Sony Ericsson Z558

Sony Ericsson z558 is the first non-Symbian phone to offer a touch screen and stylus interface. Available in a sleek brushed metal and high gloss design, the Sony Ericsson Z558 comes with a bright 262k color touch screen. The phone is equipped with a basic 1.3 megapixel camera, and has 18MB of on-board memory. You can upgrade the memory to 1GB.

With Sony Ericsson's Z558, you'd be able to write directly on the phone's LCD, thanks to the touchscreen and stylus interface. Presumably the tiny stylus would slide out of the phone's body somewhere, because the last thing we need is another small gadget to misplace. The possibilities are pretty compelling, though — if you're someone who hates text messaging because of the unintuitive keypad lettering, then you could write out your messages longhand and have the phone's handwriting-recognition software convert it to a text message. Or, if the software sucks (as it probably does), just save your notes as "pictures," and send them to people via picture messaging instead. The onboard memory is a paltry 18 MB, but you can jack that up to 1 GB with some SD-card action.

Features:

• 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Size Dimensions 87.5 x 45.5 x 20.5 mm
• Weight 93 g
• Display Type TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
• Size 176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches
• Handwriting recognition
• Second external STN, mono display (128 x 36 pixels)
• Wallpapers, screensavers
• Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, AAC
• Customization Composer
• Vibration
• Memory Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
• Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls
• Card slot Memory Stick Micro (M2)
• 18 MB shared memory
• Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• Bluetooth
• USB v2.0
• Features Messaging SMS, MMS, Email
• Browser WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
• Games
• Colors Sterling Black, Pearl Copper
• Camera 1.3 MP, 1280 x 1024 pixels, video(QCIF)
• Java MIDP 2.0
• Push to talk
• FM radio with RDS
• Media player (MP3, 3GP, mpeg4)
• T9
• Image viewer
• Picture editor
• Organiser
• Built-in handsfree
• Voice memo
• Standard battery, Li-Ion

What comes in the box

• Sony Ericsson z558 Handset
• Sony Ericsson z558 Standard Battery
• Sony Ericsson Travel Charger
• Sony Ericsson z558 Manual