December 13, 2004

Cingular Launches Sony Ericsson Z500a Camera Phone

Cingular is now selling the Sony Ericsson Z500a Camera phone on their website for $99.99 with a 2 year contract. It's good to see reasonably priced multi-media phones with good feature sets out there as everyone can't afford the $500 Motorola RAZR V3. For a limited time Cingular is offering a free faceplate with a mail-in rebate. The phone has the following features:

-Size of 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.9 inches
-Weight of 3.9 ounces
-Digital Talk Time of 5 hours
-Digital Standby Time of 10 days
-Integrated VGA Camera with zoom and brightness control
-Video and picture messaging
-AOL instant messenger
-128x160 65k internal display and 4k external color display
-POP3/IMAP email
-MP3 player
-Wireless modem capable with optional USB cable
-510 contacts phone book
-Tri-band world phone using GSM and GPRS networks