Sony Ericsson T68i

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Launched in time for the 2001 Christmas season, the candy bar-style Ericsson T68 was the first mobile phone made by Ericsson to have a colour screen, a passive LCD-STN with a resolution of 101x80 and 256 colours. Despite its diminute size (3.94x1.89x0.79 in or 100x48x20 mm, 2.96 oz or 84 g), it was one of the most feature-rich mobile phones at the time, with Bluetooth, IrDA port, GPRS 3+1, tri-band compatibility (900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz), WAP, SMS with T9 (predictive text), EMS, WAP, and customizable monophonic ring tones. At its release, the phone cost around € 500, in either two-tone grey or all-gold.

In 2002, after a slight cosmetic redesign and a software upgrade, the T68 was re-released as the Sony Ericsson T68i, as by then Ericsson had joined forces with Sony to produce mobile phones as Sony Ericsson. The upgrade, also available to owners of the T68, provided a built-in e-mail client, SyncML support, and, for the first time ever, two-way MMS with full SMIL implementation.

Still, a camera was not present, which was sold as an add-on and, at the end of the model life cycle, was offered with the phone.