Review Of The Sony Ericsson C905a Cell Phone

Cell Phones — on September 9, 2009 at 2:45 am | 1 Comment

Sony Ericsson C905a – Camera First, Phone Second

Sum n substance:

Thumbs up: Brilliant camera, decent battery life, stuffed with features, sleek and slim design.

Thumbs down: Few problems with the keypad, only M2 cards acceptable, the price.

Inside the trunk:
Technology WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM
Band WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Phone Design Slider
Wireless Interface IEEE 802.11b , IEEE 802.11g
Additional Features aGPS , Melody composer , Radio Data Service (RDS)

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS:
This one is for all those who love to carry their world along with them in the form of photographs and love to click pictures to keep themselves reminiscent of the memories. This one from Sony Ericsson comes along with a high end 8.1 megapixel camera which is the highest in terms of megapixels offered by any phone in the US. What’s left to be seen is whether this one could survive through the cut-throat smartphone competition.

This one could easily be called a digital camera itself if we take into consideration its weight which is approximately 4.8 ounces. When it comes to size though it’s not as big as the bulk it accounts for measuring 4.09 x 1.93 x 0.71 inch. This one has been designed to work in two ways- vertically like a phone and horizontally like a digital camera.

On the front it has a navigation toggle along with six buttons which have been placed in trios on both the sides of the navigation array. These are the call, end call and turn on/off key along with two selection keys, menu keys and a clear key. The left side houses a memory card slot along with a charger port. The buttons on the right side are especially for the digital camera which gives the feel that an actual digital camera is being used.

I was pretty much content with its slider mechanism which is pretty much smooth with minimal friction and it opens to reveal a black glossy keypad. The buttons are separated by using three thin, metallic bars. The buttons are pretty much flat thee only glitch in this case being that when I tried to type using the upper row of keys I found myself hitting the slider again and again which after some time got highly frustrating.

Opening the camera reveals a 8.1 megapixel camera with a maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 px. Tuning the phone on the side switches you from the landscape mode to the portrait mode with the help of its accelerometer.

The camera comes with a face detection feature along with an image and video stabilizer. The new feature that this has to offer is called the Bestpic feature which lets you take around 7 pictures at one go and then scroll through the photos to select the perfect one.

What excited me most about this one is the Photo DJ feature which is basically a photo editing feature. You could add climactic effects to your photos by just using this feature.

Also the geo-tagging feature allows the users to tag the photos with the locations and the time when the photo was clicked.

The video quality isn’t as brilliant as the photo quality but is pretty decent if compared with the video quality of the rival phones. Just like the Photo DJ the videos can be edited by using the Video DJ feature.

Coming to screen, it’s got a vibrant and highly animated scratch resistant screen. At 2.4 inch the screen is comparatively smaller to its rival smartphone competitors. It displays about 262K-colors at a 240 x 320 px resolution which is more than sufficient for the normal functioning of the phone.

The audio formats that are supported by the C905a are MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+. The audio quality offered by this is loud enough to suffice for a small room with around 3-4 people. It also supports radio however to use the radio the users will have to get themselves a separate FM headset. Talk about DJ’s and this one has an Audio DJ as well using which tunes can be created or songs can be edited.

The Sony Ericsson C905a Cell Phone

This one supports text messaging, instant messaging and push e-mail and multimedia which mean that along with the text message users could also add recorded sounds and photos.

This one has a memory card slot on the side instead of the awkwardly placed behind the battery memory card slot like in a few of the other cellphones that I ve reviewed earlier. It comes with an inbuilt 93 MB memory which can be expanded to 8GB by using the Sony memory stick micro (M2).

I was pretty much pleased with the call quality with hardly any interference or noise. Speaking through the speakerphone didn’t make much of a difference to the quality of the sound. Even on the side of the callers there were hardly any complaints though they found the incoming sound a bit harsh and tinny at a few occasions.

Coming down to the battery life, this one has a rated battery life of 9 hours talk time in GSM, and 3.5 hours with UMTS which is pretty much impressive for a multifunctional phone.

Nitty-Gritty: This one is definitely the best amongst all the phones that have been launched in the Cyber Shot range till date. I would say that if you are on the look out for a phone and a digital camera then this one would be your best bargain. Go ahead and grab it…