A Year After Its Debut, AT&T Brings Sony Ericsson C905 To USA
In a rather confusing move, Sony Ericsson and AT&T brought the 8.1 megapixel C905 Cyber-Shot along with the W518a Walkman to its already very full line-up of cell phones. The reason why this move is confusing to me along with other tech writers and avid consumers is the fact that the C905 debuted more than a year ago. Sony Ericsson a year ago is a completely different Sony Ericsson than the one that exists today. You must remember that the company just came out with the delicious Satio and Aino phones, which make the C905 seem like ancient history. Even the memory card in each phone tells the tale – the C905 has Sony’s proprietary Memory Stick Micro (M2), while newer Sony Ericsson phones are arriving with MicroSD slots.
Don’t let me come off as negative here, though; it’s good to see another Ericsson that has some real features in AT&T’s lineup. The 8.1 megapixel C905 is the highest resolution camera phone that the carrier provides. It looks sharp, has an acccelerometer, WiFi (802.11b/g), and camera features such as xenon flash, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, and image stabilization. Consumers will enjoy the FM radio and GPS as well, and the 9 hour (2G) / Up to 4 hour (3G) talk time is pretty decent. Standby time is up to 380 hours (2G) / Up to 360 hours (3G).
Here is an awesome video of the silver C905 by MobileBurn:
Both the C905a Cyber-shot will be available in AT&T stores or at www.wireless.att.com beginning July 19. The Sony Ericsson C905a will be available for $179.99, after mail-in rebate with a two-year service agreement. (For the C905a, pay $ 229.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $50 AT&T Promotion Card.)
You can read more about the C905 at AT&T’s press release, or Sony Ericsson‘s blurb.
I am In love. will buy it as soon as it comes? Does it supports VoIP apps like vopium
The Memory Card thing has nothing to do with Sony Ericsson changeing, the W995 has only just been released 3 weeks ago in EU countries, another very nice phone like the C905 here but even more better, and that also uses the M2 cards.
Satio, Aino and the X2 all have MicroSD cards, like the X1, but then the X1 was made by HTC. Maybe this shows that also these new 'smartphones' will also not be made directly by Sony Ericssion and that's why they lack the M2 cards.
It just seems that Sony Ericssion has real problems in the states, the Xperia shows that alone. In Europe and Japan they do well.
The AT&T model does NOT have WiFi. We can only speculate as to AT&T's reasons for further hobbling a year-old phone before they're willing to bring it to market, but it's pretty well in line with their policy of blocking any feature that they think might compete, for some small subset of consumers, with their proprietary services. Don't expect Google Maps to work on this phone, because you could be paying for AT&T's GPS service. You can get around several of the unnecessary hurdles by debranding your phone, but in the case of WiFi, they've chopped it right off.
Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905 has the high quality camera.There are many fascinating features in this mobile like stereo Bluetooth, GPS, a music player Together and many more.It’s quite sleek and also deliberate phone with a sharp design. The keypad device is very good, very spacious.This cell phone will be loved by the music lovers. For more details refer http://www.etechreviews.net/sony-ericsson-cyber...
Thanks for the interesting article. Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905 has the high quality camera.There are many good features in this mobile like stereo Bluetooth, GPS, a music player Together and many more.It’s quite sleek. The keypad device is very good, very spacious.This cell phone will be loved by the music lovers. For more details refer http://www.etechreviews.net/sony-ericsson-cyber...