What’s up guys and girls? Jon Rettinger with Techno Buffalo here with an un-boxing for you of the Sony Erickson W518a, I don’t do many feature phone un-boxing, it’s generally smart phone. This is actually by popular request; it’s a new phone available for AT&T Wireless. It’s run for you 49.99 after your 50-dollar mail on rebate in a two-year contract. And what’s unique about the phone is its one button access integration with Facebook. So I’ll show you that during the review so let’s just go ahead and get to the un-boxing. You’ve got the picture of the phone on the front letting you know that it’s got Music, GPS, can take a Video, E-mail and has got a Camera, telling you the same. Bit of a whirl on the side, bottom is just the same, some legal stuff and some skew.
So let’s see what we got inside. So here we got the device itself, all wrapped in plastic. This is a nice presentation actually, the phone just sitting right on top but put it on to the side, this feel nice and thin though. Let’s see what else do we get in the box. Pretty sparse here, we get a battery of course of what size? 12 hundred milliamp hours, fits on a giant battery but it’s not a feature phone, it’s not a smart phone so it should last pretty long in case you’re wondering, and it’s the BST39 that Sony Erickson puts out. We get a charger with some bizarre propriety thing going on there but it’s a Sony phone and of course they love proprietary formats. Keep going down to box, you got this another layer to lift up and you have all of your User documentation. I assume there’s some CD in there some sort, Quick Start Guide, an Actual User’s Guide, you don’t see that very often. In English and Spanish, that’s nice you have to print that out and some other stuff down below that most people probably won’t look at.
So let’s go ahead and take a look at the phone, just took it out of the plastic. It is actually nice and thin. Let’s zoom in here we’ll do a real quick size comparison. So here is the Sony Erickson W518a, here it is next to the iPhone. You can see that it’s much smaller and actually thinner as well. Here it is next to the just released Nokia Serge as well, let’s stack them on top. And that’s all fine and good. But what does this looks like inside? Let’s go ahead and open it up. It has a very interesting keypad layout, no full QWERTY keyboard just a standard number pad and they’re all sort of in laid. But the main attraction is that button right there and that’s why a lot of viewer e-mailing and asking about it because it’s one touch integration with Facebook. You can see right there, Facebook at your fingertips. So actually very curiously how this works and how Facebook actually looks on such a small screen. But it’s supposed to be pretty neat, you can check out all your friends on Facebook, you can follow AT&T on Facebook, you can check out AT&T and you’ve got a freedom of choice but I actually am a fan of AT&T on Facebook. You can actually ask a lot of questions and they’re pretty responsive there too. So if you’ve got concerns or comments you can go in and generally they get back to you.
So let’s see what else we got take a look at the phone and run through it. So it’s obviously a music player, you’ve got music controls on the front, you’ve got your Play and Stop and your Track back or Track forward. And there does appear to be an External LED on the front and there is a camera as well. On the right side of the device we’ve got a volume rocker, it looks like a lock key. Pretty similar what you’d see on an iPod Shuffle or an iPod. It does looks like it’s got, except Sony’s proprietary Memory card format and there is that bizarre charging port. Let’s go and take a look at the specs and see what this thing can do or can’t do for that matter. Alright so this guy has a 3.2 mega pixel camera, a full HTML capable browser. Obviously it’s got a music player; you can support MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC Plus and EAAC Plus. It can handle subscription services; you can do all your messaging, text messaging even MMS. It’s got singular video which is actually AT&T video which is still called CV and it’d got the Listen to Music feature obviously go on it as well.
So let’s go ahead and to power this thing on and see what it looks like. Alright so we’re going to ahead and pop the battery and see your sim card goes right there and your memory stick go right there put it in. The back is just mad of plastic but it does a sturdy feel to it although it’s a little bit of a pain to get off it’s not too bad. You just kind of snap in place all around. Let’s go ahead and power this thing on, let’s peel off the screen protector that’s always kind of satisfying to do. You got the big whooshing sound that was nice. There we go, got the big AT&T logo, insert sim card, we’ll go and pass by that. I think the battery is almost dead as well, so I’ll go ahead and use this for a little while and for my usual and give you my review and update on it. I’m actually very curious how this Facebook integration is going to work, if it’s gimmick or if it’s actually functional. For exclusive contents be sure to full check me out on Twitter, twitter.com/jon4lakers. And to learn more about Techno Buffalo, check out twitter.com/technobuffalo. I’ll see you guys in the next video. Bye-bye.
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