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The Sony Ericsson K800 was a multifaceted phone. From one angle, it looked like a Cyber-shot virtual camera, from another to a phone, looking left and watching a button for the music player, in one aspect it was a graphic chip capable of 3D betting.
It went on sale in mid-2006 and has become the first Sony Ericsson phone to officially demonstrate the Cyber-shot logo. He deserved it, too, because the 3.2 MP got herera on the back of one of the most productive cell shooters of the time. It was covered with a sliding lens canopy that automatically introduced the gothic herera when it was opened.
The phone looked like a Sony virtual camera. It had a two-stage shutter key, zooming controlled through the volume switch. The headset was quite large, but it also meant there was enough room for a xenon flash.
The BestPic feature is impressive for the time. He took nine full-resolution photographs that included shots before pressing the shutter button and shooting after that. You can save one or more of those images.
What to do with your most productive photos? Well, you can copy them to your pc using a USB cable, via Bluetooth or infrared. You can also send them in an MMS, of course, but that way they can only succeed in their friends.
If you click the Blog option in the menus, the photo will be uploaded to Blogger.com where it will be available to everyone. Facebook is still new and exclusive to students, Instagram is nothing. How else could you percentage of your food or chat shots? Jokes aside, it’s a feature ahead of your time.
The Sony Ericsson K800 was capable, once the user manual was read. For example, there are two buttons above the screen that complete the programmable keys below. In the camera, they can transfer between shooting modes (for example, BestPic, Panorama) or scenes. These buttons also helped you navigate the image gallery.
To the left of the phone, a Play/Pause button and a long tap on the volume lever on the right can simply skip songs. It’s not a Walkman phone, but it’s a fully active music player. The owner’s port used to connect headphones, however, is not great.
But do you know what it was? The A2DP support, which allowed you to play Bluetooth music in stereo. Of course, Bluetooth headphones weren’t as unusual in 2006 as they are today, but it’s still impressive.
The K800 comes with only 64 MB of internal memory. You may be able to insert a hundred photos, but not more than a handful of songs. This is where you entered the Memory Stick Micro, you can insert cards up to 16GB (the slot does not support microSD cards).
On the front, just below the programmable button on the left, the Internet button. The K800 was one of Sony Ericsson’s first 3G phones and had an Internet browser (Access NetFront), as well as a built-in RSS player, as well as an email client.
There was also the K790 variant, which only supported 2G connectivity (up to EDGE), but would lose MMS capability and front video camera. This may not be used to take selfies, however, 2006 was an easier period.
However, in front of it, the Activity menu key. This menu combines an application selector and a notification area. You can transfer between running apps from here, verify missed calls and new messages, but also access shortcuts to internet apps and bookmarks.
Yes, the K800 is a multifunctional phone, but it may perform several responsibilities at once. And you may simply run cellular incarnations of some older PC games, like Age of Empires and Counter-Strike, for example.
The phone also gave the impression in the first of Daniel’s Craig James Bond films, Casino Royale (which also included the M600). Sony Ericssons (and later Sony) were a staple of Bond’s Sony Pictures Entertainment era, to a lesser extent than Aston Martin. Of course, from time to time you will get a BMW Z3 or a Nokia 8.3 instead.
The Sony Ericsson K800 can do anything 2006 mobile phones can do. More importantly, you can do some of those things more than most. It was at this time that the company was in its heyday before the market began to move towards smartphones, a transition that proved complicated for the Japanese-Swedish company.