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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nine! Nine! Nine!, 22 Aug 2008
Like many considering the C902 I was bowled over by web reviewers of this handset who claimed it to be the next mobile oracle.
Whilst everyone appreciates technical innovation in a handset, I think most of us look for quality design, solid construction and basic performance first. Sadly, its the basics which let the C902 down badly.
Don't get me wrong, it a has great screen, excellent audio quality and decent (though far from great) camera. But so do other Sony handsets costing less than half of this.
The phone is let down spectacularly by its poor ergonomic design.
The keypad is cluttered, stiff and very awkward to use. If you send several texts a day, you'll hate it. Keypad illumination is shocking. Similarly the D-pad is of very poor quality, having the look/feel of a £20 handset let alone a £200 one.
Sony handsets typically boast the best gui interface of any mobile manufacturer, a smooth and lucid navigation experience. Not so on the C902 where (shock! horror!) its a clunky, slow experience. Even with the latest firmware applied.
In terms of construction, the handset's most obvious feature is it's 12mm depth (suit pocket friendly!). But in all honestly if this is a primary consideration, check out Samsung and Motorola for vastly superior designs.
I own a (cheaper and way better quality) T650i. I'm pretty confident K810i/K850i would argue similar things. All in all, I'm growing very sceptical about Sony's 'C' series phones, only the C702 seems worth consideration in the range.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good phone bad phone, 21 Jul 2008
Sony Ericsson has been rather busy over the past couple of years. They seem to be improving the seeming impossible to improve handsets, but i fear here that they have failed to improve the excellent K850.
The C902 isn't a bad phone. It's just not a great one. It describes itself as being made of premium materials such as metal. The back face plate is indeed metal, but that's it. The rest of the phone is just plastic. The phone has a unique slide out lens cover which i expected to open with a satisfiying 'click'. It doesn't. We move on. Now to their credit, the screen quality is superb. The menu has had a slight re-style with improved icons. The accelerometers that turn the image as you tilt the phone are used again in this model, and can be used to reasonable effect when playing the built-in mobile game 'Need For Speed Pro Street'. The camera has auto focus and a 5MP sensor and in many cases will replace your digital camera. The flash isn't a xenon, though, but having an LED flash keeps the phone slim. Personally i like larger, fatter phones as they feel more sturdy and robust. The keypad is shiny, black plastic, like the Sony PSP, and we all know how easily they attract fingerprints. Yes it's a nightmare if you like your phone to look pristine every time. It's nice to text on and they are proper buttons for once instead of a flat keypad, or thin bar shaped buttons. Unusually the volume buttons are on the bottom right hand side of the phone instead of the top right, but it's for easy access when the camera is in use, for the zoom control. It also has a smallish screen because the outer edge is touch sensetive which is used for the touch screen controls for the camera, which do work well.
Overall the C902 is an okay phone. I'd like to have seen a better lens cover with a better opening mechanism, a bigger screen perhaps, and more metal used in its construction. Still, as a camera phone it will serve you well.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The latest offering from Sony Ericsson, 25 Jul 2008
I just happened to be browsing in a mobile phone store for mobile broadband when I saw this handset. I was instantly drawn to its sleek design and its slimness, which when compared with my chunky Nokia N95, was a welcome prospect. I also needed a new handset anyway, as my N95 is dying!!
I have been using Nokia phones religiously for the last 10 years but I found it easy to figure out the basics and find my way around this handset. It has a 5 Megapixel camera which you can expose by pulling one end out gently, at the screen end of the handset. It is actually better in quality, picturewise, than the N95, taking clearer, sharper photos.
In terms of internet, another reason for me choosing this phone, it has links on it already to eBay, Youtube and Facebook, although I must admit I have not been able to download the Windows Messenger you can get on there for free; not sure though if the problem lies with me or with the network provider (I don't actually think it's the phone's fault!)
It has some funky ringtones already on there; I chose the guitar one. The phone is colourful and easy to navigate but one thing I miss about Nokias is the ease of getting out of applications; eg o Nokias you just press the key once to escape from an application etc but here you have to press "Back" multiple times which can be tedious if you're as impatient as me!!
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