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Sony Ericsson C905a looks more like a camera which has a phone as a feature. If you want a cool camera with you all the time, and you don't want to worry about having a real phone, C905a is perfect for you. If other features, except camera are very important for you, you may want to know what performances do the other features offer, and then make a decision. This phone is chunky, blocky, and weighs quite much for a phone. This is because of the camera module, and it might take more space in your pocket than most of the phones. The general impression you get when you see this phone is that the camera is on the first place, and the phone on the second.
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The exterior design is from plastic, and most of the back is made of this material, except where the camera cover is. The slide which protects the camera and the frame are made of metal, and the hatch which locks the camera must be open in order to use the camera.

On the front side, it has a large display and the d-pad is actually a square with a high rim on the edges. This works great in all directions, just like the central button does. On the left part of the d-pad there are the soft key, call key and application switcher key. On the right you can see the soft and the end keys and the clear/back one. They work ok, but it is kinda hard to make difference between them when you move the thumb up or down.

This phone is a slider, and the mechanism is quite strong. A smart snap locks firmly the phone, both in the closed and open positions, and when it is open, you can access the 12-key numeric pad. This is set about 2 mm below a ridge, but they don't actually offer the best travel and feedback. There are lines between each row of keys, and they are good because they let you know when you passed from one row to another.

On the left side, there is the hatch which covers the memory card slot, and the Sony Ericsson specific port, and also the data transfer port. On the right you can find the volume button and below there is a photo gallery button, the camera key and the camera shutter button. The volume toggle works pretty hard, but the other two buttons on the right side feel ok.


The display is great, it brings bright and colorful images in front of your eyes, and the images, icons and all the other elements displayed look crisp and sharp, and they are easy to read. This phone can be connected to AT&T's 3G HSDPA network. It works pretty good, and the signal is lost in areas where legitimately should have no signal, like subway. Signal performance is good for this phone. The big problems are with the sound, because it seems to be distorted and garbled when the volume is at maximum. The sound is great when the volume is set up at 80% and even at 40% it is loud enough. The speakerphone is ok too, but maybe the ringtones could have been a little bit louder.Battery performance is good, and it usually lasts for 2.5 days. The element which seems to drain out battery is the flash.

Phone's menu is a 12 icons grid, and some icons open folders, and others open applications. There are two main sections which we are interested in, and these are Entertainment and Settings, and here you can find a lot of interesting games and applications. You can listen to music, upload applications and transfer files. The green send key, pressed when on the home screen,will bring up the list with your recent calls. In the first tab there are all the calls, but next tabs sort them, and you can see separately the answered, the dialed and the missed calls.


I think that this device is first a camera, and then a phone. The camera is very powerful and the software tools are the same. They show much more attention to detail than the rest of the phone, which has typical SE features. Phone call quality and signal are excellent, but the music/media player is quite old, and it might need some improvements. The hardware can easily be categorized as cheap, though the performances are ok. If the camera is the most important for you, than this should be your purchasing decision. If you have other priorities, than you should take a look at other handsets.

This phone from Sony Ericsson wants to bring back in trends the flip phone. This is an entry-level product, targeted at the youth market, which wants to bring a retro style for the budget conscious Sony Ericsson fans. This music handset is certainly unique, and it is fashioned as a small portable music player which has in the same time a lot of space on the inside. It can store up to 470 songs on the memory card included in the purchasing kit. It also has the TrackID feature, which helps you find more information about the songs you listen, and you want to know more about.
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Sony Ericsson W350 is an old-style flip phone, which has a plastic cover on the keypad; this plastic cover opens towards the bottom of the phone, and SE used this design to allow easy access to the music control keys, which are on the outside of the flip. A small key lock switch is on the top of the device, but it applies only to the external keys, and when the flip is open, the keypad is enabled.

The flip, even is the most interesting design aspect for this mobile phone, is in the same time the handset's biggest issue. The flip is quite thin and flimsy, and when it it closed it wobbles over the phone's face; when open it seems very unstable. It actually provides nothing more than annoyance, and this brings the phone to a cheaper level. Closing the flip activates the Walkman, and this means that you cannot see the standy screen when this flip is closed.

This phone is an attempt to bring on the market a retro budget handset to the market, but actually it has no important pro points. If we take a look even in Sony Ericsson range, we can see that there are products which offer at least what W350 brings, and most of the time, even more. the flip is only for waking up some memories about mobile phones in the past years, but it has no real functionality. The handset is quite solid, and it has an above average quality, and the user interface is great. There are a lot of alternatives which could fit your budget plans, and I could say that W350 is not above these alternatives.

There is a Sony Ericsson product, W880, which is quite old now, but it is better than W350 in many aspects, and it can be purchased now at a price close to W350's price tag. Nokia also has a lot of music handsets, which have similar features and prices, like 5610 and 5310, and which have less annoying designs.

This mobile phone is good, but the only minus aspect is the flip. If you love this design, it might be the perfect phone for you, but if you don't, you could easily take a look at other manufacturer's products too.

If you don't like anymore the default themes on your Sony Ericsson mobile phone, you can use now a software application to create your own themes. Our mobile phone's theme is an external element of representativity for our personality, and I think it's great we can create our own themes for our devices. You can use your creativity and you can combine the images and graphics elements you want, and you can get rid of the boring default themes.
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Sony Ericsson offers a tool for the owners of this brand mobile phones and this application, Sony Ericsson Themes Creator offers you the possibility to change almost everything in your mobile phone's theme. You can change the standy screen, the menu and the application launcher and the calendar also. It has a tabbed interface and you can quickly switch the category. On the right side you can see the current theme and in the left side you make the changes.

The main disadvantage is that you can upload and use in your theme only GIF files, but the plus point is that you can change alert sounds for new emails, messages or for the events in your calendar. When you are done with the creation process, you can preview the theme, and you can see how it looks compiled, on a virtual mobile phone screen. You can make more changes, or you can save it and upload it on your mobile phone's memory.

You can pick your mobile phone's model from a drop list, and this list is quite large, but you can not update it, so if your phone is newer than the release date of this software, or newer than the last list update, you might not find it in the list. But anyway, there are some models which have a high compatibility with other phones' theme file, so you can try creating the theme for a model and then upload it on other mobile phone model.

The newer Sony Ericsson Themes Creator version, 4.0 offers a simplified wizard, and you can create a professional theme for you SE mobile phone in just three steps. This version allows you to choose one of these three editing modes: wizard (it has four steps), advanced (you can edit or create components) and XML editor (you can use your programming skills to edit the code)

This software application is available in English, and the OS requirements are quite simple: Symbian/J2ME. You can personalise your mobile phone like you would make changes on your desktop computer. It is easy to use, it has an user-friendly interface and I think you can successfully use it to reflect your mood in the mobile's look.

Most of the articles people can read on specialized blogs about the cell phone manufacturers that are all the rage these days are related to the announcements those company make regarding the newest products they are about to release. The same happens with Sony Ericsson, a company that threatened us with an impressive number of devices that are expected to start selling sometime this year.

The bad thing is that not even of the products that we were promised to see is available right now and I take a wild guess and assume that we will have to be quite patient until we get to see them in “flesh and blood”.

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But Sony Ericsson has many other ideas in its mind and it seems to spending most of its time trying to somehow reinvent the company, by preparing a marketing campaign for the cell phone that are about to enter the stage. And one of their ideas is to change the logo of the company. Actually, they don’t want to change it, but they want to add some new color to the logo.

You can see in the picture above how the logos would look like and you have to admit they’re still recognizable. Rumors say that the new logos will be seen in several materials that will be part of a marketing purpose, but they will not be used with the phones.

(Source: UnwiredView)

The first Sony Ericsson handset to come with the Android platform was said to be the Sony Ericsson Rachael, which I’m sure you remember, but the new name that you’ll have to get used to is Sony Ericsson Xperia X3. If some of you thought it will be X5, you should know you were wrong.

The pictures of this cell phone made their appearance some weeks ago, when there wasn’t much information available. However, Expansys, a popular online retailer, managed to put its hands on the complete list of features.

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The phone comes, indeed, with an 8 megapixel camera with additional features such as autofocus, LED flash, face detection, image stabilization, smile shutter and VGA video recording.

Other features include quad band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz), dual band 3G (900 / 2100 MHz) with HSDPA 10 Mbps and HSUPA 2 Mbps, a 4 inches touch sensitive display with a resolution of 800 x 400 pixels, assisted GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, miniUSB, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11g, email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, MS Exchange) and microSDHC card slot for expandable memory.

In addition, it seems that the new Sony Ericsson cell phone will come with a customized user interface. Unfortunately, there’s nothing official circulating over the Internet, or at least not right now, but we’re looking forward for new details.

(Source: UnwiredView)