Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones are rare in US to be supplied by a US carrier, they mostly come unlocked which makes the price really high. And hence we were glad to finally get a Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905a from AT&T. Cyber shot means that this phone is camera centered and the W series phones from Sony Ericsson stand are walkman series which is music centered. Now, 8+ MP of camera phones are rare and mostly manufacturers proudly boast that this phone will replace their digital cameras and we find that to be quite true. Other than the superb camera, the phone also has other features like GPS, music player and Bluetooth. This version doesn’t have Wi-Fi that the US version has. The display of the phone is 2.4 inch big and it looks really gorgeous. You get a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels which is gives you enough space on the screen to work around with applications. It supports 262,000 colors and watching images and videos on this screen is a treat for your eyes. You can change  [...]

Sony Ericsson makes great multi media phones. Although they are not as good as some of the smart phones that you see in the market, it delivers great on sound quality and camera. The model number of the phone is W518a where in the W stands for walk man series. Sony Ericsson phones are as good as Nokia’s N-series when it comes to music quality. The outer screen of the phone is a monochrome display and shows you battery life, time, numeric caller ID and signal strength. You don’t get a photo caller ID and there is no date either. The text size on the lid is too small and we would have liked an option which would increase the font. The display inside the W518a is 2.25 inches big and gives a resolution of 320X240 pixels, 262,144 colors. The display was quite bright, you can read text easily and the photos are also a treat to watch. You can only change the brightness and the look of the menu, list or icons. The numeric keypad beneath the  [...]

We caught ourselves drooling at the phone when it arrived at our test centers. It doesn’t have any keys below the display and this makes it look very sleek. We thought this was a touch screen phone but then we were disappointed with two things, firstly the touch screen feature is there but it can be only used for multi media and secondly the phone has a slide out numeric keypad at the bottom of the screen which makes the phone a bit thick. But we won’t forgive Sony for not making this all touch screen interface. If there is hardware in place why not use it for all applications? The phone has gorgeous 3.0 inch display which has a resolution of 432x240 pixels and supports 16.7 million colors. The display is quite vibrant and the text, photographs and videos are all very good on this screen. The phone has touch screen interface but it is reserved only for the phone’s 3D media browser. Touching the phone and flicking through the capacitive touch screen is smooth. When you open the  [...]

Sony Ericcson is one of the best players in mobile phones market. They have been around for awhile and now we can rely on them to make quality products. Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 landed in our test centers; it is a shiny black clamshell model phone. Being flap, it has two displays, one of them being on the lid of the phone. We weren’t quite happy with the external display of the phone because it doesn’t give photo caller ID. The external display gives you time(we wanted date also), battery, signal strength and caller ID. We think Sony Ericsson could have exploited the presence external display more. Inside the phone is a 2.25 inch display which gives you 320X240 pixel resolution. Screen of size 2.5 inch are known to have such resolution display and we were quite happy with the space in the screen. The screen has 262000 (18-bit) colors. You can personalize the display with wallpapers, display themes, screen savers and tones for messages,  [...]