Sony Ericsson K618

This is a compact and light 3G phone for special markets. It combines business functions with multimedia. Besides, the device supports Bluetooth Streaming. Now you can send musical and video files wholly via wireless interface and listen to them on a compatible device equipped with Bluetooth module.

• Class: multimedia, middle
• Position in the line: above Sony Ericsson K610i
• Rivals: BenQ-Siemens S81
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006, on the market since 3 quarter 2006
  • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS 2100
  • Battery type Li-Pol
  • talk mode up to 7 hours
  • standby mode up to 350 hours
  • Colour graphical display 1,9', high-contrast, up to 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 176x220 pixels
  • Colours: black, white
  • Weight: 91 gramms
  • Dimensions: 102 x 45.7 x 16.9 mm

• Memory
  • You can save about 1000 names with entirely or partly filled fields. Summing up we get about 2500 numbers. Personal call signal for a name, own picture.
  • Call log of last 10 calls of all types with time and date specified
  • User memory forms about 10 MB, shared dynamically by all applications
  • Card connector for Memory Stick Micro™ (256 MB, included)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melodies, 64-tones polyphony
  • Fast dial for 9 numbers
  • Automatic redial
  • Automatic and manual network selection
  • Voice dial
  • mp3/aac file as a call melody
  • Speakerphone

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Smiles
  • Concatenated messages
  • Message templates
  • Sends and receives graphical messages

• Camera
  • 2.0 MP camera (the maximum resolution forms 1600x1200)
  • Records 3GP video
  • Digital zoom 2,5Х
  • Frontal QCIF-camera for videocalls

• Multimedia
  • Java (MIDP 2.0)
  • Stream audio and video
  • Plays QVGA video
  • Integrated image editor
  • Musical composer, MusicDJ
  • VideoDJ
  • Play Now
  • TrackID
  • Themes, several are preset - not only wall-paper, but sounds and graphical interface elements
  • Integrated video and audio player (MPEG4, H.263, AMR, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+)
  • My Pictures allows setting extra pictures, receive them from a PC or a camera
  • 3D games

• Connectivity
  • Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
  • Instant Messaging
  • Push E-MAIL
  • GPRS class 10
  • RSS
  • WAP 2.0 (browser NetFront, xHTML)
  • Bluetooth EDR
  • MMS
  • OMA DRM 2.0
  • Synchronization with PC (USB 2.0)

• Organizer and extras
  • Integrated file manager
  • User profiles
  • Editable screen headbands synchronized with sound
  • Search in to-do list, organizer
  • Dictaphone (the only limit is free memory).
  • Date, time
  • Usual and recurrent alarm clock
  • timer, stopwatch with intermediate values and usual calculator.

Michail Machnaev ([email protected])
Published — 21 August 2006

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