Sony Ericsson C905 gets reviewed -- all 8.1 megapixels of it

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jan 6th 2009 at 4:25AM

When you're reviewing a phone dominated by an unusually weighty image sensor that dominates the spec sheet, you can bet that cam is going to get an extra-thorough rundown. MobileBurn put Sony Ericsson's beastly C905 slider through its paces, and as you might expect, it produced some pretty awesome pictures -- as cellphones go, at least -- with a full-featured camera interface that seems to throw some validity behind the handset's Cyber-shot branding. There was some weirdness with vivid colors that seemed to be a fault of the review unit, and the geotagging functionality didn't really work, but if you just want to produce decent images that you can blow up and plaster to a dorm wall, this sucker should do the trick. A xenon flash, HSDPA, and serviceable signal and sound quality all conspire to make it a workable choice dubbed "Highly Recomended" by the site. Alright, yeah, count us in.

Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: c905, cyber shot, cyber-shot, CyberShot, ericsson, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson

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greenlight @ Jan 6th 2009 4:50AM

What's the deal with that review? First of all, it's really late (the phone has been out for ages now), and it has downright factual errors (for instance, the phone has no forward-facing cam). And not sure what their problem with Geotagging was, since if you check flickr for C905 photos lots of them are geotagged - they probably didn't wait long enough for a GPS lock, didn't turn on A-GPS or something like that.

Gsmarena did a better comparison review of all the 8 MP phones a few months back that's worth looking at.

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glitched @ Jan 6th 2009 9:44AM

I haven't read the review yet, but they most likely reviewed the c905a which isn't out yet on US shores.

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greenlight @ Jan 6th 2009 9:46AM

In the review they said it was vodafone-branded.

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M @ Jan 6th 2009 8:26PM

Mobileburn raving about SE again... What's new. I'm starting to think Michael Oryl gets his paycheck via SE. The interface is stone age, everything candy bar, and lets face it... if you are going to shoot serious photos (to put up on your dorm or not) you would use a real camera. Another product from SE that digs a little deaper to SE's ultimate grave. Make room Motorola, you got some company coming.

-M.

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Jeebus @ Jan 12th 2009 7:15AM

I've had the SE K810i (3.2MP) for about two years, and it practically replaced my Sony DSC T-5 (5.2MP) digicam. I switched to a Nokia N78 for the time being, with my K810i waiting for camera button repairs (due to my local phone shop "fixing" the keypadon said phone). I've taken some decent pictures with my K810 that I've printed out and framed, soI couldn't imagine what I'd do with an 8MP camera phone in my pocket!