Sony Ericsson T290i manual

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White Paper T290i/T290c 2 Octobe r 2004 This document is publ ished by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, without any warranty*. Impr ovements an d changes to this text necessitated by typogra phical errors, inaccuraci es of current information or impr ovements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 3 Octobe r 2004 Online Developer Resour ces On www .SonyEricsson.com/de veloper , developers will find all do cumentation and tool s such as phone White Papers, Dev elopers Guidelines, SDK's and API 's etc. The developer web site also contains discus - sion forums mon itored by our Sony Ericsson Developer Support t[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 4 Octobe r 2004 Document history Change h istory 2004-10-22 Ve r s i o n R 1 A 1 First editio n[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 5 Octobe r 2004 Contents Product overview ............. ............. ................. ............ ................. ............. ................ ... 6 Key function s and feature s ............. ................ ............. ................ ............. ................ 7 More in-phone functions ................. ....[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 6 Octobe r 2004 Pr oduct overview The T290i/T2 90c mobile phone ar e designed to include an impr essive set of featur es for a very r easonable price. The focus is on mes saging, music, gamin g, imaging, and connect ivity . EMS picture messaging (tex t messaging with pictures and sounds), email, MMS (Multime dia messaging), [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 7 Octobe r 2004 Key functions and featur es Multimedia Messaging - Digital gr eetings Reacting to t he enormous p opularity of mobile phone messagin g, Sony Ericsson has incorpora ted the latest messa ging standards into th e T290i/ T290c phon e, along with a colour display for an enhanced imagin g experience. Say it in word[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 8 Octobe r 2004 sible via the W AP br owser . The openness of the downloadable games soluti on is dedicated to pro - vide an enhanc ed gaming expe rience. The downloadable ga mes can fully take adva ntage of the phone’ s interfaces, such as TCP/IP , SMS, vibrator and backligh ts. The virtual machine e xe - cutes the downlo[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 9 Octobe r 2004 Localization/Customization Differ ent markets will be served with appropriate pre-stored content. In addition, individual oper ators can be provided with uniq uely cust omized phones. A complete list of cu stom ization options is availa - ble in the customization specification. Mor e in-phone functions Email [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 10 Octobe r 2004 Picture phonebook The phonebook lets the use r assign a picture and/ or a person al ring sign al to a cer tain phone nu mber . When the user gets a call fr om this person, the pic - ture (instead of the number) is shown in the display . Events The Events fe ature kee ps track of important meet - ings that y [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 11 Octobe r 2004 T echnologies in detail[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 12 Octobe r 2004 Multimedia in the T290i/T290c The T290i/T290c is a multim edia phone. The colour display together with th e audio functionality gives the user several multimed ia possibilities. For exam - ple, sounds can be recor ded and st ored. By using themes, it is easy to change th e appearance of t he display . Pictur[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 13 Octobe r 2004 particular , MMS is proj ected to fuel the gr owth of related market segments by as much as for ty per - cent. Using the Wireless Applicat ion Pr otocol (WAP) as bear er technology and po wered by the high-speed transmission technolo gies such as GPRS, Multime - dia Messaging allows use rs to send and receiv[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 14 Octobe r 2004 Mobile picture transmission also o ffers inestimable utility in business applications, from sending on- site pictur es of a con struction pr oject to capturing and storing an inter esting design concep t for later review . Editing a picture by adding text a llows users to create the ir own elec tronic postca[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 15 Octobe r 2004 MMS technical featur es The MMS standard, just like SMS, offers store-and- forward transmission (instant delivery) of mes - sages, rather than a mailb ox-type model. MMS is a person-to-person communications solution, mea n - ing that t he user g ets the m essage directly into the mobile. Unlike SMS, the MMS [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 16 Octobe r 2004 OT A configuration Users can easily get MMS into t heir phone. MMS supports OT A, meaning that t he user does not ha ve to configure the settings manually . The configura tion is done by the operat or . EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) Enhanced Messagin g Service (EMS) adds new powerful functiona lity to the[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 17 Octobe r 2004 New possibilities with messaging The EMS standar d is now a part of the SMS stand - ard a nd supported by th e major network op erators and mobile phone manufac t urers. This universal appro ach enables a fast pene tration and develop - ment of new services an d applications w ithin mes - saging. Cr eativity[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 18 Octobe r 2004 Notification The user typically receives a sh ort message notify - ing them that they have a new message in their messaging box, with ic ons or formatted text fu rther enhancing th e message. Internet email alerts An Inter net email aler t is provided in the form of a short message that typically details the[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 19 Octobe r 2004 The diagram shows the possibilities for using Enhanced Messagin g Service: • When the Operat or/Service provider enables EMS in the network, user s will enjoy adding life to messages with sounds, melo dies, pictures and forma tted text. • New ranges of Content/Applic ation aggr egators on the operat or n[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 20 Octobe r 2004 Support for cookies This version of W AP has su pport for cookies (client based), an application used by W eb sites to store site-specific information in the browser bet ween visits to th e site. Coo kies give th e site own er a pos - sibility to see when a pers on has visited their site. They also sa ve the[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 21 Octobe r 2004 Bear er type characteristics The T290i/T290c accesses W AP services over IP . IP can be provided either over GSM Data or GPR S, depending on network services. T ypical differences which distinguish the bear er types are listed below . GPRS access • The conne ction is m aintained “con stantly”, with dat[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 22 Octobe r 2004 A Wireless Identity Module (WIM) can contain both trusted and client cer tificates, private keys and algorithms n eeded for WT LS handshaking , encryp - tion/decry ption and signature genera tion. The W IM module can be place d on a SIM card which is then referred to as a SWIM card. Certificates T o use secu[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 23 Octobe r 2004 Push services Examples of W AP services that can be pushed include: • Notification of new email, voice mail, etc. • News, sports results, weather for ecasts, finan - cial inform ation (stock quotes etc.). • Personal Information Manager (PIM) - de livery of contac ts, meeting requests etc . • Smart ca[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 24 Octobe r 2004 General Packet Radio Services The introduction of GPRS (G eneral Packet Radio Services) is one of the ke y steps in the evolution of today’ s GSM networks for enha ncing the capabili - ties of data c ommunicatio n. Data traffic is increas - ing enormously (over both wired and wireless networks), with the g[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 25 Octobe r 2004 Using GPRS in the T290i/T290c Instead of occupying an entire voice channel f or the duration of a data session, the T290i/T290c sends/receives data in small packets, as needed, much like IP on the Inter net. Because of this, the T290i/T290c mainta ins a constant online connec - tion. Its data transmissi on a[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 26 Octobe r 2004 Information abo ut the identity of the phon e and the character istics of the connect ion are desc ribed in the PDP (Packet Data Protocol) cont ext. This inf or - mation is stored both in t he phone and in the mobile network, so that each phon e is identified and “visible” to the system. Using GPRS with [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 27 Octobe r 2004 Call hold* Ye s Call list (last dialled, answered and missed calls) Y es, 30 entrie s Call screening* Ye s Call time/call co st (a.k.a Adv ice of Charge, Information/Char ging)* Ye s Call timer (T otal) is non-r esettable for warranty pr ogram Ye s Call transfer* Ye s Calling card service No Calling Line Ide[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 28 Octobe r 2004 Email addr ess storage Ye s Email client Y es, supporting IMAP4, POP3, SMTP . EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service)* Y es, with 30 pr e-defined pictures, 1 5 pre- defined animat ions and 4 melodies. EONS Ye s EOTD Y es, is support ed but may not be ena - bled Events Ye s Extern al antenna conn ector No F File sys[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 29 Octobe r 2004 Mobile chat Ye s Modem No N Nokia Gr oup Graphics Y es, receiving Nokia Operat or Logos Y es, receiving Nokia Picture Messaging Y es, sendi ng/re ceiving Nokia Ring T ones Y es, receiving O Option key Y es, gives the most common options for the function cu rrently in use. The option key also provides a help [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 30 Octobe r 2004 Profiles No R Re-dialling, automatic Ye s Ring signals T otal storage c apacity Limited by the memory Number of pre-existing r ing signals V aries according to operat or Possibility to download Y es, storage capacity only lim ited by the memory Possibility to compose Y es, storage capacity only lim ited by t[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 31 Octobe r 2004 Network-dependent featur es SMS and EMS messaging The T290i/T 290c is ca pable of sending and receiv - ing SMS and EMS message s, and linked mes - sages. • With the Short Messaging Se rvice, a user can send text messages cont aining up to 160 char - acters to and fr om GSM mobile stations • With the link[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 32 Octobe r 2004 Fixed dialling and Restricted calls For a company or an organization, it can be useful to restrict phone calls. Fixe d dialling allows the user to preset a number of digits, for example area codes. This restricts the user to ma king calls only to numbers which use th e preset digits as leading digits. Fixed [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 33 Octobe r 2004 SIM application toolkit The SIM Applicatio n T oolkit (SIM A T) is a smart card-centric method of deploying programs t hat apply only to GSM and to SMS and USSD trans - ports. Programs must be distributed on smart card s. WAP is an In ter net-centric method of deploying programs tha t is independent of netwo[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 34 Octobe r 2004 GET INKEY General: The GET_INKE Y requir es that the user press Y es to confirm his/her choice Ye s bit 1: 0 = digits (0-9, *, # and +) on ly 1 = alphabet set Ye s Ye s bit 2: 0 = SMS default alphabet 1 = UCS2 alphabet Ye s Ye s bit 3: 0 = character sets defined by bit 1 and bit 2 ar e enabled 1 = character [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 35 Octobe r 2004 '04' - Language settin g Ye s '05' - Timing setting Ye s REFRESH General: The reset option requests th e user to wait while the phone r estarts Ye s '00' =SIM Initializatio n and Full File Change Notification Ye s '01' = File Chan ge Notification Ye s '02' = [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 36 Octobe r 2004 User interaction with SIM A T DISPLA Y TEXT T ext of up to 240 charac ters (80 UCS coded) is supported. ‘Key’ responses • ‘Long NO’ – Proactive session terminated by user . • ‘NO’ – Backw ard move in proactive session. Any other key clears display if the command is performed successfully [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 37 Octobe r 2004 ‘Key’ responses‘ • ‘C’ clears current characte r/characte rs. • ‘Long NO’ ter minates the pr oactive session. • ‘NO’ – Backw ard move in proactive session. • ‘YES’ – Command performed successfully . REFRESH When a refresh command is execute d by the phone, it displays the me[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 38 Octobe r 2004 Associated with a STK card, allowing EMV bank card pay - ments If separate card, no Certified by the "GIE Carte Bancaire" If separate card, no WIM support If separate card, no Ability to use a WIM applica - tion embedded on a SIM/ USIM card Ye s WIM application embedded on a SIM/USIM ca rd the defa[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 39 Octobe r 2004 Facts and figur es[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 40 Octobe r 2004 T erminology and abbr eviations 3GPP 3rd Generation Partne rship Project. AMR Adaptive Multi Rate. For speech sounds a nd speech co ding. API Application Pr ogramming Inter face. ASP Active Server Pa ge. Server te chnology tha t gener - ates web pages dynamically . Bearer The method fo r accessing W AP from [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 41 Octobe r 2004 EMS Enhanced Messagin g Service. Allows the user to add simple pixel pictures and animations, s ounds and melodies to a tex t message. The EMS 3GPP standard also includes text formatting . EOTD Enhanced Obser ved Time Difference. Positioning solution currently used to satisfy FCC E9 11 man - date. ETSI Europ[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 42 Octobe r 2004 Micro br owser Accesses and displays Inter net content in a mobile phone, using s mall file sizes and the bandwidt h of the wire less-handheld network. MMI Man-Machine Inte rface. MS Mobile Station. MT Mobile T ermination. OT A Over -the Air Configuration. T o provide settings for the phone by wa y of sendin[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 43 Octobe r 2004 WAE Wireless Application Environment. WAP Wireless Applicati on Protoco l. Handheld devices, low bandwidth, binary cod ed, a deck/car d meta - phor to specif y a service. A card is typically a unit of interact ion with th e user , that is , either presenta - tion of informat ion or request fo r information f[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 44 Octobe r 2004 Related information Documents • The T290i/T290c User’ s guide • W AP June 2000 (WAP 2. 0) Specification Links • http://www .SonyEricsson. com/ • http://www .Ericsson.com/mobilityworld • http://www .imc.org/ • http://www .3gpp.or g/ • http://www .openmobilealliance.or g/ • http://www .etsi.f[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 45 Octobe r 2004 General technical data Exterior description Product name T290i/T 290c System T290i/T 290c : dual band GSM 900/1 800 GSM 900 (3GPP TS 51.010-1) GSM 180 0 (3GPP TS 51.010-1) Speech coding AMR, HR, FR, EFR supported where available, for high s peech quality SIM card Small plug-in card, 3V or 5V type Ty p e n u [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 46 Octobe r 2004 Ambient temperatur es Supported Man-Machine Interface (MMI) languages Languages for GSM 900/18 00 markets Curr ent consumption, talk and standby times Embedded games Operating Ma x: +55 ° C, Min -10 ° C Storage Max: + 70 ° C, Min -40 ° C Char ging Max: +3 5 ° C, Min 0 ° C V alue in GSM 1800 V a lue in [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 47 Octobe r 2004 Downloadable games Speech coding Featur e Support in the T290i/T290c Send/receive via TCP/IP link Ye s Send/receive via SMS Ye s Vibrator on/off Ye s Backlight on/off Ye s Full colour support Ye s Certification control of games Ye s T rue sandbox technology Ye s T rue file s upport Ye s Sprite detection coll[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 48 Octobe r 2004 Cell br oadcast service Short Messaging Service 5.90 kbps 4.75 kbps 5.15 kbps 4.75 kbps Featur e Support in the T290i/T290c User notifica tion of the reception of a CB message Message displayed on screen Handling of rece ption of several unr ead mes - sages The last message ov erwrites the previous one Suppo[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 49 Octobe r 2004 copy , cut and paste words No teaching of predictive words that are not in the predictive dictionary Ye s Possibilities when cr eating a message: save a sent message in a “se nt items” folder Ye s insert a line in the message Ye s assign a validit y period to the message Ye s use predefined messages Ye s[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 50 Octobe r 2004 Enhanced Messaging Service via phone call (set up a call to the number contained in the me ssage body) Ye s via WAP call (go to the W AP address contained in the me ssage body) Ye s via USSD session No Possibility to offer the user the ability of send - ing an SMS to a list of recipients Y es, using Phon ebo[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 51 Octobe r 2004 Multimedia Messaging Service I-melody Y es, version 1.2. Melodies It is possible to... • edit and cr eate melod ies by using the phone key - pad. • send and receive melodies via EMS. • download melodies an d commercial tunes from W eb/W AP portals. • create melodies on W eb/WA P portal s. WBMP Ye s P[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 52 Octobe r 2004 Possibility for all the parametres fr om the parametres set to be OT A provisione d at the same time •M M S / C S D : Y e s • MMS/GPRS: Y es Possibility for only on e parametre fr om the parametres set to be O T A provisioned •M M S / C S D : N o • MMS/GPRS: No OT A provisioning solution OT A specifi[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 53 Octobe r 2004 Performance and technical characteristics Multimedia codecs/f ormats supported for image Baseline JPG, GIF 89a MMS User Agent provides: • text formatting facilities (only textsize) • colour ed text/backgr ound (Viewe r/player supports coloured text and background. Not editable in composer ) • predictiv[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 54 Octobe r 2004 W AP br owser technical data Frequency stability +/- 0.1ppm +/- 0.1ppm V oltage operation (nominal) 3.6 V olts 3. 6 V olts T r ansmitter RF powe r output 33 dBm Class 4 (2W pe ak) 30 dBm Class 1 (1W peak ) T r ansmitter Outpu t impedance 50 Ω 50 Ω T ransmitter Spurious emission < -36 dBm up to 1 GHz &[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 55 Octobe r 2004 W AP operator technical data PPP Authentication P AP , CHAP supported Reload page Ye s Ta b l e s Ye s User Agent Profiles Y es, list of client characterist ics - e.g. display size WAP WAP 1.2.1 sta ck and brow ser , WAP 2.0 br owser WAP b rowser W AP 1.2.1 and WAP 2.0 WAP p rofiles Dynamic - up to 5 W AP pr[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 56 Octobe r 2004 OT A W AP/CSD, WAP/GPRS configuration possible Simultaneous OT A W AP/CSD, WAP/GPRS configuration possible Single OT A WAP/CSD, W AP/GPRS is not possible Bookmarks Not empty by default URL format Underlined Security mechan ism OT A provisioning (if empty) Operator ve rification thr ough a code, included in t[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 57 Octobe r 2004 Content types Service Indication (SI) Ye s Service Loading ( SL) Ye s Cache Oper ation (CO) co ntent type Ye s Session Initiation Application (SIA) Ye s Man Machine Interface SI/content retrieval postponing Ye s SI menu structure accessability WAP services, Push inbox SL re ception warning Th e user can make[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 58 Octobe r 2004 Other WT A/WT AI No DOWNLOAD WAP solutions SAR/WSP/HTTP GET so lution to download conte nt over WAP Ye s Download Fun from Openwave No Other down load conte nt over WAP Y es. Content limited to 3kB is downloaded without using SAR Featur es Download application/product memory check Ye s Downloaded object solu[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 59 Octobe r 2004 GPRS technical data Predictive writing for W AP sessions? Ye s “http://” strin g displayed automatically w hen enterin g URLs Not displayed but the "http://" is added automatically t o the URL. Elements Number of display lines fo r a W AP connection 4 to 7 plus Title, depe nding on t he selecte[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 60 Octobe r 2004 Support of acce ss in 2 phases Ye s Support of PRACH on 11 bits Ye s Support of GPRS r e- selection C31/C32 Ye s Support of stat ic and dynamic addr essing Ye s Support of power co ntrol Uplink and Downlink Uplink = yes, Downlink is a network featur e Support of cipher ing algorithms GEA1 Support of comp res[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 61 Octobe r 2004 Email client technical data USSD technical data Image format technical data Featur e Support in the T290i/T290c e mail client Attachment Y es (outgo ing, images only) Bearer type GPRS (IP) Ye s Bearer type GSM Data (IP) Y es, HSCSD, ISDN and analo gue Character set s US ASCII (All variants) ISO8859-1 WIN12 5[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 62 Octobe r 2004 Images – downloading to phone M-commer ce 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 Featur e File type Max. size PC Applications WAP MMS EMS icons WBMP WxH<=1024 pixels Ye s Ye s Ye s MMS GIF , WBMP , JPG Limited by the[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 63 Octobe r 2004 Associated with a STK card, allowing ISO B0' ba nk card payments If separate card, no Associated with a STK card, allowing EMV bank card payments If separate card, no Certified by the "GIE Carte Bancaire" If sepa rate card, no WIM support If separate ca rd, no Ability to use a WIM application [...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 64 Octobe r 2004 Index Numerics 3GPP 17 A Abbreviations 40 Acknowledgem ent 44 Ambient temperatur es 46 AMR 32 Architecture 1 5 MMS Center 15 Audio 13 C Cell broadcast service 48 Chinese phonebook sorting 7 Compatibility 17 Compatible with old phones 17 Current consumption, talk an d standby times 46 D Documents 44 Downloada[...]

White Paper T290i/T290c 65 Octobe r 2004 SIM card type 45 SMIL presentations 14 SMS access char acteristics 21 SMS request 18 SMS standard 17 Software 44 Speakerphone 7 Speech coding 47 Supported MMI languag es 46 T Technical specifications 44 Terminology and abbr eviations 39 Text 13 Themes 1 0 Trademarks an d acknowledgements 44 U User-to-user 17[...]