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Ericsson T28
 

 

ERICSSON T28

Ultralight, ultraslim

It was available in the market in 1999, it was one of the more thin, light and small cellular phone. It was the phone of the moment! The weight is only 81g and it's 15mm thin. The main design characteristic  is the active flip that will open automatically when you push a little button on the right side of the phone. If you do it when the phone ring, it will answer at the call and conclude when you close the flip. It was the first cellular phone with a li-po battery.

Despite the dimension, the battery life is very good: 270 minute of conversation and 200 hours of standby (over 8 days!)

The software present an evolution respect at previous ericsson: as usual fo ericsson, to move in to the menu you use the right/left arrow and to access at menu you press the central button, but everything is full of insight thanks to the icons. In T28 are present 2 games: solitary and tetris. To play trtris you need to rotate the phone..!

It has the GPRS connectivity, but it's not possible to surf internet fron the phone because it hasn't a wap browser. it's possible to buy an optional infrared modem, so it's possible to surf internet connecting the phone with a portable computer with GPRS speed

If the radio signal is too low, Ericsson sell the "Ericsson high performance", an aerial that you can replace to the original, the shape is the same but the user can extract it and so to have more signal.

T28 was made in 4 version:

-T28s: GSM 900/1800mhz
-T28z: GSM 1900mhz for north america
-T28 world: GSM 900/1900  to be used in all the world (it lose the 1800mhz frequency)
-T28sc: destinated to china maket, with china alphabet support.

There are 2 available kind of battery: the slim and the high capacity, both with li-po technology.

Ecco la prova del sito telefonino.net

 

The famous spot with the extra-terrestrial:

And the spot for china market:


The T28 glory had short life... in one hand T28 was a fame for design, on the other hand, stain ericsson brand for dependability problem of the phone. The most important problem is for the rapid usury of the button which governate the flip, the improvvise dead of the phone (final transmission component broke. The only solution is to change the chip), problem with the signal (one cool broke.. also here the only problem is to change it). T28 was replaced by T29, which solve a lot of t28 problem but lost the charm....

The story of the first phone call. It was 1973...

...but already in 1910 Lars Ericsson phone in his car...!

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