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  • Page 1 January 2009 Walkman™ Your Style...

  • Page 2: Purpose Of This Document

    Any rights not expressly granted herein are for a particular purpose, are excluded. In no event reserved. shall Sony Ericsson or its licensors be liable for incidental or consequential damages of any nature, including but not limited to lost profits or...

  • Page 3: 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, SDKs and relevant APIs. The Web site also contains discussion forums monitored by the Sony Ericsson Developer Support team, an extensive Knowledge Base, Tips & Tricks, example code and news.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    White paper W508 Contents Product overview ........................5 Key features ..........................6 Images ............................ 10 Technologies in detail ......................11 Functions and features ......................12 Facts and figures ........................27 Technical specifications ......................28 ............................. 28 General technical data ....................... 28 Performance and technical characteristics ................

  • Page 5: Product Overview

    At the same time, W508 has gesture control which allows customers to control the phone with a simple hand movement, and the enhanced Walkman™ services including Walkman™...

  • Page 6: Key Features

    White paper W508 Key features Walkman™ player 3.0 Located in Media, the Walkman™ player converts the phone into a portable music player that supports the different audio formats MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+/Enhanced AAC+ in ADIF/ADTS, MP4/M4A, 3GP files and WAV. Access audio books and podcasts you have transferred from your computer. Use SensMe™ to discover music by mood.
  • Page 7 SMS or MMS), eliminating the need for the user to manually check for new email. Media A unique Sony Ericsson media experience. All media can be accessed directly from the desktop. Navigate seamlessly through captured photos and video clips, pictures, photo tags, music, videos and more.
  • Page 8 White paper W508 By combining the PlayNow™ catalogue with unique applications like TrackID™ users are presented with a My TrackID™ list and TrackID™ charts by country, created by TrackID™ users around the world. These charts are based on what songs other users are searching for and want to hear the most. PlayNow™...
  • Page 9 White paper W508 Personal Information Management (PIM) Stay up-to-date with everyday events by synchronising phone contacts, calendar appointments, tasks and notes in the phone with similar programs in a computer. The user can connect the phone to their computer with a USB cable or the built-in Bluetooth feature.The synchronisation software is available from www.sonyericsson.com/support.

  • Page 10: Images

    White paper W508 Images January 2009...

  • Page 11: Technologies In Detail

    White paper W508 Technologies in detail This chapter includes short descriptions of the technologies available in this product compared to other Sony Ericsson products. January 2009...

  • Page 12: Functions And Features

    White paper W508 Functions and features The following includes short descriptions of the technologies available in W508, W380. Feature W508 W380 3D games 3G enabled Activity menu (multi-tasking) with enhanced The user can easily handle missed calls, new text and...
  • Page 13 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Bluetooth™ audio video remote control Control music player functions from a Bluetooth™ accessory, and control the volume in the accessory from the phone Bluetooth™ PAN Connect the phone to Internet using Bluetooth™ wireless technology Bluetooth™...
  • Page 14 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Camera face detection The camera brings an off-centre face into focus Camera file browser Browse the photo folder without leaving the camera function Camera flash Camera image stabiliser Photo and video image stabiliser functionality. If...
  • Page 15 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Circuit Switched Data HSCSD a communications standard enabling GSM – data transfer at 14.4 Kbps. Smart contrast Improves detail in a photo by achieving an automatic light balance between the darker and lighter areas of your photo.
  • Page 16 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Device Management (DM) DM utilises GPRS as a bearer (basic network connectivity needs to be in place) of the provisioning data and allows the operator to access the phone, check and send out different settings such as network connectivity (GPRS), email, MMS, Internet settings and Java™.
  • Page 17 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Flight mode All phone radio transceivers are inactivated. Flight mode starts the phone so that only certain functions are available, such as the calendar, the music player or a game. The phone may then be used in some...
  • Page 18 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Icon Desktop 12 A graphic icon desktop with 12 interactive icons Image formats 8 MP (3264 x 2448 pixels) 5 MP (2592 x 1944 pixels) 3.2 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels) 3 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels)
  • Page 19 Java 2, Micro Edition Java (J2ME™), Java 3D™ (J2ME™), Java 3D™ JP-8.4 Support for J2ME™ technology Sony Ericsson Java Platform Support for new Java programming features including banking, payment transactions, user identification and authentication through secure encryption technology. Keys navigation and more...
  • Page 20 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Lunar calendar A calendar system used in China and other parts of Asia. A lunar month is determined by the period required for the moon to complete its full cycle of 29.5 days and is available in Chinese phone variants...
  • Page 21 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 MMS video Support in the phone for sending video clips using Modem Circuit Switched/Packet Switched Internet dial-up support MusicDJ™ A music composer tool with MIDI drum, guitar, keyboard, bass and brass loops in different music...
  • Page 22 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Notes Make notes of things to remember. A note can be shown in standby OMA Data Synchronisation (SyncML) A device communications standard that enables OMA DS 1.2 SyncML 1.1 remote synchronisation between devices OMA DS 1.1.2 SyncML 1.2...
  • Page 23 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Predictive text input Push email RSS reader See Web feeds Screen Type: Full graphical Full graphical Size: 2.2 inches 1.9 inches Resolution: 240x320 pixels 176x220 pixels Technology: TFT, QVGA TFT colour LCD Colours displayed together:...
  • Page 24 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Sony Ericsson Remote Update Service Download the latest software over the air Sony Ericsson Update Service Connect the phone to an Internet-connected computer, download the latest software from the Web site, www.sonyericsson.com/support update the mobile device...
  • Page 25 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Talk time Up to: Up to 8 hours 10 hours UMTS 4 hours Tasks Keeps track of important things to do Themes Phone menu texts and background graphics Timer Set the phone to alert after a specific time TrackID™...
  • Page 26 White paper W508 Feature W508 W380 Video player Play video clips you have transferred or downloaded. Transfer video clips to another phone or a computer using an available transfer method Video streaming Real-time streaming of video clips, for example, live cam.

  • Page 27: Facts And Figures

    White paper W508 Facts and figures This chapter offers readers a detailed listing of all the technical data relating to the product. Comprehensive descriptions of performance and technical characteristics are presented in table format for quick and easy access. January 2009...

  • Page 28: Technical Specifications

    White paper W508 Technical specifications General technical data System Quad-band Edge: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS band 1 supported Speech coding HR, FR, EFR, AMR, supported where available, for high speech quality. GSM SIM/ UMTS USIM/SIM GSM SIM - 3GPP TS 51.011; UMTS USIM - 3GPP TS 31.102; UMTS card ISIM - 3GPP TS 31.103.
  • Page 29 White paper W508 Property WCDMA 2100 Transmitter spurious < –36 dBm up to 1 GHz emission (according to < –30 dBm over 1 GHz specification) (according to 3GPP™ spec.) Receiver RF sensitivity Better than –106.7 dBm @ 12.2 kbps CS voice Receiver RX bit error rate <...
  • Page 30 White paper W508 Property GSM 850 GSM 900/ E-GSM 900 TX phase accuracy < 5º RMS phase error < 5º RMS phase error (burst) (burst) Duplex spacing 45 MHz 45 MHz Frequency stability +/- 0.1 ppm +/- 0.1 ppm Voltage operation (nominal) 3.6 V...

  • Page 31: Ussd Technical Data

    White paper W508 USSD technical data cÉ~íìêÉ pìééçêí USSD support GSM Phase 1/2 (cross-phase compatibility) Mode support • UI-mode supported • SAT initiated USSD supported UI-mode details • It is possible to scroll the text up and down in USSD messages •...

  • Page 32: Sim At Services Supported

    White paper W508 Property Support Support of static and dynamic addressing Support of power control uplink Uplink = yes, downlink is a network feature and downlink Support of ciphering algorithms GEA1, GEA2 Support of compression algorithms Yes, V42bis and IP header compression...
  • Page 33 White paper W508 pÉêîáÅÉ= jçÇÉ pìééçêí DISPLAY TEXT Text of up to 240 characters (120 UCS2 coded). bit 1: 0 = normal priority 1 = high priority bit 8: 0 = clear message after a delay 1 = wait for user to clear message...
  • Page 34 White paper W508 pÉêîáÅÉ= jçÇÉ pìééçêí PROVIDE LOCAL '00' = Location Information (MCC, MNC, LAC INFORMATION and Cell Identity) '01' = IMEI of the ME '02' = Network Measurement results '03' = Date, time and time zone (DTTinPLI) '04' =Language setting...
  • Page 35 White paper W508 pÉêîáÅÉ= jçÇÉ pìééçêí SET UP CALL General: Capability configuration Set up speech call CallParty Subaddress DTMF support '00' = set up call, but only if not currently busy on another call '01' = set up call, but only if not currently busy on...

  • Page 36: User Interaction With Sim At

    White paper W508 pÉêîáÅÉ= jçÇÉ pìééçêí SEND DATA GET CHANNEL STATUS User Interaction with SIM AT Get input BIP – Open Channel Prompt for character input. The phone will refuse to accept further input when maximum response A user confirmation is displayed with the default length is exceeded.

  • Page 37: Entertainment

    White paper W508 Set up call Set up menu If you are on a call when the commands “Set up Incorporates a SIM Application Toolkit Menu Item Call”, “Putting all other calls on hold” are sent, the into the ME main menu structure.

  • Page 38: Java

    White paper W508 Feature Decoder format Supported in file format Video playback MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile 3GP/MP4 H.264 Baseline Profile 3GP/MP4 H.263 Profile 0 VC-1 (WMV9) Music playback MPEG-1/2/2.5, audio layer 3 3GP/AAC/MP4/M4A AAC+ 3GP/AAC/MP4/M4A eAAC+ 3GP/AAC/MP4/M4A WMA version 2,7,8: Class 1...

  • Page 39: Imaging/Messaging

    White paper W508 Imaging/Messaging 3.2 megapixel camera Digital still camera (DSC) True colour Digital zoom Main camera: 3.2 x zoom Photo fix Improves an under-exposed photo by calculating and adjusting the light balance Shoot modes Normal, Panorama, Frames, Burst Photo sizes (resolution) 3.2 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels)

  • Page 40: Video Telephony

    White paper W508 Video telephony Photo sizes (resolution) QCIF (176 x 144 pixels) SQCIF (128 x 96 pixels) Digital zoom 2.0 x zoom Night mode White balance Auto Brightness Video coding H.263 MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile Level 0 Audio coding...

  • Page 41: Supported Character Set

    White paper W508 Supported character set Decoding text (Incoming MMS) US-ASCII UTF-16 ISO-8859-1 KOI8-R ISO-8859-2 GB2312 Windows-1251 GB 18030 ISO 10646 (UCS-2) GB 13000 UTF-7 BIG-5 UTF-8 Coding Text (Outgoing MMS) UTF-8 Short Messaging Service Feature Support SMS Service Centre Number...
  • Page 42 White paper W508 Feature Support Options with the previously sent message: Delivery report of the message Yes (if requested when sending) Forward the message Save the message on the SIM card Know the remaining capacity storage Yes, > 95% full warning, capacity on SIM when saving to...

  • Page 43: Enhanced Messaging Service

    White paper W508 Enhanced Messaging Service Feature Support Level of compliance supported by the phone Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) according to the regarding the specifications described in standard 3GPP™ TS 23.040 v4.3.0, with the addition of release 99 the ODI feature from 3GPP™ TS 23.040 v5.0.0...

  • Page 44: Multimedia Messaging Service

    White paper W508 Feature Support TP-PID field value given by the phone before 0x00 sending an EMS message EMS storage capacity Up to 1,000 messages Multimedia Messaging Service Feature Support MMS/CSD parameters and MMS/GPRS • MMS is bound to an MMS profile.
  • Page 45 White paper W508 Feature Support From where can the user insert multimedia File Manager elements into multimedia messages: Photo album Camera Contacts Calendar Task Note Browser (vBookmark) VideoDJ™ PhotoDJ™ MusicDJ™ Sound recorder Possibility for sent messages to be memorised into a folder in phone memory Actions that the user can perform after •...

  • Page 46: Email Client Technical Data

    White paper W508 Email client technical data cÉ~íìêÉ Support Bearer type (IP) Bearer type GSM Data (IP) Yes, GPRS and HSCSD Character sets • ISO: ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859- 7, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11 • Windows: Windows-1251, Windows-1252, Windows- 1254, Windows-1255, Windows-1258 •...

  • Page 47: Connectivity

    White paper W508 Connectivity Bluetooth™ wireless technology technical data Dimension Support Bluetooth™ wireless technology This phone supports Bluetooth Specification, version 2.0 with capability statement enhanced data rate (EDR) Bluetooth™ wireless technology Advanced Audio Distribution Profile profiles Audio/Video Remote Control Profile...

  • Page 48: Oma Data Synchronization (Syncml™) Technical Data

    White paper W508 OMA Data Synchronisation (SyncML™) technical data Feature Support for Sync ML SyncML compliance The phone is fully SyncML compliant, having passed SyncML Conformance testing. OMA DS 1.2 or OMA DS 1.1.2 is used depending on configuration and both are supported in Server-...

  • Page 49: Web Browser Technical Data

    Most standard character sets, among others UTF-8 (Default), UTF-16, USASCII, Latin1, UCS2. For updated and detailed information, see the WAP User Agent strings and profiles for Sony Ericsson mobile phones Developers guidelines at Developer World http://developer.sonyericsson.com/ * When creating pages, it is recommended to always save the page contents as UTF-8.
  • Page 50 Ericsson mobile phones Developers guidelines at Developer World http://developer.sonyericsson.com/ URL sent pointing to the UA Yes. For details, see the WAP User Agent strings and profiles for Sony profile at the beginning of Ericsson mobile phones Developers guidelines at Developer World browser session http://developer.sonyericsson.com/...
  • Page 51 White paper W508 Feature Support in the browser Display backlight on when browsing Predictive writing “http://” string displayed Not displayed but the “http://” is added automatically to the URL automatically when entering URLs “www” added automatically when entering URLs Combined Search/Go To input...

  • Page 52: Client Provisioning

    White paper W508 Feature Support in the browser SIA reception warning Cache size limitations The oldest push in the inbox will be discarded Number of push messages Depends on the size of the push messages. Around 20 push messages with a size of 1024 bytes URL and 1024 bytes Indications for Service Indication can be saved.
  • Page 53 White paper W508 Feature Support Uses security mechanism (SEC) methods according to OMA-WAP-ProvCont-v1_1- 20050428-C (see www.openmobilealliance.org). For NETWPIN the user is asked to accept to install received settings. For USERPIN, USERNETWPIN and USERPINMAC the user is subsequently asked to enter a...

  • Page 54: Abbreviations

    White paper W508 Abbreviations 3GPP™ 3rd Generation Partnership Project Digital Rights Management. Controlling copying and distribution of contents, with respect to intellectual property rights Advanced Audio Coding DTMF or Touch Tone Dual Tone Multi-Frequency signal. Codes sent as AAC+ tone signals. Used for telephone banking, High Efficiency AAC v.1...
  • Page 55 White paper W508 JPEG Frequency Modulation of the (radio) carrier wave Joint Photographer Expert Group MIDI Full Rate, speech coding. Musical Instrument Digital Interface Graphics Interchange Format Mobile Equipment GPRS General Packet Radio Services Megapixel Global System for Mobile Communications. GSM “MPEG-1/2/2.5 layer 3”...
  • Page 56 White paper W508 QCIF Quarter Common Intermediate Format Transport Layer Security Radio Data System Transmission Time Interval Really Simple Syndication User Interface RTSP UMTS Real Time Streaming Protocol Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Service Indication Uniform Resource Locator. The global address of documents and other...
  • Page 57 White paper W508 WBMP Wireless BitMap. A graphic format optimised for mobile computing devices WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for authoring services, fulfilling the same purpose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) does on the World Wide Web (WWW). In contrast...

  • Page 58: Related Information

    The Liquid Identity logo, PlayNow, BestPic, SensMe, VideoDJ, MusicDJ, TrackID and PhotoDJ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. WALKMAN, Mega Bass, Memory Stick Micro, M2 and Sony are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
  • Page 59 White paper W508 TrackID™ is powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID™. Gracenote and Gracenote Mobile MusicID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc. Google™ and Google Maps™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google, Inc. MicroSD™ and Transflash™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of SanDisk Corporation.

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