Sony Ericsson k300i User Manual

K300i

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Preface

Purpose of this document

This White Paper will be published in several revisions as the phone is developed. Therefore, some of the headings and tables below contain limited information. Additional information and facts will be forthcoming in later revisions.

The aim of this White Paper is to give the reader an understanding of technology and its main applications, as well as the main functions and features of the phone.

Note: This document contains general descriptions for this specific Sony Ericsson mobile phone.

People who can benefit from this document include:

• Operators

• Service providers

• Software developers

• Support engineers

• Application developers

More information, useful for product, service and application developers, is published at

www.SonyEricsson.com/developer/, which contains up-to-date information about technologies, products

and tools.

This White Paper is published by:

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, SE-221 88 Lund, Sweden

Phone: +46 46 19 40 00 Fax: +46 46 19 41 00 www.SonyEricsson.com/

First edition (February 2005) Publication number: EN/LZT 108 7600 R1A

This document is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, without any warranty*. Improvements and changes to this text necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB at any time and without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this document. Printed versions are to be regarded as temporary reference copies only.

*All implied warranties, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, are excluded. In no event shall Sony Ericsson or its licensors be liable for incidental or consequential damages of any nature, including but not limited to lost profits or commercial loss, arising out of the use of the information in this document.

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Sony Ericsson Developer World

On www.SonyEricsson.com/developer, developers will find documentation and tools such as phone White Papers, Developers Guidelines for different technologies, SDK's and relevant API's. The web site also contains discussion forums monitored by the Sony Ericsson Developer Support team, a wide variety of Knowledge Base and solutions, Tips & Tricks, example code and news.

Sony Ericsson also offers technical support services to professional developers. For more information about these professional services, visit the Sony Ericsson Developer World website.

Document conventions

The phone has a full graphic screen which supports 65,536 colours, referred to as 65k.

The screen images in this document are in JPG format and are thus of a lower resolution than the images actually shown on the screen.

The Picture Messaging feature is referred to as MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) throughout this document.

Document history

Change history

2005-02-25 Version R1A First edition

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Purpose of this document .........................................................................................2

Sony Ericsson Developer World ................................................................................3

Document conventions .............................................................................................3

Document history ......................................................................................................3

Product overview ........................................................................................................6

Key functions and features .......................................................................................7

More in-phone functions .........................................................................................10

Technologies in detail ...............................................................................................12

Entertainment ..........................................................................................................12

Media player ........................................................................................................12

Streaming ............................................................................................................14

Gaming ................................................................................................................15

SMIL ....................................................................................................................15

Imaging ....................................................................................................................16

Messaging ...............................................................................................................17

My friends ............................................................................................................17

MMS ....................................................................................................................18

Connectivity ............................................................................................................21

Positioning ...........................................................................................................21

GPRS ...................................................................................................................21

Synchronization and data transfer ..........................................................................22

SyncML – an open standard for synchronization ................................................23

Remote synchronization ......................................................................................24

Local synchronization ..........................................................................................25

DRM ........................................................................................................................26

Object exchange – ‘Send’ ...................................................................................28

Java .........................................................................................................................29

Java J2ME™ ........................................................................................................29

Java 3D ................................................................................................................29

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Facts and figures ......................................................................................................30

Technical specifications ..........................................................................................30

Terminology and abbreviations ...............................................................................52

Related information .................................................................................................56

Documents ..........................................................................................................56

Links ....................................................................................................................56

Trademarks and acknowledgements ..................................................................56

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Product overview

A slim and sober dual front camera phone which puts the camera functionality in focus, and which opens up camera phone usage to a completely new audience: an integrated VGA camera with fine quality for picture and video messaging.

Imaging focused applications include taking snapshots and sending them with Quickshare™ and Fun Filters.

It is easy to make a call, send a note, or snap, show and share a picture.

The messaging function includes video messaging, My friends and chatting functionality.

Music includes MusicDJ™, PlayNow™, MP3 and 40 polyphonic voices.

Note: To be able to give updated information about the implemented technology and functionality of this product as soon as possible, this White Paper will be released in updated revisions.

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This phone is yet another step in imaging for Sony Ericsson products. The evolution of mobile communications towards imaging will greatly increase the scope for new applications and services. In the area of multimedia in mobile phones, Sony Ericsson can show its vast experience in consumer electronics and entertainment – music, pictures and games – as well as its mobile technology leadership.

In order to improve the user experience and the ease-of-use, this phone delivers a complete imaging proposition with VGA quality in-built camera and video messaging in a sophisticated and proven design.

An eye-catching feature of this phone is also the colour screen. It measures 128 pixels wide and 128 pixels high (128x128) and has 65 536 colours, allowing high-quality colour imaging and video.

System

This phone supports GSM-GPRS and is a triple band mobile phone: 900/1800/1900 or 850/1800/1900.

Multimedia (streaming and download)

By streaming media such as audio and video clips, multimedia is available in realtime with minimal downloading or waiting time. Media can also be downloaded and saved in the phone memory and then used with the Media player. Media such as audio files, video clips or slide shows can be played back at any time.

Media player

The Media player converts the phone into a portable MP3 player. Play music, watch pictures and slide shows, as well as streamed or downloaded video clips.

VGA camera

With the VGA camera, a camera is always handy. Taking a picture or recording a video clip and sending

it away as part of a picture message or as an e-mail attachment is just a few clicks away. The picture can also be sent via infrared or cable.

The camera also has an up to 4x digital zoom.

Sony Ericsson’s constant ambition of making products easier to use, has had a great outcome: QuickShare™.

QuickShare is the fastest, easiest and smartest ever way to share images. With minimal hassle and just a few clicks, moments can be captured with the integrated camera and shared with friends!

But there is more to QuickShare than sending images with a picture or e-mail message. QuickShare is about ease of use of all the imaging features of the product. Images can also be shared via infrared or cable.

Full graphic 65k colour screen

The 1.6 inch colour screen, 128x128 pixels, enhances viewing, facilitating high-

quality multimedia and entertainment. From standby, the phone features a user interface built on the “desktop” concept, which is widely used in many computer operating systems. From here, navigation between different main functions in the phone is done by selecting one of the 3D icons representing these functions.

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MMS

Reacting to the enormous popularity of mobile phone messaging, Sony Ericsson has

incorporated the latest messaging standard, along with a colour display for an enhanced imaging experience.

Say it in words, say it with pictures, animate it, add sound. Have fun putting together multimedia birthday and holiday greetings. On vacation, use the mobile phone to send a digital postcard with stylized text, digital pictures of the location, and authentic sound clips, to friends and family back home. When shopping, send a picture of a bargain that a friend has been looking for.

With MMS, there are many interesting applications to subscribe to, for example, stock information, movie trailers and weather reports.

Content such as music, video and images may be previewed before purchase.

User experience

A unique link to download music, video, games, themes and images, which is easy to use and promises you best-selling content for mobile download.

By selecting PlayNow, you can, for example, go straight to a live list of Top Music Hits. Choose a song, listen to it, and if you like what you hear, you can buy it and add it to Sounds. You can then listen to it or use it as often as you want.

Content formats that are supported

All formats that are supported in the phone will be possible to download. Music, video and images may be previewed before purchase. The music format is MIDI, MP3, AAC mono or WAV (Polyphonic 24 voices or more).

How the service works

This service is owned by Sony Ericsson or hosted by Sony Ericsson for a network operator. The PlayNow or other premium content is maintained and managed, for example by Sony Music or Sony Pictures. The content on offer can easily be suited to a specific region or operator.

Implementation costs for network operators are minimal and server communication is based on existing, well-established standards. Sony Ericsson offers first or second line support according to the agreement on hosting a white label service or not. High level co-operation is available for the design, look and feel, of content management.

Operator benefits

This service is aimed at providing quality and quantity revenue for network operators. This is truly an ARPU driver with low costs for operators. The process involves:

• Downloading a list

• Previewing content

• Choosing content

•Buying content

Note: The availability of this unique application is limited to specific markets, where relevant infrastructure and agreements have been set up.

Other technical details

Security - Server communication is protected by

TLS.

Forward lock - Content cannot be exchanged with other devices by the user, it is limited to use or delete.

Java J2ME™

Download extra content with Java, for example, new information- and entertainment-based applications. This gives users a chance to personalize the functions and features in their phones, and developers the opportunity to create new applicatons.

Gaming

Gaming is already a very popular feature in mobile phones, and with Java, users can add new games and skill levels to further enhance

the entertainment value of Sony Ericsson phones.

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3D Games

Java 3D gaming software

introduces and supports cutting-

edge 3D graphics. Audio

developments such as 40 voices polyphonic sound and force feedback provide a much richer experience. With operator support, there is the possibility for multi player games to play against friends. The 1.6 inch CSTN screen adds to a lasting gaming experience. Downloading graphic intensive games, matching up to the size of the built-in memory, is also possible.

DRM (Digital Rights Management) features the rights and copy protection of downloaded content (audio, pictures, music tones, video, entertainment features such as games etc.).

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Content-based services have great market potential, and to encourage this, Sony Ericsson plans to support DRM in all future multimedia products. Sony Ericsson regards DRM as a key enabler for content-based services, and is active in supporting the ongoing standardization work of the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). Furthermore, any additional market requirements for DRM will be monitored.

Design features

Display and keypad areas

The display and key areas are designed with a metal look, in a classic form: sleek, safe and sophisticated. The compact keypad area accomodates the display area. The keys are designed in a wave grouped form.

The Internet key is placed on the phone front, below the keypad and to the left.

Camera, speaker and battery cover

The battery cover is designed to be slid on over the battery housing and camera areas, but the camera lens is only partly protected by the battery cover.

The earpiece on the phone front and the sound outlet area on the camera front have been designed with an obvious speaker look.

There are no volume/control side keys where functionality is controlled by the selection key.

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Navigation key

The 4-directional + select key is

designed to easily navigate the

menu system. In a menu, it can be

gently pressed to select a feature. It can also be used as a joystick with games.

Improved User Interface (UI)

Selection keys and the key assignment give a very efficient interaction design with full flexibility to handle all the new features and applications. Sony Ericsson has focused on user-centred design and extensive usability testing to solidify the new UI paradigm. This ensures visibility in actions and system status and consistency between applications and similar actions. The highresolution colour screen is easily managed with the navigational key.

Setup wizard

The setup wizard makes it possible for the user to quickly and easily prepare the phone for use.

The new composer has an improved graphical user interface to simplify melody handling. All new and edited melodies are stored in MIDI format.

File management

There is a file manager, similar to that, found on many computers. In the file manager, the user has an overview of the contents of the phone as well as how much memory is allocated to each function and feature. Folders can be created, renamed, deleted and files can be moved between them.

GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)

GPRS uses Internet-style packet-based technology. GPRS gives the benefits of a permanently available connection to the mobile Internet, but only uses the radio link for the length of time it takes to transfer data. GPRS offers the user the speed needed for satisfactory mobile Internet usability. The phone supports GPRS 4+1.

At the first start-up, the setup wizard starts and helps the user with some core settings whilst giving hints about the functionality of some important keys: back and clear.

The setup wizard includes:

• setting the language

• setting time and time format

• setting date and date format

• the possibility to import contacts from a SIM

card

• hints about the Back and C keys

Polyphonic sounds - 40 voices

Polyphonic sounds and the MIDI

format has revolutionized the

sound quality of ringtones in

mobile phones. With this format, the user can play, compose, edit and send melodies by using the MusicDJ™. The built-in sound synthesizer uses wave tables, real instrument sounds, with 40 voices polyphony.

WAP 2.0 supporting XHTML™

The WAP browser supports the markup languages of WAP 2.0 – XHTML Mobile and XHTML Basic. These two subsets of the Web standard XHTML are supported by all major Web browsers. An XHTML page can be viewed in both the WAP browser and in any standard Web browser. All of the basic XHTML features are supported, including text, images, links, check boxes, radio buttons, text areas, headings, horizontal rules and lists.

In addition to XHTML, the WAP browser supports WML. The user can navigate between WML and XHTML pages. WAP 2.0 also supports cookies, often used by Web sites to store site-specific information in the browser between visits to the site. Cookies are often used by e-commerce sites (in shopping carts and wish lists for example), and to save the user from entering the same information more than once.

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Before style sheets were introduced on the Web, developers had little control over the presentation of their Web pages. An XHTML document specifies

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the structure of the content, which part is a paragraph, which part is a heading, and so on. It does not specify how it shall be presented. Browsers use a default presentation for documents without style sheets. By adding a style sheet to the document the developer can control the presentation of the document, the colours, fonts, and layout.

On the Web, the de facto standard style sheet language is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), specified by the W3C and implemented in IE, Netscape, and Opera. For mobile phones, the OMA has identified a subset of CSS and extended it with OMA specific style rules. The CSS subset and the OMA extensions are called Wireless CSS (WCSS).

The WAP browser supports WCSS 1.1.

My friends (Wireless Village)

To ensure inter operability of mobile instant messaging and presence services, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia have created the Wireless Village Solution, an open standard. The protocol is bearer-independent and can be implemented in different networks. The Wireless Village Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) includes three primary features:

Presence

Presence information of other Wireless Village users is received and displayed to indicate their willingness to communicate. The user’s own presence information is also sent for others to view. If the user is interested in another person’s presence status, he or she can search for this person. If the person is found, the user may subscribe to his/her presence information. The presence information is displayed in a contact list.

E-mail

With inbox, outbox, save draft and reply options, there are all the functions needed for effective e-

mail communication in a powerful mobile phone. Constantly connected to a POP3, SMTP or IMAP4 e-mail server anywhere on the Internet, the phone stores messages dynamically, depending on available memory, and updates the inbox automatically and over the air. Check e-mail anywhere. Reply to e-mail on the move. Friends, family and business contacts know that when they send e-mail, it can be received, read and acted on immediately. Pictures can be included in outgoing e-mails and attachments that are received. Hyperlinks in e-mails are supported.

Personalization

With themes, the user can change many settings in the phone, for example colours and images, making it more personal. The phone comes with a number of preloaded themes and pictures, and more can be downloaded and exchanged – sports, movie, seasonal and other themes will be available on Sony Ericsson or operator sites. Other personalizable features are the start-up screen and the screen saver. Specific pictures and ringtones can also be set for each separate name in the phonebook.

Power save

Your screen is turned off completely a few seconds after you last press a key. Press either of the selection keys and the screen turns on again. Other display light options are On, Off and Automatic.

Instant messaging

Instant messaging means “point-to-point messaging” between Wireless Village users. Messages can be sent to an entire contact list or to a single user. Short message histories of the communication are logged in a file, which can be read off line. This is a sub-set file of the whole communication and is limited by memory.

Groups

The user may join a chatroom and chat with the other participants/members.

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Technologies in detail

This chapter offers a detailed description of the technologies available in this product. Encompassing a broad and rich range of functionality, they facilitate basic functions such as calling as well as the cuttingedge developments found in entertainment, imaging and connectivity.