14 DAY TRIAL // Lots of people have waited impatiently for the Sony Ericsson AI to come clean and give us all the juicy details from its official specification sheet or at least a couple of better photos.
From the photos we had the chance to see, I believe, even if I thought the thing could end up to be a complete marketing failure for Sony Ericsson, that it just might be the handset able to compete against LG's newly arrived Black Label Series cellphone, the Shine.
The AI just got the blessing from the godfathers residing at Federal Communications Commission's testing center and, unfortunately, not many details have emerged on the outside after the mandatory photo shoot every device gets when on the FCC work bench.
There are no specs slip-ups, there are no amazing photographs of AI's slim Walkman body, no user manuals and nothing like that whatsoever. There is a good thing about it anyway: if this cellphone gets so wrapped up in secrecy and nobody has managed to take out some kind of an official document about it, it might that the AI is truly something that we should be thinking about.
Maybe the 9.4 mm super-slim Walkman handset from Sony Ericsson will prove to be a lot more good looking than we have seen from the leaked photos until now and, hopefully, it will be at least one step up on the scale of usability and design. This way, it will be able to prove us all wrong and make us retract all the bad words we have said about it.
I've already wrote about the spec sheet, as we know it until now, and from what I have been able to gather, the AI will be a tri-band GSM/GPRS/UMTS handset, with a 1.8 inch 262k colors QVGA TFT display, a 2 megapixel camera, Music CD Walkman player 2.0 software, Memory Stick Pro expansion card slot, Java MIDP 2.0 technology and a lot more to brag about.
Once again, Sony Ericsson is either keeping a total secret about the W880i and it will prove to be a handset worth the wait or this will end up as an affordable medium-class cellphone everybody will be able to buy. Either way, it shouldn't be long until the official launch will undergo so prepare your wallets Sony Ericsson fans because the phone dedicated to Ai Sugiyama will hit the retail stores very soon.