Sony Ericsson T290c - Manual

White Paper T290i/T290c 5 October 2004 Contents Product overview ........................................................................................................ 6 Key functions and features ....................................................................................... 7 More in-pho...

White Paper T290i/T290c 6 October 2004 Product overview The T290i/T290c mobile phone are designed to include an impressive set of features for a very reasonable price. The focus is on messaging, music, gaming, imaging, and connectivity. EMS picture messaging (text messaging with pictures and sounds)...

White Paper T290i/T290c 7 October 2004 Key functions and features Multimedia Messaging - Digital greetings Reacting to the enormous popularity of mobile phone messaging, Sony Ericsson has incorporated the latest messaging standards into the T290i/T290c phone, along with a colour display for an enhan...

White Paper T290i/T290c 9 October 2004 Localization/Customization Different markets will be served with appropriate pre-stored content. In addition, individual operators can be provided with uniquely customized phones. A complete list of customization options is availa-ble in the customization speci...

White Paper T290i/T290c 11 October 2004 Technologies in detail

White Paper T290i/T290c 13 October 2004 particular, MMS is projected to fuel the growth of related market segments by as much as forty per-cent. Using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) as bearer technology and powered by the high-speed transmission technologies such as GPRS, Multime-dia Messag...

White Paper T290i/T290c 14 October 2004 Mobile picture transmission also offers inestimable utility in business applications, from sending on-site pictures of a construction project to capturing and storing an interesting design concept for later review. Editing a picture by adding text allows users...

White Paper T290i/T290c 15 October 2004 MMS technical features The MMS standard, just like SMS, offers store-and-forward transmission (instant delivery) of mes-sages, rather than a mailbox-type model. MMS is a person-to-person communications solution, mean-ing that the user gets the message directly...

White Paper T290i/T290c 16 October 2004 OTA configuration Users can easily get MMS into their phone. MMS supports OTA, meaning that the user does not have to configure the settings manually. The configuration is done by the operator. EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 17 October 2004 New possibilities with messaging The EMS standard is now a part of the SMS stand-ard and supported by the major network operators and mobile phone manufacturers. This universal approach enables a fast penetration and develop-ment of new services and applicatio...

White Paper T290i/T290c 19 October 2004 The diagram shows the possibilities for using Enhanced Messaging Service: • When the Operator/Service provider enables EMS in the network, users will enjoy adding life to messages with sounds, melodies, pictures and formatted text. • New ranges of Content/Appl...

White Paper T290i/T290c 21 October 2004 Bearer type characteristics The T290i/T290c accesses WAP services over IP. IP can be provided either over GSM Data or GPRS, depending on network services. Typical differences which distinguish the bearer types are listed below. GPRS access • The connection is ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 22 October 2004 A Wireless Identity Module (WIM) can contain both trusted and client certificates, private keys and algorithms needed for WTLS handshaking, encryp-tion/decryption and signature generation. The WIM module can be placed on a SIM card which is then referred to as...

White Paper T290i/T290c 23 October 2004 Push services Examples of WAP services that can be pushed include: • Notification of new email, voice mail, etc. • News, sports results, weather forecasts, finan-cial information (stock quotes etc.). • Personal Information Manager (PIM) - delivery of contacts,...

White Paper T290i/T290c 24 October 2004 General Packet Radio Services The introduction of GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) is one of the key steps in the evolution of today’s GSM networks for enhancing the capabili-ties of data communication. Data traffic is increas-ing enormously (over both wir...

White Paper T290i/T290c 26 October 2004 Information about the identity of the phone and the characteristics of the connection are described in the PDP (Packet Data Protocol) context. This infor-mation is stored both in the phone and in the mobile network, so that each phone is identified and “visibl...

White Paper T290i/T290c 31 October 2004 Network-dependent features SMS and EMS messaging The T290i/T290c is capable of sending and receiv-ing SMS and EMS messages, and linked mes-sages. • With the Short Messaging Service, a user can send text messages containing up to 160 char-acters to and from GSM...

White Paper T290i/T290c 33 October 2004 SIM application toolkit The SIM Application Toolkit (SIM AT) is a smart card-centric method of deploying programs that apply only to GSM and to SMS and USSD trans-ports. Programs must be distributed on smart cards. WAP is an Internet-centric method of deployin...

White Paper T290i/T290c 36 October 2004 User interaction with SIM AT DISPLAY TEXT Text of up to 240 characters (80 UCS coded) is supported. ‘Key’ responses • ‘Long NO’ – Proactive session terminated by user. • ‘NO’ – Backward move in proactive session.Any other key clears display if the command is p...

White Paper T290i/T290c 37 October 2004 ‘Key’ responses‘ • ‘C’ clears current character/characters. • ‘Long NO’ terminates the proactive session. • ‘NO’ – Backward move in proactive session. • ‘YES’ – Command performed successfully. REFRESH When a refresh command is executed by the phone, it display...

White Paper T290i/T290c 39 October 2004 Facts and figures

White Paper T290i/T290c 40 October 2004 Terminology and abbreviations 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project. AMR Adaptive Multi Rate. For speech sounds and speech coding. API Application Programming Interface. ASP Active Server Page. Server technology that gener-ates web pages dynamically. Bearer ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 44 October 2004 Related information Documents • The T290i/T290c User’s guide • WAP June 2000 (WAP 2.0) Specification Links • http://www.SonyEricsson.com/ • http://www.Ericsson.com/mobilityworld • http://www.imc.org/ • http://www.3gpp.org/ • http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 45 October 2004 General technical data Exterior description Product name T290i/T290c System T290i/T290c : dual band GSM 900/1800 GSM 900 (3GPP TS 51.010-1) GSM 1800 (3GPP TS 51.010-1) Speech coding AMR, HR, FR, EFR supported where available, for high speech quality SIM card S...

White Paper T290i/T290c 46 October 2004 Ambient temperatures Supported Man-Machine Interface (MMI) languages Languages for GSM 900/1800 markets Current consumption, talk and standby times Embedded games Operating Max: +55 ° C, Min -10 ° C Storage Max: +70 ° C, Min -40 ° C Charging Max: +35 ° C, Min ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 48 October 2004 Cell broadcast service Short Messaging Service 5.90 kbps 4.75 kbps 5.15 kbps 4.75 kbps Feature Support in the T290i/T290c User notification of the reception of a CB message Message displayed on screen Handling of reception of several unread mes-sages The last ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 50 October 2004 Enhanced Messaging Service via phone call (set up a call to the number contained in the message body) Yes via WAP call (go to the WAP address contained in the message body) Yes via USSD session No Possibility to offer the user the ability of send-ing an SMS to...

White Paper T290i/T290c 51 October 2004 Multimedia Messaging Service I-melody Yes, version 1.2. Melodies It is possible to... • edit and create melodies by using the phone key-pad. • send and receive melodies via EMS. • download melodies and commercial tunes from Web/WAP portals. • create melodies o...

White Paper T290i/T290c 53 October 2004 Performance and technical characteristics Multimedia codecs/formats supported for image Baseline JPG, GIF 89a MMS User Agent provides: • text formatting facilities (only textsize) • coloured text/background (Viewer/player supports coloured text and background....

White Paper T290i/T290c 54 October 2004 WAP browser technical data Frequency stability +/- 0.1ppm +/- 0.1ppm Voltage operation (nominal) 3.6 Volts 3.6 Volts Transmitter RF power output 33 dBm Class 4 (2W peak) 30 dBm Class 1 (1W peak) Transmitter Output impedance 50 Ω 50 Ω Transmitter Spurious emiss...

White Paper T290i/T290c 55 October 2004 WAP operator technical data PPP Authentication PAP, CHAP supported Reload page Yes Tables Yes User Agent Profiles Yes, list of client characteristics - e.g. display size WAP WAP 1.2.1 stack and browser, WAP 2.0 browser WAP browser WAP 1.2.1 and WAP 2.0 WAP pro...

White Paper T290i/T290c 59 October 2004 GPRS technical data Predictive writing for WAP sessions? Yes “http://” string displayed automatically when entering URLs Not displayed but the "http://" is added automatically to the URL. Elements Number of display lines for a WAP connection 4 to 7 plu...

White Paper T290i/T290c 61 October 2004 Email client technical data USSD technical data Image format technical data Feature Support in the T290i/T290c email client Attachment Yes (outgoing, images only) Bearer type GPRS (IP) Yes Bearer type GSM Data (IP) Yes, HSCSD, ISDN and analogue Character sets ...

White Paper T290i/T290c 62 October 2004 Images – downloading to phone M-commerce technical data JPEG 101 x 80 pics 640 x 480 pixels No 16.8 mil. 4K No WBMP 101 x 80 pics 320 x 320 pixels No Black/White 2 No Feature File type Max. size PC Applications WAP MMS EMS icons WBMP WxH<=1024 pixels Yes Ye...

White Paper T290i/T290c 64 October 2004 Index Numerics 3GPP 17 A Abbreviations 40Acknowledgement 44Ambient temperatures 46AMR 32Architecture 15 MMS Center 15 Audio 13 C Cell broadcast service 48Chinese phonebook sorting 7Compatibility 17Compatible with old phones 17Current consumption, talk and stan...