The C902 is the aboriginal in a cast fresh ambit of Sony Ericsson phones: "C" for Cyber-Shot�. Previously all Cyber-Shot phones were allotment of the "K" series, and the C902 is the backup for the Sony Ericsson K850i. The Cyber-Shot phones accept been awfully acknowledged over the accomplished few years, but we acquainted that SE had fabricated a few mistakes in contempo models with dodgy keypads and capricious firmware. It looked like SE had hit a asperous patch, so let's achievement that with the C alternation they can leave all that abaft and move on to greater things. The C902 is the flagship Cyber-Shot model, and so our expectations are high.
Physically, the C902 seems to be aback to the old Sony Ericsson appearance at its best. It's a classic-style handset, but ultra-slim at aloof 10.5mm. The keypad is a acceptable ancient one that has good-size aboveboard keys giving concrete acknowledgment and enabling fast texting. Hooray! We're additionally captivated to acquisition a 5-way aeronautics pad that aloof works. Looks like SE accept abstruse some adamantine acquaint about keypads and accept gone aback to a architecture that works. It feels like a affection handset too, with a aggregate of metal and plastic, and an affected finish. It's accessible in a best of Black or Red, and both colour schemes attending actual nice indeed.
The awning is hardly abate than the K850i's. This is because of the touch-sensitive shortcuts added to both abandon of the screen. These are acclimated to actuate the camera and about-face amid still and video. They can additionally change the autofocus mode, beam and added camera settings. We accept to say that these assignment absolutely able-bodied in our view. As camera phones become added and added sophisticated, accessing the functionality from a buzz becomes added of a claiming for the user (it's not a committed agenda camera afterwards all.) The C902 shortcuts are an accomplished band-aid to this botheration and accord the user a lot added ascendancy over the camera settings than best added camera phones. It's a abashment that the affectation admeasurement has been bargain to accomplish way for the shortcuts, but at atomic the awning has the aforementioned aerial resolution as antecedent Cyber-Shots (240 x 320 pixels). It's a ablaze and aciculate affectation that works able-bodied in best lighting conditions.
Let's booty a blink at the camera next. The camera is absolutely buried below a mini sliding cover. When you accelerate the awning open, the buzz switches to camera mode. The camera is a 5 megapixel barbarian with autofocus, angel stabiliser and flash. The camera affection is actual agnate to that of the K850i. The autofocus uses face-detection software, so it will automatically focus on a face in a picture. The angel stabilisercomputer appliance we're beneath assertive about, but it may advice to abstain camera becloud in low lighting. The camera additionally has the BestPic� affection which can automatically booty nine photos in a second, so that you can again accept which one to keep. An Accelerometer affection senses which way up the buzz is actuality held, and will automatically circle your pictures into account or mural mode. The capital aberration amid the camera in the K850i and the C902 is that there is no Xenon beam in the C902. A Xenon beam is added able than a approved LED flash, about SE had a lot of problems with the Xenon beam on the K850i, so at atomic we can be assured that they accept called a safe advantage for the fresh C902. The LED beam acclimated for the C902 is added able than a accepted one, and should accord acceptable results. Video recording is additionally commensurable with the best of the K alternation phones, and video calling is accessible too, on a 3G network. A fresh "Storyteller" appliance lets you actualize presentations from pictures and appearance them on Facebook and added amusing networking sites.
Although its a Cyber-Shot phone, the C902 has abundant music capabilities too. The media amateur is absolutely featured, with abutment for anthology art. Sony's MegaBass� ensures that you get affluent sounds out of the baby speaker. The PlayNow� affection lets you personalise your buzz by downloading an MP3 ringtone (you accept to pay for downloads, however.) MP3 and AC ringtones are supported. TrackID� can analyze a song from a few abnormal recording. An FM radio with RDS is additionally included. You can bung in a stereo headphone, or use an alternative Bluetooth stereo headset. One affair that we absolutely like is the ample bulk of congenital anamnesis accessible - at 160 Mbytes this is big access on what's accessible in the K850i, and makes it abundant easier to administer files. The buzz supports Anamnesis Stick Micro� (M2�) cards up to 4 GB, which is abundant to abundance 1,000 music tracks. For some acumen though, there's no abutment for microSD cards.
Connectivity is actual good, with abutment for Bluetooth and USB. The USB affiliation enables the buzz to act as a USB accumulation accumulator device, so affective music and images amid buzz and PC is drag-and-drop artlessness itself. As already mentioned, this is a 3G phone, with HSDPA abutment enabling an "always-on" internet affiliation with download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps - commensurable with a home broadband connection. As able-bodied as actuality 3G, it's a quadband GSM phone, so should be accessible anywhere in the world.
Battery activity is adequate, but ultraslim phones tend to accept beneath array lives than accepted phones, which isn't surprising. The abate awning admeasurement does advice to abate ability consumption, and we don't anticipate that the array activity will be an affair for best users.
We had hoped that the C902 would be chargeless of bugs, but a cardinal of users accept appear problems with the buzz freezing or abolition occasionally. It seems that Sony Ericsson still charge to advance the believability of their firmware. We achievement that firmware updates will array out these problems soon. Despite this, we absolutely like the C902. Although it lacks a Xenon flash, we feel that its a abundant more acceptable all-rounder than the K850i, and is apparently Sony Ericsson's best camera buzz so far. It can apparently bout the Nokia N95 too, abnormally in acceptable lighting conditions.
By the way, a brace of bodies accept asked us what the aberration is amid the C902 and C902i. There's no difference. Aloof Sony Ericsson ambagious anybody by calling the aforementioned buzz by altered names in altered countries!
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