| As a competitor to the Nokia 6600 Slide or the | | | | hours (2G) and 4 hours (3G). It uses a standard Li-Ion |
| Samsung Soul, the Sony Ericsson C510 (Released Feb | | | | battery. |
| 2009) holds its own and is one of the best in its price | | | | Inside the box, we find TFT display with 256K colours, |
| range. | | | | a pretty typical screen of 240 x 320 pixels in size |
| With 3G HSDPA internet access, the C510 puts Sony | | | | which measures 2.2 inches. The Accelerometer |
| Ericsson back on track when to comes to delivering a | | | | sensor for auto-rotate when viewing pictures in |
| phone of decent reliability and features for the price. | | | | landscape and portrait mode makes photos a |
| Time alone will tell whether they will regain the edge | | | | pleasure. |
| with their products, but until they are proven unreliable, | | | | Under the bonnet, the handset has 100MB internal |
| we have no problem with the phone we are reviewing | | | | memory and the Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot |
| here today. | | | | allows increasing memory up to 8GB - more than |
| For one thing - we have a phone which can produce | | | | adequate for most use. The phone records up to 1000 |
| print-quality photographs - if care is taken. While the | | | | x 20 field in the phonebook, photo call and records up |
| camera is a 3.2 megapixels, as opposed to those | | | | to 30 received, deleted or missed calls. |
| which are 5 and 8 MP in size - it also only costs half | | | | In terms of data handling, the phone works with Class |
| as much. It offers autofocus face detection, Smile | | | | 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps GPRS, and Class 10, |
| Shutter™, LED flash and digital zoom with the added | | | | 236.8 kbps Edge. It has HSCSD, 3G on HSDPA and |
| bonus of geo-tagging. Video is also possible with this | | | | HSUPA and v2.0 Bluetooth capability and USB. It does |
| phone, as is video calling. | | | | not have WLAN or an infra-red port. |
| Photos can be improved using the Photofix application, | | | | What we didn't like about it |
| then sent to Blogger, MySpace or Picasa Web Album | | | | As per usual, Sony Ericsson has failed to include a |
| in a few clicks. Panorama shots are possible in VGA | | | | 3.5mm industry standard jack plug, the charger, |
| quality. | | | | earphones and USB cable all use the same connection |
| For purposes of interconnectivity - the Sony Ericsson | | | | space, severely limiting the handset - for examples, the |
| C510 works on both 2G and 3G networks, on GSM | | | | earpieces have to be unplugged to allow downloading |
| 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G) and HSDPA 2100 (3G). Two | | | | through the USB port. |
| other dedicated models of the C510 cater for America | | | | Smile Detection only works when the face is in focus - |
| and China Mainland usage. | | | | with the time lag involved - this does not always work |
| Messaging capability includes SMS (threaded view), | | | | well. |
| MMS, Email and Instant messaging. The phone has FM | | | | What we did like |
| Stereo radio with RDS, games with the ability to | | | | These days we all seem to expect GPS as a basic |
| download further games and runs Java MIDP 2.0. | | | | part of our phone system - the Sony Ericsson C510 |
| It supports MP3/AAC/MP4, and sports TrackID music | | | | does not offer this facility - however - we liked the |
| recognition, YouTube service in the Media Center, an | | | | fact that we could purchase it as an optional add-on. |
| Organiser, Voice memo/dial (and speaker phone) and | | | | Not everyone needs GPS, and we liked the choice |
| Motion Gaming. | | | | given with the cheaper handset price with the built in |
| Battery capacity is up to 400 hours standby on 2G | | | | Google Maps. |
| and 250 hours on 3G. Talk time varies between 10 | | | | |