Sony Ericsson K850 vs. Nokia N95: 5 megapixel shootout

04 September 2007
This year several GSM cameraphones have already reached the 5 megapixel barrier. The Nokia N95 has been out long enough now that it's even got an update - an 8GB version with a larger screen and a larger battery so obviously it will stick around...

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  • the guy
  • pka
  • 05 Sep 2007

i'm a se fan'but to be frank'nokia rules the market whith their products..the n95 black 8gig roks..don't know what hapent with se this days y think they keep their pruducts for them...they give as only low price crapy phone..my opinon'

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    • viperkid
    • PRQ
    • 05 Sep 2007

    i don't trust mobile-review and never will in doing mobile reviews coz for me Mr. Eldar Murtazin is biased and clearly a Sony Ericsson fanboy. juz look at his statements on the new budget XpressMusic phones and previous nokia reviews.. also, d fact dat Mr. Murtazin seems like dat he cannot accept N95 as a "converged device" coz of his so called standards.. and most of the statements by Eldar Murtazin against the 3250 were all unfair and untrue coz for 1 i own a 3250 and all u hav to do is plug in quality earphones and u'll get d same and even better audio quality than SE walkman phones whilst Mr. Murtazin keep on commenting dat d quality doesn't seem to improve even with use of high end headphones..

    i think GSMarena is juz fair in their reviews coz look at their previous camera shootout reviews, if i remember correctly, all d previous match ups by nokia and SE were won by SE (i.e. K800 vs N73; N80 vs K800 and K750 vs N90) so, y do SE fans speculating dat GSMarena is biased towards one brand?! coz dey can't accept defeat?! LOL
    keep up d goodwork GSMARENA!

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      • Team
      • M@T
      • 05 Sep 2007

      There will be soon a big review about g600,n95,k850 in mobile review and you can expect some corrections. The first review is bogus since a new firmware has upgraded N95's camera quality. The fact is that a new firmware could upgrade k850's too. But the real point is about hardware. Like you've read n95 sensor is bigger than k850's, that is hardware not software. Means that n95 has the best potentiel and k850 will not be able to hide that a long time.

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        • Kultissim
        • M@T
        • 05 Sep 2007

        that was for >> knocked kiaout

          • K
          • Kultissim
          • M@T
          • 05 Sep 2007

          Snlm seems like you are a complete real noob: first I own a k800 and his sound quality is far behind his concurrent the N73 and the best music phone in sound quality is the N91 which sound is far better than any SE Walkman. Anyone interested a bit by mobile performance know that. Secondly saying what you said about 3D gaming is just like saying that a bus is faster than a formula 1....the reason nokia is not the best in java 3D is because they have symbian in their mid to high end phones. Symbian is so much better for 3D gaming and only a noob would claim the contrary. Search "brothers in arm 3D" or "ONE who's the next" or "system rush" in youtube to see the kind of beautiful games that will never be playable on a java phone like your K850.

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            • math
            • SnL
            • 05 Sep 2007

            @Benson
            Yeah, a poster which doesn't change.
            How weird :)

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              • knocked kiaout
              • PDJ
              • 05 Sep 2007

              beaten on camera comparison(thats what you said),but still cant beat any sony ericsson sound quality,and the latest (3d) games doesn't work on nokias.SE the best complete, mobile entertainment/entertainment mobile ,all in one,camera,mp3,mp4,videos,games,battery life,overall performance in solidity & durability.

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                • Benson
                • PUS
                • 05 Sep 2007

                Did anyone notice that in the first set of pictures, at the beach and with the huge umbrella, the people inside the pictures are in the exact same positions and postures.

                Seems weird to me.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • M@T
                  • 05 Sep 2007

                  All SE fan boy's have weak mind like SE phone plastic The real competition of K850i is with Nokia N95 8GB which is lot more faster than earlier N95 so time will tell the difference the new N95 8GB has all earlier camera related problem solved except that camera lense cover removed

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                    • Anonymous
                    • PFK
                    • 05 Sep 2007

                    @louish loh

                    but its more true. and their review is more complete. just check up the comparation of rokr e2, 3250, and walkman phone. they reviewed it very detailed and so much variable.. its mean they not just talking some bulshit but realy review it...so its more near to the real... i agree that nokia is a good phone, but somehow some people just make it look like it a phone from heaven. nokia still have so much weakness....face it.....

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                      • Anonymous
                      • PFK
                      • 05 Sep 2007

                      for you all, check this site:

                      http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyericsson-k850-cam-en.shtml

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                        • LouisLoh
                        • TIE
                        • 05 Sep 2007

                        And if you had read mobile-review's reviews more extensively, you'ld have noticed their bias against Nokias and towards SEs.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • PFK
                          • 05 Sep 2007

                          are all gsmarena crew nokia fans? i saw same preview in mobile-review.com and it said that k850 slightly win in camera quality.

                          and i also dont believe that nokia 6120 clasic has a very much compliment in the review which what i saw from my self its not that good like gsmarena said (it look like a phone for a dork people from my opinion, the design is just out of date. and the material its not that good).

                          they also never review rokr e2 which mobile-review.com already reviewed it and compare it with sony walkman and nokia 3250, and perfectly nokia looses so much from SE and motorola. But i never found about statement like that in gsmarena.

                          and lastly, they also make a rokr e7 like a joke portfolio from motorola which in their news they said about " MOTOROLA E7. HAD A GOOD LAUGH AT IT" which i believe they will never said that if it was a nokia phone. if its not true why they just dont put in on the site and make it like a joke...its not really professional i think....

                          am i made wrong hipotesis?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 45m
                            • 05 Sep 2007

                            wow, why is video part of the review? is it because if video wasn't part of it, then nokia will loose?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • ib6
                              • 05 Sep 2007

                              it's true that nokia weak on its battery life, but SE also weak on its release date...

                              on this review, most image capture by n95 is superior, i admire some natural scene image capture by SE is well too. Even the image looks abit gloom but the image feel confortable while i view on that....anywhere still support nokia

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 0HG
                                • 05 Sep 2007

                                GSMArena should seriously put the prototype designation or firmware revision on the phones they review, seriously... it's just stupid not to, and creates a lot of dumb comments from other users.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • ib6
                                  • 05 Sep 2007

                                  if SE fans still says: "now the k850 is only beta version/prototype, so nokia fans wait and see the real k850", i will simply say: "HAHA". N95 already been release 6 month earlier, still k850 release date stated (coming soon). Maybe SE already realise they are not as good as nokia, so they need more time to improve and improve again. Yea, go ahead, when the time SE k850 realise, another nokia phone N82 will step on your head..

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • Pru
                                    • 05 Sep 2007

                                    It is very funny how people say that Sony Cybershot cameras are good... they are probably the worst of digital still cameras... cant compare them to Canon or Nikon, pure mediocre and did I say expensive? products.

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                                      • Shedo0o
                                      • T0n
                                      • 05 Sep 2007

                                      Yooo ViVa NoKia, I used to hate Nokia and love SE, But now for sure i'll turn to N95 !!!!
                                      Hope the only problem "battery life" would have a solution...

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                                        • razec
                                        • 2A3
                                        • 05 Sep 2007

                                        Being blinded by the fact that K850 was under it's development stage still Nokia fanboys consider N95 a winner. while in fact N95 camera was already improved by several firmware revisions. and even forgetting another fact that SE has lots of camera modding softwares to boost image quality like the ones present in K750 and K80 and it is expected also to be available to K850 once it's been available. so it is very early to percieve that N95 won the fight.