Sony Ericsson is continuing its focus on creating the ultimate camera phone. One of the latest efforts is the HSDPA ready, the Sony Ericsson K850. The 5MP digital camera on the rear of the model means that the K850 is up against Nokia N95 and Samsung G600.

While most phones will skimp on something, Sony Ericsson has thrown the lot at this model, making it a great walkman, a great camera and a great mobile phone. The 5MP Cybershot camera has BestPic, which takes nine shots in sequence every time, making it positively tricky to take a bad photo. It has also Xenon flash for dodgy light situations, intelligent search and the Photo Fix capability (last seen on the K810) that is like Photoshop for your phone.

The design of Sony Ericsson K850 is definitely focused at making consumers believe that they have a digital camera in their hands rather than a mobile phone. The phone features a dedicated on/off button for the camera for example as well as a shutter and zoom buttons.

All you need for your photography hobby is right on this phone. Sony Ericsson K850’s camera with auto-focus and Xenon flash produces true digital camera results, making you as talented as professional photographer. Even if you are not an expert photographer, the K850 does everything to help you get the best possible shots on your phone. Photo-fix ability automatically improves light balance in one click to make your picture as good as it can get. When taking a picture of a moving object, for example at a sports event, you can select BestPic and take nine pictures in one burst. Then simply choose the best and delete the rest.

With the Sony Ericsson K850, you can increase the functionality without increasing complexity. When in camera mode, the K850’s next generation camera menu makes it intuitive to scroll between functions like shoot mode and picture size. The lens cover retracts automatically with one press of the camera button and a new mode selector lets you switch quickly between camera, video and picture viewing modes.

The product supports microSD as well as the usual Memory Stick Micro. The fiddly joystick of its predecessors has gone, replaced by a more user-friendly navy-button. As for its looks, none of that garish attention seeking for this subtle customer – it is nicely understated, and will be available in ‘velvet blue’ or ‘luminous green’. Perhaps, ‘luminous’ is a gateway drug to ‘glow-stick fluorescent’, but with all these features, it is allowed to show off a teensy bit.

Sony Ericsson K850 Specifications:

• HSDPA / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 2.2 Inch 240 x 320 Pixels TFT Display - 256K colors
• MP3 & Polyphonic (72 channels) Ring-tones, Screensavers & Wallpapers
• Photo call, 1000 x 20 fields (Phonebook)
• 40 MB internal memory plus 512 MB card included (Memory Stick Micro
(M2)/microSD)
• Connectivity: USB v2.0, GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE, HSCSD, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps (K850i only)
• Luminous Green, Velvet Blue colors available
• WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
• MMS, SMS, Email, Instant Messaging, Games
• 5 MP Camera with 2592х1944 pixels, xenon flash and 3LED video light; auto focus,
video(QVGA@30fps), secondary video call camera & auto lens cover
• MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
• Java MIDP 2.0, Motion sensor (with UI auto-rotate), FM radio with RDS, Image viewer, Picture editor/blogging, Built-in hands free, Organizer, T9 & Voice memo/dial, TrackID music recognition
• Dimension: 102 x 48 x 17 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Up to 400 Hours Standby
• Up to 9 Hours Talk Time