Sony Ericsson C905 Slide Phone 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ same great SE menu, best cybershot to date. nice weight and size, in genral and great design and good looking phone within a quality build.

- battery life.. 1 day tops.. if you use your phone alot. 2 days if you leave BT and WIFI off.
Video calling.. well they got it right on the k800i. it needs a forward facing camera... without it doesn't work right.
doesn't have touch a screen, when older models do.

+ All the features that comes with the phone is great.

- The battery gets weak very quickly after 2 calls

+ camera is amazing

- battery doesnt last to long if you use it alot

+ overall it is a brillant phone.

- nothing but hte battery runs out quite quickly, so i have to keep charging it.

+ This is a fantastic phone! The camera and video is the best feature. Its very easy to use. I would recommend this phone.

- The battery on this phone doesn't last very long. I have to charge it every other day! Thats the only bad thing about this phone!

+ Good camera

- cannot synchronise with Apple computers - very annoying as old Sony could via iSync

+ Good camera and really easy to use.

- Keypad is quite hard to use when texting as the buttons tend to merge together.

+ camera is the best yet ,like the phone overall but some features are hard to get a grip with (ringtones ,,,might just be me ) .,

- battery sucks,

+ This phone is attractive to look at, easy to use, has a large memory, has an incredible 8.1 megapixel camera, and all the top of the range features such as mp3, bluetooth, tv output etc. Even video calling! Also, it lights up blue when you use the camera, I love blue lights!

- Although it has a lot of really good points, the bad things I would point out about this phone are that the battery doesn't seem to last very long after charging, a lot of the applications and services have to connect to the internet which costs a lot, so you have to be careful with that. Also, although it's not a problem at the moment, I do worry that in the future the lens cover may become easily broken, but hopefully not!

+ Looks good, nice solid feel to it.

- difficult to text with, camera is very slow so unless you are taking still life pictures your subject has usually left the room between pushing the button and the time the camera eventually takes the photo!

+ This is the greatest phone I have ever own since the first SE product which is K750i back 3 years ago for its' great camera.This has WiFi and GPS well not much to complain about to be honest.I have recommend this phone to 3 friends which they loved it after made the switch from Samsung and Nokia.

- I wish the keypad had Blue light instead:P but its not really a bad point it's just a personal preference over colour:)

+ It is easy to use has a nice big screen. The camera is very good as is the music capabilities.

- The keypad is sometimes pretty unresponsive when writing texts etc on it. The phone does not lock when you shut it you have to go back to the main screen for it to lock.

+ The quality of the pictures taken with the camera is fantastic!

- Using the camera makes the battery go down really quickly.

+ absolutely gorgeous phone. not as compact as some would like but its got the best camera on the market (at time of purchase) and its so easy to use...very very happy with it!!

- the only bad things that could be said about it are the fact that its not as small as some people would like from a mobile and the battery life could well be a little better...although to run the kind of camera and video this phone has its only to be expected really

+ Looks great, easy to use, great camera. The organiser is capable of holding far more information than than any of my previous phones. Excellent.

- I have only used about 10% of the phones total capability...which I suppose is another plus. No, to be honest I haven't come across a single shortcoming.

+ camera,video

- battery life not great

+ beautiful camera, nice design and very easy to use like all Sony Ericsson mobile phones

- None

+ excellent camera looks good has everything except touch screen.

- have to recharge quite often compared with previous phones

+ good pictures

- poor video, locks when u close the phone, annoying! too hard to get e-mails from yahoo.

+ Looks good, battery lasts ages, its easy to use, the camera is amazing

- Its quite heavy, marks easily, would be nice if you could lock the keypad with the phone closed, rather than either sliding it open then closed again, or waiting ages for the auto lock.

+ small, compact and the "my shortcut" button is great.

- The key pad for texting is to sensative and the battery life is to short.

+ The C905 is fantastic! smart, stylish, easy to use, exellent camera and easy to get on facebook while your out and about! if you have had a sony ericsson before has same features and some more shots in the menu!

- There are a few things i DON'T like, these are that the screen is easly damaged, its get very dirty while using it for work and what every phone needs is a light! so you have to use the screen as a light in the dark! Bad times...

+ the camera is the brilliant and the desgn

- battery life and price

+ Brilliant camera

- key pad terrible. 1 month old and the one of the numbers already doesnt work. battery life is abismal. im lucky to get a day from it when charged all night.

+ camera quality brilliant, easy to use phone, good features

- feels a bit loose sometimes when sliding open

+ The phone has all the latest features, sat nav, excellent camera, good interface and even a really quick browser which i was impressed with

- The battery life, the longest ive had out of the phone is about 18 hours - ie Charged through night, full charged in the morning and runs out at night of the same day - im not even a heavy user!

+ /this phone has the lot good screen,nice slide(qualaty feel) and great media functions and the camara is better than my 10 mega pixel at home

- key pad is a texters nightmare!

+ Has a good camera.

- I had loads of problems with the software. Not only that i have found the slide feature on it to be a bit loose! Wasn't as impressed as i thought i would be.

+ Excellent pictures/camera. Easy to use, brilliant quality pictures, easy to transfer to PC, and came with memory card, what more could I ask for?

- Battery doesn't stay charged for long when using the camera (a lot), but that's only a minor thing and doesn't stop me being truly madly deeply in love with my C905,

+ the camara is fantastic

- battery seems to go down quite quick,

+ Excellent camera, good software, all round ease of use

- Battery life can be woeful. Charging every one to two days with moderate use.

+ Outstanding phone, easy to use

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+ Camera is excellent, especially the xenon flash

- text messages not so easy as often press the wrong keypad

+ The camera is very good, is easy to use and takes extremely good pictures, almost as good as (if not better than) most digital cameras. Very good interface, easy to use. Feels solidly made.

- Slightly bulky, but worth it as it is to enable the camera lens to be so good.

+ very nice stylish phone, easy to use latest features and great camera. comes with a memory card so storage is huge

- sometimes freezes

+ Camera amazing, love layout of sony phones.

- It has froze and cut out a few times!

+ I wanted a good camera for taking snaps. This is a fab camera, although I still haven't worked out how to override the flash. If it's not possible, that would be a definite downfall.
Really nice clear screen with plenty of options for personalising it.
Navigation is easy

- Phone and camera are very slow to start up.
Because of the design of the case it's a bit tricky to reach the keys in the corners,

+ camera is all really!!!

- the battery, reception, are really bad!! Overall I wish i'd of got a different phone!!!

+ Stlye & Features , Camera

- Battery Life was disappointing

+ very slick looking and the camera is excelent

- the slide part of the phone wobbles which never happened on other slide phones i have so the build quality seem a bit flimsy on the slide part

+ The camera is fantastic, with Bestpic feature. Easy to use, GPS navigation

- Ring Tone volume could be louder

+ really easy to use, great and easy at taking photos and the way the screen rotates is really good. Such speedy internet also

- extremely bad battery life!!! doesn't even last a day of good use! worse than my old phone at getting signal

+ fantastic camera, nice design and overall a nice phone

- battery life, key board and navagation button not as easy to use as old one

+ The camera is fantastic

- It is quite hard to hear the person on other end of line.

+ Nice big screen, a nice classic looking phone, camera is excellent and so is the sound, menus/navigation is good, battery lasts a while, to be honest I really can't say anything bad about this phone at all, I think it's brilliant and the best phone about!

- None!

+ looks good, good features on the phone such as, camer, loudness of music, wi-fi, GPS

- battery doesn't last that long,

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- VERY bad battery life!!! Im having to charge it everyday. Thats even without using the camera.

+ it's like using an actual digital camera. Picture quality is very high. The phone itself is very good to look at.

- The buttons on the number pad are quite hard to press and the battery seems to drain quite quick.

+ To be honest there isn't actually anything I dislike about the C905. It's web use is quick and easy, the google map link is very useful, the games are top notch, the music is very good quality as is the picture quality/flash of this camera phone which surprised me how good it was. Add these positives to it's looks and handling which I also love and you get one of the best mobiles on the market IMO.

- It does munch batteries a bit but it does get used to death. Apart from that I struggle to be negative, if I could ask for more it may have been a normal headphone socket.

+ Camera and video excellent great style

- All features mean big drain on battery

+ the camera is outstanding and the music player is excellent also

- when you are texting,keep hitting the 5 button and you are not pressing down on that button,also the battery life is not the greatest like previous models

+ its a good phone, dose all you need , fast web, good camera with good flash, mp3 and radio.not a bad size,fits into pocket ok.

- battery life not good if you use the web a lot, i find the battery lasts about a day. cant make photo albums up.

+ Has a very good camera , its simple to navigate through all the different features

- the keypad is the worst point as there are no raised points

+ Great camera, easy to use, lots of features (GPS, WiFI, good web browser etc)

- Doesn't work correctly with Alfa Romeo/Fiat Bluetooth kit (Microsoft Blue and Me). Build quality of slide not great (wobbles), battery life poor when 3G is switched on

+ simply beautiful

- hardly any

+ Easy to use, fab camera! No need to take a camera out with you when you have this phone. Screen quality is good. However sometimes when going thro lists or pictures it takes a while to load or catch up....I have has ony Ericssons for years now and this is a common problem. I dont beleive im TOO fast for the phone to handle. However it is getting better. This 905 is faster to think then the 902. I was also shocked at how light the phone is for its size. Over all Im very pleased with this phone bet of the 8mp phones I think.

- Slow to catch up with fast scanning thro menus (especially send optiions on photos)

+ It takes really good photos even in the darkest of places.

- Battery dies quickly.

+ good camera, sound quality, easy to use

- theres no button on the side to start and stop music

+ i love the camera and video

- the battery does'nt last very long. 2 days at the most.

+ The compact design and usability

- battery life and camera auto focus reaction time with shutter speed

+ Everything except the battery.

- Battery runs out in little over a day, even if it's switched off.

+ everything is very good

- nothing bad on this moment

+ Great camera

- dodgy software, Bluetooth didn't work until i upgraded the Firmware!

+ just love this phone easy to use got everything i need first sony ericson ive had and im impressed

- had the phone for two weeks now and none so far

+ slick design easy to navigate and great camera

- Battery life is very poor

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- Unlike some comparable models its not a true smart phone so functionality is limited.

+ camera

- When using video messageing, you have to turn the phone around. So there fore unable to see the person you are calling.

+ This phone is really good and useful. the screen and camera is brilliant, internet browsing is also wonderful this phone is really nice.

- My sony erricsson phone has broke all of a sudden the screen just broke it keeps goin all black and multi coloured in which im very disappointed ive got to send my phone back to vodafone.

+ phone is really goood for photos and suprizingly music is very good to

- gps navigation has frozen a few times

+ The camera is excellent and the quality is superb! Easy navigation screen and good features to use. Internet connects quite quickly.

- The keypad is too small once you slide up the phone, if you have big fingers this phone is not for you! it will just click the next letter. You have to get the earpeice at the right angle or you cant hear. Battery life is ok but I have to charge it every other day.

+ Same menu systems as previous sony erricsson models, nice camera and organiser synchronises perfect with iSync on a Mac computer

- Numberpad can be fidley and doesn't seem as robust as the old k750i type keypad

+ great camera

- battery life is poor to average

+ The camera and the memory are brilliant!

- The keys are too close together so texting can be a little difficult.

+ I really liked the camara and the menus

- The key pad was so awkward to use and this is why I returned the phone.

+ The camera is fantastic, really clear and sharp.
Sound quality for calls and mp3's was also very good.

- Battery life was awful - it would need to be fully charged (by this I mean, the battery would run down to the point where the phone turned off) every other day and that was just using the phone for the occasional phone call and text messaging.
The keypad was awkward to use - a couple of the buttons would stick and I had to really press down hard to unstick them.
The phone itself was very slow - I would press the menu button and it would take up to 2 minutes sometimes to access the menu.

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- No 'one key' return to standby.

+ excellent phone carnt really say anything bad about it if your looking to get a new phone surely this is the one

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+ A superb phone with supurb features.

- Battery life is not very good but then with all the features, perhaps not too surprising. Speaker for listening to music is not of the greatest of quality.

+ It looks good.
Seems pretty reliable.
Great Camera Quality!

- The whole phone is quite big.
Picture memory is very high!

+ Camera, menu layout, features, design.

- Keypad a bit hard to text from, even if your fingers are quite slim like mine, battery life ok but not great.

+ Camera is ace!

- Buttons on keypad are a bit difficult to text on as completely flat!

+ the performance of this phone is fantastic it lives up to its expectations and more very impressive.

- weight and size.

+ looks good, easy to use.
camera is amazing.
slide is very smooth.
easy to text even when drunk!!

- the slide on the camera sometimes gets stuck.

+ Camera, Wireless, GPS

- Battery Life

+ Feels well made and has a great finish. Lots of advanced features built in like Wi-Fi and GPS. Camera cover is flush so won't open accidentally. Fast and pretty user interface that uses its large screen efficiently.

- Predictive texting is a bit odd and keeps coming up with "H'll". A few very slight bugs noticed (e.g. animations in text messages) although these may be fixed in later firmware versions. Would be good to be able to switch flight mode on and off without rebooting the handset. The keypad feels a tiny bit too 'sunken', especially when trying to press the corner keys, although it may be that I just need to get used to it! Would be nice to have a toggle between US/UK for the address book field Zip Code so it doesn't default to numbers. The calendar could do with: a) better connection with address book for birthdays since altering the name or birthday of a contact only partially updates the calendar entry. b) an option for anniversary and party as types of calendar entries. c) have an option to display the next several events, maybe on the main screen. d) automatically make birthdays (and anniversaries) "all day events". e) show the age of someone having a birthday plus have an option for omitting their birthyear.