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We got our hands on SE’s dedicated gaming handset, the F305. It’s a low-endish slider with a 2 inch large screen. Its resolution is 176×220 pixels and it shows up to 262.144 colours.
Other features include a 2 megapixel camera (unfortunately said camera lacks both auto focus and any light) and an accelerometer for motion based gaming.
Take the jump for more information and pictures.
The build quality if our unit is pretty solid. The slider isn’t wobbly at all, everything fits. There’s been a problem with the display glass falling off, but that seems to be a singularity with this special unit, we never heard of similar problems from other users.
The retail package includes a second battery cover, a wrist strap (so you won’t throw your phone against the wall while bowling) and a pretty poor headset, the HPM-60.
Turning on the F305 is quite disappointing. As the phone is not a Sony Ericsson, but a Sagem license product, the user interface is neither A1/A100 nor A2/A200, but something below that is building on the OS of the absolute low enders like T280 or T303.
So you’ll find yourself with a phone that can’t use themes. A phone that can’t fast forward or rewind while playing a song. A phone that does not support multitasking.
On the positive side, we can mention the 11 pre-installed games, some of them based on the motion sensor, plus the additional 50 games ready to install on the 512 MB large memory stick (M2).
Bowling or fishing with your mobile as the remote is quite a lot of fun, once you got how to use it.
The F305 supports two keypad lighting modes, one for normal use and one for the game mode.
There’s a bug with the lighting, though. Once you entered the games’ list, the lighting switches. When you enter a game, exit and go back to the menu, the keypad will stay off. You’ve to lock and unlock the phone to get it back to normal.
I’ll leave you with these impressions and the clear statement:
If you bought SE phones because you love the UI, don’t buy this.
You’d be disappointed. I was.
/xell.
Filed under: F series, Preview
(7 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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I have one for reviewing too, now. I’m pretty dissapointed by it also. The accellerometer is really poor too. It’s not usable in anything else than games, the bowling game doesn’t even use it. When you don’t swing your phone, but just push the button the ball starts to roll also. In the jockey game and the fishing game it is used but not sensitive at all.
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sony f305 sucks worst phone i felt sad no themes waste don buy i got cheatd b slide appeareance
hw 2 set themes pleas tel i got dipressed ple help me
cant transfer any games frm other mob wat 2 do
Yeah, not a giant leap for mankind this… what was the name? forgot it. I’d rather invest in the nigerian bank account i was offered the other day on my mail account than buy this lousy piece of…well… just don’t buy it.
can you mention preinstalled game on F305 ??
and….what the motion sensor ?? example games played motion sensor on F305, can you mention ??
thank 4 U info
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Bowling as in the Nintendo Wii, but worse, a jockey game and a fishing game are the games with the motion sensor, but in fact they all work bad.
Yeah recently i bought the Sony F305 mobile and installed a game(hero) from File manager-Other folder while installing it is asking for where to install (A. Games B. Applications) i choosen application option but i couldnt find any “Applications” in my menu. Any one know where “application menu” will be shown?
Applications is inside the Organiser menu
i’m very dissapointed by this phone. was in same prize class as my friend’s s500i and that’s an awesome cellphone, but actually this is crap.. can’t use themes/cant transfer games/can’t install games larger than 500kb (wtf my cheap old SE could :s)/typing goes very slow/menu looks old/…i can think of lots of other things.
i wish i read this thread before i bought it…
just don’t buy it
i also disappointed wit this phone..before i used nokia n-gage…i like play game at the phone..but this se f305 is suck..waste my money…waste time…of coz it look nice but dont hav lot funtion..i like to say there is no funtion at all…just dont buy this phone…SE is Suck Ericsson…cibai kia…
you forgot that it’s stereo and really loud and with great sound quality! you don’t need external speakers!!
why do i have a picture of a green handset/phone with a 1 next to it, on the top left hand corner of my screen.. can i make it go away?
SOny ericssion itself an waste company for mobiles.
But f-305 is utter waste
Although I’m not much interested in playing games on a phone I still felt ripped off that I am unable to add them. I also am unable to add themes or I assume applications (jar files). It didn’t come with a USB cable so I bought a cheap Bluetooth adaptor to transfer mp3s, etc. Of the 50 odd games that come with it I enjoyed Need for Speed, Video Poker, Card Casino and Extreme Pinball. One thing about the F305 is that it has very loud clear sound and is great when listening to the FM Radio or an mp3.
Update. Sony Ericsson advised me by email that I am unable to addnew downloaded games anmd applications as jar files are not supported by this handset. The games on the memory card that came with the F305 appear to be jar files and they could be installed so I’ve asked them to clarify.
Update. No response from SE.
This is a not a best mobile fone in this rate other mobile phone in this rate was very stylish and many more function It camera was not so clear and its sound was bogus in lead compare to other mobile phone in it prise and its games is good but you can not instalmore than 500 kb.And I sugest that you can not buy this mobile phone this is waste for money.
just dont buy this phone
its useless……..
its problems are endless
i have this phone it suck i can”t install themes . applications like opera mini do not work. plz help if any one knows
i too own dis mob…
i downloaded 2 themes from sony ericsson website
and those themes worked.. but you have to install a theme creator softwre in ur mobile
u cn dowwnload it from
http://www.mobiles24.com