The Sony Ericsson T68m: retro phone fun
The Sony Ericsson T68m was the company’s first phone to feature a color screen. Welcome to 2001!
You know how you kind of get pissed off at trying to watch a movie on the screen of a first generation iPhone? It’s all tiny and cramped up; sometimes you have to bend it at an angle to catch the action.
Well, here’s some figures for you, the first generation iPhone had a screen resolution of about 320 pixels by 480 pixels and can display over 16 million colors. Now let’s jump back to 2001, the T68m was the first Ericsson phone to feature a full color screen. The phone had a display resolution of 101 pixels by 80 pixels and could display – wait for it – 256 DIFFERENT colors.
Sony went to great lengths to promote this miracle of modern technology and pioneered one of the first steath marketing campaigns when they hired actors to go around New York City pretending to be tourists and taking pictures with the phones. Eventually a hue and cry was raised, and even 60 Minutes went after Sony.
So the next time you’re trying to watch that bootlegged copy of Thor on your iPhone screen–and want to complain, just be glad you’ve got more than 256 colors to work with.
Do you have any Sony Ericsson T68i stories? KYC would love to hear your comments below!
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on November 23, 2012 at 9:44 am
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The T68m was not from the Sony Ericsson brand the T68M is from Ericsson the T68i was Sony Ericsson the follow up to the T68m a few months later. The T68m was first marketed in december 2001 the last stand alone Ericsson manufactured its a classics first mass prodused editions of the internet colour dispay phone with bluetooth and nearly total world band compatability as it could be used in any country its a classic phone and is of a diffrent desighn to the phone you have pictured obove nokia follow ericsson later on in 2002 with mass prodused colour dispay internet mobile phones the famous 3510i nokia who them selves marketed the first SD card phone in late 2000 the Nokia 9210 comunicator with a built in keyboard for typeing and a large colour lcd screen i think this was the first ever SD card marketed TO STORE MEMORY ONTO LIKE A HARD DRIVE THE 9210 IS A LARGER TYPE PHONE USED FOR PROFESSIONAL APLICATION WITH INTERNET ACCSES AND INFERED DATER TRANSFER THROUGH WIRELESS CLASSIC FIRST EDITION IT WAS MARKETED FOR A FEW YEARS LATER BECOMEING KNOWN AS THE 9210i the smaller type less exspensive colour displays was marketed later in 2001 with the mitsubishi phone moments before Ericson launched there t68m but mitsubishi brought exclusive only to be the first conventional style mobile on the market to have colour display the mitsubishi t450did not go into mass production like the ericsson model t68m and its not as small.