Sony Ericsson Cybershot C903: A 5-Megapixel Slider
Sony Ericsson just came up with a new entry-level slider phone in its Cybershot Series. The Sony Ericsson Cybershot C903. It's a 5 Megapixel Camera phone, which obviously focuses on camera, above music for its not having the Walkman Brand for its music.
Overview
Its functions are basic yet heading to advanced. It supports SMS, EMS, and MMS. What I liked about its text function is that it can switch from "Inbox" to "Conversation" which facilitates somewhat Instant Messaging experience for supporting balloon messages. It can do calls and record these calls. It also supports video calling (but hey, it does not have secondary camera, you'll use the primary camera, which is kinda odd). It is capable of internet (GPRS, EDGE and basic 3G but no wi-fi, sorry). The speeds are okay and will solely depend on your service provider. It does support online streaming, cursor browsing, and flash support. So, the browsing experience is okay. It has GPS functions alongside with tracker, wayfind navigator and google maps for easy searching of where you are. And of course, expect the geo-tagging feature for tagging places in your photos. This camera phone has smile shutter and Face Detection functions. It has Bestpic feature in which it captures several images and selects the best picture for you, cool huh?. You can set the focusing, exposure, self-timer and flash options directly on its D-pad, which resembles a real digital camera button, but is quite disturbing for its large and sorry its a phone also. :) Whats interesting is you can only see these function's icons in the D-pad with a brilliant cyber blue backlight, when you're in the Camera Mode. You can also do Macro for your photography. You can adjust White Balance, Effects in the menu option. Shaky hands? Thanks for the Stabilizer function. When you close the slider and open the camera cover via sliding, just like cybershot cameras, the magic happens. Take a snapshot and you can directly send it to Facebook. For the quality, its excellent when the subject is well lit.
The downside is that given you have a 5MP Camera but its not suitable for Facebook upload since the files register from 1MB to 1.5 MB! But then you have an option of making 3MP, 1MP and VGA captures. Back to image quality, sorry again, but there is no night mode. The images registered low saturated, noisy and grainy photos. Instead, there is a "twilight landscape mode" but not that effective. Thanks for the very bright LED flash. I've expected for a Xenon one, but I guess this is much brighter than other mobile LED flashes. You would notice the downside of it for farther subjects. But I guess if you're doing a self-portrait, don't do it at night, for the flash hurts your eyes a bit for its luminance. The colors when its night are not that correct but thanks for the photo fix and photoDJ software. Its like your mobile photoshop. Excellent.It can zoom digitally up to 16x but from 4x up, the zoom is completely useless. It's grainy and crap.
The video function records at mp4 format, 320 x 240 resolution at 30fps. Good for mobile. It also has stabiliser function. Supports night mode and LED lighting. Its not a walkman phone. So expect basic. It does not support 3.5mm port or even 2.5mm but the big DCU-60 port of SE which is for the charger as well. The files are stored in a Memory Stick M2 which is kinda hard for music transfer. You must use a USB data cable for ease. The quality of the music? Very basic. When you listen to its speakers found in the bottom left side of the phone at extreme volumes, the sound is crap. When you connect it to earphones, the sound is basic just like other Nokia phones, even if you set it to MegaBass, the sound is still just trebles, not recommended for those finding that "super bass" of walkman phones, or maybe be corrected by software upgrades of the phone. You can also download java games and apps to this slider. It has very good 3D games rendering. It also supports motion sensor games because of its accelerometer which can be used also for autorotate image and video viewing functions, some wallpapers and some apps (just like WalkMate which is built-in in this phone and counts your walking steps). You can also open several games and apps at a time, because of the shortcut key which enables minimizing of apps, showing events and messages, your personal shortcuts and the phone's native browser and is very useful in multitasking.
Physically, it is outstanding although it is not that slim. It boasts of a 240x320 TFT LCD screen, which is very bright (can be adjusted) and has nice contrast. I guess it will not get old fast for it has scratchproof LCD cover! It has also light sensor which is useful for detecting light in camera functions and powersaving. When it senses light, it turns off the keypad backlights. The sliding feature is as smooth as other sliders. The keypad is flat but is so soft to press. The overall cover has a glassy feeling, even its plastic and is of course, unfortunately, attracts fingerprints. The camera, view, camera-video switch and volume/zoom rocker buttons on the right side makes it a truly Cybershot phone. The overall design is stylish, neutral, resembles a camera when laid horizontally and with the slider closed, it resembles a touchscreen phone! The final verdict is that, this is the phone for those basic users who dont want to be left out in the mobile phone evolution!
Overview
Its functions are basic yet heading to advanced. It supports SMS, EMS, and MMS. What I liked about its text function is that it can switch from "Inbox" to "Conversation" which facilitates somewhat Instant Messaging experience for supporting balloon messages. It can do calls and record these calls. It also supports video calling (but hey, it does not have secondary camera, you'll use the primary camera, which is kinda odd). It is capable of internet (GPRS, EDGE and basic 3G but no wi-fi, sorry). The speeds are okay and will solely depend on your service provider. It does support online streaming, cursor browsing, and flash support. So, the browsing experience is okay. It has GPS functions alongside with tracker, wayfind navigator and google maps for easy searching of where you are. And of course, expect the geo-tagging feature for tagging places in your photos. This camera phone has smile shutter and Face Detection functions. It has Bestpic feature in which it captures several images and selects the best picture for you, cool huh?. You can set the focusing, exposure, self-timer and flash options directly on its D-pad, which resembles a real digital camera button, but is quite disturbing for its large and sorry its a phone also. :) Whats interesting is you can only see these function's icons in the D-pad with a brilliant cyber blue backlight, when you're in the Camera Mode. You can also do Macro for your photography. You can adjust White Balance, Effects in the menu option. Shaky hands? Thanks for the Stabilizer function. When you close the slider and open the camera cover via sliding, just like cybershot cameras, the magic happens. Take a snapshot and you can directly send it to Facebook. For the quality, its excellent when the subject is well lit.
The downside is that given you have a 5MP Camera but its not suitable for Facebook upload since the files register from 1MB to 1.5 MB! But then you have an option of making 3MP, 1MP and VGA captures. Back to image quality, sorry again, but there is no night mode. The images registered low saturated, noisy and grainy photos. Instead, there is a "twilight landscape mode" but not that effective. Thanks for the very bright LED flash. I've expected for a Xenon one, but I guess this is much brighter than other mobile LED flashes. You would notice the downside of it for farther subjects. But I guess if you're doing a self-portrait, don't do it at night, for the flash hurts your eyes a bit for its luminance. The colors when its night are not that correct but thanks for the photo fix and photoDJ software. Its like your mobile photoshop. Excellent.It can zoom digitally up to 16x but from 4x up, the zoom is completely useless. It's grainy and crap.
The video function records at mp4 format, 320 x 240 resolution at 30fps. Good for mobile. It also has stabiliser function. Supports night mode and LED lighting. Its not a walkman phone. So expect basic. It does not support 3.5mm port or even 2.5mm but the big DCU-60 port of SE which is for the charger as well. The files are stored in a Memory Stick M2 which is kinda hard for music transfer. You must use a USB data cable for ease. The quality of the music? Very basic. When you listen to its speakers found in the bottom left side of the phone at extreme volumes, the sound is crap. When you connect it to earphones, the sound is basic just like other Nokia phones, even if you set it to MegaBass, the sound is still just trebles, not recommended for those finding that "super bass" of walkman phones, or maybe be corrected by software upgrades of the phone. You can also download java games and apps to this slider. It has very good 3D games rendering. It also supports motion sensor games because of its accelerometer which can be used also for autorotate image and video viewing functions, some wallpapers and some apps (just like WalkMate which is built-in in this phone and counts your walking steps). You can also open several games and apps at a time, because of the shortcut key which enables minimizing of apps, showing events and messages, your personal shortcuts and the phone's native browser and is very useful in multitasking.
Physically, it is outstanding although it is not that slim. It boasts of a 240x320 TFT LCD screen, which is very bright (can be adjusted) and has nice contrast. I guess it will not get old fast for it has scratchproof LCD cover! It has also light sensor which is useful for detecting light in camera functions and powersaving. When it senses light, it turns off the keypad backlights. The sliding feature is as smooth as other sliders. The keypad is flat but is so soft to press. The overall cover has a glassy feeling, even its plastic and is of course, unfortunately, attracts fingerprints. The camera, view, camera-video switch and volume/zoom rocker buttons on the right side makes it a truly Cybershot phone. The overall design is stylish, neutral, resembles a camera when laid horizontally and with the slider closed, it resembles a touchscreen phone! The final verdict is that, this is the phone for those basic users who dont want to be left out in the mobile phone evolution!
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