A lousy case and keypad design doom the Sony Ericsson Z500a. That's a standard Sony Ericsson trick. Games played fast enough. Sony Ericsson Z500 is the. Games and video content typically take up the. Despite our efforts to provide full and correct Sony Ericsson Z500a / Z502a. Feb 15, 2005 Though not the most attractive mobile, the Sony Ericsson Z500a has plenty of features to entertain. It's a solid performer, too.

• Pros Clear sound. Sharp camera. Insanely cheap for a fast EDGE modem. • Cons Awful keypad. Mediocre screen.

Case feels cheap. • Bottom Line Difficult-to-press buttons make using this phone a frustrating experience, although it makes a great cut-rate USB modem for your laptop. A lousy case and keypad design doom the Sony Ericsson Z500a, an otherwise decent, affordable multimedia phone which can also be used as an unusually fast laptop modem. Open up the clamshell's sturdy hinge, and you'll immediately see the Z500a's problem: Slightly recessed keypad buttons.

These buttons don't click to tell your fingers you've successfully pressed them, which is frustrating when you're dialing. There are also no 'pick-up' or 'hang-up' buttons. Smith And Nephew 500xl Service Manual on this page. That's a standard Sony Ericsson trick, but it's annoying because most phones use the 'hang-up' button to escape from multilevel menus. There's no way to jump from, say, playing a game right back to the main menu on this phone.

The Z500a's case also felt cheap and slightly unbalanced to us. The matte plastic cover seemed inferior to the velvety and metallic accents on Motorola's V500 series or to Sony Ericsson's own and. The disastrous keypad is a tragedy, because the phone performs moderately well otherwise.

We got clear sound through the earpiece and microphone. The VGA camera takes very sharp photos, even if they do tend towards blue (see the images in our ). The speakerphone isn't very loud, but it's clear, and fine for indoor use. Similarly, the main color screen is dim compared with the or the Sony Ericsson Z600, and it's entirely unviewable without the backlight on, but it's generally adequate. The external color display works for picture caller ID and as a camera viewfinder.

As for features, the Z500a supports MP3 ringtones and has two built-in Java games, a loop-based ringtone composer, AIM and e-mail clients, and room for about 83 VGA pictures. Descargar Wii Play Motion Pal Torrent. Games played fast enough, but the awful keypad made game-playing a chore rather than a joy. The Z500a's best feature is its Class 10 EDGE modem (faster than older Class 4 modems like the one in the Motorola V551), which requires a $35.99 USB cable to connect to your laptop. (The different classes of EDGE come from the fact that EDGE data transmissions are sliced up into time slots. Depending on the class of your EDGE device, it can use anywhere from two time slots—Class 2—to four time slots—Class 10 or 12—for downloading data. More time slots mean bigger channels and higher speeds.) But on other Class 10 EDGE devices, like the, we've gotten download speeds of 170 to 180 Kbps on Cingular's network, double the speed of phones like the Class 4 Nokia 6620.