Sony Ericsson K770 Cybershot Phone

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The Sony Ericsson K770 is virtually new phone from Sony Ericsson. However, even if its a new addition to the Cybershot family, Sony Ericsson made it a point that it doesn’t have to be about stunning upgradesin functionality. The K770 however, is what you would call a supporting cast in the middle for SE phones such as the K810i and the K850.

The new phone is an attempt to build upon the design of Sony Ericsson T650. Sony Ericsson K770 packs the good old stuff - 3G, TFT display with QVGA resolution, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio, MP3/MPEG4 player, good 3-megapixel camera. All that with the neat elegance of a bar-shaped handset measuring 14.5 mm in thickness.

The K770 is available in three different colors, a truffle brown, ultra violet and the recent sandy beige. The K770 has a plastic body, but musters a more refined look. The handset measures 105 x 47 x 14.5 mm and weighs 95 g and is a pleasure to hold. Those are almost equal to the slim T650, which measures 12.5 mm.

First we go to its design. The K770 sports a display measuring 1.9-inches in diagonal. A speaker grille is located at the top of this display and a video call camera along its upper right side. The difference with the K770 with other SE phone is the navigation pad. SE has always received heat with their fondness of joystick which is for some, a big disadvantage. The K770 however has great styling and that’s where the key difference lies. The keys are large and very comfortable for typing, wrong keypresses are virtually impossible.

The left side contains the charging port, while the bottom holds the microphone and holes for attaching neck or wrist straps. The top part features the power key and a sliding release key for the back cover. The back side of the phone body is the camera face. At the bottom you can see the loudspeaker grill and the Sony Ericsson logo. The camera lens and the LED flash with mirror sector are placed at the top.

The K770 is a very user friendly device. The user interface in Sony Ericsson K770 is the standard non-smartphone Sony Ericsson UI. It offers great user-friendliness, but new mobiles equipped with it don’t offer any new functionality over previous models. It does contain SE’s different modes, like a Flight mode.

Of course as a phone, the K770 is very good at it. When making and receiving calls, the phone gives you great audio making sure that you never miss a word with your calls.

As mentioned, the K770 is a middle-tiered phone. It was done to support SE phones like the K810i or the K850. With that, most of its features are really simple and straightforward and what you would call a standard Sony Ericsson feature. Its phonebook is simple enough, you have a call management feature, texting and email client - nothing new really.

Sony Ericsson K770 is also a music player and can support formats such as MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV, WMA, M4A and MIDI file. It is the Walkman player version 1.0, as seen in Sony Ericsson K800 and K810 for example. In fact, most Sony Ericsson W-series handsets feature the same music player with several exceptions. The only difference between theirs and this one is that the one in K770 doesn’t feature the MegaBass equalizer preset. Since Sony Ericsson K770 supports multi-tasking, the player can be set to run in the background. A very big plus for this phone though is the integrated FM radio. The Sony Ericsson K770 has a memory for 20 preset stations and supports RDS. It comes with the proprietary TrackID feature that records several seconds from the track that’s currently playing and gives you information on its name and artist.

Now we go to the phone’s camera. The K770 comes in with a 3-megapixel autofocus camera with a LED flash. The camera user interface is the same as the one we already saw in Sony Ericsson K550, W880, K810 and T650. The camera is quoted at 3.2 megapixel resolution but, as with other Sony Ericsson devices, its effective megapixel count is exactly 3.15 megapixels.

The camera offers night mode, self-timer, panorama, frames, and burst shooting modes. It also features white balance control and several scene-specific presets. Some color effects are available, too. The BestPic shoot mode is not present here. However, the Burst shot mode almost makes up for that. The leftmost and rightmost column of the alphanumeric keys serve a double purpose: in Camera mode they’re used for changing the shooting mode, focus, scenes, turn on/off light, zoom in and out and self-timer. Icons with blue backlighting explain the function of each key.

When it comes to focusing, there is a dedicated macro mode and of course you can turn off the auto focus if you need to.

Generally, the camera performs very well and produces excellent macro results; however it doesn’t reach the other 3 megapixel Cyber-shot models performance. It even performs almost at the same level with the SE T650.

Besides 3G and GPRS for fast data transfers, video calls and content-streaming support, the handset offers the usual connectivity capabilities such as USB, Bluetooth but there is no Infrared port.

The Sony Ericsson K770 supports Bluetooth 2.0 with the Human Interface Device (HID) profile, which allows the phone to be used as a remote control for PC and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. Furthermore, the phone could be used as a Bluetooth modem for accessing the Internet on a PC or notebook computer.

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