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We called Sony Ericsson K810 the Cyber-shot's rebirth. Now we look at a new jump forward in the development of camera phones when we see the extraordinary Sony Ericsson K850i. It brings you new design, navigation and functionality. The 5 megapixel quality camera, which also has hardware buttons, along with new Media Center application, makes the Sony Ericsson K850i a top product.

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Sony Ericsson Company first used a 5 megapixel camera objective on the K850i model. Now there are successor models - C902 - that has even more to offer in this chapter. One more reason therefore to examine how good the K850i model is, in order to discover if it manages to live up to the new model. K850i is certainly a cheaper phone (compared to C902).

Sony Ericsson K850i has many features: the 5 megapixel Cyber-shot camera with automatic lens (taken from cameras module developed by Sony), D-pad, tri-band 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, a new media center and of course an FM radio, search function, 2.2 inch screen, dual-card support, Bluetooth with A2DP, multi-tasking.

K850i is equipped with additional hardware. A good example is the motion sensor, used by Apple in their iPhone or the Nokia N series models. When viewing photos, the sensor automatically changes the display into the landscape mode when the phone is rotated. Much more interesting is the slot for memory cards. It accepts not only Memory Stick Micro, but microSD cards too. This is great, knowing that the memory is almost never enough, if you always want to have a rich collection of music and photos.

Even if it is very simple to work with the camera, the handling of Sony Ericsson K850i model is only average. The idea behind the operation principles is not bad, and its realization is courageous: to get more space for the keyboard and for the display, the four-way navigation key has been integrated into the numbers keyboard and the software keys have been moved to the lower edge of the display, making them sensor keys. This is not good for everyone. Some users believe that the keys to answer / end phone calls are too small, and if you press the key you may accidentally push the soft key in the center. In addition, the digit keys and the navigation key are too sharp.

The display is a TFT type, that has 256,000 colors, a QVGA resolution and a 2.2 inch diagonal. As in previous generations it presents a mirror effect for easier viewing in strong light conditions. The dark shades, the contrast and the brightness are stronger than ever.

K850i receives a 930 mAh battery, which according to the producer, should withstand up to 900 hours on standby or 9 hours of talk time. If the phone is used intensively: Bluetooth opened non-stop, browsing, 3G talk time on one day, one hour of music, pictures, etc., the battery will hardly last one day and a half. If, however, it is only used in GSM, and not abuse of its functions, the phone will last up to 3 or 4 days.

Major changes were made in the Media Player, which is based on Sony Walkman 3.0. In addition, the K850 supports flash themes. Because the phone supports multitasking, there is an Activity button that provides information about the programs that work in parallel at that time.

In the address book, besides introducing the new keyboard that adds functionality, we have, now, the SmartSearch function, usually present in phones equipped with Windows Mobile operating system. Another useful function is the Send All function that enables transmission of all contacts from the address book to another phone. This can be done using Bluetooth, email or a text message.

The color of the walkman resembles with the theme of Sony PSP. Here you can choose to display multiple formats: portrait, landscape, or auto-rotate (thanks to the motion sensor that K850i is equipped). The player supports the following formats: MP3, AAC and AAC +, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA, M4A. For bass lovers we have the mega-bass function (missing from K800). The equalizer is the same as in all K series phones.

The Net Front HTML browser allows you to see pages in full-screen mode. You can watch HTML 4.01, xHTML 1.0, CSS, Java, WAP 2.0 content. Security Protocols: SSL / TLS. Net Front also offers an RSS-feed reader. SmartFit function fits the content of the websites perfectly on the screen of the phone.

The Bluetooth protocol is 2.0, with the human interface (HID) which allows control of Bluetooth devices (as a PC equipped with Bluetooth adapter). Moreover, through Bluetooth, the phone can be used as an Internet modem for your PC or Notebook. It also includes Bluetooth protocol A2DP profile, which allows listening to music on your Bluetooth headset.

When you say Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot, you think about the camera. So, we will now review the 5 megapixel camera. The performance of the camera is not directly related to the large number of pixels, but rather its handling and of its practical usefulness. With the help of a slider it goes easy and fast from the photo mode into the video mode. The trigger key, which activates autofocus, is simple and safe to handle. Sony Ericsson has integrated the Best-Pic mode, which is why K850i makes in rapid succession nine photos and you can chose the best one. Sony Ericsson K850i is ready for low light conditions, thus a small diode helps autofocus to establish the accurate clarity even in the dark. The Xenon flash is more appropriate than the typical mobile phone LED and in addition it can also function in the role of pre-flash to avoid red colored pupils when taking photo portraits. Some users believe that this model offers the same photo quality as Nokia N82, others believe that this comparison is unacceptable, because N82 is much better.

Sony Ericsson thought at the processing of the photos. Thus, these can be processed directly on the phone, it can be added tags or it can be uploaded directly to a photo blog. Setting up a blog like this can be done directly from the phone. You can send photos by e-mail directly to a specific address.

Sony Ericsson K850i is not an extraordinary phone, but most users are satisfied with this model. K850i is a compact phone, very well equipped, which has a camera that rises easily to the quality of the latest models. The keyboard handling claims a period of accommodation and in terms of software bugs, it will almost certainly be removed by the firmware update.

It is distinguished by:

-5 megapixel camera, autofocus and three dedicated keys
-Tri-band HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), EDGE
-new Media Center, Smart Search
-three new software key
-dedicated call and end call keys
-memory card slot for two types of cards, hotswap
-wide 2.2-inch display
-FM Radio with RDS
-Bluetooth with A2DP
-multitasking

Disappoints us by:

-strange D-pad
-dust accumulates rapidly under the protecting cover of the camera
-no Wi-Fi
-lack of infrared
-attracts fingerprints on the shell

I do not know what happened to the designers at Sony Ericsson, but it is as if all their phones look the same lately. Sony Ericsson W910i is no exception in this case, but promises to impress with a rich functionality. It wins by its small size and its excellent Walkman functions.

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Because of the design, that I consider conservative, Sony Ericsson has made a fan base which remains loyal to the brand because of the mobile performances. Let us see how good Sony Ericsson W910i is and if it is right for you.

W910i comes in a medium sized package box. It has all the accessories you need: the charger, the HandsFree, the USB cable, the Memory Stick Micro M2 memory card, the card reader, manuals and the software CD. The card reader is very useful because it allows you to quickly copy files from your PC to USB card and to use them on your phone. It is ideal for music, because it is faster than Bluetooth and easier to use than a USB cable.

The phone is made from quality materials and it is solid, even if it is a slide model. Being thin and relatively easy, I could slip it smoothly into any pocket. The screen is large, it has 2.4 inches, and occupies almost the entire surface of the phone. The number keys are available only after opening the slide. Most functions can be used without opening the slide, with the help of the keys that are below the display.

Near the speaker, there are two buttons that are used only to view images. One of them opens the album and the other selects  larger image. I would have liked to have other uses, depending on the application open.

On the sides, the phone has the volume control buttons, the card slot, the camera button and the Fast Port. The Fast Port is a proper format for PC, handsfree and other accessories connections. I am for standardization, so I would have preferred a miniUSB or microUSB port. If I do not have a cable around, there are high chances to find one at my friend or to buy one at a lower price, but a specific producer cable is harder to find and more expensive. On its backside, a 2 megapixels camera without flash was added.

The screen has 2.4 inches and a resolution of 240 x 320, and it does its job well. The images are clear, and the text can be read very well. Even in bright light, the screen remains visible.

Sony Ericsson W910i is a walkman phone, so listening to music is a pleasure. The audio player is one of the best players. We used the MegaBass equalizer and we were very happy about it. The coolest function is the Shake Control. You can control the player with hand motions. Therefore, you can skip songs or activate random playback.

Another unique function is SenseMe. SenseMe automatically adds a tag that reflects the mood and the tempo of the songs when you copy it to your phone. Using the audio player, you can choose to listen to songs that are tagged with the tempo and the mood you want. If you want to add tempo and mood tags, it is necessarily to transfer your songs using the software phone. From this, I concluded that the PC software analyzes and adds these tags, not the player of the phone.

The video player is also very good. It has all the controls you need. The phone has an auto-rotate function, which does its job well. I was happy with the image gallery too. Sony Ericsson W910i has an FM radio with RDS.

The camera has only 2 megapixels, no flash and no autofocus. This means that the picture quality is average. If you try to take a picture at a close range, it will not come out clear. The pictures are good enough to see them on your phone screen or send them via MMS, but if you copy them on your computer or if you put them on a photographic paper you will not be happy. The camera can record videos at a resolution of 320 x 240 with 15 fps.

It has everything you need except for a WiFi connection.  It has GPRS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA. That means you can quickly navigate on the Internet. The Bluetooth supports A2DP, which means you can connect your Bluetooth stereo headphones to listen to music. It does not have an infrared port.

The browser made by Sony Ericsson is NetFront and it is reasonable. I like the browser on the Symbian Nokia phones better because they render pages faster. You have the option to install Opera Mini, but I never had to do it.

The email client of the phone is even better than I expected. It supports POP3, IMAP and SMTP and can do a lot of configurations. It has a separate inbox for SMS / MMS. The attachments can be saved in the memory of the phone and if the file type is known by the phone it can also be opened.

Sony Ericsson phones have always had reasonable organizer functions, although they are not smartphones. The calendar can add any events and they can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook. You can even add to-do. I liked at Sony Ericsson that I could add a to-do as a call type. When the alarm of the reminder rings, you just have to click a button and the call is made.

Do not dare to think that Sony Ericsson W910i is suitable for mobile office. This privilege remains to BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones. Therefore, there is no support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Excel. I guess someone could have made a Java application for this thing. W910i comes with three games pre-installed, but you can install yourself many Java games.

Sony Ericsson W910i is a phone suited for those who listen to music on headphones a lot. You can copy many songs on the memory card and it has a good audio player. Users searching for a smartphone should look elsewhere.

Sony Ericsson have not done anything special lately about their phone design. It is just like all their phones look the same. With slide, without slide, the phones have the same style. XPERIA X1 is different though. Very different. Although they keep the sober style, typical for Sony Ericsson, is a smartphone with full QWERTY keyboard; the first Windows Mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. After the unsuccessful experiences with the Symbian UIQ operating system that was declared dead, Sony Ericsson has decided to move to an operating system that promises much more, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.

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Among the most important features of XPERIA X1 is the 3 inch screen, the full QWERTY keyboard, and its computing power. It has a Qualcomm processor of 528 MHz, which makes an excellent job with its memory of 512 MB ROM and 526 MB RAM.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has a length of 110.5 mm, a width of 52.6 mm and a thickness of something like over 17 mm. Could have been better than that, but you must realize that this is a smartphone with QWERTY keyboard. It has 145 grams.

The metal case makes Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 look more sophisticated than the HTC Touch Pro. Most of the front side is occupied by the 3 inch touch screen, which offers a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels.

How we are already used to, as in most phones, the ambient light sensor and the camera for videocall are located at the top of the phone. The navigation buttons are below the screen. Here we find the call / reject keys, the navigation keys and the D-pad, that is used for navigation in various applications. The phone has a trackpad for handling the mouse cursor on the screen, like the Samsung Omnia. That means you will not need the stylus. The Trackpad offers five steps for selecting the sensitivity, so that anyone can find the one that fits the best.

XPERIA X1 has a slide mechanism very well thought out, which leans the screen a little when the keyboard is opened. In this position, the screen offers a very good visibility. The QWERTY keyboard is also very well done, with keys well separated.

On the right side of the phone, we find a button with two directions, by which you can control the volume and the zoom of the camera. On the same side, we find the photo / video button. The two buttons are covered with chrome, matching so well with the metal. At the bottom we find, very discreetly concealed, the hand strap (or different accessories) support. On the left side, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has an infrared port. I do not know if anyone uses this feature anymore, but could be useful if you want to send a picture or a song to an older and cheaper phone. Slightly above the infrared port, we find the miniUSB port. Through this, you can transfer data between the computer and the phone. Although it has a Trackpad, the phone has a stylus that is also present on this side. The top side of the phone is hosting the audio jack of 3.5 mm and the on / off power button. The phone has, also, four LEDs that indicate the status.

To have access to the SIM card and to the MicroSD card, you have to remove the battery. Slightly above the battery we have a 3.2 megapixel camera. Although it is a small detail, I can not fail to notice the fact that Sony Ericsson has put a MicroSD card. I hope that XPERIA X1 is not only an exception from this point of view, but only the beginning.

In terms of graphical interface, you have a screen with seven shortcuts, the hot keys equivalent. By a single click, you have access to the Web browser or to the calendar, to the contacts, to about everything you use often. To change the screen orientation (from vertical to horizontal), you have to open the QWERTY keyboard, because XPERIA X1 has an accelerometer. Let's not forget about the XPERIA X1's screen. It is a 3 inch TFT touchscreen that offers an enviable resolution, 480 x 800 pixels and 65,000 colors.

Sony Ericsson has imposed because of their multimedia mobiles released before. Walkman or Cybershot, their phones are great when it comes to music or photos. The default video player is Windows Media Player, which supports MP4 and 3GP formats. If you want to watch DivX / XviD, you must install another video player. Unfortunately, I handled the phone really hard when listening to music with Media Player. The buttons and the menus are very small, so sometimes you need the stylus to be precise. It's absurd to change the songs with the stylus.

At the audio chapter, the phone is excellent; the two stereo speakers managed to play an outstanding sound. Okay, you will not realize that you have bass, but it is doing pretty well. If you want better sound, connect the headphones. In the headphones, the sound is great. It is better than any other phones, I would compare it with my iPod.

The camera has only 3.2 megapixels, but the quality of the photos is acceptable. It is too bad that they did not put a camera of 5 or even 8 megapixels. Maybe the phone would have been more expensive, but Sony Ericsson, certainly, had a reason not to put something better. The colors are very close to the real ones. A big minus is the lack of a flash.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 offers excellent connectivity options. It has HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. The device supports quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA, and USB 2.0. The memory card provides high transfer speeds.

For internet browsing, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 comes with Opera Mobile 9.5. You probably know it is a very good browser. The web pages are opened in full screen and you have maximum control over them. At the bottom is a menu that helps you quickly get where you want, such as the previous page, homepage, bookmarks, even to open multiple pages. Unfortunately it does not support Flash. Windows Mobile has his own browser, the Internet Explorer, but Opera Mobile is very good so I do not think you will ever use it.

Windows Mobile has a wide range of compatible applications. XPERIA X1 comes with many applications preinstalled. One of these is Microsoft Outlook. You can add events to your calendar and view them in several ways. With the To-Do, you can add remiders and you can even make them appear on the background all the time, so you will not to forget what you have to do.

With Microsoft Office mobile version, you can view and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint. You even have OneNote, which can quickly note things.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has GPS too. The phone supports the Assisted GPS (A-GPS). A-GPS makes the GPS determine a location faster, using the required information from the Internet. It has no free navigation applications installed, you need to buy something, although, there are free applications such as Google Maps.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a very well designed phone that does not know how to disappoint. If you need a good phone for music or movies, this is for you.

Sony Ericsson Walkman phones become stronger and stronger. Because no one wants to carry an MP3 player anymore and just use the phone for music, the producer with the best music phone will win in the multimedia phones competition.

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The Sony experience with the classical Walkmans, whether they were using tapes or CDs, has made Sony Ericsson phones known as offering excellent quality sound. If you also add that Sony Ericsson W980i looks very good and that it makes you different from friends who walk around with the same kind of phones, I hope I convince you to take a look at what does this device have to offer. In particular, it has many features, some of them no longer found in other phones.

The phone is made from quality materials and is solid. The attention for details and the materials used show us that the device is expensive. On the exterior, W980i has a secondary screen of 176 x 176 pixels. Its role is to display when someone calls you, and to use it when listening to music, and for this, its size is more than sufficient. Under the screen, we have the touch-sensitive keys, which enable you to control the audio player functions (play, pause, forward, rewind, etc.).

The main screen has 2.2 inch and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. On the left side, the phone has the FastPort, which is for the USB cable, for the charger and for the headset. Sony Ericsson uses Fastport on almost all the new phones. Until now, the problem was that you could not connect more than a single enhancement to the Fastport, so you could not listen to music or use the handsfree while the phone was charging. The new Charger is a Fastport turn, so you can connect the charger and the headset in parallel. On the right side, we find the volume control key, a button that lets you choose what to see on the outside screen (the music player or the FM radio for example) and a button which locks the keyboard. A clamshell phone does not usually need keyboard locking, but In Sony Ericsson W980i case, this was necessary because it has those touch-sensitive keys on the outside.

It is medium size, small enough to consider it ideal for movies and for surfing the Internet. However, you will be able to do these things occasionally. I liked the quality of the screen, colors are vivid, the contrast is good and the text and pictures seem to be very clear. In strong sunlight, the screen remains readable. The image gallery is well done and it is a pleasure to use it. The images appear to be very clear and the colors are vivid. It has all kinds of pleasant effects at the transition between the images, on the opening and closing of the gallery. W980 has an accelerometer so the screen will automatically turn horizontally and you will see pictures in full screen mode.

W980 is a true music phone. The Walkman Player 3.0 is very good, and it sorts music files by artist, album and genre. It has an equalizer, my favorite function, which lets you increase the volume of the bass. The Album Art function shows you the cover of the CD, and other images related to the song you are listening, during the time music plays. If you minimize the player though, you will see on the main screen of the phone the name of the song that you are listening to at that moment.

Even with the flip closed, you can use the external keys to control the player. Furthermore, the phone accelerometer allows you to change the song with a simple move to the front or to the back. The function is called Shake control and can even be used to play all songs randomly. For that, it is enough to shake the phone a little.

Another nice function that Sony Ericsson has included on Walkman phones is SenseMe. To each song it is associated a certain tempo and a certain mood. Depending on your mood, you choose the tempo and the mood, and your phone will play all songs that match your mood. In order to use SenseMe, you have to associate the songs a certain tempo and a certain mood. This association is made using the Media Manager software, which you install on your PC and which you use to copy the songs to your phone. If you have songs on your phone that you downloaded without Media Manager, you cannot manually assign to them a tempo and a mood.

The Video Player is reasonable. Sony Ericsson W980i's screen is not big enough to see a movie in very good condition. However, if you only watch short videos, than the screen is good. I like the fact that the phone is able to make screenshots of videos, which saves them as images. You can do this on other phones too, but you need separate software. However, on Sony Ericsson W980i this function is integrated in the video player.

It has an integrated FM transmitter. This means that you can transmit radio music from the phone. How could that help? In the car, you can listen to your phone music directly from the radio without needing any cable for that. FM transmitters are found in stores and are not expensive, but those usually let you transmit from a USB stick. The idea of transmitting using the phone seems much better, because you put music on your phone anyway.

The camera is a little weak. The only good utility that it has is for MMS. Besides the fact that it has only 3 megapixels, it has no autofocus and no flash.

If you will use a Sony Ericsson W980i for Internet surfing, you will not be sorry. You have the GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, which means you have access to fast Internet both in GSM networks, as well as in the hotspot areas. The NetFront browser is one of the best browsers. The pages are rendered very fast, even if they are complex. They are arranged well to resemble with what you see on the computer. Exactly as in Symbian S60, you have a virtual mouse so you click links easier.

The Email Client is one of the most advanced clients. Besides the fact that it can sort messages by date or size, it knows how to work with attachments. You can extract attachments from emails and you can save them on your phone, even if Sony Ericsson W980i does not know these file types. The Email client supports email accounts with POP3 / IMAP and SMTP.

Sony Ericsson W980i has Bluetooth with A2DP version. That means you can connect a Bluetooth headset to your phone and you can listen to stereo music without being annoyed by wires.

Sony Ericsson W980i does not have applications like Mobile Office, so you cannot view or edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files. It is possible to find some Java applications for some of them, at least for viewing them.

Sony Ericsson W980i is a phone made for music, so from this perspective it does its job very well. It comes with 8 GB of memory, so the space for music is not a problem. If you buy the phone for its sound quality than you are going to be happy. However, you must remember that the camera is very good. If you need to work with Word, Excel or PowerPoint files than this is not the phone for you, because it does not know how to open them.

Sony Ericsson has a tradition in making phones with good cameras. The Cyber-shot series is already well known and the phones, which are part of it, can replace a digital camera without any problems, unless you are a demanding user and you need to take pictures occasionally. Sony Ericsson C905 is the high end camera phone from Sony Ericsson, with an 8.1 megapixel camera. This is the Sony Ericsson C905 review.

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Not only the camera is good, but the rest of its functions are good too. Although it might be a little thicker, the phone is very well done. It looks elegant and it inspires quality.

Sony Ericsson C905 is a slide model with rounded edges. For its case creation it was used almost entirely plastic, only on the edges there is some chromed metal. The producer made the case with a lot of attention, the materials are very good and it is protected against fingerprints. The plastic is not at all slippery, so the phone cannot fall from your hand.

The front part of the phone is dominated by the 2.4 inch TFT screen which is resistant to scratches.  The phone has a secondary camera for video calls. Above the screen, near the speaker, there are two buttons that help you in camera configuration.

Under the screen we have the navigation key with four directional buttons and the OK button located in the middle. On its right and on its left we find the answer call / reject call buttons, and other keys for quick access to certain applications. When using the camera, you will notice that the directional key has four special functions. You can choose to expose, to enable / disable the flash, set the macro mode on/off and set self timer on/off. Once the slide is opened, you will find the number keys. There are just a little bit out in relief, but are large and well separated, so writing a text message is a pleasure. Keypad locks automatically when you close the slide.

On the left side, the phone has an M2 memory card slot and a USB port for computer connections. It would have been nice if this port would have been covered with a plastic lid, the phone would have looked better and the dust could not get in that easy. On the right side, Sony Ericsson C905 has all the necessary buttons for making photos. On the top side, there are the volume control buttons that can be used for zooming.  We have a button that opens the gallery of pictures and videos and then a button which switches between photo and video mode. The last button is used for taking pictures. All the keys are very easy to use.

Viewed from behind, the phone looks very much like a digital camera. A cap protects the lens from scratches and from dust. Once this protective cap is opened, the camera automatically starts. Near the lens, there is a xenon flash, a mini mirror for self portrait and a microphone for recording movies with sound.

Even though Sony Ericsson C905 has big dimensions, this is not a smartphone. The phone has no operating system such as Symbian or Windows Mobile, but has one of its own made by Sony Ericsson. The graphical interface has nothing special, is the same graphical interface you meet on most Sony Ericsson phones. The menus are well organized, so you get used to them quickly and you will find everything easily.

Sony Ericsson C905 is part of the Cyber-shot class, which means that it specializes in photography. It has an 8.1 megapixel camera, which is able to take pictures with a maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. You can make smaller pictures if you like, at 5 or even 3 megapixels, so you will occupy less memory.

The camera is the best camera you can find in all the Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot series. You can do a lot of manual settings, if you do not like pictures made in automatic mode. It also has autofocus, face detection, smart contrast, photo / video stabilization, BestPic, auto-rotation, macro, red-eye reduction. The Xenon flash helps a lot in low light so you can make a picture almost as good as those made from an ordinary digital camera.

If you like to take many pictures, it is good to get a card bigger than 2 GB. An 8 megapixels photo is about 2.5 MB. The Face Detection can detect up to three faces simultaneously. BestPic mode allows you to make 7 pictures in a very short time so you can choose the best one of them. In Fast mode you can make 7 photos at 8.1 megapixels, the images being captured at 0.8 seconds between them, while in slow mode time increases to 1.7 seconds. In this mode of shooting, you cannot use flash, because it does not have time to load. C905's camera is the best of all Cyber-shot phones. Colors, brightness, contrast and detail are excellent. Whether you take pictures at night or day, near or in motion, the device behaves perfectly.

The phone knows how to record a video. The resolution on which the video files are captured is 320 x 240, 30 fps. They are saved in MP4 format, each minute of recording occupying 3 MB of memory. The video capture is made with stereo sound due to the additional microphone near the camera.

The music player that is available on Sony Ericsson C905 is Music Player version 3.0. Even if it is not a Walkman phone, the player does a good job when playing music. It can read the most existing audio files. You can change the sound as you like, with a MegaBass equalizer that comes with some preset modes. The interface is simple and easy to use, the player can run in the background, and songs can be sorted by artist, genre or name.

Sony Ericsson C905 has an (RDS) FM radio, which can store up to 20 channels in your area. The interface is pleasant, easy to use and has TrackID, a function which recognizes the name of the songs. Like the music player, the radio can run in the background.

The web browser is NetFront HTML 3.4, the one used on SE C903 and C902 phones. The browser offers a virtual mouse, which makes browsing a lot easier. Another less common function found on mobile browsers is the "Find on page" function, which seeks a specific word on the current page. Searching is easy. The NetFront browser is surprisingly good, so you can surf on the Internet without any problems on this phone. If you are not satisfied with the NetFront, you can always use Opera Mini, which is pre-installed.

C905 has a quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE / 3G connection. For the internet, you have WiFi too, which works quickly and has the advantage that you can connect for free from hotspot areas. The built-in Bluetooth supports A2DP, which means that you can use wireless stereo headphones.

The preinstalled applications are mostly the same that you meet on any Sony Ericsson. The organizer has the same functions encountered until now: File Manager, Calendar, Task, Notes, sync, calculator and code memo. The calendar is great; it lets you keep track of time well, so you can note meetings and set alarms.

The phone has the best camera that we have seen before on a Sony Ericsson and is certainly one of the best cameras, even if we refer to all mobile phones. The 8.1 megapixel camera can compete with any dedicated camera, especially for a casual user. The phone is excellent from all points of view.

I hope this Sony Ericsson C905 review was useful.