The
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. ...
W980 is a clamshell
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 ...
that was announced on 10 February 2008. It was their flagship
Walkman
Walkman, stylised as , is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese technology company Sony since 1979. The original Walkman was a portable cassette player and its popularity made "walkman" an unofficial term for p ...
device at the time. The W980 is packed with many features, including 8-gigabytes of flash memory,
HSDPA
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunic ...
and a built-in
FM transmitter (one of the very earliest on the market).
With the clamshell closed the user can use the Walkman with an external touch screen illuminated with orange lights which will flash to the rhythm of the music being played for a few moments. This feature runs while the phone is being used but turns off after a few moments when the phone becomes idle.
It also has a 3.2 megapixel camera. Picture DJ allows one to edit the photo's light settings, colour and other visuals without needing to connect to a computer. The phone will also rotate a portrait photograph if it is taken in landscape mode with the photo fix feature. This will also automatically adjust the lighting of the photo - if it is too dark it will make it lighter.
3G video calling is also made possible with a forward-facing camera built into the screen of the phone.
Features
Audio
*7 mp3 message alert tones
*17 m4a, 1 midi, 1 mp4 and 7 mp3 ringtones
*9 Walkman equalizer presets
*Ability to manually edit equalizer
*FM transmitter
*SensMe
*
Shazam TrackID application to identify music
*Sound recorder
*MusicDJ
Camera
*3.2 megapixel
*Night mode
*Self-timer
*Automatic or manual white balance
*3 effects
*Picture review (observe a photo immediately after taking it)
*Geographical location
*4 shutter sounds
*Option to turn off microphone during video record
*VideoDJ
*PhotoDJ
References
External links
Official Webpage
{{Sony Ericsson phones
W980
Mobile phones introduced in 2008