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Sony Ericsson F500i launched on Vodafone live!™
Sony Ericsson and Vodafone launch the F500i camera
phone, exclusively available on Vodafone live!
24 June 2004
Sony Ericsson and Vodafone today announce
the launch of the F500i camera phone, exclusively available on
Vodafone live!™, Vodafone’s industry leading multi
media consumer service. Featuring a large colour screen, integrated
still and video camera and support for music ringtones, the F500i
offers consumers even greater opportunities to enjoy high quality
games as well as an extensive range of services available on Vodafone
live!™. The F500i will be sold across Vodafone live! markets,
from the middle of July.
The F500i is designed specifically to help Vodafone
meet the needs of consumers who increasingly want to get more
out of multimedia services. Vodafone live!™ brings together
an extensive range of services including colour picture messaging,
the best in colour gaming, the largest catalogue of realistic
music ringtones, alerts and information in colour and with pictures,
immediate links to additional exciting content such as picture
and text messaging, music, sport and news, all from an easy-to-use
picture menu, available any time, any where.
“The Sony Ericsson F500i is the latest exciting addition
to our range of Vodafone exclusive handsets allowing customers
easy access to Vodafone live!™ services,” said Guy
Laurence, Vodafone’s Global Marketing Director of Products
and Services. ”With the growing popularity of high quality,
easy-to-use camera phones and the continued high interest in games,
the F500i is well positioned to appeal to a broad range of consumers
keen to combine the excitement of gaming on their handset with
a host of features, allowing them even more ways to keep in touch
with their friends and family“.
“We are very excited about expanding our collaboration with
Vodafone and bringing the F500i to the market, as we share their
passion for compelling mobile entertainment services,” says
Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of
Sales & Marketing at Sony Ericsson. “Our focus on easy-to-use
camera phones has been well appreciated by consumers around the
world and with the F500i, we also offer a great gaming experience
to Vodafone live!ä users.”
The F500i promotes the use of imaging by its ease-of-use and
dual front design concept, allowing both telephony and camera
features on the same handset. A dedicated camera button on the
side of the phone gives fast and easy access to the camera; it
only takes a few clicks to take and send an image or a video clip.
The camera features a 4x digital zoom and its 128x160 pixels,
65,536 TFT colour screen presents video, images and games with
great clarity and resolution.
With its colour screen and MultiAction™ joystick, the F500i
gives a superior gaming experience. It features a graphics platform
especially suitable for graphically rich mobile applications and
content, Mascot Capsule® Engine Micro3D Edition and a wide
variety of great games will be available for download from the
Vodafone live!™ portal. Compatible with the Gameboard EGB-10,
the F500i can easily be transformed into a full-fledged gaming
machine.
Imaging & Messaging
- 128 x 160 pixels Display TFT
- 65,536 Colour screen
- 10 MB user Memory
- QuickShare™
- SMS, EMS & MMS
- 3D graphics (animations and pictures)
- Wallpapers
- Themes
- Picture phonebook
Entertainment
- Polyphonic (40 tones)
- Music DJ™
- Direct links for easy download
- Java MIDP 2.0
- DRM (forward lock and SD support)
- 3D games
Connectivity
- USB and RS 232
- WAP 2.0
- GPRS class 10
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