Loading ...Sony Ericsson announces the brilliant mid-tier C903
Along with the W395 and car Bluetooth accessory AB900, Sony Ericsson also announced the midrange C903 Cyber-shot phone. If you ask me, the C903 is one of Sony Ericsson’s most important products in a long time, as it combines a great deal of features, a small size and a decent price tag.
The C903 is a rather stylish Cyber-shot slider, making it the second slider phone in the Cyber-shot range of products. Its unique design touch has to be the sliding lens cover on the back, which makes it look a lot like a real digital compact camera. Behind the lens cover is a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus, as well as a Photoflash LED.
It’s got quite a bit of photo features, this one… Face Detection of up to three faces; Smile Shutter to automatically snap a picture when a person is smiling; BestPic to rapidly take up to nine full resolution pictures in a second; Snapfish printing service by HP; Photofix to apply minor corrections to your images, geo-tagging with the built-in a-GPS; TV-out; photo /video blogging; image / video stabilizer; and finally support for both Flickr and Picasa on your mobile. Phew.
- The C903 Cyber-shot adds a creative and stylish mobile phone to our mid-range segment, said Daniel Sandblom, who’s the Global Business Marketing Manager at Sony Ericsson.
- The C903 Cyber-shot furthers Sony Ericsson’s digital camera heritage and makes capturing special images even more memorable, he continued.
Okay, enough about the camera. What kind of phone is this, anyway? Well, it’s a quad-band GSM phone with support for EDGE networks / dual/tri-band HSPA (850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz) phone, depending on the variant. There’ll be a C903a with tri-band HSPA.
It’s got a 2.4-inch scratch-resistant TFT display, capable of displaying up to 262.144 colours. The resolution of the display is QVGA - 240 x 320 pixels.
If we take a closer look at its features, we find chat view messaging, Bluetooth, Java, motion gaming using the built-in accelerometer, FM-radio with RDS, Media, YouTube, Walk Mate and Tracker applications, PictBridge, Google Maps, 3-month trial version of Wayfinder Navigator, and so on.
I think it’s also worth mentioning that the C903 will in fact be Sony Ericsson’s first phone to include an e-manual on the phone. This was first mentioned some months ago in a post about Sony Ericsson aiming to be the champion of sustainable development.
The phone measures a good 97 x 49 x 16 millimetres and weighs only 96 grams. One could say that it’s a slightly stripped version of the C905. Battery life is said to be 10 hours of talk or up to 400 hours of standby time.
The C903 will be available in selected markets in Q2 this year in three colour variants; Glamour Red, Lacquer Black and Techno White. No final price has been set as of yet, but considering it’s a mid-range product, it’ll be relatively low.
More pictures after the break!
Tags: C903, Cyber-shot
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wow…i think its cute, giving a decent price it will sell well..no xenon??nevermind…tempting2
Argh, this phone is awesome, just like C510, but why does there have to be “a” and “i” variants? I want to be able to use the HSDPA on these phones in the US, but the “a” versions NEVER come out, and when they do, they are often much, much more expensive than the “i” variants due to being new on the market.
Case in point: C905a. Where can I find one? How long has it been?
The design is simply brilliant. I love it!
Since I saw the back of the phone, I felt the chills down on my spine. C903 relived the revolutionary ideology of SE that has made spectacular reviews amid its unpopular standing in the markets. Well, the delight it will give to its customers is assuring, this is a very inspiring phone that I believe will be mine in the months to come.
C903 by the way sets an example of the Sony DSC-T2, an epitome of elegant simplicity and ergonomic technology that will surely amaze its future clients.
She’s a real beaut!
looks just like a sony digi cam
@mizz- What makes a price tag of 400 euros decent?? Have SE gone mad??
se_dude,
That’s the expected price, and will be more like €350 when it’s available. It’s still cheaper than what the C902 cost when it was released.
well, sony ericsson doesn’t make any progress, they still put 5 mgp cameras thinking it’s enough to conquer the mobile market, unfortunately ( for them) they’re wrong …
Yeah, it’s a year later and has almost the same specs. I think €350 is way too much, seeing that Nokia has it’s 5800 which is much better in specs and is a smartphone for less than that.
Reply to this please people
Is this already on sale in the uk? (sunderland)
And what is the price in the uk?
Its available online from US Retailers. I got mine for $350 USD from SELECTGSM.COM
http://www.selectgsm.com/sony-ericsson-c903-unlocked-phone-mobile-phone-pr-16912.html