Sony Ericsson Aspen
Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under CellPhone Review aspen, Ericsson, first, greenheart, sony, Sony Ericsson,
The leading Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson just announced last week a trio of eco-friendly handsets in its GreenHeart stable. One of them is a Blackberry-like smartphone sporting a candybar QWERTY form factor – the Sony Ericsson Aspen. It lays claims to be the world’s first smartphone to use the improved iteration on the Windows platform – the WinMo 6.5.3. It is also Sony Ericsson’s first handset to look like a Blackberry but with a distinctive styling that is sure to appeal to the serious corporate tykes weaned on the Blackberry.
GreenHeart Features
The recent announcement came with a press release that has few details about the Aspen’s eco-friendly features. Based on the accompanying technical data sheet, it carries the same WalkMate pedometer and CO2 calculator that its C901 predecessor had.
As a green handset meant to ride on the earth-friendly bandwagon that rivals LG and Samsung have joined lately, the Aspen would be no different from the C901 with at least 50% of its body honed from recycled plastics and using waterborne paint. We also expect online e-manuals instead of the printed ones as well as power efficient battery chargers.
Standard Competitive Features
Hardware-wise, apart from having a neat Blackberry style punctuated by an elegant simplicity that’s uniquely Sony Ericsson, especially its silver white version (other than its ivory black color), the Aspen has no remarkable feature set to really make it stand out among smartphones or even feature phones.
You have a basic 3G on a dual band UMTS (900/2100) for the European markets and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. You get the usual HSDPA/HSUPA speeds as well as WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 for data connectivity options. There’s a 2.4-inch QVGA display typical of most Blackberry-styled handsets but with resistive touchscreen capability and a Windows-limited 64k color support.
You also get a very basic 3.2 megapixel camera that only features smart contrast and a rudimentary video recording. There’s A-GPS and stereo FM receivers, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a modest 100 MB internal memory expandable to 16 GB with its microSD support.
It’s in the software that the Aspen holds more appeal with a functional edge over other Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones in the market. The third dot-dot version has improved its gesture control, memory management and touchscreen support to include multitouch capacitive capabilities. Too bad, the Aspen is only resistive.
It has the Java apps to make it a social networking handset with instant access to Facebook and Windows Live Messenger. Its GPS gets complemented with bundled Google Maps and comes with the usual WAP-enabled HTML browser and push email client. Multimedia is predictably capable as in any Sony Ericsson handsets leveraging its Walkman heritage and is supported with PlayNow access and media browsers.
Conclusion
The Sony Ericsson Aspen is earlier known as the Sony Ericsson Faith – a rather apt designation for putting faith on the handset despite a better Windows Mobile version running it. Apart from that, there’s not much compelling reason give this smartphone a try based on its spec sheet. But if it’s priced right along the low end smartphones, it might get some following.
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it has not been told yet u will know it within this week i can just tell u that it is 330-340 Euros approximately.
i really loved this phone until i found out that it has no flash…tsk3x!!!
Windows? Crap….
@josfopancho no, e72 is better than this one
If presenters tone of voice would be a bit more monotone i would fall asleep
btw. it is easier to bitch about a product than to do a proper review.
btw2. especially that you don’t even have a working model on your hand as oposed to other phone news sites.
btw3. you suck
Eh.. I just don’t think there will be a big market for a green mobile. Aside from it’s green-ness, it doesn’t seem to offer anything that isn’t already available from BlackBerry or Nokia’s E-Series. My guess is that this phone will get lost in the shuffle.
And your point? e71/72 looks like Motorola Q which came out first with this hardware form factor.
It wont be a market changing device. Since it runs Windows Mobile, its going to die off
I would rather have a slide-out qwerty keyboard since I think the keyboard on the front somewhat lack the spacing between the keys (for my large fingers). But then again, I’d probably just get used to it. I quite like this phone.
this phone will be better than E series from nokia, but to a blackberry? jaja