Review By: Latha Jayaprakash Review Date: 16 Nov 2008
The Sony Ericsson R306i a radio and music focused mobile phone, comes in a slim & sleek clamshell casing. The casing is available in two colours which are coffee black & champagne white. The coffee black coloured casing comes with a mainly black coloured body with a subtle coffee colour on the external mono display & highlighting the external radio controls. The champagne white colour option comes with a white coloured body which sophisticated champagne colour highlighting the radio controls & external display. The R306i is a small & compact mobile phone which measures only 16mm deep which is slim for a clamshell handset & the height of the phone is 90mm with a width of 48mm which feels good to hold in a single hand. The Sony Ericsson R306i is also known as the Sony Ericsson R306i radio mobile phone or the Sony Ericsson R306 Radio. This beautiful radio focused phone is a member of the Sony Ericsson R series
This radio orientated handset placed on your desk, works like a table top radio with its stereo speakers. This is an eye catching attractive phone with user friendly features. The Sony Ericsson R306i comes with an external display by which you can see the radio information easily even when the handset is closed to look like a stunning portable radio rather than a mobile phone. The external screen is a mono one which comes with a 96 pixel by 32 pixel screen resolution.
A built in alarm feature complete with radio alert allows you to wake up each morninglistening to your favourite music. You can use the alarm feature to remind an important event & much more. The Sony Ericsson R306i supports MP3, AAC and polyphonic ringing tones.
This stunning handset comes with phone menu options & pictures on the 1.9 Inch colourful internal display. The internal screen has a screen resolution of 128 pixels by 160 pixels & can display up to sixty five thousand colours on this screen. This internal screen works as a viewfinder for the built in camera feature. The camera is a 1.3 megapixel digital camera which allows you to view, store, edit, delete & share their pictures on their Sony Ericsson R306i. The camera comes complete with video capabilities to record & playback video as well as enjoying video clips on your R306i radio phone. You can change different wall papers and screen savers and make it personal.
The Sony Ericsson R306i has a WAP browser which is accessible from the phones menu system & is a XHTML browser to access your preferred sites when you are away from your personal computer. The built in messaging services allow you to stay in contact with other compatible contacts & contacts with an email address as the Sony Ericsson R306i supports MMS picture messaging & SMS text message with a long messaging feature. You can send a MMS picture message to any contact that has MMS messaging in your mobile phone or to an email address, which is a great way to share pictures with others to brighten up your day.
The R306i comes with 5MB of built in memory to store their contact details, messages and pictures on your phone. The user can gain up to 9 hours of talk time from a full charged battery which is dependent on the features being used or approximately four hundred & ten hours of standby time. The Bluetooth® technology provides you with a wireless connectivity option allows you to connect their sleek handset to other Bluetooth® compatible devices. A USB port also allows to connect their phone to other devices using a USB cabled connection The Sony Ericsson R306i comes with time features like stop clock, timer and of course the radio alarm feature will are all useful time features for the music loving user on the move.
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Good: beautiful looks, sits on the table like a radio
Bad: nothing so far
Recommend: Yes
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