The joystick sits in a hemispherical pocket, and is surround by four keys in a pill shape: Two soft keys for commands on the screen, and Back and Clear (or Escape) buttons. In addition to the up-down-left-right, the joystick could also be clicked down to select something. The small square at the center of the joystick was lit in green. The mini joystick was adapted from some earlier models, and in the days prior to touchscreens it was a rapid way to navigate the UI. By contrast, the T610's compact size and relatively thick body make the phone very easy to use one-handed, and the subtly scalloped side surfaces give extra security of grip. Today's smartphones emphasize large screens and thin bodies, which makes them unwieldy to hold and operate. On the other hand, here's a spec today's phones can only dream about: 315 hours of standby time - that's almost two weeks between charges!įor my money, the T610 is the ideal size and shape for a mobile phone: Highly pocketable, comfortable to hold, easy to pick up. Today's phones' sensors are typically more than 100x larger. To be fair, at the time this was considered large for a color screen.Ġ.1 megapixel (not a typo) camera, which was small even by the standards of the day, somewhat belying Sony Ericsson's claim for the phone to be a multimedia device. In contrast to the frumpy Ericsson legacy models, and the increasingly weird and whacky Nokias (such as this and this), Sony Ericsson's designer, Erik Ahlgren, chose a clean aesthetic that seamlessly blended Scandinavian design and the best of Sony's design language.īefore we get to looking at the design, let's get a few of the T610's impressive specs out of the way:Ī whopping 128 by 160 pixel screen, about 1/10 typical of today's smartphone screens.
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