Sony Ericsson c902

Sony Ericsson were first to make headlines at this year's Mobile World Congress, and continue to keep us busy previewing a bunch of debuting devices. Our series of quick hands-on sessions ends with a cameraphone. Sony Ericsson C902 is the new Cyber-shot squad member. The C902 designation does break a mold, as all previous Cyber-shot models belonged to the K-series. It's now C for Cyber-shot, nice and easy.
It has a surprisingly small 2" 262K-color TFT display of QVGA resolution. When the display is off, it does look like at least a 2.2 incher, but with the lights on the reason for this size is obvious - there are eight touch sensitive camera keys that backlight in blue around the display. More about them is to come later on.

As a camera-centric phone, Sony Ericsson C902 bundles up a 5 megapixel autofocus shooter offering a good range of niceties. Among them are face detection, image and video stabilizer, BestPic, auto-rotate, macro mode, photoflash LED, etc.

The camera itself is rather discrete, slumbering under a trademark sliding top. Once you slide it up, the camera is revealed and you are ready to shoot. The flimsy sliding mechanism (no spring assist or anything) in our beta version of the phone will certainly see improvements before the final version hits the shelves.

Sony Ericsson P1i

The P1i is the latest in the Sony Ericsson's business line, succeeding both p990 and M600 - brining in the former's functionality and the latter's form factor. Its dimensions are nearly same as that of M600 with just about a couple of millimeters thicker but with plastic finish at the sides. The OS is symbian UIQ13, which is much faster due to the 128 mb internal memory that's offered. There's no soft touch keys for easy navigation. You have to operate your stylus or finger. But I recommend a scratch-guard as soon as you buy it, because the impression on the screen are legible. The other keys in the QWERTY keypad are well spaced out and easy to use.
The 3.2 mega pixel camera is really good. It takes crisp pictures in bright environments but picture quality is moderate in the dim-lit environments. The second camera is for video calling purpose and you cannot take self-portraits using that. This phone features a business card scanner, WiFi and 3G. Internet speeds are quite satisfying. The battery life is goos. Overall the phone rates to 3.9 out of 5