The Sony Ericsson S312 is a budget, lifestyle
dual-band
In telecommunications, a multi-band device (including (2) dual-band, (3) tri-band, (4) quad-band and (5) penta-band devices) is a communication device (especially a mobile phone) that supports multiple radio frequency bands. All devices which ha ...
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whi ...
, with a focus on photography features, manufactured by
Sony Ericsson
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. ( ja, ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Ericsson. ...
. It was announced on 7 April 2009, and was available from Q2 2009.
It adopts a candybar design, featuring a 2-inch, 262k color, 176 x 220 pixel, scratch-resistance screen, and a 2-
megapixel
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In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...
camera with an up to 2.5x digital zoom and a coupled light. It comes in two colours; Dawn Blue and Honey Silver.
With respect to its photography features, as well as the standard vertical orientation, it is designed to be used in the horizontal position.
Other options include illuminated keypad shortcuts, which enable users to quickly change camera settings, while there is an integrated Photo fix function. This is designed to process and correction images easily and quickly. Finally, as well as the usual camera shutter button, there is a dedicated key to trigger the use of camera to record video footage.
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As well as camera features, the S312 contains integrated photo blogging software, and Sony Ericsson's PlayNow media download service for content such as music, games and ringtones. It uses the Openwave
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Two of Openwave's former products launched as private companies; Openwave Mobility and Openwave ...
web browser. Messaging software include email, MMS MMS may refer to:
Science and technology Network communication protocols
* Multimedia Messaging Service for mobile phones
* Microsoft Media Server, a content-streaming protocol (mms://)
* Manufacturing Message Specification for real time proces ...
, SMS
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, FM radio with RDS, and Java gaming.
Standby time is up to 400 hours. Talk time is up to 8 hours.
References
External links
Sony Ericsson official website
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S312
Mobile phones introduced in 2009