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Sony Ericsson CyberShot C905 camera phone
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Friday July 24, 2009
Gadget TV
Friday July 24, 2009
If you're the type that captures all of life's moments using your
mobile phone camera
, take heed. While it won't rival even an entry-level dedicated point-and-shoot camera, the images you snap on the8.1 megapixel Sony Ericsson C905
will blow your grainy postage stamp-sized pictures out of the water. With many of the camera features you'd expect to find on a point-and-shoot camera, including macro, a xenon flash, face detection and more. It also packs in some features that are hard to find in even the point-and-shoot camera world, includinggeotagging
of photos so you can see where they were taken.Download this episode now
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Sony Ericsson C905
$250 MSRP
Cheaper with carrier relief
- Available in four colors: Night Black, Ice Silver, Copper Gold and Tender Rose.
- Does all the standard phone stuff:
- Contact management
- Calendars
- Make and receive calls
- Plays music
- Internet access
- Messaging etc.
- Includes A-GPS (assisted GPS). Assisted GPS uses your carrier's cell towers to get a fix much faster than stand-alone GPS. However, the trade off is that if you lose cell reception, you lose - Both a good and a bad thing: Good: Gets a fix much faster, bad: is dependent on carrier and on having a phone signal. Get more information from the Wikipedia entry for assisted GPS
- The C stands for CyberShot, Sony's own line of digital cameras.
- Features an 8.1MP camera with xenon flash, not the LED variety that comes on most camera phones.
- Also has an LED light for video.
- While you won't get pics that rival even a dedicated point-and-shoot camera, the images you get will be a far sight better than other camera phones.
- If you tend to capture all of your images on your phone already, you'll be blown away by the difference. However, the camera is still of the fixed-lens variety.
Camera features:
- 16X digital zoom
- Geotagging
- Image stabilizer
- Auto focus
- Video with light
- Image stabilizer
- Supports up to an 8GB Memory Stick Micro.
$250 MSRP
Cheaper with carrier relief
- Available in four colors: Night Black, Ice Silver, Copper Gold and Tender Rose.
- Does all the standard phone stuff:
- Contact management
- Calendars
- Make and receive calls
- Plays music
- Internet access
- Messaging etc.
- Includes A-GPS (assisted GPS). Assisted GPS uses your carrier's cell towers to get a fix much faster than stand-alone GPS. However, the trade off is that if you lose cell reception, you lose - Both a good and a bad thing: Good: Gets a fix much faster, bad: is dependent on carrier and on having a phone signal. Get more information from the Wikipedia entry for assisted GPS
- The C stands for CyberShot, Sony's own line of digital cameras.
- Features an 8.1MP camera with xenon flash, not the LED variety that comes on most camera phones.
- Also has an LED light for video.
- While you won't get pics that rival even a dedicated point-and-shoot camera, the images you get will be a far sight better than other camera phones.
- If you tend to capture all of your images on your phone already, you'll be blown away by the difference. However, the camera is still of the fixed-lens variety.
Camera features:
- 16X digital zoom
- Geotagging
- Image stabilizer
- Auto focus
- Video with light
- Image stabilizer
- Supports up to an 8GB Memory Stick Micro.
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