Detailed Product Description

Features 

Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz connectivity coupled with HSCSD and GPRS support is,
naturally, in place - however EDGE is notably and somewhat oddly absent. Support
for this will however be present in the American edition of the S700i, better
known as the Sony Ericsson S710a. As far as PAN connectivity goes, the S700i supports
both Infrared and Bluetooth - however yet again, Sony Ericsson has ignored
the best interests of consumers by including a Memory Stick Duo expanion slot.
Fortunately, 32 MB of internal memory and a bundled 32 MB Memory Stick Duo card
mitigates this somewhat. 

Features such as an XHTML browser, 40-tone polyphonic ringtones and support for SMS,
MMS and J2ME are obviously also in place. There's more, however, as the S700i
comes equipped with an integrated FM radio, MP3 player and video player, as well
as a bundled handsfree kit which pulls double duty as an antenna for the former
mentioned. 

A broad feature set aside, however, the main focus of the S700i is its integrated
digital camera, which with its 1.3 Megapixel resolution and 8x digital zoom snaps
pictures of impressive quality - for being a phone camera, that is. An unedited
picture taken with the S700i is available here. The camera can either be used
with the screen rotated to a 90 degrees position or when closed, and in the latter
mode is actually more reminiscent of a digital camera than a mobile phone. This
attention to detail is also carried through to the software aspectsm with the
camera application offering a user friendly and digital camera-like user interface.
And, in addition to still shots, the camera can also shoot video at QCIF (176
x 144 pixels) resolution.