Sony Ericsson F305 is for fun and games

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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333 Responses to “Sony Ericsson F305 is for fun and games”

  1. Rudi says:

    This good phone

  2. Rudi says:

    This good phone

  3. Sunil Saharan says:

    f 305 is gud for muzik & games bt having less function in comparison other sony” sets no themes changing, Hanging problem etc.

  4. Sunil Saharan says:

    f 305 is gud for muzik & games bt having less function in comparison other sony” sets no themes changing, Hanging problem etc.

  5. 1234 says:

    Other than the display, everything else is fine. Out of 10 mths i have kept my phone at the servixce centre for 7 mths. i suppo they will change my media stick

  6. 1234 says:

    Other than the display, everything else is fine. Out of 10 mths i have kept my phone at the servixce centre for 7 mths. i suppo they will change my media stick

  7. owner says:

    It has only 4 themes and you can’t download more.

  8. owner says:

    It has only 4 themes and you can’t download more.

  9. ram says:

    hello friend im abhi plz don’t buy this mob bcoz  it’s camera and  music is totally bad and poor quality …….
    it’s themes and software we can’t update ..
    if anyone one wont to buy it that person is one of the fooolll  and  stupid person in this world …………. :)

  10. ram says:

    hello friend im abhi plz don’t buy this mob bcoz  it’s camera and  music is totally bad and poor quality …….
    it’s themes and software we can’t update ..
    if anyone one wont to buy it that person is one of the fooolll  and  stupid person in this world …………. :)

  11. avinash says:

    hello ‘
    how will i download a game for my cell”f305 sony ericsson”

  12. avinash says:

    hello ‘
    how will i download a game for my cell”f305 sony ericsson”

  13. pravin says:

    ppl ……………where do i get motion games that suit this mobile/………

  14. pravin says:

    ppl ……………where do i get motion games that suit this mobile/………

  15. nabil says:

    butuh haMPA….
    aku tendang semua satgi…
    ak jolok….

  16. nabil says:

    butuh haMPA….
    aku tendang semua satgi…
    ak jolok….

  17. p-wall says:

    love this phone

  18. Papu says:

    i hate this phone

  19. esdorando says:

    wy everbody say evryting twice srry bad englis

  20. keylu says:

    i like this phone but the most one that i hate about this phone is I CAN’T CHANGE MY THEME TO COLOURFUL FROM INTERNET

  21. sean says:

    love the phone, but whoever decided to put FIFA 09 on the front of the phone in the screen is an idiot

  22. sumit says:

    verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry bad phone

    • Equalizer doesn’t retain when song change
    • Not much game available
    • can’t connect internet to computer via mobile
    • Headphone is not comfortable………….

  23. gagan says:

    f305 is so bad
    i hate this phone….

  24. M. says:

    I have had the phone just over a year, it keeps blanking out, just shutting off, and have a hard time getting it back on. Have a hard time charging. Have a hard time staying on. It SUX

  25. Tushar D. Kayande says:

    hey friends i am also using this phone from last 1 year… really this phone is not up to the mark.
    no theme option.
    no good zoom ( it has a zoom option but it sucks)
    bad screen pixels
    head phone is also not good.
    main thing very poor BATTERY LIFE :(
    …………………………..

    only good thing about this it looks good and have nice keypad thats all . :)

    but guys just dont go on looks.. look inside..

    new Lg Cookie pep is better option.

    cheers :)

  26. Alvinez says:

    It’s a gud phone but the camera n music disappoint me, battery life also suck(it will not be a gaming phone if the battery life only last for few minute if we play game)
    I prefer Nokia phone but I love this phone design..

  27. sukhbaj says:

    this is very bad phone in this world this is chuppa set inthis world and there is only 4 themes and no update .and his motion gaming is bakwas (very bad) please don’t buy this phone

  28. M says:

    Goddamn phone

  29. M says:

    esdorando says right thing

  30. jpt says:

    bad phon

  31. sreekanth says:

    This phone can’t buy because in this have software and thems problem………… So not buy this phone….. Thank you

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