Sony Ericsson 600i

In 1946, a Japanese company named Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. was founded by two radio technicians. The name translated to Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation and it's the first company in Japan to manufacture a tape recorder named, the Type-G. Ever since then company Sony Corporation, as it is now known throughout the world, has grown into one of the world's largest media conglomerate operating as Sony Corporation (Sony Electronics in the US), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and Sony Financial Holdings. Sony Ericsson, a division catering to the cellular phone segment of the market, launched the Sony Ericsson V600i, in June 2005. The cellular phone is Tri-Band capable supporting GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 frequencies. The mobile has a 176 x 220 pixel TFT-LCD screen measuring 28 mm x 35 mm and supports 262,000 colors. It can play 72-channel Polyphonic, MP3 and AAC encoded music files as ringtones. The phone book supports 500 entries with 15 fields for each entry. The phone is equipped with a 1.3 mega-pixel CCD camera that allows the user to capture images and videos at a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels. The phone book features caller photo ID that uses images captured by the built-in camera or transferred from other sources. The wireless connectivity supports a GPRS Class10 receiver module providing a maximum of 48 kbps connection for browsing a WAP 2.0 / xHTML website. The additional 3G standard gives a maximum of 384 kbps data transfer rate. It has a fixed 32 MB shared internal memory and is equipped with a Bluetooth v2.0, Infrared and a USB port for transferring data. Messaging formats of SMS, EMS, MMS, E-mail and instant messaging are also supported. With a Lithium-Ion battery, it has a Stand-by time of 360 hours and a talk time of 8 hours. The V600i weighs around 105 grams.