Treat for Mobile Internet Users: Sony Ericsson G502- First Look
Posted on May 9, 2008 in Technology by Annie
It’s high time that you reconsider your opinion that only expensive high end mobile phones can give you the best internet experience. It is said that the latest Sony Ericsson G502 phone is highly affordable HSDPA phone. Soon its great data transferring and browsing potential will be unleashed.
At first glance you might find Sony Ericsson G502 to be very much similar to Sony Ericsson K660. But a closer and deeper look unveils the special features of Sony Ericsson G502. Even when the designs of the two are compared you might tend to like Sony Ericsson G502. Let’s hope that even in the performance factor it beats its alternative K series.
General Specifications of Sony Ericsson G502:
Let’s get a closer look on the features of Sony Ericsson G502. General specifications of Sony Ericsson G502 are listed below:
- Color: Brilliant Hazel, Champagne Black
- Dimensions: 109 x 46 x 13.5 mm
- Weight: 83.5 g
- Memory: 32 MB internal memory with Memory Stick Micro (M2)
- Battery: Standard battery, Li-Po 950mAh (BST-33)
- Phonebook: 1000 entries with Photocall facility
- Call Records: 30 missed, dialed and received calls
- Infrared Port: No
- Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
- USB: Yes with v2.0
- Edge: Class 10, 236.8kbps
- Browser: RSS reader, WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront)
- Camera: 2 mega pixel, 1600 x 1200 pixels with video recording
- Games: 3D games and downloadable
- Other Features: FM radio, MP3/MPEG4 player, TrackID music recognition, Build-in Handsfree, Voice memo/dial, Google Maps, Picture editor, Organizer, Java MIDP 2.0
Design of Sony Ericsson G502:
As compared to the other handsets available in the market Sony Ericsson G502 is quite compact handset. On the first look itself you can identify it has a Sony Ericsson product as it matches with the company’s portfolio. The only difference you can observe is its D-pad. The body of the phone is simply elegant and neat with opaque plastic black and glossy front panel.
The display is with excellent picture quality. As Sony Ericsson is widely known for its great contrast and brightness G502 also fulfils all those measures. Below the display screen D-pad with 6 keys are arranged. The wave-like layout of keys ensures better tactility. Even the alpha-numeric keys are well spaced and with good elevation making typing typo free and easy.
The Camera key and volume rocker key are placed on the right side of the phone. Both the keys are slim but can be easily traced without turning the phone. On the left side of the phone is the M2 card slot placed under the battery cover. This feature is not that comfortable as you have to remove the battery cover every time you use memory card slot.
User Interface of Sony Ericsson G502:
The user interface of Sony Ericsson G502 is almost closer to high end. The optimized Media Center and the Cyber-shot SE v2.0 camera user interface, the Walkman 3.0 music player along with Flash Lite themes support, are all on board. Other features which are available are: NetFont 3.4 browser, SmartSearch, TrackID. On the measure of company’s feature phone menu styling, Sony Ericsson G502 stays faithful.
Web Browser of Sony Ericsson G502:
As said above Sony Ericsson G502 provides great internet experience so its preview would be incomplete if web browser features are not discussed. The web browser of Sony Ericsson G502 uses the latest 3.4 version of NetFront HTML browser. As compared to other phones the major improvement is the webpage map view, “find on page”, “mark and copy” options and integrated virtual mouse pointer. The web browser of Sony Ericsson G502 is rather quick and can even load content-heavy pages with no time lag. All these features make Sony Ericsson G502 web browsing experience excellent.
Lastly it can be said that Sony Ericsson G502 is less featured loaded alternative of Sony Ericsson K660. It easily manages a superb performance with its easy user interface and decent features. To experience the excellent internet browsing of Sony Ericsson G502 you have to wait for some time.
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