Sony Ericsson announces the brilliant mid-tier C903 Options

[Mizzle]

Along with the W395 and car Bluetooth accessory AB900, Sony Ericsson also announced the midrange C903 Cyber-shot phone. If you ask me, the C903 is one of Sony Ericsson's most important products in a long time, as it combines a great deal of features, a small size and a decent price tag.

The C903 is a rather stylish Cyber-shot slider, making it the second slider phone in the Cyber-shot range of products. Its unique design touch has to be the sliding lens cover on the back, which makes it look a lot like a real digital compact camera. Behind the lens cover is a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus, as well as a Photoflash LED.

It's got quite a bit of photo features, this one... Face Detection of up to three faces; Smile Shutter to automatically snap a picture when a person is smiling; BestPic to rapidly take up to nine full resolution pictures in a second; Snapfish printing service by HP; Photofix to apply minor corrections to your images, geo-tagging with the built-in a-GPS; TV-out; photo /video blogging; image / video stabilizer; and finally support for both Flickr and Picasa on your mobile. Phew.

- The C903 Cyber-shot adds a creative and stylish mobile phone to our mid-range segment, said Daniel Sandblom, who's the Global Business Marketing Manager at Sony Ericsson.
- The C903 Cyber-shot furthers Sony Ericsson's digital camera heritage and makes capturing special images even more memorable, he continued.

Okay, enough about the camera. What kind of phone is this, anyway? Well, it's a quad-band GSM phone with support for EDGE networks / dual/tri-band HSPA (850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz) phone, depending on the variant. There'll be a C903a with tri-band HSPA.

It's got a 2.4-inch scratch-resistant TFT display, capable of displaying up to 262.144 colours. The resolution of the display is QVGA - 240 x 320 pixels.

If we take a closer look at its features, we find chat view messaging, Bluetooth, Java, motion gaming using the built-in accelerometer, FM-radio with RDS, Media, YouTube, Walk Mate and Tracker applications, PictBridge, Google Maps, 3-month trial version of Wayfinder Navigator, and so on.

I think it's also worth mentioning that the C903 will in fact be Sony Ericsson's first phone to include an e-manual on the phone. This was first mentioned some months ago in a post about Sony Ericsson aiming to be the champion of sustainable development.

The phone measures a good 97 x 49 x 16 millimetres and weighs only 96 grams. One could say that it's a slightly stripped version of the C905. Battery life is said to be 10 hours of talk or up to 400 hours of standby time.

The C903 will be available in selected markets in Q2 this year in three colour variants; Glamour Red, Lacquer Black and Techno White. No final price has been set as of yet, but considering it's a mid-range product, it'll be relatively low.

More pictures after the break!

From the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
http://blog.se-nse.net/sony-ericsson-annou...-mid-tier-c903/.

[Sammyboy]

Looks excellent. I can see the Market for higher quality cameraphones expanding further with people wanting to email high quality photos to places like Facebook. Also for things like Twitter, especially after the story of the guy who tweeted the pic of the Hudson plane crash just after it happened! People IMHO are going to want the ability to take nice pics anywhere and send them quick, affordable Cyber-shots like this will become popular!

[photographer]

The black one looks fabulous, the red and white aren't my style The dimensions are very good, I hope the buildquality is ok too!

[Taikira]

Cybershot without xenon flash: , as always/often.

This post has been edited by Sammyboy: 2009-02-10 11:44

Reason for edit: Remove swearword

[JoeNaguib]

The black one looks fabulous, the red and white aren't my style

I personally love the red. A colour that vibrant isn't very common, especially with the glossy finish. The black is also very nice but it has a very familiar look.

[number1]

I like it, will be buying this 1 just got to wait for it to hit the shops, it says Q2 so we will probley won't see it out til september or next year at the rate release there phones.

[ron_jeremy]

Anyone seen the white/blue version, this and the red option, looks a bit toyish, girly, and the black seems more "mature" in a way.
Not a bad move by SEMC, either way, i'd like to see Hikaru first.

[number1]

I always prefer my phones in black, black normally looks better, it's nice to see that theres all the cybershot features like bestpic my mid-range C702 doesn't have bestpic, i assume the xenon was left out to keep the cost down so on the plus side it makes this phone cheaper to us and the led can be used as a touch & video light unlike a xenon.

[Ly]

Still DB3210?
I'm wondering if they have moved on yet again

[weirdwilli]

Probably, they'll only move on for the A300 platform won't they?

[photographer]

Still DB3210?
I'm wondering if they have moved on yet again

DB3210 supports the java+flash feature (I forgot the name) Project Capuchin and wifi so this is probably db3210 as well

This post has been edited by Photographer: 2009-02-10 18:21

[Ly]

...Will
Don't think it will go to A300 so quick.

This post has been edited by Lynott: 2009-02-10 18:09

[Manny]

That looks well nice, i want it!

[number1]

This will most likely be DB3150 it doesnt have wifi or a 8mp cam so doesn't need the extra processing power.

[RockHell]

I want a black one so badly

[weirdwilli]

LED flash is a bit 'meh' but looks nice.

[photographer]

don't forget to take a look at that awesome flash menu shown in the pic!

@N1, it has tv out, gps and 5mp, maybe still more processing power needed then... We'll see

This post has been edited by Photographer: 2009-02-10 20:08

[weirdwilli]

It looks like the same as the K850's.

[Ly]

That'll be a nice convert for me to do

[weirdwilli]