinion at least, this is of some concern as we actually don’t find the T303 especially attractive (but perhaps that’s us just).

Built around a rather diminutive 65K colour 128 x 160 resolution TFT screen, the T303 measures in at a mere and very ‘pocketable’ 83.0 x 47.0 x 15.0 mm, and comes with integrated FM radio tuner and MP3/AAC audio player functionality, WAP, a 1.3 x4 digital zoom megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity and a purported battery life of up to nine hours of talktime and 400 hours standby based on a full charge and, with the odd (hum-drum) exception, that’s about your lot - apart from the fact that the handset can also be used as a USB mass storage device.

Agreed, if you like the looks of the T303 and you are not known as being particularly demanding of your cell phones (i.e., you’re one of the few who actually use their cell phone predominantly as a phone) Sony Ericsson’s T303 may suit but, for those who ask a little more of their handsets and who look for style fused with function, we suspect you’ll be looking elsewhere (we’re not in the best of moods today, are we?).

Also available in a black finish, at the time of writing no pricing details have been released, though we can advise that Sony Ericsson’s T303 will reportedly become available to ‘selected markets’ some time in the middle of ’08.