Sony Ericsson's C905 Plus is basically a C905

by Chris Ziegler posted Apr 14th 2009 at 12:09PM

Your first thought when you hear "C905 Plus" might be, "oh, dear, the plain ol' C905 hasn't even been released on Rogers or AT&T yet." Well, we wouldn't worry about that too much, because it turns out that the Plus isn't much of a retooling -- in fact, it's not a retooling at all. Instead, Sony Ericsson has simply dropped its latest and greatest firmware on the thing to include new features like Smile Shutter, bundled an 8GB Memory Stick Micro card, and moved on with life. In fact, the C905 Plus is being billed as a limited offering in the UK at this point, so we wouldn't be surprised to see this fade into oblivion in the next few months -- at which point we can all get back to our regularly-scheduled 8.1 megapixel envy.

[Via Phone Arena]

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

Tags: c905, c905 plus, C905Plus, cyber-shot, ericsson, slider, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson

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KilgoreTrout @ Apr 14th 2009 2:55PM

How can SE hope to sell this stuff in the age of the HTC SuperStar and Thoth, of Nokia's N97, of Samsung OmniaHD or the Archos/TI? Or even the Palm Pre?
I would have thought that the fact that as last month their sales were down 50% it should have given them a hint .
I really hope they will not botch the Idou as they did the Experia X1 and that it will manage to hit the market before the coming monster machines I named above.
Hell, I would even buy an Idou if SE will make it the way a smartphone should be made in this time and age.
Once upon a time Ericcson phones were the most desired and admired phones money could buy: I still remember fondly my T28i of about a century ago; and apparently the brand can still count on a number of hard core faithfulls.
In my opinion the nippo-swedish match was born in consumer electronic's hell.
Sony , if it has money to invest in R&D , prefers to invest it in branches of its business where it does'nt have to share the profits with those pesky sweeds and Ericcson seems to have decided that handsets are no more part of their core business (which remainds me of the story of the fox and the grapes).
The Idou will probably determine the fate of this glorious but rapidly decayng company, being born with an heavy load to carry on its thin bezel; and I'm really looking forward to check it out, because I really would like to be able to like it and possibliy buy it too.
For the moment It seems promising, but so did the X1 before being revealed as the disaster it turned out to be (currently the worst win mobile device bar none).
Now if SE would concentrate on bringing the Idou to the waiting geeky masses instead of keep on trying to push always the same phones that , is now obvious, nobody wants, maybe it would get a new lease on life.
Maybe.

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johdaxx @ Apr 14th 2009 4:57PM

Hey! It's got Plus! I want that!

@KilgoreTrout: No money = no innovation = no new models. I'm feeling it too - I love my K850i. Hey, at least they haven't fired their marketing department yet...

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simon @ Apr 14th 2009 5:51PM

Used to buy SE phones... when they were competitive. Now they are barely also rans. My source close to the scene says the S-E divorce is imminent.

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Jonathan @ Jun 24th 2009 2:16PM

The c905 is so plagued with problems (such as the infamous speaker breakages and the sudden, catastrophic shutdowns that even the factories cannot reverse… I permanently lost all my photos and calendar markings!) that an actual hardware upgrade would be vital vital and should be free for all c905 owners! For more info: http://tinyurl.com/sssde

Pff!