‘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.
Our e-mail inbox has been smoking with e-mails coming from all our readers about the fact that the FCC has approved the C902 and R300. So far, I had decided not to write about it, as I didn’t feel it was that big a deal, but seeing that everybody’s writing about it and that our readers have been wanting us to do the same, I might as well do it.
As said, both the C902 and R300 have been approved by the FCC, which basically means that the hardware is now pretty much ready for the market, and that only the software is yet to be completed. As always, we’ll have to do with the mediocre quality photos available at the FCC website. For those interested, you can find the C902 at the FCC here, and the R300 at the FCC here.
I personally believe that both phones will do very well - especially the R300 (and the R306) in India and other emerging countries.
We’ve been fortunate enough to get our hands on a pre-factory unit of the C902 sharp-shooter. Here’s our photo gallery of this beautiful & thin camera phone. Expect our preview of the C902 in a few days, and a review of it hopefully in a few weeks.
Eldar Murtazin at Mobile-review has posted an article about upcoming phones where he talks about G700 and Z770. You can find the cool article that includes some hints, right here.
GSMArena has posted a cool review of the soon coming W760 Walkman phone with built-in GPS. You can read the large review here.
Lastly, PhoneArena has had a hands-on with the upcoming Sony Ericsson C702 and C902. You can read the hands-on article here. PhoneArena has told us that they expect to publish previews in a matter of days.
This year’s CeBIT trade fair has just closed down after a week of visitors and interesting products. Sony Ericsson was of course present and a couple of the German blog writers had a look at Sony Ericsson’s booth and new products. We’ve collected a large gallery for you, hope you enjoy
Posted by scotsboyuk | February 22nd, 2008 | 26 views
The C902 features face recognition technology, which tracks a face in a photograph in order to focus on it. Here we can see the technology in action; watch as the subject moves his head and the handset tracks the location of his face.
Posted by Angello | May 14th, 2008 | 316 views 
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