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Design features
Ergonomics and balance
The phone strives for a perfect balance in your
hand. Ergonomics links together with design.
Display and keypad areas
The 1.8 inch display area accommodates relatively
large keys on the keypad area.
The keys are aligned in a vertically grouped form.
The display and key areas are designed with a
sophisticated look.
More in-phone functions
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-centered design and
extensive usability testing to solidify the new UI
paradigm. This ensures visibility in actions and sys-
Displays
Internal
An eye-catching feature of this phone is the large
color display. It measures 128 pixels wide and 160
pixels high in portrait mode and has 65K colors,
allowing high-quality color imaging and video.
External
The phone has an appealing clamshell design with
an external color display. The external display
measures 80 pixels wide by 101 pixels high and
has 4,096 colors. It offers at-a-glance phone status
and access to some phone features without open-
ing the clamshell. The standby screen for the exter-
nal display shows the service provider, time, date,
signal strength, battery charge level, and other
information.
When using handsfree, voice control is also sup-
ported with the clamshell closed.
A long press on the camera button with the clam-
shell closed makes the external display function as
a view finder. Zoom is controlled with the upper
and lower side volume keys.
tem status and consistency between applications
and similar actions. The large, high-resolution color
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.
At the first start-up, the setup wizard starts and
helps the user with some core settings while giving
hints about the functionality of some important
keys: back and clear.
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Z520
June 2005
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