Loading ...‘Brilliant!’ - Previewing The C902
‘Brilliant!’ was the first thing coming to my mind, when getting the C902. The surface of my new phone is well polished and as smooth as glass. In addition to that the C902 is very thin for a Cyber-shot phone. Yet, the build quality is very good, and there’s a smooth transition between the nice materials and the weight of the phone.
The camera slider mechanism has been improved, so the lens cover feels solid and nice to use. As you all know, the C902 features a 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus and a new sort of LED-flash, called a Photoflash, which - according to Sony Ericsson - is on par with a xenon flash. It also contains a touch-sensitive surface around the 2″ display for advanced camera controls, which is very advantageous when taking photos.
I’m totally convinced by the camera quality. I’ve never seen such a good camera in such a thin phone! When you take photos, you’ll of course have to store them somewhere. For that, the C902 holds 160 megabytes of internal memory, which can be extended by a Memory Stick Micro memory card.
Let’s move on to the music department… The speaker is really awesome considering the thinness of the phone, and is comparable with K750’s speaker. The Mega Bass sounds very good on my BOSE QC2 headphones and the music player is very much comparable with the Walkman player.
Overall, the C902 is very, very neat and commendable for everyone who’s looking for a slim and well-built camera phone in the upper end of things. It’ll be priced at approximately £220 - £250, and is expected to hit the stores later this month.
Expect our full review of the C902 later this month, about the same time as it’ll start being available. Gallery of the C902 can be found here.
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I know this has been mentioned before, and I’ve certainly “always” known it mattered, but I must admit it wasn’t until recently I realized just how crucial picture quality is when showcasing a product, and why manufacturers must have very mixed emotions about spy pictures leaking around. Right now we have three consecutive posts to the blog regarding the same product, in this case the SE C902, which illustrates this very well.
In the “Gallery: Sony Ericsson C902″ there are some well lit, studio quality pictures taken of a clean C902, and I think it looks great.
In the “C902 & R300 At The FCC” there are two photos of the SAME product, but now in less than optimal light, with a tad of barrel distorsion, a bit too compressed and probably with a fair share of fingerprints on it. Looking at those pictures alone, I’m not impressed at all, but rather slightly put off, getting a feeling that this is a greasy product that’ll make my fingers smelly and sticky. It’s a bit like having a slightly too close look at somebody else’s toothbrush.
In this post, ‘Brilliant!’ - Previewing The C902, we have a “good” picture (from the, gallery, I know) and suddenly the phone feels a lot better again. Spy pics are usually a lot worse than the FCC pictures. I’ve known before I shouldn’t jump to conclusions after having seen just a few spy pics, but I must say I’ve so far failed to realize just how big the difference can be.
So, boys and girls, it seems I’ve learnt something today. I’ll keep looking at spy pics, sure, but I’ll have to be even more careful before I conclude “it looks awful”. Image quality just has too much impact. I hope this experience will help me to better apply some proper “mental photoshopping” when looking at less than perfect pictures, and I just wanted to share the advice.
true story mate
The C902 does indeed seem awesome. I’d love to get my hands on one, but alas, am saving my money for Paris.
i just want to clerify something FOR SURE is this phone Quadband??
Brilliant might be to strong of a word here. The picture quality has heavy purple fringing (probably the effect of early firmware), and the display screen size is small because the whole screen size is taken by two line of shortcut buttons for the camera. But nonetheless, it is quite an exquisite piece of work from Sony Ericsson. I’d prefer more if the design has a dash of vibrant color like the K850.