* Hi-fidelity Music Playback (features 3.5 Mm Audio Socket)
* Conversational Text & Messaging For Chat Style Communication
* Facebook & Twitter Access
* Walkman 4.0 Player With PlayNow & Track ID Support
The Sony Ericsson Spiro is a slide-form Dual Band GSM phone with a QVGA TFT display, sustaining up to 256,000 colours, measuring 2.2 inches point to point.
The Spiro sports a fairly clear-cut, almost disarmingly humble frame with a sleek glossy front & a matte battery cover that makes for a pleasant contrast, besides preventing the mobile from slipping out of your palm during frantic use.
At almost half the price of the Zylo, its Sony Ericsson stablemate, the Spiro makes much more sense, particularly if you hunt for a good music-playing mobile, since it comes with a 3.5mm headphone socket. It is extremely recommended that you endow in a good pair of earphones as the incorporated pair doesn’t do justice to the handset’s impressive playback quality. The phone also supports FM radio with RDS functionality.
As with many Sony Ericsson handsets, the Spiro sports a central, circular Navi key which is flanked by semi circle menu selection keys, which wrap around the call send/end keys. The describe allows for easy traversing of the menus, besides rendering easy control of the media player functions. The Spiro is powered by same Walkman 4.0 software that is featured in much higher end Sony Ericsson mobiles and delivers striking perfomance with PlayNow support.
The mobile supports the TrackID function which lets you categorize a song just by listening it for a few seconds. Even though you need to rely on EDGE or GPRS connection to connect to Sony Ericsson’s data servers with your request. It also supports Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP for wirelessly streaming music. The Spiro sports a 2 MP camera at up to 2X digital zoom, which is fine for impromptu snaps to be send to friends via MMS. The mobile supports an impressive 2000 entries phonebook and recognizes microSD cards up to 16GB.
Specifications of Sony Ericsson Spiro
SIZE
Dimensions:
92.0 x 48.0 x 16.75 mm / 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches
Weight:
90.0 g/ 3.2 oz
DISPLAY
Type:
TFT
Resolution:
240 x 320 pixels
Color:
262 Megapixel,144 colour TFT
Size:
2.2 inches
CAMERA
Primary Camera:
2 Megapixel, Digital Zoom – up to 2x
Video Recording:
Yes
BATTERY
Type:
Standard battery
AUDIO & VIDEO
Music Player:
MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
3.5 mm audio jack
Ringtone Formats:
Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Speaker:
Yes
Radio:
Radio – FM radio with RDS Radio entertainment round the clock.
Video Player:
MP4/H.263/H.264 player
DATA & CONNECTIVITY
GPRS:
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE:
Class 10, 236.8 kbps
Bluetooth:
Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
USB:
Micro USB connector Connect to your PC and other devices.
Platform Operating Frequency:
2G: GSM 900 / 1800
Java:
Yes, MIDP 2.0
GSM/CDMA/Dual Sim/Triple Sim:
GSM
MEMORY
Internal Memory:
5 MB
Cards Slot:
MicroSD support (up to 16 GB)
Phone Book:
2000 entries, Photocall
Call Records:
Yes
OTHER FEATURES
Games:
Yes + downloadable
Browser:
Web browser – Obigo Q7 Full Internet browser with support for standard protocols , images and video.
Messaging:
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Push Email, Instant Messaging
Miscellaneous:
Organizer
Track ID
Twitter applications Facebook
