Product Description

Complete digital camera experience on a phone ¿ true digital camera styling and an 8.1 megapixel camera with Xenon flash. Outstanding picture quality ¿ complete with face detection auto-focus, smart contrast and image stabilizer From baby¿s first steps to an amazing sunset; store them all on the 2GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) included The USB adaptor (CCR-70) provided in-box allows for easy transfer of your photos to-and-from your PC. View high-quality pictures on the phones impressive 2.4-inch scratch-resistant mineral glass display. Share your memories ¿ send your photos wirelessly from your phone to your TV via Wi-Fi (using DLNA), or connect with wires using the TV-Out Cable ITC-60. Upload photos to your own online blogsite or print your photos with fantastic resolution up to A3 size. Much more than a camera phone - GPS-enabled for geo-tagging of photos and navigation support.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8468 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Black
• Brand: Sony Ericsson
• Model: C905EUBLK

Features

• This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
• Quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and International 3G compatibility via 2100 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
• Slider phone with 2.4-inch screen and accelerometer for auto-rotate; 8-megapixel autofocus camera with xenon flash; GPS for navigation and image geotagging
• Wi-Fi networking; Bluetooth stereo music streaming; Memory Stick Micro (M2) expansion; access to personal email and instant messaging
• Up to 9 hours of talk time, up to 380 hours (15.8 days) of standby time

Customer Reviews

The Sony Ericsson C905 - A Camera Phone
The C905 is the latest addition to the Sony Ericsson Cybershot range. Somewhat bulky but not too heavy, the black plastic chassis is coated with a rubber finish to give you a better grip of the phone. The spring loaded sliding mechanism and the brushed metal sliding camera lens cover are impressive, but the strangely shaped battery cover along with the bolted-on sim holder makes removing the (u)sim card a bit of a hassle.

The interface of the C905 hasn't evolved much from its predecessors (C902, K850, etc), so if you're a seasoned Sony Ericsson user, you would have no problem using this phone straight out of the box.

The first thing you'd notice about this phone is the fact it's both GPS and WIFI enabled (B&G only). Although nothing new, these two features have been missing from most high-end SE phones released between 2007-2008, whereas you can find them on most of Nokia's N-Series and E-Series phones. The GPS feature uses Google Map, which requires connection to the internet to download the required map to the phone. Therefore, you might want to sign up for an unlimited data plan with your service provider if you're going to use this feature heavily.

I'm not sure at this point whether you can download the map through the phone's WIFI receiver, but it seems that the phone will connect to the internet automatically the second you turn on the google map application. There's an option to turn off the GPS receiver, but no option to turn off the internet connection.

The multimedia features of the C905 are not worth mentioning, mostly because they are the same as those you'd find on C902, K850 and K810. The only thing worth mentioning here is the fact that SE has increased the resolution of the built-in camera to a whopping 8.1 megapixel, which generates picture files that are around 2 Megabyte each. The internal available memory of the phone is only around 106 Megabyte, so if you snap alot of photographs on the go, you may want to buy additional memory cards to store them. The Sony Ericsson website claims that the phone will handle memory stick micro cards up to 8GB in size, and my Sandisk 8GB card seems to work well with the phone.

The pictures look good on the phone screen but tend to be a little noisy at full view even when shooting under daylight conditions, but is generally good enough to produce very sharp A3 prints. The xenon flash produces bright and rich colours but is a little weak (according to SE you can only shoot a subject from about four steps away), but is more than adequate to beat those models that come with LED flashes.

The supplied battery is amazingly small but has a power rating of 930mah, which is more than ample for 3 hours worth of calls.

The C905, is it a phone with a built-in camera or is it a pocket-sized camera with a quadband transceiver? One thing's for sure, it's definately an upgrade over the C902 (minus the touch screen feature) and the K850 as it takes impromptu photography to a whole new level with the large 8.1 mp sensor.

pleased
Great phone. Camera is awesome and has many functions. Keyboard is a little hard on the fingers, but not a big enough reason to not get the phone. If you want to only use the wifi for internet, edit the "connect using" under the internet settings from connections. Edit the fields to nonsensical values, so it fails when trying to connect through the phone network. This will avoid you expensive data overages.
Awesome phone, I got because I needed a camera as well. The internet browser can be finicky so just get opera mini.

Amaing Camera Phone
This phone is great, I have been using it for a month, I upgraded from a Sony Ericsson k800i and it was well worth the upgrade! It might be more expensive than other similar phones, but the image quality is astounding. If you are used to Sony Ericsson, the menus and navigation will seem like a breeze.

The only problem I see in this phone is that the navigation buttons are not very durable, so you might run into some problems with a lot of usage, also I have not gotten the included GPS to work (Google Maps does work though).

Bottom line, if you take a lot of pictures, this is the best camera phone ou will find, amazing xenon flash, manual exposure control, smile shutter and all other features that come in SE digital cameras.