Sony
CMD J70e

The Sony CMD J70e was released in 2001 as an upgrade to the earlier Sony J5e and although it carried the Sony name, the manual carried the new Sony Ericsson branding following the merger between Ericsson and Sony's mobile phone businesses to create the 'Sony Ericsson' joint venture on 1st October 2001. The most noticeable feature of the J70e that differentiated it from the earlier J5e was its transition to an internal antenna. Battery life was extended but it continued to feature the Jog Dial, a thumbwheel on the left-hand side of the phone, that could be rotated or depressed to access the menus and key phone functions including the phonebook, text message editor, call lists and more. It had a six-line, four-greyscale 96 x 92 pixels resolution graphic display that was able to support optional wallpaper graphics. As with the J5e, the phone book could store up to 500 telephone numbers and associated names within the phone's memory with further storage available in the SIM card. Specific ring tones could be assigned to groups of numbers within the phone book, there was a vibrate option and a recorder application allowed you to record your own ring tone using the phone's microphone. Support for SMS text messaging included T9 predictive text and preloaded templates to ease the creation of commonly used messages. Call registers recorded the last 10 dialled, received and missed calls and call timers measured the duration of the most recent call and a cumulative total. The J70e also included a clock with an alarm, a calendar with a to-do list capability, a timer and a calculator. Four games were included on the J70e: Bananas, Sand Art, Mind Blaster and PicPuz. Internet access was provided via a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser which operated over either a GSM circuit switched data (CSD) connection or the SMS bearer service and allowed WAP-compatible websites to be viewed. The Sony J70e in the Mobile Phone Museum collection was specifically produced for use on the Orange network in the UK. Some information courtesy of Nigel Linge & Andy Sutton, the authors of 30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK (Paid Link)