Sony Ericsson will very shortly be dropping an absolute monster of a camera phone on us all - the Sony Ericsson C905, complete with an 8 megapixel camera. Currently codenamed the Sony Ericsson Shiho, the C905 is set to blow all other camera phones out of the water. Not only do you get a megapixellage so vast it makes your eyes water, it also comes with all manner of nifty photo-enhancing features normally found in cameras. Not just auto-focus, which you'd expect, but also a xenon flash, face recognition, smart contrast, image stabilization, BestPic, and red-eye reduction. And that's just the camera! Throw in a-GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, and all manner of other goodies, and the C905 is every Sony Ericsson fan-boy's wet dream come true! Full details of the Sony Ericsson C905 after the jump. Update: Check out or early Sony Ericsson C905 review.

Sony Ericsson C905 in detail

I touched on some of the features of the C905 in the first part of this post, so let's expand on them a bit. Firstly, the camera. 8.1 megapixels in size, and with such a huge range of photo-enhancing features that come with it, it's set to be the best camera phone one the market bar none. Naturally it's branded a CyberShot. Secondly, connectivity. The Nokia N95 first set the bench mark for connectivity last year, and the C905 seems to be going out of its way to beat it. Wi-Fi, HSDPA and HSUPA (for super-fast upload speeds, which you'll need when each picture is over 5MB in size!), plus Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, TV-Out and DLNA. This last acronym, standing for Digital Living Network Alliance, is technology designed to enable compatible devices to seamlessly share content with one another. A DLNA-equipped mobile phone, for example, can beam its pictures directly to a DLNA-equipped TV for presenting, without the need for cables. As far as connectivity is concerned, then, the C905 will pretty much connect with anything, simply and quickly. There's even integrated support for Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and a number of other Web sites, too, for simple upload of your content to these sites via a single button click. Then there's the small matter of a-GPS. Not only can you use this as a Sat-Nav, but it'll also let you geo-tag your pics as well. Still not enough for you? How about full VGA video, complete with picture stabilizer, or accelerometer that flips pictures from landscape to portrait mode when you turn the phone 90 degrees? Each of these features outdoes the Nokia N95 and makes the Apple iPhone, which still only has a poor 2 megapixel non-auto focus camera even on the latest 3G version, look like something Motorola would develop! The downside, of course, is size and weight. The Sony Ericsson C905 will measure 104 x 49 x 19.5 millimetres, and weigh a whopping 136 grams. But that's the price you pay for gadgetry perfection! At least the battery life isn't too shabby, with 380 hours standby or 9 hours of talk on GSM networks, and 360 hours standby or 4 hours of talk on 3G networks. The Sony Ericsson C905 release date isn't yet known, but it's rumoured it'll be Q4 2008. An announcement is expected from the company on 17th June, so watch this space for updates. It will come in either Copper Gold, Ice Silver or Night Black with a 2 GB Memory Stick Micro M2.

Sample pictures from the Sony Ericsson C905's camera

As if all that wasn't enough, check out some sample pictures taken from this beast: Don't worry about the colour on the photos at this stage - it's still in prototype form, and the colours have yet to be finished. If you want to see the photos full size, check them out over at SE-Nse.net.

Video preview of the Sony Ericsson C905

Finally, check out this video preview of the Sony Ericsson C905 to get a better feel for how it'll look. Last year, I complained that Sony Ericsson were in danger of doing a Motorola, sitting back on their laurels and letting their competitors race ahead of them in the mobile phone features race, as they concentrated solely on churning out more and more Walkman phones and CyberShot phones, each of which was pretty similar to its predecessor. Happily, nothing could be further from the truth this year, with first the Xperia X1 and now the Sony Ericsson C905 CyberShot putting the company right back where it belongs, at the bleeding edge of mobile phone technology - and frankly, I'm delighted! [Source: Se-Nse.net]