Sony Ericsson C902 review

Sony Ericsson C902 is one of the latest Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot phones from it’s recently launched C series… Engaged together with C702 this phone makes a good upgrade from K800 users for e.g. A phone designed for users who want a good camera from their phone, fancy design and also decent gaming and music experience. The phone is equipped with 5MP camera module which will always enable you take excellent pictures…

Design and hardware:

- Sony Ericsson haven’t released this like phone before… The form factor is common for most of it’s phones, but the camera lens cover is something different… It hides the camera inside the phone’s body, making it fully protected and safe from scratches or other damage… It also has good flash which enables you getting great pictures even at total darkness…

- The phone features fancy lens cover, fastport and touch camera interface icons surrounding the display… Compared to C702, the C902 display is smaller, but still a great one…

Some of the phone’s characteristics:

- 2G and 3G networks support

- 5 mega pixel camera with autofocus and flash

- 265k display with 240 x 320 resolution

- GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE Class 10, 3G (supporting HSDPA), Bluetooth port, USB

- SMS, MMS, Email client and instant messaging

- Java MIDP 2.0

- FM Radio, TrackID Music recognition

- Organizer, picture editor and etc…

User interface and some features:

- Like most of the Sony Ericsson phones, the C902 keeps the same well known user interface which seems to be pretty user friendly… The menu icons and graphics are slightly changed, but that doesn’t make a big difference compared to older platform Sony Ericsson phones… C902 has the standard 12 icon menu which enables you easy navigation through the phone. There are the Messaging app, the Entertainment menu, the Media Player (which looks more like Media Center application) and the Settings menu where you can configure the phone to work the way you like it.

The C902’s Messaging application:

- C902 deals pretty good when it comes to exchanging text and multimedia messages… Email client is not excluded from the package. The Messaging app is the standard one which can be found in every other SE phone. Perhaps, it is slightly improved and has some new features added for e.g. backing up messages on memory stick and etc… Sending and reading receives texts, mms and emails is very, very easy and enjoyable…

C902’s box of Entertainment and Multimedia:

- The phone features awesome Media Player enabling you to watch videos, look your pictures taken with the camera or simply listen to high quality music on the loudspeaker or the stereo headset that comes with the phone… Media Player application is everything you need for decent and reliable multimedia playback. Supporting an enormous amount of formats it will never let you down…

- The phone also offers good experience with gaming… The keypad is pretty good for playing Java games which the phone runs at great performance… It has good multitasking performance for a non smart phone (feature phone) so it won’t be a problem listening to music, playing a game and chatting at the same time.

- Even supported pretty good, web browsing may be a little problem with the phone… It display is a bit small so it may not be that easy to navigate through the web sites… But after all, it depends on the user of the phone. If you find it useful and get used to it, web browsing would be pretty good too.

Camera interface:

- The main purpose of this phone, the camera. is hidden inside it’s body. It can be taken out by sliding the mechanism… Opening it, launches the camera automatically so you can start taking pictures pretty fast. Picture quality is pretty good (running latest firmware may give you even better picture). It’s autofocus gives you extra sharp pictures, and the built in flash will make the night shots look awesome.

- Camera also has the touch buttons around the screen which will easily grant you access to the most used camera features (almost every feature you need to take a perfect shot). So, navigating through the camera menu and searching for the desired option is not needed…

- Some shots of the C902’s camera can be found at www.gsmarena.com or simply follow this link:

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_c902-review-290p5.php

Other features and conclusion:

- The phone also has many other great options like the Organizer for e.g. It offers you decent alarm , timer, stopwatch, calendar, notes and tasks applications which come very useful helping you not to forgot important things during the whole day. It also features decent file manager which can be found in the Menu. It will help you sort and manage all files on the phone memory and the memory stick in the phone.

- Phone connectivity is pretty good. It offers 3G networks support, GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth connectivity to surf the internet or simply connect to other devices for different purposes. You can send/receive files, listen to high quality music using wireless stereo Bluetooth headset or connect to the internet through Bluetooth connection – PAN (Personal Area Network)…

- In overall, the C902 is excellent phone for it’s price, so if you are looking for a phone meant to entertain you, offer you great multimedia experience and come handy wherever you need such device, you can go for the C902, of course, if you don’t mind the smaller display compared to C702. The difference between them is the C702’s bigger display and it’s splash resistant features, but it has 3.2 MP camera, so the choice is yours.

by strizlow800 a.k.a. ma_junior

Pictures taken from www.gsmarena.com