Sony today introduced a new slider phone called the T715. It has excellent planning and organizing features.

On the outside the phone has a premium brushed aluminum cover and glossy front. Its dimensions are 91.5 x 48 x 14.9 mm and weighs 96.5 grams.

It has a compact and elegant form along with a large keypad, a 2.2inch screen (with a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for 262,144 colors). The display can easily be viewed even in direct sunlight. It comes with 3G connectivity. The phone makes use of the Access NetFront web browser for quick and easy access to the web and applications such as Google Maps and AccuWeather.com, which will provide local search and directions and three day weather forecasts, respectively.

In addition to the above features, the phone also has a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, Mediaplayer, support for Bluetooth with A2DP, PlayNow, TrackID, support for Microsoft Exchange Active Sync, MMS, IM, FM radio with RDS, video streaming, geo-tagging of photos, USB support, 90MB of internal memory, microSD memory card slot, and support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and UMTS HSPA 2100MHz connectivity.

The phone will be available in colors Galaxy Silver (piano finish) and Rogue Pink (mirror finish) and will be on sale in the third quarter of this year. A T715a version with support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1900MHz) and UMTS HSPA (850/1900/2100) will also be available shortly after the launch of the T715.

With the T715, Sony Ericsson plans to introduce 3G connectivity to the large markets of impecunious buyers.