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February 2004
K700
The next step in Imaging
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White Paper K700 Preface Purpose of this document This White Paper will be published in several revisions as the phone is developed. Therefore, some of the headings and tables below contain limited information. Additional information and facts will be forthcoming in later revisions. The aim of this White Paper is to give the reader an understanding of technology and its main applications, as well as the main functions and features of the phone. Note: This document contains general descripti
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White Paper K700 Document conventions The phone has a full graphic screen which supports 65,536 colours, referred to as 65k. The screen images in this document are in JPG format and are thus of a lower resolution than the images actually shown on the screen. The Picture Messaging feature is referred to as MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) throughout this document. Document history Date Version Comment 2004-02-27 R1A First edition. 3 February 2004
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White Paper K700 Contents Product overview ........................................................................................................5 Key functions and features .......................................................................................6 More in-phone functions ...........................................................................................8 Technologies in detail .............................................................................................
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White Paper K700 Product overview This phone features the latest in imaging, advanced messaging and connectivity technology with a rich offering of multimedia and entertainment functions. This includes for example, playing video clips with the media player, taking pictures with the built-in camera and listening to the radio. Easy-to-use imaging communication provides a dedicated camera button to minimize the number of steps for taking and sending a picture or video clip. Form follows function
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White Paper K700 Key functions and features This phone is the next step in imaging for Sony Media player Ericsson products. The evolution of mobile The Media player converts the communications towards imaging will greatly phone into a portable MP3/ increase the scope for new applications and MPEG4 player. Play music, watch services. In the area of multimedia in mobile pictures and slide shows, as well phones, Sony Ericsson can show its vast as streamed or downloaded video clips. experience in
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White Paper K700 features of the product. Images can be shared By pressing the Pre-play icon on the phone phone to phone, with Bluetooth, across the room desktop, you can, for example, go straight to a live or between a phone and other paired devices such list of Top Music Hits. Choose a song, listen to it, as PDAs, PCs or printers. For example, it would be and if you like what you hear, you can buy it and possible to print a picture directly from the phone add it to Sounds. You can then lis
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White Paper K700 Java™ 2 Micro Edition Bluetooth™ wireless technology Download extra content with Java, Using built-in Bluetooth wireless for example, new information- and technology, communication with entertainment-based applications. other Bluetooth devices is This gives users a chance to supported via a radio link. Unlike personalize the functions and infrared, Bluetooth wireless technology is not features in their phones, and developers the dependent on line-of-sight communication. opp
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White Paper K700 Setup wizard supported by all major Web browsers. An XHTML The setup wizard makes it possible for the user to page can be viewed in both the WAP browser and quickly and easily prepare the phone for use. in any standard Web browser. All of the basic XHTML features are supported, including text, At the first start-up, the setup wizard starts and images, links, check boxes, radio buttons, text helps the user with some core settings whilst giving areas, headings, horizontal rul
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White Paper K700 Presence Connector cover Presence information of other Wireless Village The connector cover is designed with three major users is received and displayed to indicate their improvement areas: willingness to communicate. The user’s own presence information is also sent for others to view. 1. User friendliness - gives the user a comfortable If the user is interested in another person’s grip, both when using the phone (in portrait mode) presence status, he or she can search for t
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White Paper K700 Technologies in detail Entertainment Media player The media player supports different audio and channels. The AAC offers three different profiles video formats, streaming as well as download and to facilitate trade off between quality, memory playback. and processing power requirements. They include: Main Profile (MP), Low Complexity (LC) and Scalable Sampling Rate (SSR). Music The media player is a multi-format digital audio AMR player which enables the user to carry and
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White Paper K700 sizes. A disadvantage is the lack of specific Playback is paused if the user starts another sound control. MIDI is ideal for polyphonic ring- application which requires the audio channels to tones. be dedicated to it. MP3 Playback of MP3 files continues if the user MP3 is the file extension for MPEG audio layer switches to another application, providing 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer music whilst using other applications such as 1, layer 2 and layer 3
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White Paper K700 Sound Recorder The media player supports download and playback The sound recorder can record both voice memos of MPEG-4 and H.263 formats for viewing video and call conversations. Sound recorder saves clips in the phone. recordings directly to memory. The size and length of recordings are limited by available storage Video clips may be downloaded from the Internet space. or copied from a connected PC. Sounds are recorded in AMR format and saved in Files must be of types MP4
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White Paper K700 decides to download and pay for the complete User-created content (Web album) video. A memory check is automatically performed Sheila and Tom are on vacation. They want to show to make sure that his mobile phone has enough their friends how fantastic the beach is. They free memory. record a video clip and upload it to a Web album. Their friends can then stream or download the clip Streaming of live radio (broadcast) to their PC or mobile phone. Linda wants to check out and l
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White Paper K700 GIF MIME media type All these media are pointed out by MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types. Imaging VGA camera VGA camera QQVGA (160 x 120 pixels) With the integrated VGA camera, the user can take QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) pictures and video clips and store them in the VGA (640 x 480 pixels phone memory. The user can send them as an attachment in an e-mail or a picture message. The Video format picture can also be sent via bluetooth, infrared or Video clip
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White Paper K700 Messaging My friends Sony Ericsson’s application - My friends - is an enhanced messaging facility that offers a user friendly and versatile way to quickly get in touch with contacts. The My friends application merges the Phonebook and messaging functionalities that we commonly find in phones. At a click you can access your list of contacts, and with another click you can choose how you want to communicate with them - via SMS, MMS, e-mail or chat. The application also en
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White Paper K700 Viewing the status of contacts in My friends You can view your contact’s status and decide how you want to communicate with him or her. You may want to call or send an SMS, MMS, or e-mail, or join your friend in a chatroom. Access to the chatroom The My friends application supports creating chatrooms and inviting your friends (on your My friends list) to the chatroom. You can bookmark associates you would like to chat with. The application can establish connectivity betw
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White Paper K700 That is why the key word to describe MMS content PIM communication with MMS is rich. Complete with words, sounds and images, By using MMS, it is easy to handle PIM (Personal MMS content is endowed with the user’s ideas, Information Manager) information. The user can feelings and personality. An MMS message can send and receive business cards (vCard), calendar contain one or more of the following: entries such as appointments (vCal) and notes (text/plain). Text As with SMS an
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White Paper K700 Architecture interacts with the application being run on the The MMS Centre (MMS-C) is comprised of the MMS-enabled terminal to provide various MMS Server, the MMS Proxy-Relay and the MMS messaging services. WAP or http is used as the Store. The MMS Centre is the central element of bearer of an MMS message between the MMS-C the MMS network architecture, providing storage and the MMS client (application). The WAP and operational support, enabling instant delivery Gateway is
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White Paper K700 Connectivity Positioning The basic cost-efficient positioning method Positioning methods are already used to support available in 2G networks relies on measuring location-based information services such as round-trip time. In 2G it is called Cell-ID + TA ©YellowPages, restaurant guides, traffic (Timing in Advance). information, directions and friend finder applications. Typically WAP, SMS or voice has been Time difference measurement, involving several used as delivery mech
