Sony Ericsson K850 review: 5 megapixel Phone-and-Shoot

14 September 2007
We called Sony Ericsson K810 the rebirth of the Cyber-shot. We're now looking at a great leap forward in developing the company's cameraphone lineup in the face of the glamorous Sony Ericsson K850. It brings a bunch of novelties in design...

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  • Steve
  • m5T
  • 15 Sep 2007

"This K850 camera phone blows N95 out of the water"

I received the K850 for acceptance testing last week and it doesn't.

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    • Ms. Colombo
    • PV$
    • 15 Sep 2007

    Sad..........How can everyone just keep posting without actually seeing and using the Sony Ericsson K850 first hand.........Iv been using soo many phones, and i must say, clarity and picture quality wise sony ericcson is the best.... Nokia phones are lous but sony ericcson phones have a better clarity --- we dont need phones to sound like a music stage anyway!
    And if u compare the Nokia N95 to the Sony ericson K810---- the camera quality on the SE is much better!

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      • Anonymous
      • Mty
      • 15 Sep 2007

      AFAIK, K850 uses dual memory card slot. MicroSD slot and M2 slot.

      BTW, for most of us, a good digital-camera is just an extra option, it's not the main reason to buy a new phone.
      IMO, if you were going to buy a new phone, better buy the phone that offer more features within the price range.
      and if you were looking for a good digital-camera, there's many great compact digital-camera out there that priced less than US$200 (ie: Fuji A900 or Canon A570IS).
      just don't let the megapixel blinds you...

      peace!
      :)

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        • Anonymous
        • PB1
        • 15 Sep 2007

        it's nice to know that SE finally decided to use the "Call" and "End-Call" buttons just like the other manufacturers.
        :)
        as for me, i think the overall design is not attractive. SE should hire new designer team.

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          • Anonymous
          • iA@
          • 15 Sep 2007

          Too late to the market and inferior product anyways. Not surprising, SE downfall began years ago..

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            • Johnny
            • mv8
            • 15 Sep 2007

            This K850 camera phone blows N95 out of the water. N95 is a little of everything, K850 is the best camera phone.

            Read the review people, it's about innovation, not just the megapixel race.

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              • Anonymous
              • p7k
              • 15 Sep 2007

              what about memory card slot?

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                • Anonymous
                • SXc
                • 15 Sep 2007

                No dedicated button to start/pause playback?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • pSP
                  • 15 Sep 2007

                  i was surprised, but it is true: n95 makes better photos than this one

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                    • Anonymous
                    • Pne
                    • 15 Sep 2007

                    let's not compare camera-phones with camera only devices... they're about the same size and a camera-phone must have 300x features than a camera only device...

                    K850 will support megabass if u don't read the review...

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                      • Anonymous
                      • ib6
                      • 15 Sep 2007

                      even the person who reveiw on this phone forgot the simple things, this is a phone not a camera. You r right, a simple 3.2mp camera can beat this, that or all camera phone

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                        • Sky707
                        • ibc
                        • 15 Sep 2007

                        do anyone noe k850i support MEGABASS ?

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                          • Read.
                          • jhu
                          • 15 Sep 2007

                          You can not compare real camera with cellphon cameras, and MP is not all.

                          My Kodak easy share 3.1 mp camera beats N95 and k850 camera. thats cuz they were designed to take photos.

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                            • k850i
                            • jhu
                            • 15 Sep 2007

                            Uhm.. they dun exactly nid to be branded to take good pics lol. Just a normal 5MP sony lens. Did that made u sad?

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                              • ahmeed
                              • SkE
                              • 15 Sep 2007

                              Sucks

                              SE doesn't use carl zeiss optics ...

                              the N95 is better than K850i

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                                • Lukas
                                • MDk
                                • 14 Sep 2007

                                It does not make any difference what brand it is. Unless it makes you feel better. Pathetic...

                                And NO NO NO, SonyEricsson do NOT use Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar lens...

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                                  • Andy Burgin
                                  • pTC
                                  • 14 Sep 2007

                                  Sony Ericssons got to go back to a standard keypads now days to attract more people to buy its mobiles they try round buttons on the K810,silly slot ones on the K880 an k610i an now these on a supposed be there top mobile but they look an might be very hard for people to get use to,they K750i were just right so the K800i but they seem to let there cameras mobiles down by making this silly mistake an can"t wait to here peoles comments whenthe K850 is released soon

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                                    • OcmG
                                    • 4mX
                                    • 14 Sep 2007

                                    they mostly use Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar lens, but they don't boast it like Nokia does. Sony uses those lenses for all of their digicams anyways.. so it would make sense that they use CZ VT lenses on their cybershot cameraphones..

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                                      • blah
                                      • q}p
                                      • 14 Sep 2007

                                      wut brand of lens do Sony Ericsson use for their phones?