Sony Ericsson
T68i

The T68i built on the success of the Ericsson T68m (which was widely referred to as the T68). The T68i was the first Sony Ericsson-branded mobile phone following the announcement of the Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications joint venture in October 2001. The T68i had an updated blue and white/silver design and a software upgrade, although the Tetris game included on the original Ericsson T68 was no longer available. It was also available as a grey/silver variant. Examples of both colourways are included in the Mobile Phone Museum collection. The T68i was notable for its clip-on camera, the MCA-20 CommuniCam. This was initially offered as an additional accessory costing £99 / US$145 but was included as a free bundle as the T68i neared the end of its production run. The MCA-20 CommuniCam featured a 24-bit colour VGA sensor (640 x 480 pixels) and could store 14 images at full resolution and just over 200 smaller (80 x 60 pixel) images. It took approximately 10 seconds to store a picture on the camera and about 30 seconds to transfer it to the phone’s memory. Example pictures from the CommuniCam taken in 2004 can be seen below. These were taken by Torbjörn Wigren who was working as a Systems Engineer at Ericsson at the time. He was competing in a long-distance speed skating race in Sweden called "Vikingarannet" which covered 80 km between Uppsala and Stockholm across the ice of Lake Malaren.  Additional pictures taken by Torbjörn in Uppsala, Sweden can be found below: A further claim to fame for the Sony Ericsson T68i is that it was the first commercially available mobile phone to feature in the James Bond movies, appearing in Die Another Day (2002) and used as a disguised bomb by Jinx, played by Halle Berry.  The Sony Ericsson P800 also appeared in this movie.