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| Sony CMD J5 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 |
| Announced | 2000 |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 123 X 45 X 20 Mm |
| Weight | 85 G |
| Display |
| Type | Grayscale Graphic, 4 Shades |
| Size | 96 X 92 Pixels, 6 Lines |
| | - Advanced Jog Dial |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Polyphonic |
| Amount | 27 |
| Customization | |
| Vibration | Yes |
| | - Ringtones Can Be Assigned To Phonebook Entries |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | 500 |
| Call Records | 10 Dialed, 10 Received, 10 Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | No |
| | - Message Templates
- Several Phonebook Groups |
| Data |
| Gprs | No |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | No |
| Usb | |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms, Email |
| Browser | Wap, Html (ms) |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Games | 4 - Bannanas, Picpuz, Mindblaster, Sandart |
| Colors | Silver |
| Camera | No |
| | - T9
- Calculator
- Scheduler
- Recordable Sounds For Calls And Events |
| Battery |
| | Standard Battery, Li-ion |
| Stand-by | 120 H |
| Talk Time | 3 H |
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Sony - CMD J5Sony CMD-J5
GSM 900/1800 | 85 g | Standby Time: 120 hours | Talktime : 180 minutes | Lithium Battery | Vibartion Alert | WAP v 1.1 | SIM APPLICATION TOOLKIT | T9 Predictive text Input
Advantages Good looking, Feature packed, Good looking
Disadvantages Strange crashes, Wierd spelling, You can't date it :-)
My last phone was a Motorola clam-shell style one designed for texting and the web. It had a keyboard, and the WAP feature was great, but you couldn't use it for a phones normal purpose, talking, without a hands-free free kit.
The hands free connector on my phone was dodgy, and to get it fixed would cost more than buying a new phone. Since people were becoming rather irritated with not being able to use my mobile to talk to me, and you couldn't top up the credit without making a phone call, I decided it was time to get a new phone.
My (now ex) boyfriend had a Sony CMD-J5. This phone is GORGEOUS. It reminds me a lot in style of the Sony Clie hand held - sleek, silver, with a purple trim round the display. After seeing his, I fell in love and just HAD to have one - he joked I loved his phone more than him, and I guess he was right :-p
I bought mine on contract from BT Cellnet - they were pushing one of the newer Sony phones and desperate to get rid of this one, so they basically gave it to me for free on the condition that I took out one of the higher priced contracts. I was perfectly happy to do this, since I text an awful lot and use my phone for work too.
The display is slightly larger than on most phones and of a higher resolution. The buttons are smaller than on most phones, more spaced out and much nicer to the touch. They have a nice click, but it isn't as loud as the click on a Nokia, so you don't irritate people when you type text messages
The aerial sticks out, but it's sturdy so I don't worry about it breaking off.
The phone, like most Sony products, has a scroll wheel. This is located on the left hand side, and is very nice to use once you get used to it.
The keypad lock is a small dual purpose slider also on the left - you push the slider up to change between silent, ring once, ring, and vibrate (albeit a slightly soft vibrate), and push it down to lock the key pad. Pushing up again unlocks it.
The speakers and mic on the phone are very good quality - they are quite loud and you can actually *use* the hands-free feature, rather than attempt to use it and find the person you're calling can't hear a thing :-)
The build quality is very good - I've dropped my unit so many times in the four months I've had it, and other than one small scratch on the screen from it getting dropped on a sharp metal spike at work, it looks almost new.
Battery life wise, when you first get it you'll find that it needs charging frequently, but after the first couple of weeks the batteries start to last longer. One warning though - when the battery is getting low you'll find that the phone does strange things, such as ring when there's no-one calling you, and come up with lots of 'Unspecified Error's and the occasional 'Unhandled Exception'
The CMD-J5, you see, is quite a nice phone software wise - it has WAP support, and basic support for normal HTML web pages. It uses Microsoft Mobile Explorer for this. The software, being Microsoft, is quite slow and clunky, but it's capable of quite a lot.
It also has support for POP3 email as well as webmail over WAP, and comes with a calculator, clock supporting world time, scheduler and a phone book complete with categories plus the ability to add notes to peoples names.
You can record your own ring tones, and assign different tones to different phone book categories. You only get a few seconds worth of record time per ring tone tough. Another nice feature is that you can send picture attachments to people with Sony phones. The picture choices are limited, but they do jazz up messages a bit.
The games choices aren't that great - unlike Nokia there?s no snake :-( you do get a 'safe cracking' style number game though, and something similar to Gorillas from the QBasic / DOS days. There 's a 'sand art' game too, but that seems pretty pointless.
After using a phone with a keyboard I thought that texting would be a nightmare. The pre-emptive spelling on this phone makes it a bit quicker, but I still find it annoying - it spells my name 'Lesley' as 'jerkez' (any idea what that means anyone') and calls my favourite online game, Avalon 'cuckoo'. It also changes ''puter' to 'studs', 'bus' to 'cup' and has managed to find a few strange perversions on other words that make innocent text messages sound like I want to perform perverse acts upon peoples donkeys!
This phone does have it's foibles - sometimes it does loose signal for no apparent reason, it takes a while to come on, because the software is so slow, and it can crash in strange ways, but it's so well built, good looking and feature packed that I will forgive it the occasional trouble.
It the perfect shape and size for my hand, I can scroll easily through menus with the scroll wheel, and type whole emails / text messages with lighting speed.
It looks stylish, is very light, and of such high build quality that I'm proud to own it.
It's an older phone now, but if you can find it on sale it's well worth getting - it was ahead of its time when it was released and it still holds its own feature wise and looks wise against most mid range phones on the market today.
Advantages Great fun, Looks great, Great quality
Disadvantages None
The Sony J5 was the second mobile phone I had, I was attracted to it by its 'gadgetness' the sounds you could create, the games you could play and the jog dial, all appealed to me.
As Sony put the features 'Among other technologies, the CMD-J5 is also offering WAP, Internet e-mail, scheduler, address book, hands free speaker, games, SMS with sound and pictures and harmony ringer tones. This Sony mobile phone is made for sharing as it comprises a high-quality conference microphone making sure that everyone is heard. The distinctly ergonomically designed CMD-J5 secures perfect fit for your hand. The Jog Dial guarantees for the one-hand simplicity Sony mobile phones are known for.'
The phones features are as follows;
grey scale high resolution graphic display
Alarm clock function
Built-in modem
Calculator with currency converter
Data Communication via RS232/USB cable
E-mail (POP3)
Games with sound
Graphic world time clock
Harmony ringer tones with polyphonic sounds
High quality speech codec EFR (+ FR/HR codec support)
Integrated hands-free speaker
Jog Dial
Li-Ion battery technology
Organiser
Phone book up to 500 entries
Recordable ringer tones
Screensize: 96 x 92 pixel
SMS with sounds and pictures
Standby time: 30-150 hrs (dependent on network and usage)
T9? Text Input (T9? Text Input is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications, Inc.)
Talk time: 2 hrs 15 min - 6 hrs (dependent on network and usage)
Vibration alarm
Volume: 81cc
WAP 1.1 browser
Ive had the phone for over a year now, there has been no problems. Its easy and fun to use, and even a year or so on from its release you still get your friends coming up to you, asking to play on your phone and still being amazed by the features.
One of my favourite features is the recordable ring t ones, I recorded the nightrider theme tune as my ringtone, it sounds just like the theme of the television, and gets plenty of attention when it goes off. Obviously its not too great if u want to keep a low profile.
The Games, The games are great fun, much different from the nokia style snake, the sony games are much more detailed, and come with background music, which to be honest is a little annoying after a while, but it is easily switched off.
The menu is easy to use, and looks very impressive, it has plenty of features to mess around with if you fancy sciving off work, or are in a boring lesson at school.
Overall I would rate this as an excellent phone, its especially good for those who like lots of features, yet on the other hand isnt difficult to use if you simply require a phone. |
| Common misspellings on this brand: sokny , Sony , son6 , swony , ony , sohny |
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