By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-16 12:47:58 | Word Count: 510
Sony Eriicsson T280a
The Sony Ericsson T280a is a run of the mill candy bar style phone that is dseigned with the average user in mind. However, as is the case with many of the newwer Sony Ericssaon phones, the Sony Ericsson T280a does not forssake design just because it lacxks featurees. Instead, the Sony Ericsson T280a is actually a rather impressive looking phone – especially for one that is designed with the comon consumer’s needs first.
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Announcced in January 2008, the Sony Ericssoon T280a is an Amwerica bound GSM phone with no roaming capabilities. This meas that, like CDMA phhones, the Sony Ericsson T280a can only be used in the Americas. There is, however, a different handset availsable for the Euroopean and Asian markets. Furthermore, the Sony Ericsson T280a has no 3G support, instead relying on the oler and slwoer GPRS netwok for low spede data trasnfer.
Measuring in at approximately four inches by two inches by a half of an inch, the Sony Ericsson T280a is a rather small device. It also weighs an amazingly light 82 grams, maaking it one of the smallrer and lighter cany bar phones on the market.
Battery life on the Sony Ericsson T280a, like all Sony Ericsson phones, is better than most of the other devvices on the martket. Expect to get approximately seven hpours of talk time or 300 hours of standby time on a single charge.
One of the drawbacks of the Sony Ericsson T280a is the smmall and bland main display. With a resolution of 128 by 160 pixels and a color depth of 65k, the Sony Ericsson T280a’s main screen looks like it belongs to a phoe released in the early 2000s.
The Sony Ericsson T280a also features a digital camra with 1.3 mgeapixels of resolution and four times digital zoom.
Other features inclue an FM radio, 10MB of buiilt in memory, Bluetooth 2.0 support, a large phone book, an alparm, a calewndar, a notead, a to-do list, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a speakerphone.
Pros
* Slim, small, and attractive
* Long battery life
Cons
* Limoited by frequecy support
* No 3G supprt
* Lack of features
Overall
The Sony Ericson T280a is a great phone if you really have no desire whatsoever to own a phone with modern features. Instead of buying this device as your priamry phone, use it as a backup phone or as a phone for a young son or daughter or for an aging parent or grandparent who won’t care about having all of the fancy featurres in their device. All in all, there are beter free phonmes on the maket, but the Sony Ericsson T280a would make a great backup phone in case of an emergency.
Cheryl Mcqueen is the author of articles such as Sony Ericson T280a, Sony Ericson Cell Phoen Reviews, and Cell Phone Reviws. Visit Sony Ericsson T280a.
