20th May 2006
A close relative of the W710i, the Sony Ericsson Z710i is a quad-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE, a 2 megapixel camera, 176x220 pixel display, Bluetooth and expandable memory.
A look at the specification sheet shows that basically the Z710i is a W710i with several features removed - for example, the Z710i only has a 64Mb memory card bundled (compared with 512Mb), it lacks the Walkman media player and fitness applications, and it comes in a more conventional housing (although it does still have external media controls). The orange coloured external display on the Walkman version has been replaced by a pretty looking blue colour 128x128 pixel panel.
Sometimes though, less is more. And the Z710i is a much more practical and sober business phone than the ''Walkman'' version, and it still features 10 hours talktime, an email client, personal information management tools, a web browser and RSS news reader. It still comes with a decent multimedia player and an FM radio, and of course you can always buy more memory if you want to. And as it's a quad-band phone, you can use it pretty much anywhere in the world.
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