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Post by janielsen on Apr 17, 2007 7:38:01 GMT
Yeah- we've seen quite a few Sony Ericsson handset announcements today -- heck, the SE joint venture has moved past LG and into fourth place among handset sales recently. These handsets, in other words, just keep cranking out the doors of Sony Ericsson's outsourced plants we suppose. The latest is an more-than-bare-bones W51S that looks mighty square, graphite and retro -- but it sports some decent features for an entry-level set. Want a hankering to a recent PowerMac? Then the W51S has you in mind ... except inside -- instead of a G5 chip -- is a 2 Megapixel cam and a very large 2.7 inch LCD. Pony up the cash for this unit and you'll receive 120MB of internal storage -- with expansion provided by Sony's annoying Memory Stick format that proprietary-minded Sony clings to like grim death. Availability? You'll have to go to Japan's KDDI here in a few months. Wanna move across the pond?
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Post by SandStorm on Apr 17, 2007 14:39:33 GMT
not bad, especially for the internal memory. in fact in the final quarter of this year something more interesting will appear
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Post by muslim on Apr 17, 2007 15:05:42 GMT
bad its only for japan ..
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Post by SandStorm on Apr 17, 2007 15:08:46 GMT
Unless you travel there, or buy it in any auction site
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Post by muslim on Apr 17, 2007 15:11:04 GMT
loool .. and i will never do
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Post by SandStorm on Apr 17, 2007 15:34:22 GMT
We never know...
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Post by DireWolf on Apr 17, 2007 23:35:35 GMT
I wouldn't recommend it, unless for collecting purposes only. Japan doesn't use GSM.
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Post by LazyEye on Apr 19, 2007 23:36:59 GMT
The design is awesome and the specs - interesting ... thx for sharing
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Post by DITO on Apr 20, 2007 13:42:47 GMT
I wouldn't recommend it, unless for collecting purposes only. Japan doesn't use GSM. what do you mean by that
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Post by andnewman on Apr 20, 2007 17:49:40 GMT
That this phone won't work in the rest of the world...
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Post by SandStorm on Apr 20, 2007 22:31:43 GMT
Japan is iMode, i think
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Post by andnewman on Apr 21, 2007 0:23:52 GMT
iMode and WCDMA 3000.
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Post by SandStorm on Apr 21, 2007 0:26:23 GMT
tnx for the information, man
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Post by DITO on Apr 25, 2007 10:32:41 GMT
so is there is a big differenet between GSM, iMode and WCDMA 3000
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Post by andnewman on Apr 25, 2007 14:04:14 GMT
Frequencies, how the communication is done, how the data is encoded and enkrypted. Well in short words, the only common thing is that they use radiowaves.
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Post by andnewman on Apr 25, 2007 14:14:02 GMT
I've done some reasearch now. Japan uses a system called PDC which doesn't use SIM-cards. The number is connected to the phone. And then there is CDMA-3000 (not WCDMA as I wrote earlier - my misstake).
And then there is WCDMA-2100 (the same as our 3G standard), but it's very uncommon.
iMode is their verson of WAP.
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Post by DITO on Apr 25, 2007 14:20:25 GMT
so they are different than any other countries as usaul but how they don't use SIM cards thats mean you can't change your phone number
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Post by andnewman on Apr 25, 2007 16:26:56 GMT
Probebly you can ask you provider to change your number. And if you buy a new phone you can ask them to keep you number. The SIM is built in to the harware in the phone. In Sweden we had (before GSM) something called NMT, which worked simmilar to that.
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Post by DITO on Apr 26, 2007 11:10:39 GMT
so andnewman in your opinion do you think that GSM is better than this japanese system
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Post by andnewman on Apr 26, 2007 12:03:14 GMT
They all have their pros and cons. GSM's SIM-cards makes it easy to swap between phones (and swap between numbers). The japanese system have had better speed for surfing, and also quiet better soundquality. But as it looks today the're about the same towasrds the costumer, exept for the SIM.
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