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Sony Ericsson C905 is a 8.1-Megapixel Cybershot Phone?
Posted by Jason Chen at 9:02 AM on June 11, 2008
According to the Unofficial Sony Ericsson blog, the upcoming C905 phone will be the flagship Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot phone. Here's why it's so good. There's a 8.1-megapixel camera with "auto focus, face recognition, a new feature called Smart Contrast, image stabilisation, BestPic, red-eye reduction, xenon flash as well as photoflash for both photos and videos." There's also location tagging with GPS, an accelerometer, 2.4-inch QVGA display, TV-out, Wi-Fi, DLNA support, Bluetooth and USB 2.0 transfers. Yeah, sounds pretty insane. We'll see if this one turns out to be true and whether they can fit all of this tech into that small body. [Se-nse]
Tags: cameraphones | cybershot | mobile phones | sony ericsson
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Speter
Posted June 11, 2008 1:18 PM
Sorry Step66 i cant agree with your statement regarding sensor:
"@Airport_Whiskey: you mean the SO905iCS?
This won't beat that - it has a 3x optical zoom and the same type of sensor Sony put in the D-SLRs."
It has a "similar" type sensor that does the "same" Analogue to Digital Converting, but there is no way that they would have a full frame or even a semi full frame sensor in a phone. No physical room to focus through lens onto sensor. Just Physics
If this were possible, then DSLRs would be tiny and or Point and shoots would be equipped with a large DSLR sensors. If it were true i would buy one in a flash. The thing I hate about these camera phones is small sensors and any 8mp promises of greatness will only that the images are far too noisy and grainy as the pixel density is far too high.
Look up the "megapixel myth" and check out http://6mpixel.org/en/ - you will soon see that too many pixels in a small space will only degrade the image. Big Sensor means
What we need are larger sensors, less pixels to allow greater sensitivity for low light/fast shutter shooting. then things will start to look up.
Overall its nice to see phone tech getting better camera wise but still the images are grainy, subject to blur and nowhere near usable for even a semi-professional point of view. Fine for drunk party snaps or photos of your kid riding a tricycle wearing a hat. or a photo of a dog wearing a a hat. One day they will be usable and replace point and shoots for casual photography. I cant wait.
CJ
Posted June 12, 2008 2:38 PM
mmmm, I just can't wait to take excessively grainy photos on my camera phone.
I've got an N95, and even with 5 Megapixels, it's grainy at full size.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 10:00 AM 11/6/08
Sorry Apple, it seems I'm not buying the iPhone 2.0 after all...
I'm not a Sony Ericsson fanboy... or anything fanboy for that matter, but I gotta admit that my two best cellphones of all times were Sony Ericsson.
Would like to hear about video resolution though. I'm only assuming that with a 8.1 cam... at least a 30fps VGA video will be there.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
thechansen
Posted 9:57 AM 11/6/08
By sewn up, you meant to say blown up and on fire?
thechansen
Kaiser-Machead is in your Macbook Pro!
Posted 9:54 AM 11/6/08
My SE is over 4 years old, and the battery STILL HOLDS UP after all this time. So many SE's to choose from, but an 8.1 MP Cybershot is a sure deal for me.
Kaiser-Machead is in your Macbook Pro!
abates25
Posted 9:49 AM 11/6/08
Heh. I'll admit it...generally I'm all Apple fanboy-like. But a day after the big Steve-O gave his 3G announcement and I've found my next phone. Love SE! Oh, and @Simpsons-Movie-ruled, every SE I've owned (K790a, K750, T81i) has had phenomenal battery life. I had a N73 by Nokia for a while and couldn't believe how crap it's battery life was. Sony has the battery game pretty much sewn up.
abates25
Parapraxis
Posted 9:48 AM 11/6/08
The naming makes sense... the C902 is a 5MP cybershot phone with Geotagging...
I just wish the SEXperia-1 came with a xenon flash... I'd buy it then in a heartbeat... :(
Parapraxis
Ph30nix
Posted 9:35 AM 11/6/08
quadband and I'll buy it right away - triband and I'll have to find something else - SF is getting worse at 1900mhz reception in a lot of places - my k800 isn't cutting it anymore.
Ph30nix
Step666
Posted 9:30 AM 11/6/08
@Airport_Whiskey: you mean the SO905iCS?
This won't beat that - it has a 3x optical zoom and the same type of sensor Sony put in the D-SLRs.
Step666
Somadis
Posted 9:26 AM 11/6/08
I think that this is the best invention of 2008. Now the main question is.. how much?
Somadis
Airport_Whiskey
Posted 9:25 AM 11/6/08
A less spec'd out version of this came out a bit ago here in Japan. It is fully half-camera/half-phone. A great idea for this place where people take wedding pictures with their phones.
Airport_Whiskey
GiltProto
Posted 9:16 AM 11/6/08
TV out? It's like an Amiga!
GiltProto
DaOtter
Posted 9:16 AM 11/6/08
Needs more pink kitties.
/Not really, it's pretty BA
DaOtter
zombo
Posted 9:14 AM 11/6/08
Beam me up, Scotty.
zombo
chrstphr
Posted 9:12 AM 11/6/08
About time for a worthy, kick-ass looking Cybershot update!
That looks like a pro rendering, let's hope its real.
chrstphr
Simpsons-Movie-ruled
Posted 9:11 AM 11/6/08
But can the battery last more than 20 minutes?
Simpsons-Movie-ruled
Chester_Copperpot
Posted 9:11 AM 11/6/08
I love Sony. I shoot with an HDR-FX1. I have a PS3, a 42" Bravia and Sony surround sound. That being said, the only phone I'll use after 3G iPhone comes out will be made by Apple. July 11th can't come sooner, my Treo 650 is on life support.
Chester_Copperpot
xCruciaLx
Posted 10:24 AM 11/6/08
My former 2G iPhone has a video recorder and zoom. That's the power of Installer.app.
xCruciaLx
Step666
Posted 10:22 AM 11/6/08
@brachon: VGA, 30fps I think - just like Bokusatsu_Tenshi guessed.
If you read USEB (follow the link at the bottom of the article), there's some discussion about it.
This looks nice but I'd rather have had 5mp with an optical zoom and a better screen resolution.
So, basically the SO905iCS but not Japanese.
Step666
brachon
Posted 10:18 AM 11/6/08
This is my next phone definitely! after the dissapointment of the iPhone 2.0. what about the video recording?!!?!?!?! anyone?
brachon
chrstphr
Posted 10:16 AM 11/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead is in your Macbook Pro!:
Yeah, SE's are amazingly reliable.
Even if the camera was only 5 mpx, I'd go for this anyway. It's just gorgeous without being all blingy and pretentious.
All the cybershots since the k790/800 have been pretty bland until this one.
chrstphr
bailey_ca
Posted 10:45 AM 11/6/08
Oh, that is freaking gorgeous! Shame it'll likely be way out of my price range but, damn, I want it...I even forgive SE for the debacle that was my W810i.
bailey_ca
Munch
Posted 10:31 AM 11/6/08
Wow. I would buy that phone in a heartbeat. Okay - I would wait to find out if it's as good as it sounds, but barring it being a total lemon I'm in.
Munch
digitalexis
Posted 10:52 AM 11/6/08
I had the SE k800I... Which had amazing quality pictures for a phone and in good light, up to par with some of those super slim point and shoots. I recently upgraded to a SE K850i and although low light shots are similar to the K800i the well lit shots are damn amazing for a cell phone... and I think it's a pretty nice looking phone.
digitalexis
ctthoqqua
Posted 11:29 AM 11/6/08
I love my old K700i; it just keeps going. I was ready to jump to the iPhone 3G until I saw this.
ctthoqqua
Brian
Posted 11:29 AM 11/6/08
@xCruciaLx:
Thats digital zoom...not quite the same as optical
Plus the fact that you need installer.app for a basic feature like that is whats wrong with the iPhone
Brian
Ambigous Blob
Posted 12:05 PM 11/6/08
Yeah, but have you looked at the side?... It still has SE's proprietary plug-in port.... I was a SE guy forever up until recently and have to say "GET WITH IT SONY!" Give the consumer a standard 3.5 headphone jack and a usb connector already! LAME....
Ambigous Blob
Digicach
Posted 1:04 PM 11/6/08
Sony Ericsson C905's creative feature is sharing your photos on a TV-set! That will let it not only a phone, but also a real digital camera. This is a new nice samsung phone, Digicach have collected it's features.
Digicach
godemperor
Posted 2:31 PM 11/6/08
nice! finally a successor to my horribly abused k790!
godemperor
chasema
Posted 3:43 PM 11/6/08
HSDPA?
chasema
NightBlade
Posted 4:21 PM 11/6/08
@chasema:
Quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS, HSDPA and HSUPA
(and Wifi and aGPS).
That nuff for ya?
NightBlade
NightBlade
Posted 6:48 PM 11/6/08
@montecristo:
Since the C702 and C902. Cyber-shots are moving from the K to the C series.
NightBlade
montecristo
Posted 6:45 PM 11/6/08
Since when is the C-series the flagship line of SonyEricsson? Has some BS smell to it...
montecristo
PsychoCemia
Posted 8:28 PM 11/6/08
It says on the linked sight that apparently "It features tri-band UMTS and HSDPA in the American version (850 / 900 / 2100 MHz)". Oh well...maybe the Euro version's a quad band :)
PsychoCemia
PsychoCemia
Posted 8:19 PM 11/6/08
FINALLY I get to replace my tattered n' torn K790! I've been dying for a WiFi SE phone that didn't have a crappy form factor like the P1...and the Quad band and 8.1MP just seal the deal! The 3G iPhone just lost another potential sale. :)
PsychoCemia
Step666
Posted 12:20 AM 12/6/08
@Digicach: stop linking to your crappy site.
Step666
Step666
Posted 12:18 AM 12/6/08
@montecristo: the article doesn't say that the C-series was SE's flagship line, it says that this will be the flagship Cybershot-branded handset (all of which, from now on, will be C-series handsets).
Step666
Paul
Posted 12:23 AM 12/6/08
Why do you tease us with phones that will obviously never make it to the US?
Paul
abates25
Posted 3:02 AM 12/6/08
@Paul: They all make it to the US. Just not subsidized and sold by a carrier. It's all in your hands whether you want it or not.
abates25
StealthNinja
Posted 6:04 AM 12/6/08
Will there be a telescopic lens attachment like for SE P910 a, and a tri-pod connecting kit too?
And what type of GPS software will it be like? Is the GPS like Sony's PSP applications or the Way Finder GPS navigator software that works on their GPRS system? But it looks sweet!
Does it have a voice mp3 recorder or an optical line in slot to record or a microphone/ stereo line out slot? How big is the hard drive?
tchao.
StealthNinja
Step666
Posted 12:03 PM 12/6/08
@Paul: if it's not coming to the US, then why does GSMArena say there's a US 3G version planned?
Step666
vinnyr
Posted 12:02 PM 11/6/08
The megapixels may be there, but what about the color? The quality, and the lens? U could have an 10000 mega pixel camera, but if the lens is bad or the color is off, all u will have is a billboard size pos
vinnyr
mcknn
Posted 10:26 AM 11/6/08
please be affordable
mcknn
lowteckh
Posted 9:28 AM 11/6/08
What about optical zoom? All this "advancement" and raving in the megapixel department but the optical zoom has yet to be included, especially in SE phones where Cybershot is slapped onto "camera" phones still stuck with digital zoom.
lowteckh
linalool
Posted 9:53 AM 11/6/08
The guy getting chucked from the plane was responsible for those ludicrous reflections.
linalool
Pyao lyang shen
Posted 5:29 AM 16/6/08
OOH shiet, let's unlock this baby soon.
@Step666: it's okay, if you really want it, just buy it online and get some flashing cables to unlock it.
I love Sony Ericsson.. You know in japan, under foma, Sony, panasonic, and sharp have some of the greatest phones..
Pyao lyang shen
trstn
Posted 5:29 AM 17/6/08
Nice, but is it just me or does it remind you heavily of the n95 that it's obviously nicked the feature list from ;)
trstn