Key features and review of the Sony Ericsson F500i

Sony Ericsson F500i is a smart, stylish and user-friendly mobile phone. The phone is very slim only 14mm thick and lightweight too at 80g. The body is made of good plastic and nice design giving an attractive look. It comes with TFT 65K colors display with resolution of 118 x 160 pixels, which is standard resolution for small phone like this. The phone also equipped with a VGA camera supports for picture and video taking wherever you want. The plastic keypad has good and appropriate spaced keys. You can also find a five-way joystick button centered below the display to control menus.

The phone has in-built MP3/MPEG player to listen your favorite songs and to playback videos. F500i offers polyphonic ring tones that you can set according to your choice, while vibration mode alert you when you are unable to listen ring tones, vibration mode can be enable or disable any time. The phone has built-in 12 MB of shared memory; there is no extra card slot to expand the memory.

It supports Tri-band GSM 900/GSM 1800/GSM 1900 MHz as well as GPRS and infrared. F500i comes with many features that includes; WAP, Email client, Java MIDP 2.0, 40-channels polyphony, voice commands, a voice recorder, FAX/Modem, Loud Speaker, SMS, EMS, MMS, Wallpapers, 3D animations and pictures, Photo editor, Voice memo, Built-in hands free, Alarm, Clock, Games, Calculator, Organizer, Currency converter and phonebook where you can store up to 500 records.

The phone is powered by a Lithium battery that has capacity to work up to 300 hours in standby mode and up to 7 hours of talks.