Sony Ericsson G702 (BeiBei)

G702. Key features:

Info

Model name: G702
Codename: BeiBei
Internal name: P220i
Available colours: 2
Main colour: Poise Grey
Planned announcement: 17th of June
Planned release: October

Internet Giant

Sony Ericsson has recently strange mania associated with the non-introduction into the mass production of their mobile phones. Sony Ericsson G702 was to be a internet phone, his success was cause Internet browser Opera 9.5, touch screen, and many others. Do you really think that Swedish-Japanese group did well by suspending the project BeiBei?

Little, caused such an impression immediately after removing from the box (yes wonder about my piece has a box of what the truth is it strictly a prototype is in the white and contains only a sticker with the basic information about your phone, and in the middle is synchronization cable and stereo headphones and of course the phone ). G702 model is comfortable in the hand, to operate it with one hand does not present any problem. Its dimensions are 111×47x11mm. You can not call it severe phone, does not feel its weight. On the left side of the phone is placed “mesh” for hitching a leash and Fast-Port, which can hook the handset, charger, a USB cable. On the right side are : card slot Memory Stick Micro M2, camera release button, and aloud/quietly buttons. There is also the stylus, which may resemble the beginning of the ticket (often found in Nokia mobile phones as a gadget with a series of “fashion”). At the back is only a camera eye with a resolution 3.2 mpx, and the speaker of the media. On the front we find a large touchable display with a 2.36-inch 240×320 pixel resolution being able to display 256 thousands of colors. Just below it is too extensive numeric keypad combined with a few specific buttons. These are min. the providing us with direct access to news, while the other allows us to immediately show menu with three pre-selected widgets (these are small applications running on the opera engine, but operating directly from the menu, they can be weather, news or watch). The most spectacular is a manipulator who replaced Joystick, this is a roll. You can spin it up, down or approve the choice. After the two sides are placed responsibility for arrows move to the right and left. Could not also run the red and green button and the handset to start menu and a button “C” button to delete characters.

Internet

This is something for which that smartphone has been created. With the preinstalled Opera web browser, in 9.5 version can open almost any web page without any problem from the phone. With support for flash animations, even our “dear” by crowds of ads show up in full beauty … Great disadvantage that is not supported YouTube from its normal computer version, but on the other hand, the mobile version is already so extensive that a total not seen problems associated with lack of support the full version. Big advantage is the ability to exercise free from the Polish portal of the throw, we can player audio files, are fairly significant problems in playing movies (they are very cut), but does not require too much why this version of Opera to Build 10000389 quite so early. Maybe in the future Opera chooses to publish its (alleged to have its premiere, a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately came only version for equipment based on Windows Mobile). Browsing the Internet is greatly facilitated by touch screen and the numeric keypad that when using the blue lights on the appropriate buttons that allow : scrolling through pages, zoom in part, to add it to your favorites, or go to the home page. They use the function was also known min. with the iPhone namely the double-page press the stylus to expand smoothly in a designated spot to its normal size. Quite important thing is a module format 802.11g WiFi you can safely enjoy the Internet, there are no unnecessary downtime when you are browsing the web, the majority party is charged immediately. In the event that we do not have access to hotspots, you can safely use the data by the UMTS (where it is available, of course), unfortunately, just as the majority of Sony Ericsson phones can not be found here EDGE. Turning to the widget, their base located in the opera is, as yet, not great, we find them here just a few. For the most interesting : CNN – so that we keep anywhere in the world, Weather – weather for several days, and of course, YouTube (the mobile version of the truth but always). With already games are available only chess. Here you will find the RSS feed reader.

Multimedia and office

The application responsible for handling the media is simply brilliant, just after the restart which they can select the type of information we need. Particular attention should be paid to the X-Pict Story, is an application that creates slideshow with our images . It would not be nothing extraordinary in this if not for the fact that you can select one of the six available moods in which percentile of the slide show is to show you. What the “Happy” is indeed a very positive melody that plays in the background is amazing and really “sending” to man positive energy. Is the complete opposite of “Sad”, pictures shown here are black&white one, a sound making sad man on the whole. Big plus for Sony Ericsson for the applications. Player-type MP3 sound files, very nimble nice animated images symbolizing like red fireworks. We have to choose a dozen audio equalizers, so everyone can find something for themselves. An interesting application is TrackID just entered the phone to any music source, and after collecting a few samples, after some 20-30 seconds, we’ll figure out what is the title of this song and who is its creator. Could not also run FM radio with RDS. There was a nice option namely ripping excerpts broadcast to the mp3 format. As for the game is a very poorly, we find only game Sudoku. Not here could also run applications Quickoffice, which lets you create and edit documents with Microsoft Office. Here you will find the application responsible for opening PDF files. Is also an interesting case we can create notes, write and draw on the digital equivalents of yellow cards from well-known adhesive everyday life here and elsewhere. The phone is mounted GPS module. Unfortunately, the so-called catching. Fix takes him about 20 minutes as a very bad result, but at the end of my prototype G702 is 2 version in terms of hardware (Acceptance Prototype 1.1) in the latest version 2.0 takes a few minutes. Navigation can benefit from Wayfinder. Do not run the Google Maps, which works very well-read maps are clear and well see any street

Camera

The matrix is located in BeiBei is a resolution of 3.2-Mp. Photos made the phone are very good quality. Recently chosen with the girl on a trip and after some time we fell battery on a camera. I decided that we will do the photos G702. We were surprised after upload hundreds of photos to our computer, it turned out that they are better quality than camera. When taking pictures, you can set such things as serial images, the self-timer, white balance, or select some effects such as sepia, black and white or negative. Videos recorded through it to a resolution of 320×240 pixels and are good in terms of quality.

Screenshots

Summary

Is Sony Ericsson has scared to about not friendly test on one of the major internet portals dt. Mobile telephony is what Mobile-Review? Everything indicates that, yes. They claimed that 208 MHz processor will not be sufficient, that 128MB RAM is not enough. They made mistake! Neither immediately restarted not think so (that as in previous models often someone) “to optimize the work of the phone.” The equipment works very well, quickly without any problem. Maybe if it came to the production people would precisely on him, rather than on the G700. Maybe by the panel is unfortunate roll of navigation? I have no idea. The battery withstand 2-3 days of normal use. If only you had the opportunity to purchase this phone does not hesitate, you may already had the last model with running UIQ on board?
This text does not arise if they do not help my good web-friend Bajej who used his PayPal account to purchase this phone. Great Thanks ! ! !

(c) Mateusz Kurowski