Sony Ericsson C905 Review

Interface:

From K850 and W910 on, the A200 generation software is used in the high-class, non-smart SE phones. This model is not an exception, but C905’s version is slightly upgraded and is also present in W980, C902 and C702.

It’s typical for the manufacturer to offer interesting graphic themes that change the menu design and add interactive features on the homescreen. We like the wallpapers, which are influenced by the accelerometer and the option for additional applications. In this model we only have „Slideshow wallpaper”. As the name hints, it will show pictures from the camera album.


The evolution has had its influence on the main menu as well , and there already are a few theme independent views. You can choose between the standard one, Rotating (the icons appear as a film) or Single icon (the icons are visualized one by one on the entire screen and slide vertically).


Phonebook:

The phonebook hasn’t changed and has remained the same for almost 3 years now (5 generations). There are quite some fields when adding a new contact (various numbers, addresses, birthdays, additional information) and they are well grouped. However, it’s strange (and inconvenient) not to be able to search by second name in a model from 2008. We like the fact that upon entering digits from the home screen, name and number matches appear. However, here as well, those include first name entries only.



Organizer:

The organizer functions have not been modified either. As a whole, everything is well made, but we do have some remarks. In the calendar for example, there are enough fields when adding an event, but the days with one are only slightly marked (bold) and are hardly noticeable. The alarms offer many options and the only thing we didn’t like was that they are limited to five. The tasks, notes, timers and the calculator are just fine. We don’t see any point in having the coded notes and prefer to have password protected ones instead.



Similarly to K850, here we also have an RSS reader, but it is located in the multimedia menu. This application is used for viewing the content of web sites without having to actually load them. The option to see the latest info from your favorite sites directly on the homescreen (like widgets) is very nice.