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The Sony Ericsson C905 is set to become the new standard for camera phones when it’s released in October (just in time for Christmas!). Forget the 5 megapixel camera phones of last year – the C905 comes with a huge 8 megapixel camera, some serious camera wizardry to get the best out of all those pixels, and a huge range of other features, such as HSDPA, WiFi and aGPS, as well.

The question is – how well does it work? Only one way to find out – read on after the jump for our Sony Ericsson C905 review.

Sony Ericsson have announced the new Sony Ericsson T700, a mid-range phone that’s the spiritual successor to Sony Ericsson’s T610. For those of you who don’t remember the T610, it was the first phone that put Sony Ericsson on the map. It wasn’t a high-end phone, but for some reason it was extremely popular, and people not only bought it by the barge-load, they also seem to have a soft spot for it, too.

Given that the old T610 was released five years ago, comparing it to the new T700 gives an excellent impression of just how far phones have come in the past five years. So read on after the jump for a direct comparison between the T610 and T700.

In addition to the Sony Ericsson W902, the company has also announced the Sony Ericsson W595 and W302, two more Walkman phones that collectively have been launched to celebrate the Walkman phone’s third birthday (has it really been three years? They grow up so fast!).

Unlike the W902, though, which Sony Ericsson are touting as a premium handset (even though it’s just a mid-range one!), the W595 and W302 are designed for more sensitive wallets, and so are cheaper and come with fewer features.

More details after the jump.

Sony Ericsson has announced the Sony Ericsson W902, a premium Walkman phone that for once focuses more on sound quality than on features. The W902 comes with sound quality that’s apparently best in class, which you’d rather expect in a phone with a Walkman badge on it. Unfortunately, that’s not always been the case, with most Walkman phone only offering average sound quality, so it’s nice to see a new Walkman phone that can, er, walk the walk, as it were!

More details and pictures of the Sony Ericsson W902 after the jump.

Time for a Sony Ericsson C902 camera phone review, I think! The C902 is another Sony Ericsson CyberShot phone, this time destined to take over from its predecessor, the Sony Ericsson K850i. As you’d guess, the C902 is therefore all about taking photos, but it’s got an armoury of other features as well. Not quite as many as a Nokia N-Series phone, but it is extremely well equipped, and much slimmer than the K850i, too.

Better still, the C902 is being pitched as a mid-range phone, so despite its range of high-end features, it won’t break the bank.

What do you get for your money? Read our full Sony Ericsson C902 review to find out.

The following Sony Ericsson K800i review is a little different from other mobile phone reviews across the Web (and certainly different from other reviews we’ve done here at MobileMentalism). It’s a long-term review, showing what the Sony Ericsson K800i has been like to use over the course of six months.

The K800i is a very capable camera phone, being part of Sony Ericsson’s CyberShot range, and is now available at extremely attractive prices. To see whether the phone is for you or not, hit the link to read our full long-term Sony Ericsson K800i review.

Things really are being all shook up in the mobile phone world. Hot on the heels of Motorola splitting itself in two comes news that Sony Ericsson has canned two of its eagerly awaited smartphones – the Sony Ericsson P5i, codenamed Paris, and the Sony Ericsson G702 (codenamed BeiBei). These phones have been talked about and debated for months now, with people split on whether the liked the design or not.

Clearly the same debate was happening within Sony Ericsson, too, and those people who decided that the phones were not up to scratch won out and killed them. Fevered debate around the blogosphere speculates that the P5i was killed off because its feature-list was already behind that of its competitors even before it was released. This would be bad enough for a low-end phone, but for a smartphone, it’s techno-suicide!

However, that’s not all – the blogosphere itself may have had something to do with their decision…

Sony Ericsson have announced the new Sony Ericsson F305, a mobile phone with what the company calls “Motion Gaming.” This feature is basically an accelerometer inside the phone, which lets you control the characters in your game by moving the phone around. For example, you can play bowling by making the appropriate bowling movements with the phone in your hand. Remind you of anything?!

Yes, despite rumours of a Sony Ericsson PSP phone, the company seems instead to have created its own Wii phone! The difference, though, is that with a Wii you get direct feedback from your actions by seeing your character respond to your movements on the screen in real time. With the Sony Ericsson F305, you can’t see your character move, as of course the screen is attached to the phone. So you have to make the movement in isolation, and then look at the screen afterwards to see if your character did what it was meant to. Should make for an interesting set of games!

More details of the Sony Ericsson F305 game phone after the jump.

The Sony Ericsson C905 CyberShot phone has at last been made official. Sony Ericsson’s latest super camera phone is a technological tour de force, designed to take on and beat the best that Nokia’s N-Series can throw at it. Not for Sony Ericsson a measly 5 megapixels – the C905 comes with 8.1 megapixels. Connectivity? While the average Nokia N-Series can manage Wi-Fi, HSDPA, USB and Bluetooth 2.0, the C905 features all that and throws DLNA into the mix too, enabling your phone’s pictures to be beamed directly to your (DLNA-compatible) TV wirelessly at the touch of a button.

You also get a-GPS, built-in Google Maps, and a tonne of fancy-ass camera-specific features, too, making any N-Series phone look like an iPhone (well, at least in the features stakes anyway!)

Full specification and many more pictures of the Sony Ericsson C905 camera phone after the jump.

Just in case you didn’t believe that Sony Ericsson were serious about releasing an 8 megapixel camera phone, here are a few more pics that just might make you change your mind. The first thing to note is that these pics aren’t Photoshopped – they’re the genuine article. Then look at the detail – not only is “8 megapixel” clearly written on the side, but also Wi-Fi and GPS.

Make no mistake, the Sony Ericsson C905 is going to be one monster of a camera phone, but only as far as features are concerned. As you can see from the pic below, although bigger than a Motorola RAZR, it’s not vastly so, meaning it’ll be a large camera phone, but not an enormous one.

Update: Check out our initial impressions with our early Sony Ericsson C905 review

More pics of the Sony Ericsson C905 camera phone after the jump.