The Sony Ericsson Cedar (j108i), also known as Sony Ericsson Cedar GreenHeart, is a mobile phone from SE's J series of phones produced by Sony Ericsson released in September 2010. It is the last Sony Ericsson phone that run on proprietary Sony Ericsson A2 Operating System and is no longer in production/sale from the producer. The phone is one of Sony Ericsson's environmentally friendly "
Greenheart" range, featuring devices made of recycled materials, longer battery life and low-energy chargers, as well as minimal use of paper through reduced packaging and the replacement of the traditional printed user manual with one stored on the phone. This device also the first cell phone from Sony Ericsson to fully abandon Sony's Proprietary Charger and Memory Card Format, The
Memory Stick Pro Duo
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used in older models and
Memory Stick Micro (M2) used in more newer feature models by using standard
Micro USB
The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have acceptable life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices. Higher-speed development of t ...
for Charging and Data Transfer and
Micro SD
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The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
Format for expandability, adding the standard
3.5mm headphone jack on the top.
J108i and J108a is a successor to
Sony Ericsson J105i Naite, released last year in October 2009. This phone design is very similar to
Sony Ericsson Elm J10i2 released few months earlier in March 2010. With 'Human Curvature' Sony Ericsson design philosophy for comfort while holding the phone and ladder design keyboard for ease of texting.
This model is available in Grey and Black and Red and Black colors. Although variations such as fully black and fully white might exist.
Being a last Sony Ericsson phone to run on the A200 Operating System, it had a
Java Platform 8.5 and
Flash Lite
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3.1.
Design and features
Key features include:
*
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2-megapixel camera
*
Bluetooth 2.1
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(10 m)
*Web Access (
NetFront browser included)
*Exchange ActiveSync
*
3.5G high speed internet (
Support up to 3.6 Mbit/s (download speed), 384 kbit/s (upload speed))
*Multiple audio playback (
AAC,
WAV
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,
MP3
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,
WMA)
*Built in Media Center (Sony PSP/PS3 XrossMediaBar menu)
*microSD memory card slot to expand the memory to up to 16 GB.
*Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
References
External links
GSMArena
{{Sony Ericsson phones
Cedar
Cedar may refer to:
Trees and plants
*''Cedrus'', common English name cedar, an Old-World genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae
*Cedar (plant), a list of trees and plants known as cedar
Places United States
* Cedar, Arizona
* ...
Mobile phones introduced in 2010