Sony Ericsson F305 is for fun and games
Posted by Michell | June 14th, 2008 Google Search Results
The Sony Ericsson F305 is Sony Ericsson’s first Motion Gaming-enabled phone. Or well, no, that’s actually not true, but it’s the first to go by that name in particular. It’s a quad-band GSM phone with support for EDGE network speeds.
This low/mid-level phone sports some rather cool gaming features. The three pre-loaded games - Bowling, Bass fishing & Jockey - will enable you to use movements to play the game. Say, you load up the bowling game - how do you play it? Simply imitate the movement of the bowling ball throw with the F305, and you’ll be playing the game. Simple, isn’t it? It’s a bit like the concept behind Nintendo Wii, although I find it hard to believe this will work just as great as the Wii does. Other than the special gaming features, the F305 offers a set of PlayStation-like gaming keys just above the display, as well as a shortcut key to your games. If you’re in the middle of a game, but the battery is running low (meaning you’ve played almost 8 hours!), you can quickly plug in the battery Power Pack CCP-100 (extra accessory), and you can play for hours again. That’s actually a rather clever accessory, and I hope it’ll be available for other phones, although there’s a chance that won’t happen.
F305 features loud stereo speakers on the back of it, making your gaming experience even better. If you feel like challenging a friend of yours in a match, you can do this via Bluetooth on some games.
F305 has got a decent music player capable of playing the most standard audio compression codecs, including the über-compressed eAAC+ codec. The phone memory is a bit limited though at only 10 megabytes, so you’ll have to expand the memory with a Memory Stick Micro card. Your music can then be transfered via a USB connection. You can stream your music wireless in stereo, as the phone features the Bluetooth A2DP profile. You can also have a listen to the radio with the built-in FM radio, and recognize the music playing with TrackID.
The display on the front of this Polar White or Mystic Black phone is a 2-inch large TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels, and up to 262.144 colours. While the resolution isn’t exactly excellent, it’ll make the rendering of 3D games quicker, and more games are available for phones of this screen resolution.
The F305 measures a good 96 x 47 x 14.6 millimetres, and weighs in at just 97.5 grams, making it a bit heavier than it actually looks. F305 will be out in selected markets in Q3 this year. We expect the price tag to be relatively low, considering this is a low/mid-end phone.
The F305 will be officially announced on Tuesday 17th.
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12:08 pm on 6/14/08mmm.
nice… very nice.
12:15 pm on 6/14/08but isn’t the landscape screen up side down… i mean.. the landscape screen should… you know…
or it’s because of the mistake in the 3D render.
@chombos1: If you think about a PlayStation controller, the d-pad is always on the left. So this phone which is kind of mimicking a PlayStation controller has to rotate that way to get the d-pad on the left!
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12:30 pm on 6/14/08The only -ve is the 176×220 resolution. Otherwise, the phone looks pretty cool!
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12:33 pm on 6/14/08Yes, more games
Good to hear, though Gameloft haven’t been up to their usual standards lately. I hope Digital Chocolate gets in on this.
3:24 pm on 6/14/08Wow..interesting! am hoping that SE will make something more high-end in this series soon! Hope to catch it by end of this year (my mum promised me a phone if i get good results)!
5:17 pm on 6/14/08it will be interesting to see the high-end phone of this series
6:39 pm on 6/14/08pretty nice n gage here comes sony
8:37 pm on 6/14/08Is there any chance that the games that support motion sensoran id=”high_3″ class=”searchterm3″>for an> F305 is also compatible with W910i?
6:08 am on 6/15/08I wish we could have some OS here, as compan id=”high_2″ class=”searchterm2″>are an>d to java games the Symbian games an class=”searchterm2″>are an> more interesting and absorbing. Plus they have 10x better gameplay.
9:47 am on 6/15/08where is the PSP phone T_T
3:48 pm on 6/15/08@eternal_wind
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6:52 am on 6/16/08i want’t, look like good =)
9:54 am on 6/22/08i wanna know the price!!!!!!!!!!!!
6:24 am on 6/23/08how much is it??
6:25 am on 6/23/08HOw much do anyone guess it is???
9:14 pm on 6/24/08reply back sumone…
In Sweden it will cost about 2000 kr.
That´s about 400 $ (dollars)
2:01 am on 7/5/08