“It is important to remember that the vast majority of mobile phone users simply want a reliable, well designed phone for voice calls and text," says Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “This is an important market for Sony Ericsson and our operator customers and we expect good demand for J100 globally, particularly in emerging markets."
Sony Ericsson is known worldwide for its intuitive coupling of form and function to produce stylish phones with great performance and the J100 is no exception. Several features set it apart from its peers. For example it is the smallest phone in the whole Sony Ericsson range and its 65K colour display is outstanding for a phone in this segment.
All key functions can be reached with just one click and the navigation key with its icon markings makes for instant recognition of the various functions. Simply press ‘Up’ to set the sound, ‘Right’ to set the alarm, ‘Down’ to access the phonebook, ‘Left’ to start writing a message and ‘Centre’ to access the menu.
The core voice calls and text functions are supplemented by useful extras including alarm clock, calculator and calendar. Available accessories are the Car Holder HCH-60 and Portable Handsfree HPB-60 which when combined with J100 make for an affordable, all-round communications solution.
If there is anything which can be said about this mobile phone in simple words than it is ? it's one of the simplest yet elegant phone you will get to see in the Sony Ericsson Series. It comes with bright black case which is more of classy Night Black color reminding you of black clouds in the night.
The Organizer of this phone includes phonebook which can keep up to 200numbers at a time. The alarm clock in it wakes you up in time for college, movies, outing with friends and exam time. If are for an office meeting, the same helps you in constructive manner. Predictive text lets go add words quickly making it quite easy for you to send SMS. The SMS service is good, if an SMS exceeds its limit, then an extra message is automatically added, giving you hindrance free SMS messaging.
For the fun part, it has got pre-installed games keeping you busy when you are on a tour, are on a long drive with friends or are covering distances to reach your home on Deepawali. FM Radio keeps you in light mood as well as the light music which you can listen to while on the way home or office. There is also the speaker which you can use on the rugged roads of India for a clearer voice of your near and dear ones. With all these assortments, it's a pretty cool phone, especially for college goers.
This 96*64 and 65,536 colors STN phone weights just 75 gms which makes it a very light phone to carry. You better buy a case with this phone, lest you find it gone out of your hands without realizing! The 900/1800 GSM network keeps you busy on the connectivity part and a talk time of 9 hours gives you pretty good time to be on phone when you are idle. The standby hours are 400 hrs, which too is pretty good. Currently priced at just Rs 1730 INR, its really good for students.
You can buy this phone at much cheaper price from any of the leading online stores like themobilestore.in, where these phones are sold at a cheaper price than they actually are. For further information on such stores, just log on to their websites.
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