Mitsubishi Trium Release New GPRS Wireless Phone

Express yourself in words and pictures with the M320, a great-looking phone with a must-have big colour screen. Download your top tunes as ringtones and show off your snaps on its vibrant colour display.
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Key Features

Vibrant colour screen: The M320 has a large 128 x 141 pixel colour screen that displays everything in a stunning 4,096 colours!

Personalised wallpaper: Download your favourite snaps (by WAP/SMS/infrared) into an embedded photo album and display them on your mobile in glorious colour. There are endless possibilities for making the phone your own.

Sound different: Download your favorite tunes (by WAP/SMS/infrared) and choose from up to 60 unmistakable polyphonic ringtones, or compose your own harmonies. You can easily switch to vibrate mode for a softer alert when discretion is required.

Concentrated SMS: The M320 lets you write longer text messages than on the average phone and you can store up to 150 messages in its memory. For faster texting, use T9 predictive text input, or the customisable SMS templates, to save time.

Everyday tools: With a built-in fax/modem, alarm clock, calculator, and one-touch business card exchange (v cards), the M320 offers powerful functionality that makes everyday tasks so much simpler.

Games: A choice of full-screen colour games plus optional Exen v2 downloadable games* provide extra fun and entertainment - wherever you are!

The M320 at first glance

- Dual band EGSM 900 / 1800
- 4096-colour display
- Integrated antenna
- GPRS enabled
- Downloadable colour wallpaper
- Downloadable polyphonic ring tones
- Picture Album
- WAP 1.2.1
- Infrared link
- Data / fax inside
- Weight 95 g
- Size 115.5x47x19.9 mm
- Volume 85 cc

Physical Specifications

- Display : 4096-colour screen (128 x 141 pixels)
- Integrated antenna
- Customisable front panel
- Available colours : Quartz gold ; Frozen silver ;Marine blue

Radio Specifications

- Dual-Band EGSM 900 / 1800
- GPRS Class 8 (4RX + 1TX)
- Tri-codec voice encoding (FR+EFR+HR)

Energy Consumption

- Talk Time (average) 4 h
- Standby Time(average) 350 h
- Battery type : Li-Ion
- Battery capacity : 900 mA/h

Phone Book and Call Management

- Up to 255 cards stored in the phonebook with :
- 4 telephone numbers (office, home, mobile and fax)
- E-mail
- Address
- Associated icon
- Up to 255 numbers stored in the SIM card (SIM dependent).
- Voice dialling function (up to 20 records)
- Direct access to voice mail
- Integrated hands-free
- Caller identification; Call waiting, call holding
- Call conference (5 maximum)
- Automatic redial
- List of the last dialled numbers
- Call logs (unanswered calls, received calls, timers, costs)

WAP Services

- WAP 1.2.1 and WAP profile OTA Provisioning
- WAP colour image viewer for GIF, PNG, JPG picture formats
- M-services compliant for file download (SAR and Download Fun)
- Picture and ring tone download over WAP
- SWIM security supported

Ringing Tones and Call Alerts

- Up to 60 polyphonic ringing tones
- Downloadable polyphonic ringing tones over WAP or SMS
- Integrated vibrator
- Quick access to call alert type selection : ring, silent, vibrate, vibrate & ring, vibrate then ring
- Melody composer

Download and Personalisation Features

- WAP, SMS or infrared download of colour pictures and polyphonic melodies
- Set pictures as wallpaper or as colour icon feature
- Set polyphonic melodies as ring tones feature
- Embedded Picture Album
- Supported picture format : GIF, PNG, JPG
- 5 different menu themes for the choice of the idle screen
- Two user-customisable soft keys

Messaging Services

- Concatenated SMS handling
- High SMS storage capacity : up to 150 SMS
- Predictive Text Input (T9)
- Customisable SMS templates

Games

- Full screen colour games
- Optional : downloadable colour Games (Exen v2)

Advanced Services and Everyday Aids

- Sleeping mode (clock)
- One-touch business card exchange via infrared or SMS (Vcard format)
- Infrared link
- Data / fax modem inside
- Voice Memo (2 min)
- Organiser (Vcalendar format).
- Clock and Date
- Alarm with customisable ring tone
- Calculator
- Currency converter

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