![]() ![]() The K850i inherits the K810i's little number keys, but these are square rather than round and a bit rubbery for better dialing traction. The back hump from old Cybershot phones is thankfully a thing of the past, and the K850i has a flat back with a piano black finish that looks simply lovely and camera-like though it attracts fingerprints like the plague. It's still got the K series basic candy bar design, and the phone's size hasn't changed significantly. The K850i strikes us as lightly updated K800i that looks more modern and clean. ![]() And overall, the K850i looks lovely and much more modern than its predecessors. There's an accelerometer than senses phone orientation and switches to landscape mode when in multimedia applications and three touch sensitive keys, also new for the K850i. To store music (along with those big photos and videos taken with the camera) there's 40 megs of internal memory and even better both a Memory Stick Micro M2 slot and a microSD card slot for cards up to 4 gigs in capacity.įor those considering an upgrade from the Sony Ericsson K790, K800 or K810, the K850 offers a brighter, larger QVGA display along with the significant camera bump and 3G. Though not a Walkman phone (Sony Ericsson's other line of specialized phones gleaned from their joint venture with Sony), the K850i boasts strong music playback skills with stereo output through the included earbud headset and A2DP stereo Bluetooth headphones, Megabass, DRM support and an FM radio. Fancy stuff for a camera phone, and in fact, the K850i, a bit more than the beloved Nokia N95, makes us want to leave our dedicated point-and-shoot camera at home. There's 16x digital zoom, Sony Ericsson's BestPic feature, image and video stabilization and red eye reduction. The 5 megapixel camera has an autofocus lens, automatic lens cover and a Xenon flash. This is a K series Cybershot phone, and that puts the camera on center stage. The phone will work with AT&T and T-Mobile in the US, though the 3G makes it particularly attractive to AT&T customers. The K850i has triband UMTS/HSDPA 3G that will work anywhere in the world 3G service is available, and GSM/EDGE/GPRS that will work anywhere in the world GSM is available. The phone is sold by online retailers and importers, but currently isn't offered by a US carrier (there are rumors that AT&T might carry it sometime in the future). The Sony Ericsson K850i is a quad band GSM unlocked phone with US 3G, and that's a big deal: with Sony Ericsson imports, we've been lucky to get the US 850MHz band for GSM, let alone US 3G. elegant feature phone, 2) Nokia always needs a few months and firmware updates to iron out the imaging gremlins 3) once import prices settle, the K850i will be a significantly lower priced device than the feature-laden N95 models. We think the 6 month later intro isn't such a bad thing for a variety of reasons, including 1) the two phones target different users: smartphone to the max vs. And now we have the 5 megapixel autofocus battle of late 2007: the N95 vs. Nokia and Sony Ericsson have been in a high end camera phone contest for the past two years- we had the 3 megapixel autofocus wars in the summer of 2006 between the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson K790i (and K800i). In fact, just before the K850i's release, Nokia also managed to release two revisions of the original N95: the N95-3 for the US market and the N95 8 gig. ![]() That's the itchy-scratchy position Sony Ericsson finds themselves in with the K850i coming out a half a year after the flagship Nokia N95. ![]() In the world of high tech, you don't want your product to come out a month after your competitor's, let alone 6 months. Home -> Phone Reviews -> Sony Ericsson K850i Sony Ericsson K850i Cybershot Phone ![]()
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