| Dimensions: | 105 x 47 x 22 mm |
| Weight: | 115 g |
| Display: | 240×320 pixel and 262,144-colour TFT |
Price Range: $290.00 to $653.13
For the digital connoisseur
A quality camera that’s also a phone: a 3.2-megapixel digital camera with all the functionality and connectivity you’d expect in a top 3G phones.
Sony Ericsson falls in the market niche of highly functional devices for which size is not that important. It’s a camera phone and the devices we like to call camera phones are phones that boast a digital camera that’s on par with the low-end digital cameras on the market. Speaking of camera phones, nowadays we see an increase in the maximum image resolution. We see implementation of new features which not long ago belonged to the world of the digital cameras only - such as specific scene modes, xenon flash, auto focus. Recently announced Nokia multimedia phones would even have optical zoom. The camera functionalities of the mobile phones are becoming increasingly important since the battle for the ultimate multimedia device continues - a device that can take great pictures, capture hi-res video, one that plays high-quality music, one that you can browse photos or play games on, one that helps you organize your daily schedule and browse the Internet, and in the same time functions equally well as a regular phone. Right about now buying a new mobile phone is always a bit of a trade-off on some of those things. There is no perfect phone.
At 3.2 megapixels, the K800i’s camera has the highest resolution available at the time of writing (August 2006), but its the quality of the optics that really determines the quality of a camera, and the K800i doesn’t disappoint. With autofocus and a real xenon flash (most camera phones have a weaker LCD flash that leads to poor exposure and red-eye), the K800i is a real digital camera, not just a toy. Picture quality is very impressive indeed, and is a match for many dedicated digital cameras. The K800i comes with a novel feature called BestPic™. BestPic takes nine pictures at a time, enabling you to choose the best. There’s also a picture stabiliser, helping to eliminate camera shake. Naturally the K800i supports direct printing on PictBridge compatible printers, so you don’t need a computer in order to print your pictures.
Camera
* Auto focus
* BestPic™
* Camera - 3.2-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 16x
* Image stabiliser
* Picture blogging
* Red-eye reduction
* Video record
* Video stabiliser
* Xenon flash
Music
* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media Player
* Music tones
* PlayNow™
Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder
Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Infrared port
* Modem
* PictBridge
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support
