The proprietary memory card, non-standard headphone connector and the custom file formats frustrated as much as they delighted. Of course, it was a Sony phone, so every component was an attempt to railroad you into its ecosystem. It even shipped with a 64MB Memory Stick Duo, enabling you to store plenty of photos on it before you had to transfer them to your computer. But here was Sony (Ericsson, admittedly) effectively giving me a digital camera for free.įor its size, and its age, the K750i was remarkably powerful, since it could play audio files, videos and send data via its infrared port.
This was just about affordable for me, and would be my first real chance to own a digital point-and-shoot, since I could have never justified owning one otherwise.
In 2005, when it launched, carriers ate the cost of the phones to keep you tied to their plans, and we bought 50 minutes of calls and 100 text messages for £7 ($13) a month. The woman who’d go on to become my wife and I both bagged a K750i in some sort of deal for probably £20 (about $36 back then) upfront. Sony knew that phones would wind up eating cameras, but couldn’t make good on its foresight in the smartphone age. It was designed to behave like a camera, with a slide-open shutter cover (and I love a slider) which launched the imaging mode - it even had a dedicated shutter button. Sony, who was (and still is) master of the point-and-shoot, had managed to cram a modest point-and-shoot into a handset only slightly bigger than its predecessor, the T610. The candybar phone was one of the first to come with a proper camera, packing two whole megapixels of power inside its body. The Sony Ericsson K750i was a marvel in its day and, even now, sixteen years later, stands as a key step on the path to the era of smartphone photography.
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On the company’s 75th anniversary, we’ve put together a series of articles about our experiences with some of its more interesting and unusual products. From its ‘My First Sony’ range to early cameraphones, virtual reality headsets to Digital Audio Tapes, Sony has always tried new things, with varying degrees of success. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly expanded into myriad industries.
On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony.
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