Sony Ericsson C905 Review
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Sony Ericsson C905 ReviewSony Ericsson’s flag ship camera phone is packed full of features. Including 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash, 16 x digital zoom, GPS, 3G HSDPA for fast web browsing, FM Radio. Oh and it makes phone calls as well! |
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The Sony Ericsson has a large 2.4 inch scratch resistant mineral glass screen. Hidden behind the screen is the phones flat keypad which can be accessed by a sliding motion. On the front of C905 is a D pad and two columns of buttons. The back of phone houses the 8.1 megapixel camera protected by a sliding lens cover. The right side of the phone is equipped with a volume rocker switch which also functions as a zoom control for the camera. There is also a shutter button for taking photos and a couple of other camera controls.
Camera
The biggest selling feature of the Sony C905 is the great camera, which is in the same league as the Samsung Pixon and the LG Renoir. Equipped with 8.1 megapixels the camera has autofocus, image stability, Xenon flash, 16 x digital zoom, red-eye reduction, face detection and a host of different shooting modes including BestPic.
BestPic takes a series of photos, from which you choose the best image from. That way you never have to miss a smile by timing your shot wrong. Xenon flash is probably the best flash currently available on a mobile phone, brighter than a led flash which seem to be included with a lot of camera phones. As well as static photos the camera can shoot video at 30 frames per second.
GPS
The camera also makes use of the built in GPS so you can Geo-Tag photos. The GPS also is used by Google Maps and a trial version of turn by turn software WayFinder.
3G HDSPA
The Sony C905 has 3G HDSPA for super fast web browsing and video calls. The C905 has a built in Accelerometer when the phone is turned on its side you can view web pages and photos in landscape mode. As well as 3G the C905 is equipped with Wi-Fi so this gives you more than one option to surf the web. The maximum speed supported from the Wi-Fi is up to 5 Mb/s.
Web Browsing
The phone is equipped with Sony’s NetFront HTML browser 3.4 which makes use of a virtual mouse pointer. NetFront supports WAP 2.0/HTML.
Messaging
Email, SMS and picture messaging.
Multimedia
The C905 media player’s is Sony’s Music Player 3.0 which is very similar to the Sony Ericsson’s W980 Walkman media player. As you would expect the media player supports the most popular formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA, M4A and MIDI plus. As well as music the C905 can playback video in full screen mode with rewind and fast-forwarding. If you get fed up with your music selection you can also listen to music using the built in FM radio which is equipped with RDS.
Memory
Memory wise the Sony Ericsson has 160mb which can be expanded up to 8GB using Sony’s Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™).
Games
The games that come pre-installed on the Sony Ericsson C905 are accelerometer based games which are Need for Speed ProStreet, Kasparov Chess and Tennis Multiplayer.
Summary
To conclude the Sony Ericsson C905 is equipped with an excellent quality 8.1 Cybershot camera. Packed with some great camera features like the Xenon flash and BestPic. Super fast web browsing with 3G, music and video on the go and even an RDS radio. If you are after an 8 Megapixel camera phone then this is a phone well worth considering.
Sony C905 Features
- Quad band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G HSDPA
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0
- GPS
- SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
- 2.4 Inch TFT QVGA Screen 262k
- 8.1 Megapixel Camera
- 16 x Digital Zoom
- Autofocus
- Xenon Flash
- Image Stabiliser
- BestPic™
- Photo Fix
- Image Stabiliser
- Red Eye Reduction
- Video(QVGA 30fps)
- User Memory 160MB
- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™)
- Accelerometer
- FM radio with RDS
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- Polyphonic, MP3 Ringtones
- 104.0 x 49.0 x 18.0 mm /136.0 g
- Up to 9 Hours Talk Time
- Up to 4 Hours 3G Talk Time
- Up to 380 Hours Standby Time
- Up to 360 Hours 3G Standby Time
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