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Expert Reviews from other websites (1 review)Sony Ericsson C902 Review at Mobile Phones UK (1 June 2008)  Sony Ericsson C902 Consumer Reviews (627 reviews)Write a review of the Sony Ericsson C902! Please share your experiences to help other people choose the product that's best for them. This is a review site, not a forum, so please don't just ask questions. Please do not use swear words or offensive language, and please, no advertising! Reviewed by hannah on 20/03/2010ive had the c902 for a year and half. in the 1st few months i had technical trouble with it 3 times... it got water damage coz i used it in the rain. how ever thats the only problem ive ever had with it. i love this phone to bits. the camera is great and it has flash too so pics in the dark :) ive read the other reviews... my battery last 4 days with no charging and normal use. i think thats pretty good really. its a beauiful phone and i would encourage anyone to give it ago!!! x Rating: Reviewed by Clare on 14/03/2010 Had this phone almost a year now and I'm pretty happy with it. I only bought it because I lost my K800i. I still prefer the K800i, but only because it feels more substantial (or as my friends would say, 'brick-like') and to me seemed to possess a better camera. My C902 has never frozen or crashed or anything and has a pretty good memory and interface. It does perform slower, however, when I have loads (and I'm talking hundreds) of texts, but the problem is easily rectified by deleting them. All in all, a good phone. Rating: Reviewed by ka on 11/03/2010 i love it ilove it Rating: Reviewed by Elaine on 08/03/2010 c902... had this phone 19 months and love it ... although its had its problems!! always needing to be sent away for software d.load :-) you need to set for automatic dloads for software... Im just at the end of my contract and my husband is desperate to get this phone ... only trouble is ... not sure i want to change it .. but its an upgrade so could i be tempted with the sony vivaz or the x10???? Rating: Reviewed by tracy shorland on 04/03/2010 this is probably one of the most reliable phones ive ever had and would defo give it 5*s , never let me down , easy to use, battery life is brill Rating: Reviewed by Graham on 01/03/2010 This is the worst phone I have ever had - randomly switches itself off, keys get jammed, sometimes says no SIM installed. This is my 2nd phone (returned the first one) and as I write this it no longer works for more than 30 seconds. The longer I have had it (year and a half) the worse it gets! In the Bin it goes!! Rating: Reviewed by Hayley on 28/02/2010 Do not buy this phone, it is without doubt the worst phone i've ever had. I've only had it since december and just about everything has gone wrong. If you want a phone to make and recieve calls then getting this phone will be a complete waste of money as everytime time i get a call it just freezes and turns off or if i'm lucky i'll get about 30 seconds to talk before cutting off. Today i turned my phone on and everything had gone, music, photos, videos and games, i eventually got my photos and videos back but not my music and games. I can't charge it for more than 10 minutes because the most annoying sound and message saying, serious error stop charging... Comes up. I honestly think they should stop selling it until they've sorted all the problems out. DO NOT BUY! Rating: Reviewed by patrick from poland but im in ireland on 27/02/2010 its a very bad phone dont buy it but im offering ye sony ericsson c510 or sony ericsson k770i they are excellent phones not like sony ericsson c902 please dont buy it Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 15/02/2010 I hate this phone, I have had it since december, the internet never loads, despite having 3g, the flash is pointless, indoors you take a pic, the flash pops up then as photo takes the flash goes, leaving a dark photo!!! so make sure you take a photo in a well lit room!!! I had a nokia with a lower res camera and the flash was brill!! the buttons are an odd angle makin it hard to type! I hate not being able to customise the home screen buttons, It freezes, it has a mind of its own!!! HATE IT HATE HATE IT!! AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Daniel on 14/02/2010 had this phone for a week, phone is very slim, so it takes a little getting used to hold it right. Camera quality is excellent, and the phone is easy to use, just like the k750i i used to have. The touchscreen icons for the camera mode is special too which i like. Overall i think this phone is a good all rounder Rating: Reviewed by anesh chand on 14/02/2010 I have used c902 for 8 months now,sometimes screen goes blank and camera side key blue light turns on .need 2 press power key but it takes a while 2 turn on.apart from this fault everything is fine Rating: Reviewed by Roxy on 12/02/2010 Have had this phone for 2 weeks now and its already become slow.Its started freezing and the buttons are extreamly small and its very hard to text with them.The battery runs out very quickly.Hate this phone it was a complete waste of money. Rating: Reviewed by Micky on 08/02/2010 Had this phone for about 8 months now, and love it to bits. The battery life is good in my opinion, and the texting facilities are good too. I'm on orange and i find the internet browsing very simple, and fast too. Would have given this phone 5 stars but i upgraded from the SE k850i (8mp Camera) and really did notice the difference with the 5mp camera on this phone. Saying that, its still a very good camera, with plenty of settings to play around with and the touch buttons that appear when using it are quite cool too. I also love the fact the camera lense is protected by being hidden away until use, as i'm prone to dropping my phones alot. Would definatly recommend this to anyone. Rating: Reviewed by Zoe on 05/02/2010 I really don't like this phone. I send a lot of texts and the buttons just didn't suit. To be honest I couldn't wait to get rid of it as it started freezing all the time. Have upgraded to the W995 and couldn't be more happy with it! Thumbs down for the C902 tho... Rating: Reviewed by Jess Maggs on 03/02/2010 I got this phone when it first came out, i spend over 200 pound and was expecting good quality. However, i got the phone and within the space of a month, i took it back and got a replacement. Then the same happened another month later but i had to get it repared. Since then i have got the phone repaired nearly every month, once i sent it back and when i got it back it broke within an hour!!! an excellent phone when it works, camera is excellent, including face detection and frames etc etc but break too much for my like! I would not recommend this to others just for the fact that i have had it repaired so many time. The longest time i have had this phone without sending it back has been about 3 months, if that!! unacceptable! I have just got it back again ,from another repair, and has been working for about 2 weeks so fingers crossed. Rating: Reviewed by chilli76 UK on 01/02/2010 RUBBISH. WORST PHONE EVER ITS JUNK IT FREEZES AND WONT RECONIZE THE SIM OR CHARGE THE BATTERY SO GLAD I WAS ABLE 2 RETURN IT AND GET A FULL REFUND SO I AGREE WITH ALL THE COMMENTS IVE READ. STAY CLEAR OF THE MOBILE NOT WORTH THE IT! Rating: Reviewed by chilli76 on 01/02/2010 rubbish worst phone ever please DO NOT BUY. Rating: Reviewed by lorraine weir on 31/01/2010 Hello,I am so disappointed with my new phone,which I purchaced before christmas after loosing my K800i...thinking a 5.0MP would be even better,I find myself so upset,that I BELIEVED SONY would do the K800i proud..thats if you buy for camera use,as i cant swear! Its rubbish,I hate it...the buttons are hard plastic,and bad shape,I like to txt and constantly mis letters or finger slides off,the screen is so tiny,most of the time the flash doesnt go off on time,the zoom is absolutely useless,so blurred..BRING BACK 3.2MP K800 PLEASE,AN AMAZING Cybershot mobile,C902 does not deserve CYBERSHOT name... Rating: Reviewed by Somebody on 31/01/2010 I've had this phone for a year now, it's excellent, highly reccommended, only problem with it is that it takes ages to start up! other than that brilliant Rating: Reviewed by scones on 31/01/2010 In a nutshell worst phone i've ever had continually freezes , camera not nearly as good as k800, camera jumping between settings on its own. probably my last sony ericsson. Rating: Reviewed by 1retro1 on 31/01/2010 Had mine 6months now and its awesome ?never froze crashed or anything.worth every penny great cam and battery life.go for it? Rating: Reviewed by andy gibbs on 30/01/2010 I have had three of these lumps of junk in the last 30 days, oh and my fourth one froze up this morning. keeps freezing and wiping out all my contacts. software issues and all over the place. my first and last sony ericsson. back to nokia for me. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE Rating: Reviewed by sam on 30/01/2010 speaker not working again third time in three months keep getting it fixed keeps braking a fisher price phone would work better than mine Rating: Reviewed by Lauren Johnson on 30/01/2010 i have had this phone for just over a year and im looking to get a new phone already. I have always haD sony ericsson and this is the worst phone by far. It was great to start with then it started to turn it self off during calls and texting, then it started to freeze during calls, which sucks as i live away from home and on the phone everyday to my mum and she can be talking away and i cant hear a word she is saying and this can last up to a good few minutes. It freezes when sliding the camera up so having to restart my phone. The sliver stripe desgine along the sides of the phone soon fades and comes off with everyday use. The only 2 things good about this phone is the quality of the pictures and the volume when music is played. But that is still not a reason to get this phone as there are now 8 MP camera phones out and even 12 MP, and if your looking for a music phone, get the nokia xpress music. DO NOT GET THIS PHONE NO MATTER WHAT!!!! Rating: Reviewed by J on 30/01/2010 Do NOT get this fone coz its not worth the hazzle!!! its VERY slow especially wen u delete things or do a photo fix it comes up with updating- takes forever.It turns its self off for no apparrent reason and the most anoying thing is when i try 2 charge it, it sez charging error stop using your fone, stop charging and contact a sony ericsson call centre but not only does it say that but it makes the most annoying beeping sound n wont let u use the fone wen its charging. i wud definately not reccommend this fone.i had the k800i for almost 3 years n it was the best fone ever waaay better than the c902. The c902 is definately no upgrade! i've only had it 2 months btw i thought wen i bought a new fone it wud last longer than 2 months so i took it back to the o2 shop where i bought it from n sed that they will repair it n thats it as it has been over 28 days, i am not satsified by this i want a refund (which they are refsing to give me)as i want a samsung fone because i h ave lost all faith in sony ericsson fones. in the past its the only make i wud buy but not any more, i just want to get rid of this fone! Rating: Reviewed by Debbie, Fife on 29/01/2010 Had it 3 days froze twice and wouldnt read the sim card then said cannot charge must use sony ericsson battery. Would not recomment this phone its useless. Rating: Reviewed by carol on 29/01/2010 I`d say avoid this phone like the plague. Previously I had a lot of faith in Sony Ericssons,but the C902 is rubbish. I`ve given up using it for calls,it cuts off every time i`ve made or recieved calls. Also the phone is extremely flimsy, not the solidly made phone i`ve come to expect from Sony , very soon after I got it the keys started falling off, customer care were not helpful told me it was a cosmetic not functional problem and i`d have to pay to have it repaired, still having missing keys does affect the function of a phone somewhat.I wonder what they used to put the phone together with, prittstick perhaps? Rating: Reviewed by Debbie Fife on 27/01/2010 I hated it kept freezing didnt read the sim and wouldnt charge the battery Rating: Reviewed by graham_59@hotmail.co.uk on 25/01/2010 only 1 thing 2 say what a outstanding phone go out a buy 1.graham from derby. Rating: Reviewed by Monica on 24/01/2010 Hav had this fone (C902) 4 only 2 months, wish id neva got it. was fine 1st few weeks, then stupid thing started freezin and switchin off on its own. Last 2 days has been cuttin me off halfway thru conversations (GRRRR!!!) and 2day it won't let me recieve or send msgs. After switchin it off and leavin it on charge for a while, i then got a msg sayin 'serious error message contact Sony Ericsson Call Centre'. After huntin google for the number, it is only open ofice hours. I now hav 2 buy another phone as this phone was bought unda contract and is not up for another 16MONTHS!!!!!!! FUMIN!!!!!! 1st time ive gone for a sony ericsson phone and will now stick 2 the faithful reliable brand NOKIA. DO NOT BUY!!!!!! Unless u hav lots of time 2 and credit 2 waste tryin 2 fix the dam thing! useless! Rating: Reviewed by annie on 23/01/2010 ive had mine for about 3 months now and its constantly freezing or just going off, it mainly happens in sending texts or deleting something. its really annoying. the features are great but just the reliability is poor. im thinking of switching back to my old nokia, it was much more reliable. Rating: Reviewed by Caitlin on 23/01/2010 I have bought mines too day, i think its brilliant it doesnt crash or freeze i love it, but i love the camera and thats the fact i got the phone for the outstanding camera quality, but over all i love this phone defo the best phone i have ever had, buy it! Rating: Reviewed by lewis on 21/01/2010 ive got this phone 4 christmas.its outstanding and works perfictly.the bad thing that the bit that you pull up 4 the camra gets realy dusty,it also got to dusty it got uder the viedocall camera.overall its a great phone.buy it! Rating: Reviewed by becky rayy on 19/01/2010 i am sik ov this 4n it kepps saying serious error stop charging stop using you phone and call a sony ericsson call center so a dnt no wht to doo and it wont let me send messages ???? Rating: Reviewed by Kate on 16/01/2010 Well, if your charger doesnt work you can use the cable that you can transfer stuff from your PC to your Mobile.. It charges it normally and it works just fine. My phones problem is that it doesn't connect to the internet, which that is quite sad because i really need internet while am on holidays without a PC at all! I also can't video calls.. But i must say the camera is quite nice! Great pictures were taken by this phone. Not too bad, not too nice. :) Rating: Reviewed by jaime on 14/01/2010 i had many problems with the sony erricson k800, so i got the c902. I loved it..great..no probs, but this morning, it just won't turn on!!!!!!!! bit wooried now Rating: Reviewed by suman kushawaha on 13/01/2010 i like this fone, Rating: Reviewed by Kevin Ward on 13/01/2010 I am stunned to read this review said the C902 "outstandingly good camera phone" - it's possibly the worst phone I have owned in over 10 years. SonyEricsson used to be the best as far as I was concerned, but this handset lets them down terribly. I cannot believe it went to market with an interface so slow and clunky. Virtually unusable most of the time. There are good phones, there are bad phones that you can forgive, but the C902 is a bind to use. I cannot wait to get rid of it... Rating: Reviewed by mikey on 12/01/2010 I Got this phone about a fortnight ago. I absolutely love it. At first i got it for the cameera which hasnt let me down with all its amazing features including the touch sensitive buttons. i love using track id which identifys anonymous songs. It also has 3g which is useful as i have a minor facebook addiction. I would tottaly reccomend this to any1. Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 11/01/2010 Very good phone, at first that was. Video quality was brilliant, and very impressed with the clear sound quailty. The same for the music playback. But that was about it, apart from the camera, speakers, and internet it is not worth buying this phone. The keys are decent sized, but hard to press and i also had two breakages of the keyboard within a month. The phone regularly crashes and 4 times the phone has just completely died and needed replaced. Ive had this phone for 3 months and i have not been able to use it (due to being replaced or broken) for a month. Its the accessories that make this phone, but i suggest you get an iPod and Digital Camera because i havent been able to use it for its actual purpose. Rating: Reviewed by gez on 10/01/2010 had this phone 17 months ago. 1 month left to upgrade and can say its not soon enough.my phone also kept freezing within the first 6 months, was told had to update it.battery life i find not too bad, but internet not wotrh having. far too slow. switching the phone on takes about 2 minutes to come on,and the worst thing is the tiny frustrating buttons. trying to text in a hurry is a nightmare. best thing about it is the radio and the camera, this my 2nd sony ericsson phone and not impressed with either. wont be getting another. Rating: Reviewed by danielle on 08/01/2010 I bought a new cony ericsson cybershot c902 and I loved it. then 3-4 weeks later it broke. wouldn't turn on, i tried charging it and it recommended me to contact a help support number for ericssons. i was very annoyed as it was a lot of money new. I wouldn't purchase this phone again. Please submit this and I would like my opinion to be published. Many thanks Rating: Reviewed by danie on 08/01/2010 i got a c902 2 weeks ago and its rubbish Rating: Reviewed by chloe wilson on 03/01/2010 I'm a fourteen year old girl, so I'm good with phones and basically just technology. I am very trustworthy and bad at lying, so this should be easy. This is honestly the best phone I have ever had! I love the colour as you're now getting it in blue. It's easy to use. It's nice and modern, the buttons sometimes get a little sticky, like you have to use your nail to get it to work, but they're nice and quiet so I can text in my bed and won't have to worry about noisy buttons. If you're a tween or a teen I would definitely choose this phone. I don't know what an adult may or may not like, but I know what I like, so I would definitely go out and buy your daughter or son this phone. IT'S FANTASTIC. Rating: Reviewed by tomH on 03/01/2010 im currently unable to send or recieve any texts took it back to the shop technical got no idea whats going on with it... waiting for a new c902... dont really see the point though this would have been my 3rd c902 in 1 month.. just dont get this phone you will be faced wil 'serious error, stop charging'.. a crashing phone, and rubbish pictures if you move it slighty. the reason i gave it a 2 star is because for the first week you have it its great but then all goes downhill from there Rating: Reviewed by JimmyB on 02/01/2010 Alot of the problems below are caused by not looking after your phones. The C902 has got an excellent camera, ONE WHICH LOOKS LIKE A 5MP CAMERA. The ONLY downside is that the google maps is about 500 metres out. Rating: Reviewed by ting kai soon on 01/01/2010 c901 phone is too sensitive to virus...when cause a little bit of virus , it will no function in one week or may be in three days...I hope the c902 will have anti virus in it..other functions is good , only it too sensitive to virus... Rating: Reviewed by mickey on 31/12/2009 iTS A VERY LIGHT SMALL ELEGANT FONE WITH STUNNING FEATURES. ALL ROUND WINNER IN THE LOWER MARKET FONE RANGE. I WOULOD ADVISE ANYONE TO BUY THIS FONE SUPER. ONE FAULT IS YOU LIKE IT IS A 1MP CAMERA NOT 5. Rating: Reviewed by kimberley on 29/12/2009 well ive had mine for about 2 months, it's a nice phone and everything but i had the same problem as babs. sent mine back to the carphone warehouse yesterday and it has gone in for repair. Rating: Reviewed by bob on 27/12/2009 worst phone ever, keeps freezing when you try to have a conversation and now phone won't even turn on Rating: Reviewed by babs on 25/12/2009 DO NOT BUY THIS THE WORST PHONE I HAVE EVER HAD WHEN A CHARGE IT IT,S SAYS SERIOUS ERROR HOLDING THE CHARGE FOR 10MINS ALSO NOT RECIEVING MESGS SENDING IT BACK ONLY HAD IT 2MONTH!! SCREEN FREEZES.......SWITCHES ITSELF OFF.......... DOESN,T TURN BACK ON.....CAMERA IS RUBBISH...... A WOULD HAVE GAVE THIS A 000000000000000000000 Rating: Reviewed by chris on 25/12/2009 the best fone going stop doing resurch n go snd buy it it has all u want in a fone and more the best fone for the start of 2010 trust me :) Rating: Reviewed by Eli on 25/12/2009 First of all, I love it! For me it's great, and has everything I am looking for in a cell- Slim size, comfortable to use, a GOOD camera, long battery life, and the quality and design of SE. It's a phone for someone who doesn't want a computer but just a quality phone(like me lol). I've reduced one star only because the camera is still not as good as I've expected.(I have also the N95-8GB, and it has significantly better cam and vid) But as an all-rounder, for me the C902 is the best. Rating: Reviewed by Marc on 25/12/2009 This Phone Is The Most Amazing Phone Ever Just Got It For Christmas And I Love It Already ***** Must Buy =) Rating: Reviewed by alex on 24/12/2009 Just bought this phone on 3 network, is an excellent phone, camera is great, great features such as google maps pre-installed. Very impressed :) Rating: Reviewed by Hassan on 24/12/2009 Best phone iv known , people taking about k800's k850's exc.. but iv used k800's before and you cant match k800s with this phone! this phone is outstanding! Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 23/12/2009 I have had the Sony Ericsson C902 for about a year now i love it to bits. The only down side is my phone switches it self off every week a part from that i would highly recommend the phone easy use and everything i need. I am wanting the Samsung Jet but i heard bad reviews and i am dreding to get it :D Hope this helps anyone wantingthe phone. Rating: Reviewed by Sonic on 21/12/2009 BAD PHONE!!!!!!! DO NOT GET!!!!!! Am currently on 4th handset in 6 months, but as the current one lasted 3 months and 10 days guess what.... no changeover now that this one has broken!!!! This phone loses memory, freezes, and now it wont switch on!!! Having had the K800i then the K850i, I thought it natural to go for this one, I will never in my life get another sony ericsson product for as long as I live! Rating: Reviewed by Willy on 19/12/2009 Phone keeps crashing, switching itself off. When charging the phone get the following message "Battery can not be charged, please use a genuine Sony Ericsson Battery" - Worse Phone Sony have brought out. Rating: Reviewed by tony on 15/12/2009 why do all good mobiles crash? c905 crashes, this does, iphone explodes in your face, symbian mobiles are sluggish and texts aren't received, motorolas are so hard to use, blackberrys are very bad trust me i have one sony ericssons arent reliable, the list doesnt end samsung and LG arnt reliable either. there isnt a manufacturer that doesnt or hasnt had problems. if your like me and you have a mobile that works i have c905 myn works like a dream, although nothing is perfect with phones i am waiting till a reliable android phone that has all the normal specs that i would like such as 3G, wi fi but also good 8mp camera+ would be good the less gadgets you need the better if i got an iphone that acted just like a pc but in its size or smaller would be the perfect mobile with bluetooth and a a really good camera, but i guess ill have to w8 for that manufacturers dont want that then you will only need one thing o well. gps too thats a factor of the iphone i would pay £600 for a phone like that. think of the stuff you wouldn't need:camera, mp3, laptop, satnav, compass, nearly every portable thing you wouldn't need. i like the phone it looks awsome Rating: Reviewed by emma on 14/12/2009 amazing (: Rating: Reviewed by Nikki C on 12/12/2009 Have had 3 of these within 3 months all on virgin mobile. 1st one - was ok for 2 months then just randomly switched off whilst in my pocket (battery was fully charged) and refused to switch back on again. Replacement fone came (reconditioned which is standard for virgin replacements)- randomly threw me out of whatever I was in - down key and 1,2,3 often didn't work. Next replacement came today - texts weren't coming through then while charging came up with a 'seriuos error, stop charging and contact Sony call centre'. I liked this fone while it worked but have completely given up on it. Am waiting for my Nokia replacement to come! Rating: Reviewed by Christopher Baigent on 11/12/2009 An absolutely awful handset. The only reason I've given it one star is because 0 isn't an option. The phone regularly crashes and freezes and the way only remedy I have found to this is to take out the battery and put it back in. The camera is awful. No, scratch that. The camera is great if you're in perfect lighting and weather conditions. The slightest bit of drizzle or cloud and the damn thing goes mental and produces some truly awful photos. Not good when you think that Britain is usually cloudy and wet! The button spacing is far too close together and I've regularly been put onto the internet when all I wanted to do was lock the keypad. This could be a result of my clumsy fingers but the buttons should be better spaced anyway. I honestly cannot think of a positive thing to say about this bug-ridden piece of rubbish. How Sony let this get out of their R&D department is beyond me and I firmly think the imbecile who decided to unleash this on the public should be sacked. As soon as my contract is up I'll be switching to a different company, which is a bit of a shame because in the past I found Sony Ericsson to be the superior handset maker. Rating: Reviewed by jo on 11/12/2009 it is very nice and slim but how on earth do you get the camera to slide out.. i have tried and tried but mine wont budge! any one got any advice? Rating: Reviewed by john franklin on 09/12/2009 hi i;ve recently bought the c902 on 02. but hav found out there is a fault with the unlock and internet button being both the same they dont allways change as they should, resulting in a unexpected charge , i;am with 02 also i've contacted sony, and i'am waiting for a reply can anyone help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Peotr on 07/12/2009 This phone is one of the worst I have owned. On Orange in my area it is poor, may be Orange. The keys are not very responsive and I cannot get to grips with this phone at all. I have a colleague at work who feels the same. Rating: Reviewed by derri on 02/12/2009 ive had three of these phones since january, each one a freezing/rebooting problem. it would turn off in the middle of calls and everything, everyone seems to think its either 'water damame' or 'to much use' but i use my phone just as much as anyone else. this phone is rubbish! stay well clear its really not worth the hassle!!! Rating: Reviewed by Michelle on 02/12/2009 Yes the C902 DOES now have a Xenon flash. I just got one as an early xmas present, and its fantastic, the pictures are very crisp and using the net is easy and quick thanks to HSDPA and 3G. I love the solid sturdy feel of the phone and how many hidden extras it has!! Rating: Reviewed by f1 on 30/11/2009 Where to start on this truly terrible phone. I have sufferd this phone for the past 18 months. It crashed with in hours of getting it. It would just switch its self off for no apparent reason and then turning its self back on. It would do this for or five times on the trot. Or it would just freez up, and having to remove the battery to get it working again. During phone calls the speaker cuts out at random. As for the camera it is terrible, considering this is marketed as a camera phone I got better pics from my old w800i. The touch screen for the camera just gets in the way, one slight touch and on comes the timer for example. The fash is poor and you have no manual control over it. It only comes on when the phone decides you need it and the phone rarely knows the wright time to use it. The position of the charging socket on the side of the phone is a problem if you use a cradle in a car as you cant connect it to an in car charger. Long story short bad design, bad hardware, bad software, bad phone! Rating: Reviewed by james on 30/11/2009 THIS IS A USLESS PHONE, THE WORST SONY ERICCSON PHONE. It keeps on turning on/off by itself when your in between in a call, really makes you mad. And then have to wait around 2 minutes for it to run back normal. Too much freezing, even while charging it displayed - " STOP CHARGING , ERROR"...Lost my faith in Sony man Rating: Reviewed by Monty on 30/11/2009 AEWSOME!!! Rating: Reviewed by loyden on 28/11/2009 it crashes out to make me more frustrated Rating: Reviewed by Colchester on 28/11/2009 I am now on my third one of these, am on a contract so it just gets replaced each time there is a fault. Got the phone 1st, 2 months later, froze, wouldn't turn on, charge, zilch. Lost ALL my information as had to return it. Get 2nd phone, about 3 months later the same thing happened. Lost ALL my information again. Got 3rd phone and last night I was texting and then....it stopped working. No reason, it just turned off and now same as before, it won't turn on again. Have lost all my information again and I am absolutely so sick and tired of it. I will NEVER recommend this. I will NEVER have another one again. It has caused me more hard work and distress. GRR Rating: Reviewed by gp on 28/11/2009 had this phone 18 months with t mob been back 4 repair 7 times its rubbish stay well away from this rubbish handset Rating: Reviewed by Jordan on 28/11/2009 this phone is amazing buy it seriously its only hundred pound and its well worth a crimbo prezziee :L Rating: Reviewed by Hayley on 28/11/2009 At first the c902 was shocking with many of the problems everyone else has listed, my advice to anyone that has one with the freezing problems etc is to go on sony ericsson's website, hook your phone up to your computer and do the latest update. My c902 has been the best phone i've had since doing this and its cured all the problems that have been menttioned. Just remember to back up all your stuff on to your computer first as it wipes the phone. Rating: Reviewed by David Wreathall on 26/11/2009 I'm in the process of upgrading from the W810i, a fantastic, easy to use phone. I have two niggles - the keypad on the c902 is far less easy to use (they are too close together if you have big thumb!) and Sony Ericsson don't make it at all easy to transfer the address book to a new phone: - The PC software tries to sync with your whole Outlook contacts database, creating dozens of unwanted duplicates - The address book can't (as far as I can tell) be transferred across by Memory Card (the new phone uses a different one anyway) - Sim card capacity is limited, and even after cutting my phone numbers down to 200 as required, all the names got truncated! I've now wasted 2 hours on what should be a 5 minute job. Rating: Reviewed by elle on 26/11/2009 i ve had 5 of these phones in 6 months, all with the same problem, getting really hot, freezing, turning themselves off, and then not coming back on. Orange knew there was a problem but kept making me have the same replacement over and over. The camera plays up on it quite a lot too. But have FINALLY got them to cancel my contract. And im waiting on a different phone. It cant come soon enough. Rating: Reviewed by anton on 25/11/2009 iv had to send mine back 3 times in 2 months Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 25/11/2009 This is the worst phone I've ever owned. It constantly freezes up or turns off. The joypad came off and part of the trim has fallen off.The only good thing is the camera. Avoid this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 24/11/2009 This is an attractive phone - but... unless you have small fingers the keypad is pretty useless for dialling numbers and for texting - which is the main ask of a phone. The camera is 5 megapixels but using the touch sensitive screen in the rela world where it is easy to touch a control twice accidentaly is not alt all practical. Then there are the appointment reminders that pop up and obliterate the screen until you take it out of key lock. And if you need to take it out of key lock the button press is so awkward it takes ages just to get the sequence right by not pressing other buttons and get to use the phone. Verdict - should be great but practically it is awful. Rating: Reviewed by NIckJonesYeah on 23/11/2009 Worst phone i have EVER had! it was so bad that i am back to using an old phone, and going to be buying the Tocco Lite this week! i even refused to give the phone to a friend to use as a temp because it is so poor! freezez on calls and then i have to slide the camera up toturn the call off, text repeating themselves. signal is poor. and i mean poor! used to love sony ericsson before i had this phone, but now i am looking for a new regular phone make! Rating: Reviewed by Yasir on 22/11/2009 Bought this phone about 6 months ago but have now sold it since in my opinion its quite boring. It does the job and the features arent bad, but the screen isnt the biggest nor the most vibrant and the software can seem a bit sluggish when you compare it with samsung etc. Id recommend it if you're into sony ericssons or youre looking for a feature rich but understated phone, but otherwise I would stick with Samsung. Rating: Reviewed by Hannah on 20/11/2009 Had this phone for 4 months now, and was fantastic till yesterday mornign when I woke up and it said "serious error, stop chargign and stopusing the phone and contact sony ericsson" went into several phone shops who said they would have to send it off for a free upgrade which I could do at home myself. Very unrelaiable that it did not forwarn that I needed an update and completely stopped working, and won't charge anymore all of a sudden. loved this phoen up until now, but now it has become a liability and has let me down on a day when I really needed it. Rating: Reviewed by rachael on 19/11/2009 i have had this phone for a little over a year and i have constantly had problems with it. it freezes many times a day, including during calls which is really annoying. it also takes ages to turn back on again. i think the camera is good, but apart from that, i can't wait to get a new phone! (which is the 7th dec) i always look after my phones, but somehow this phone's keypad has come unstuck, and is now half hanging off, not a good look. i seriously hate this phone! Rating: Reviewed by Ahmer on 19/11/2009 for all you people out there- DONT BUY THIS PHONE. it freezes all the time. sometimes the mp4 video is out of sync. navigation is absolute junk. though the freezing is annoying enough- the potrait to landscape mode thingy is worse. it barely ever changes. it either always stays in landscape or it always stay in potrait. the battery life is also hurrendes. it runs out so quickly- camera phones should have high battery life especially because zoom makes battery run out faster. also if you text alot- the keys are crap Some good things are the touch controls on the side. although it takes ages to know what each one means they are a very good idea. also the design is amazingly stylish. i lurv the way u slide for the camera. everything else sucks--- its only not one star because its so stylish Rating: Reviewed by Vini on 18/11/2009 Had this phone for almost a week now, and I am on my second one. First one, the Cancel buttong seem loose, so I took it back and they gave me a new one, only to find when I got home that the new one was just as loose! (I did see him give me the new one btw) Wonder if anyone else had this problem? Apart from that, a REALLY good phone. Bright screen, quiet key pad, decent camera (people who complain about camera quality should go buy a camera imo, as its a phone WITH a camera, not the other way around) Apart from the stupid key, I <3 this phone! Rating: Reviewed by Jazz on 18/11/2009 Having had this phone for over a year now I have gotten increasingly frustrated with it and now I cant wait for my contract to end in january 2010. Me previous phone was a K750i, which I have often resorted back to using after cursing the C902. There is really not much difference between the two, except that the screen is most definitely brighter, you can store seemingly endless text msgs which you can archive by sender or date, among other small differences, including some applications I felt were unecessary. For some reason, it sometimes does not like me looking at my pics, it sometikes displays an icon with what looks like a tear in the corner instead of a preview and it just wont open when it does that, so I have to take the battery out and restart it again. It usually crashes at random, so, again, I have to take the battery out. Its heavy, especially with the stainless steel battery cover, battery life is atrocious I got much more out of the K750i, its uncomfor table to hold and although the screens brightness is very good it is deceptively small because of the border which has the touch screen icons in camera mode. Texting is horrible because it is not ergonomic, and at one point I had to send the phone back because the buttons were peeling off. When I got the phone back there was a scratch on it that was not there before and the small plastic Cyber-shot plate at the bottom of the phone began to peel off as well. Now the SonyEricsson logo at the back of the phone has come off. The slide out camera is attractive however it collests dust. To conclude, it has improved upon some of the organisational features of the K750i, but its build and software quality is inferior. Very overrated and a disappointment. Rating: Reviewed by James Lawlor on 14/11/2009 Great phone. The camera is quality Doesn't easily break Quality sound Easy to use But, Weighs a fair bit Slow with a memory card Alarm clock doesn't always go off Rating: Reviewed by Georgios Ant on 14/11/2009 Bought my C902 in August 2008 with Orange. The phone has an excellent menu interface, very intuitive, I have only used the instruction manual on two occasions, infinitely better than my Nokia 5500. I'm happy with the camera and MP3 player, the sound quality is good, and the phone is fine for construction workers like me. However: battery life is an issue. With moderate use (30' per day) the battery only lasts 2 days. The screen occasionally freezes; The phone also loses reception for no apparent reason, resulting in lost calls; MP3 and radio sound volume is quite low compared with my Nokia 5500 Sport. Overall, a decent phone, shame it performs better on secondary functions rather than primary ones, such as autonomy, reception and reliability. Rating: Reviewed by - on 14/11/2009 its amazin phone :p Rating: Reviewed by Ed Wright on 12/11/2009 + Speaker failed (tons of static) after 3 months, sent it back, got it repaired and in 1 month it happnened again, then i lost it, claimed on insurance and got a new one, same thing, IN UNDER A WEEK +Random crashes +Bad signal reception, im in red/orange ALL DAY (Orange) +Average camera +Buggy phonebook wouldn't register calls with names beginning with E how weird is that? and sometimes confused one number with another, again with contacts beginning with E. +Unless you have a mem-stick, you're limited to 20 seconds of video recording Rating: Reviewed by Zuzana on 12/11/2009 I've had this phone for about year and a half and now have been looking for a new phone for about 5 days solid.......but the fact that I can't find one that compares to this one should tell you something. I have it on PAYG and don't want a contract (if I did, I would probably found a new phone by now). I have probably looked at every possible phone there is and just can't decide.....that's how good this phone is. Now the bad points. The flash is really pointless as it just doesn't do the job. Previous models were much better, so I'm glad I got digital camera as a present. The video is not that great I would like to be, but I had worse. I do like playing games on my mobile and only found one that I find difficult to control with the d-pad. Camera and video recording are easy to control and the soft touch buttons around the screen help a lot. I also use it to browse a web occasionally and it's not that difficult and the size of the screen could be bigger, but is not the smaller one I have seen. So basically, I can't justify to give this phone up even it does have a few flaws and have to give it 5 stars as I still can't find an equal phone for the same value. Rating: Reviewed by ... on 08/11/2009 it sucks Rating: Reviewed by tom on 08/11/2009 it is really rubbish for god sake don't get this phone Rating: Reviewed by sav on 06/11/2009 had more problems with this phone wouldn't recommend Rating: Reviewed by Jamie on 02/11/2009 Bought this about 2 months ago, quite frankly it's brilliant. Can be a bit hard to find a network sometimes, but that could just be the network provider (Orange). It's slim, cool, easy to fit in a pocket, the camera quality is very good, though the flash is only useful close up. Battery's only good for a couple of days, 3 at best, but if you charge it often as i do then that's fine. Have had no problems calling or texting. Some people have mentioned freezing, it's only happened to me once so i can't believe it's that much of a problem. And i bought it refurbished, too. Basically, i think it does everything it should, and pretty darn well, with the exception of the flash. I haven't owned many mobiles before, so not much to compare it with, but at the moment i feel no wish to own any more, either! Rating: Reviewed by hassan on 02/11/2009 wow the cam on this fone is sick. i'd recommend it to anyone whos looking for a high quality camera phone. but also its got a lot of more fantastic features built into the phone Rating: Reviewed by Daytona on 31/10/2009 I returned my w995 due to network coverage problems with Orange and got the c902 on a 12 month with t-mobile. The w995 may be the best phone SE ever made and was hugely dissapointed when I had to return it but as soon as I got the c902 (BLACK)in my hands, I totally forgot about the w995. First thing I noticed was how good looking this phone is. It's slim and has a smart, sophisticated look and can almost pass as a luxury item. It's also very well made and a has a solid feel in comparison to the w995 which felt plasticky. The menu is easy to use and the screen, whilst it doesn't fill the whole interface, is by no means small. Great camera and I was really immpressed with the sound from speakers. Looking at pictures or even going to a shop to view the phone does it no justice. You have to hold it in your hand, or place it on a flat surface to truly appreciate how good looking this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Fern on 31/10/2009 This is one of THE worst phones i have ever had. Bad decision Rating: Reviewed by Pete on 29/10/2009 Bought this garbage 8 days ago and its turned itself off numerous times and i agree with Kevin (26/10/09), in that the phone gets freakishly hot. I tried to get an exchange at cpw and they dont want to know- they spend about 20mins with the phone (and of course the phone behaved when they pawed at it) and they said it was fine. That evening the phone turned itself off and wouldnt come back on, i took the (hot) battery out and left it out for half an hour. Avoid cpw. Avoid this poor excuse of a phone. Rating: Reviewed by R Jones on 29/10/2009 In a nut shell NO do not consider the Sony Ericsson C902. I have had this handset on an Orange contract for 10 months now. I’m on my third replacement handset. • The software freezes the screen often. • It does not maintain constant signal strength even though the mast is only 2 miles away. • WAP browsing is painfully slow, or it drops the connection for no reason. • The flash no longer works. I had a K series phone before this one and it was fab. The C902 has been rubbish. Rating: Reviewed by Zola on 27/10/2009 This is a gud 4ne bt am hvn a fw probz coz it tendz 2 freeze or switches itself of and restrts agn. And id lyk 2 knw y? Coz dis hpnd only 2 weeks aftr i bot it. Bt adawise i lv my 4ne 2 bits:-)! Rating: Reviewed by Kevin on 26/10/2009 I like the phone but certainly wouldn't advise anyone to get one. First my ringing speaker went faulty(sounded all crackely), next the ear piece speaker went , so I couldn't hear anyone calling. Now for the best one, every now and then it heats up so much you can hardly hold it, serious battery issue!! Taking it back tomorrow before it blows up in my face. Have a friend with the same phone and the battery swelled up to twice the size. Please avoid!! Rating: Reviewed by esha on 23/10/2009 do not buy this fone! peice of rubbish!!!! simple. Rating: Reviewed by c902 user on 21/10/2009 love this phone very good after firmware update all it needs is wifi and more built in flash themes SE should also make a w series phone like this with touch music control Rating: Reviewed by rick firths on 19/10/2009 DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! IT HAS A MAJOR DESIGN FAULT AND IS CLEARLY NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE! VODAPHONE WILL NOT REPLACE AND CLAIM THEY ONLY CHARGE YOU FOR AIRTIME AND NOT FOR THE SUPPLIED PHONE (LEGAL GET OF OUT JAIL CARD) read the other reviews on this phone and go to a decent airtime supplier who will stand by their product. Rating: Reviewed by Jode on 18/10/2009 Worst phone for reliability, cuts out when you need it most, freezes all the time, and now at only a year old it crashes every 15 seconds, totally falling apart. DO NOT BUY IT! waste of money. rubbish battery too! Rating: Reviewed by Murray on 18/10/2009 Im giving this two stars for average. {ros It does everything i expected, it plays music, you can get the internet, the new slide camera thing is pretty cool and i had fun with it at first but the novelty soon wore off. Cons This phone freezes very regularly (about once every hour and more regularly depending on what you are doing) when it freezes it pauses for a long time then turns itself off and back on again. I have never dropped this phone yet it is all scratched so i can't rate it highly for durability. And once a month or so the screen just totally breaks and i have to take the battery out and put it back in again. I was also disappointed with the amount of memory it had :( Overrall if you get this phone for free or something its quite good but i wouldn't pay the money for it. Rating: Reviewed by Hasan on 11/10/2009 The Sony Ericsson C902, where do i start. The phone itself has a really good camera, 5 million tiny pixels = one great camera. The Phone is smooth, slim and stylish, it really is a great phone. The only issues i may have with the phone is that i have had it for one week and it the camera froze up on me so i had to restart the phone :S and also the keypad is annoying because the buttons are slightly slanted, and there is no back key. Apart from this phone is truly great. In my opinion it is worth the price. Better than the K850, K800 and any other phone near its price tag. Rating: Reviewed by Abbie on 08/10/2009 just come to the end of my contract with this phone and all i can say is thank god! the phone was fine for about a month from when i purchased it and the other 17 months have been hell. the phone constantly shuts itself down when your in the middle of things and whilst in the middle of a call the sound sometimes cuts out and the other person can hear me but i can't hear them so i have to sit there waiting for the sound to come back before i can carry on with my conversation. Whilst sending messages i often find that the phone freezes and you have to wait for the word that you are trying to put to come back on the screen. this can take up to 10 seconds sometimes which when it's constantly happening it begins to get irratating. i know a few people who have this phone and they all are experiencing the problems i have. my advice to anyone who is thinking of getting this phone is to stay well clear of it because it's simply not worth the hassle. As for my next phone i will certainly not be getting another sony ericsson. Rating: Reviewed by Ryan on 08/10/2009 Had this phone a month or so now. Great phone, feels good, great camera and very easy to use. The only bad points and they are small. The battery life isn't brilliant but adequate. The camera although very good and and well protected behind the sliding cover is a bit of a dust magnet. The cover enables dust to get trapped under the 'video call' camera lens on the front of the phone. Also having had Sony Ericssons before - the middle navigator button usually does everything i.e. press to call or accept. On this phone however it doesn't. And last little quirk - the buttons on the left and right need to be pressed towards the middle row or you will experience a dull/dead like touch with sometimes no response. This is however a very good phone and does evrything else it's meant to do, very well. Rating: Reviewed by Colin on 05/10/2009 Been a fan of SE for a number of years but this phone is the worst i have ever had, cant wait to move on to a better phone (hopefully) , like other reviews it crashes a lot , switches off when it feels like it , signal quality is very poor even out doors and lots of times when im holding it it has no network coverage on the screen yet when i put it down it decides to come back eventually, vibrate alert is rubbish with constant missed calls and texts going un-noticed , its a nice light handset and sometimes i forget i have it on me , camera is ok video quality could be better and the battery life is not bad , not much good phones out there and not sure what i will be upgrading to next but i would not recomend anyone upgrading to this phone . Rating: Reviewed by Rich on 29/09/2009 had this phone a little over a year now and mine still dosent have a scratch and i'm still on my first one ;), i laugh at people who keep saying mine crashes, the problem there is called network branding, mines a grey generic c902, and not had one single issue with it, i would reccomend this phone to anyone as me and my mate both have them and not one of us have a bad thing to say, i moved up from the k850i, and im glad i did, roll on w995 soon. :D Rating: Reviewed by Jonathan on 28/09/2009 Great - until it breaks. And it will... Upgraded to the C902 when my contract was due for renewal as I'd been pleased with previous Sony Ericsson models. However, my first thought when taking it out of the box was "This feels fragile". I was soon proved correct. All the features worked fine for 24 hours but then when I tried to use the camera mode it wouldn't detect that I had opened the lens cover. Tried the old 'turn off and back on' technique to see if this resolved the issue. Unfortunately it then wouldn't start up at all - the blue 'on' light comes on and the phone vibrates but the screen remains dead. This repeats uncontrolably until I remove the battery. A replacement arrived, which worked fine for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately I then had a message saying that my SIM wasn't recognised and that I should insert the SIM (which was already inside and worked fine in another handset). I checked the SIM and then tried to turn the phone back on and the message then said that my battery was not a recongised O2 battery, which therefore prevented the phone from being charged. The internal memory had also completely wiped, losing all my photos and contacts. I was also unable to access my contacts list - it simply would not open. When the phone was working I was impressed with the 5 megapixel camera - although I had not tried it in the dark - and the features of the phone were good. However, as I said, it just feels fragile and the battery life is also appalling. I will not be ordering a third one! Rating: Reviewed by Bob Jimothom on 28/09/2009 It is a great phone i totally love it! The amount of stuff you get on the menus is mind boggling! Rating: Reviewed by G Brown on 27/09/2009 In general this has been a good phone, however, I have had a poor experience with the phones reliability. first handset had a corrupt display after 4 months. After a repair in which the workings were replaced, the internet browser started to reset the handset as soon as the google link or the bookmarks were selected. third (and bradn new) handset has trhe same reset problem (downloaded opera application and use that instead of the built in sony browser). Rating: Reviewed by Summer on 24/09/2009 This is the worst phone that I have ever had. I would never recommend it to anyone. i took the contract out with O2 and everything about the service and phone has been awful, unreliable and does nto endear me to ever buy another sony ericsson or have another contract with O2. I have been disappointed by the phone, it freezes constantly and have decided that for my next handset I would return to the reliable nokia. Rating: Reviewed by Ian on 24/09/2009 I have had this phone for 5 months now and it has broken 3 times. I am now on my 4th one of these in 6 months. They have a rubbish battery life and I wouldnt recommend my enemy to get one of these phones. A good phone for a month before it breaks. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE Rating: Reviewed by Anna on 21/09/2009 I have had so many replacements of this phone - it's just unreliable! The current phone I've got is the 5th version - the keypad doesn't work properly and on previous versions it's been crashing, not charging and just generally not being a phone I can depend on. It's such a shame as I really like Sony Ericssons and love the way the phone works, but I'm changing my handset to a Samsung U900. Rating: Reviewed by Isaac on 18/09/2009 Got this phone and initially loved the camera, then speaker sporadically cut out and phone occasionally crashed or had a green screen. The battery life is also pretty poor and needs charging on an almost daily basis. Could also become very laggy when switching apps. The bottom line is that this phone would have been great if it was more reliable! Rating: Reviewed by emma jane on 17/09/2009 i've had my C902 for about three months, i've had no problem with it, but today it wouldn't let me send a text so i switched it of and now it turns on but freezes at the sony ericsson start up screen, i have no idea what to do about it and i wouldn't recommend it to other people because its slow, and the bluetooth wont always work for me either. Rating: Reviewed by james on 16/09/2009 Great features, downside is useless battery life, screen freeze and bluetooth that doesn't always work. Rating: Reviewed by James Reid on 13/09/2009 This phone is possibly the worst phone i have ever encountered. I've had it 2 months now and its already broke 3 times through no fault of mine. i would definitely not recommend it! Rating: Reviewed by Michelle on 12/09/2009 Had this phone for about a year and loved it. Amazing 5MP camera, had to get a memory card as with most phones these days. Brilliant texting & other functions. Reasonable battery. Only problem I had came with charging it & connecting it to the computer, but carphone warehouse fixed it for me & was all working fine. Then i went and lost it :( i miss this phone so much! I loved it, go for it :) Rating: Reviewed by ema on 11/09/2009 i already use it an suprisely i love it so much... Rating: Reviewed by velko on 11/09/2009 nice phone but how to turn 3g off Rating: Reviewed by Mike on 11/09/2009 VERY POOR phone. I've had three Sony Ericsson phones, two were great - this one has been awful. The camera is good but I can't see how it's 5 megapix's, but that's a small gripe compared to the real problem with this phone, namely it turns itself off when it feels like it. It also provides silence during calls. I'm due a renewal next month and I can't wait to get shot of this clunky bit of junk. Rating: Reviewed by yl on 11/09/2009 Problematic. i had to send this to get fixed 3 times. The phone kept crashing and freezing needing the battery to be taken out. Each time they said they'd fixed it, it was still as bad as before. The menus are slow compared to Nokias, the buttons are slanted which takes a long time getting used to if you're used to flat buttons. The camera is very good in daylight though. Not good at all in the dark because of the LED flash. Rating: Reviewed by rajbir on 10/09/2009 nice Rating: Reviewed by adz on 04/09/2009 i've noticed all sony ericssons have the same features the only difference with this 1 has the slide to let the camera out. i used to have a w880i and its so similar to the c902. its a great phone with a good camera, even though its the same 5mp as a nokia n95 the camera on the n95 is better for some reason. the screen is a little small the battery life is ok but overall a good phone. Rating: Reviewed by Dave H on 01/09/2009 A cracking all round phone...well built, stylish, great camera, and easy to use. marked down by one star because the keys on the number pad aren't quite as good as the k850 i had previously. Rating: Reviewed by Callum Hanson on 29/08/2009 i have used this phone many times but it is my mums phone. our impression is that its rubbish! it sounds like it has a good camera 5mp but my tocco lite which has 3.2mp is by far better and the touch screen buttons for the camera are hopeless. texting is difficult and the predictable text is horrid. if i were you go for another phone Rating: Reviewed by mark kevan/ scarborough on 29/08/2009 had mine for about 6 months,apart from taking ages to start up this phone is good, had no probs what so ever. Rating: Reviewed by Paula on 20/08/2009 I got my C902 a couple of months ago and had nothing but problems. I have used Sony phones for several years now, this is my 3rd and its the worst phone in the world. It freezes and worse still cuts off mid call, I can hear the other people they think I've rudely put the phone down. I've upgraded the simm card and still its cutting out. I've finally convinced my SP to send me a new phone even though its outside their 28 day returns policy. Fingers crossed the replacement will work better. Its a nice looking phone, I only have small fingers and find txt messages tricky, anyone with large fingers would find it impossible. Lets hope Sony read these reviews for their next generation of phone... Rating: Reviewed by Jo on 18/08/2009 I did like this phone, got it in a hurry as lost my old one and wanted something simple like my old one. Especially like the camera. However i've noticed problems from early on: (a) The keys are awful and took me ages to 'learn' how to press them, especially the 7 which still messes up. (b) the reception is awful, i'm on orange and had no problems on this network with my old SE, only since i got this phone, i swear it was better whehn i turned off the 3G sometimes! this makes no sense considering i live in London where there must be good coverage!! In the last 2 days however it has also: (c) wiped all my added words to the dictionary (d) if you go to write a text you can't see the writing anymore, it's all white!! only the predictive options show up in their little bubble... I'm gonna try taking it back cos this makes it pointless if i can't text. Not too hopeful about how successful that will be tho, Orange have awful customer service, I'm not going to bother ringing them, i was on hold with them for over an hour a few weeks back.... Rating: Reviewed by marc eagle on 18/08/2009 Im just comin to an end of my 12mth contract with this phone and its the best phone ive ever had..Pic quality is 2nd to none and memory storage is absolutly superb.If you want a good strong phone with a gr8 camera and memory this is it... Rating: Reviewed by gwyn on 17/08/2009 anyone who gives this phone more than 2 stars is off their rocker, never known a phone to freeze and switch off like this one has. it is also slow when navigating and buttons can be fiddly. k800i was 100 times better, dont buy this phone. Rating: Reviewed by rebecca on 16/08/2009 had this phone a week and its totally froze cant do anything with it ,got to travel 30 miles tomorrow to take it back for it probably to be sent to sony and for me to have to wait weeks for it to be returned-too much hassle!! dont buy it. Rating: Reviewed by jj on 13/08/2009 THIS IS THE WORST PHONE I HAVE EVER HAD! WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! it turns off by itself, the keypad doesnt work, and when texting the 7 key doesnt work properly. wouldnt recommend this. Rating: Reviewed by John on 12/08/2009 When receiving a text message it is automatically displayed on screen. This is a feature which I do not like as anyone can read ur msg even without touching ur handset Rating: Reviewed by Dan on 12/08/2009 Had this phone now for about 12 months, still havent had a problem, you lot who have got to problem dont like change because you have all had old bricks before! DONT LISTEN TO THEM! AMAZINGG PHONE. BUY IT! DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU WONT REGRET IT Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 11/08/2009 Absolutely pathetic phone. This is the worst fone I have ever had . Keep getting the error message- 'charging error- stop charging'. send to 3 repair centre 3 times... they couldnt fix it. Now getting a nokia fone instead. Good bye sony ericson- never again. Rating: Reviewed by Desi-Girl on 11/08/2009 I love my mobile verry verry much. It has everything what I wanted to have in my phone. C902 is the best mobile I ever had. Rating: Reviewed by Mark R on 10/08/2009 Having been a previous Nokia owner I have had 2 Sony Ericsson phones -a K800 and K810i. I decided to stay in the SE camp having been reasonably happy with the previos phones although the last one the joystick packed up (K810i). I chose to stay with SE because I liked the build quality of the 2 previous phones and the software for the PC that SE seem to have down to fine art. What is good: Build qaulity, slim design - works well for guys who tend to use their trouser pockets... ok now I am stuggling for more positives. Whats bad: On an Orange contract the signal strength goes up and down for a passtime - even in areas where previosuly the signal strength was good. I often lose calls for this very reason. This is critical as it has to perform well as a phone - which it does not. The buttons are ridiculously small, not so bad for girls but for blokes with big fingers - forget it, sending texts is very difficult as you are constantly pressing the wrong buttons. Th e menu response time is very very slow, just accessing the address book is something I don't look forward to as it is so slow. The camera claims to 5MP but it is nowhere near as good as a dedicated camera and I somewhat doubt the 5MP claim, the pictures are also often dark. The touch screen camera controls are a bg gimmick as it is easy to accidentaly tocuh an on screen control - I have ended up taking video a number of times because of this. To sum up I cannot wait to get rid of this phone - I have a year to go on the contract and I am seriously thinking of just going out to buy a new different phone... and reverting to Nokia! Someone else wanted to throw this phone off a tall building - very tempting! Rating: Reviewed by Ciara on 10/08/2009 Got this phone last March and love it but the vibrate broke which is very annoying...strange because it comes back for a day or two sometimes and then goes again...also it does turn itself off which is also annoying but apart from that love the phone!! :D Rating: Reviewed by Love It on 09/08/2009 This phone is great, i love and love it to bits, i recommend this phone to all buyers out there. Rating: Reviewed by Aleisha on 07/08/2009 This phone has been nothing but trouble. I have had this phone almost a year & within a couple months & I've had it fixed twice due the it merging photos together. Most of my Christmas & New Years pictures from last year are wrecked & i still have the problem. Plus now; last night it mysteriously turned itself off & on & now it doesn't read my memory card. I can't access the card through my computer (using a card reader), it just asks me if i want to format it so i'll probably lose 3/4mb of pictures, footage & files, not to mention all the photos i took at the concert last night. NOT HAPPY JAN!!! Apart from that i do like the phone, it's slim, stylish & not too heavy. Rating: Reviewed by Milly on 07/08/2009 This phone is great i have had it for about a year and have had no problem the camera is amazing but the video can be a bit pixilated but still just right for using. The battery on this phone is the best i have ever had it s long lasting and charges extremebly quick ;) Rating: Reviewed by Jon on 05/08/2009 Phone arrived this morning from Vodafone on PAYG and within 3 hours it's going back. I was really looking forward to getting this phone, but have been left disappointed. While the Phone itself looks good with it's sleek lines and slim design, the major fault is with the keypad. I decided against a touch screen phone so I could stay with the old reliable buttons, (i have fat fingers) however this keypad is terrible. Press 1 and you get the number and My Shortcuts. Press 3 and you Cancel what you were doing. If you are in the media player, and attempt to increase the volume using the key on the side of the phone, you are prompted to confirm deletion of the file (as if you have pressed the C button). As standard with all SE phones, I updated the phone software to the latest levels, but this made no difference. I can't comment on Battery life or functionality as I haven't had chance to use. I'm awaiting a replacement from Vodafone which should arrive tomorrow. Lets hope I was just unlucky and received a faulty handset. Rating: Reviewed by Lizzieee. on 02/08/2009 I have had this phone for ages now and i think it is a decent phone. The camera is the best bit, but at the moment it has decided to not turn on, but luckily i have insurace on this phone. I would recoment it although it can be a bit slow time to time. but its a nice looking phone so yeah (: Rating: Reviewed by Grace on 01/08/2009 I dont see how this phone is worth as much as it is, its too high priced. my old k550i more or less does the same, athough it cost me around 30 quid and this one is priced around 200 quid. The camera on this phoneisnt really that great, I mean, whats with the flash? takes too long to take pictures and the touch screen setting is so irritating! I would say the only good points about the c902 is that its really hard to break, its stylish, and its loud. The button layout makes it hard to text, and lately my phones started freezing, and it takes ages to load. it turns itself off when im in the middle of doing something and it doesnt read the memory card, so the music just cuts out aswell. The music player is bad aswell... The battery life is rubbish! and its forever running out of charge despite fully charging it. boo sony ericsson, dont buy this phone, I ignored the reviews and replaced my w580i which was a great phone. Rating: Reviewed by claire on 31/07/2009 blooming awful, i am now on my forth c902 and this one is broke again, turns itself off! won`t let me hang up call! freezes AWFUL Rating: Reviewed by Uwais on 31/07/2009 i have had ths phone for some time and it is great. Rating: Reviewed by blades on 30/07/2009 had this phone for about 7 months and it has been amazing but ive dropped it a bit so i had to get a cover on it but apert from that it has been sound camera good and bettery life or8 over all sound. Rating: Reviewed by paul on 29/07/2009 its the greatest phone ever and its worth 195 pounds:D Rating: Reviewed by mitchh on 27/07/2009 dunt bother getting it ..nice lookin fone ill admit buh too slow...too slowww...crashed few tims..and did i mention to slow..keypad dey say iz mint ?? bull****...to small buh yeh other that cam is gud , features not to bad...il giv it 2 stars jst because its 2 slow.. Rating: Reviewed by Jon Hogg on 23/07/2009 keeps resetting itself and switching off, always cuts off in calls giving a bleep bleep, and its not a signal issue. Dust has got caught in the camera sliding lense, i cant get to it to clean. Despite the camera, it is by far the worst phone ive ever had. Rating: Reviewed by Kiko on 22/07/2009 i have had this phone for 7 months now and it honestly is vile! it crashes 4 times a day and i have to PAY to stop this happening! i would like to warn people look beyond the awesome camera and mp3 (main attractions of the phone) however it is a decent phone if 1. you have the patience to consistently reboot it and 2. it's brilliant for it's media functions and ease to use the keypad for texting. Wish i never got it and listened to my 'soul' and went for that samsung!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 21/07/2009 I've had this phone for about 3 months now, and got a replacement for it about a month ago. Now the software appears to have stopped working again and so I'm going to need to ring up and get yet another replacement. It's not a bad phone apart from the software issues- I was attracted to it because of the 5mp camera, and that did not disappoint me. The only thing that did was the flash- there are better ones out there! However, there are some very good features, I really like the rotating screen, the internet, the track ID and various things to do with the camera. I would reccomend this phone, but would also reccomend saving the numbers on the sim card and not the phone, and also would suggest keeping a spare phone just incase of any software malfunctions! Rating: Reviewed by kieran on 20/07/2009 great phone ,took awhile to get used to the keys,good layout in the menus ,simple to use,camera is pretty good ,auto focus brill, only problem is you dont wana put it down,looked at the 905 keypad excellent work sony but to bulky Rating: Reviewed by Phil Mumford on 19/07/2009 This phone is rubbish. Constantly freezing up even with updates from the manufacturer. I will never have another Sony Ericsson phone again Rating: Reviewed by Jaz on 14/07/2009 Take one look at the phone. It looks great. I mean, even James Bond had it! The three lines that encirculate the phone around the edges makes it look very sleek and stylish, and I love the way the display just hides in the glossy blackness of the screen. I find the buttons are nice and quiet, so that the person next to you can't even hear the annoying tap-tap-tapping of someone texting away like mad. When the display comes on, the colours are vibrant, and sharp, especially when you maximise the screen's brightness. However, it's a shame that the positives of the phone just end there - start using the phone and frustration kicks in. I rcently had to send my phone away to repair the keypad, as it appeared to have been peeling off the handset - in essence the keypad looks as though it has simply been stuck on with glue. Very poor workmanship, when you compare it with older models such as the K750i whose buttons were firmly fixed in place. The next thing - don't be fool ed by the 5megapixel camera it supposedly boasts. In fact, dont even get excited about 8megapixel cameras because camera phones will NEVER recreate the quality of even a simple point and shoot camera. The zoom on this phone is terrible, expected as it is digital zoom but still I found the zoom of the K750i to be much better. I find the touchscreen annoying, and wish that Sony Ericsson hadn't bothered with it - it's useless as the same function's can be accessed through the menus in no time. The slide out camera sounds like an innovative design, but if, like me, you like to keep your phone in your pocket, it will collect little specks of dust that make the phone look dirty. Sometimes my phone does not like to let me view certain pictures. When I do try to view them, the phone gives in and just freezes. Similarly, whilst browsing the web, the phones just decides for itself to crash and frustrate me instead. The solution to this (apart from smashing the phone to bits) is to rem ove the battery and replace it and wait for it to turn back on. And even that takes a long time. Sometimes the battery meter likes to do a little disappearing act, assuming that the battery has enough power to make the phone work. You'll be lucky if after 6 months or so if the battery can last 3 or 4 days on a single charge, but then that just depends on usage. To finish off, the phone looks suave and modern, is great to look at with bright colours and a user friendly interface. Texting is easy and you can hold vast numbers of text messages on the phone. However, in due time, frustration strikes and the phone drives you so mad that you just want to throw it off a 30 storey building, from the roof. With so much uneccsary technology and software, the phone has no choice but to stop and take a breather - hmm, I wonder how Mr Bond's phone functions which all his spy razzle dazzle crammed into such an average phone. sony Ericsson CAN do better, as proved by the trusty K-series phones. In fact, I prefer my old K750i to this one by a mile. Hope this was helpful. Rating: Reviewed by Dean on 14/07/2009 i have had this phone from january and i think it is ok, i wouldn't say it is anything special. The best thing i would say about the phone is the camera even although the n95 and most other 5mp phones are better, also i think the battery life is brilliant Rating: Reviewed by j on 14/07/2009 absoutley brilliant nothing wrong it's great outstanding picture quality - great Rating: Reviewed by Georgia on 13/07/2009 Had this phone upgraded from a samsung and can honestly say i <3 this phone, there is everythings you can expect and more! i had the red one originally although this had to be replaced as i ended up breakin it- probably from over-use! but yes, i have a couple of friends who also have this phone and they have dropped it many a time and its still survived! 10/10! Very Happy :) Rating: Reviewed by Olutoyin on 11/07/2009 I really wanted to like this phone, but in the end I just couldn't do it. As a basic phone with basic functions, it would be the best out there. However, with limited web browsing (full web pages are a no no coupled with no flash), a very good camera but dodgy functions around that, terrible keys which makes texting physically hurt, and the occasional reboot for no reason makes this phone a distinct miss! But it's still better than the C905! Rating: Reviewed by Darren on 09/07/2009 Never had a problem with it, it runs smooth and has an awesome camera thats incredibly good at night shots for some reason!? Never locked up and the music players good enough for use as a mini mp3 to save on pocket space, only downside is its not a standard headphone slot. Recommend it though Rating: Reviewed by Lisa on 06/07/2009 I was really happy with this phone was the best phone i ever had, great pics, etc, couldnt say a bad word against it.....until i took my m2 card out of it to transfer some pics to my pc....now it wont recognise the card!!!! I tried a different m2 card and it doesnt recognise that one either :( Such a shame, i really liked this phone Rating: Reviewed by Brian on 06/07/2009 Have had this phone since January 2009. I previously had a K850i which after a couple of weeks of use would freeze or not hang up when ending a call. The C902 did the same until it had to be replaced. Sony have changed the phone in the way that one it does not crash (yippee!!), and the menu is now different. It is now July and my phone is up for renewal, do I want to get rid of the C902, not really as I have had no issues in months. Cracking phone now Sony have sorted out the issues. Main criteria now is what do I go for now, a touch phone such as HTC Hero, HTC Touch Pro 2 etc etc. Help me decide. Rating: Reviewed by Syfo on 05/07/2009 C902i is the best camera phone ever made by a man.This fone rocks Rating: Reviewed by David on 02/07/2009 On 3 network, phone has full signal and then drops to none when on call and cuts call off, this happens in different areas, would say it is a network problem but have gone back to previous phone and have no such issues, very disappointing!. Rating: Reviewed by John on 01/07/2009 I have now had the C902 from Orange for over a year now. It used to lock up but the bug fix sorted that, it now only occasionally crashes. Reception is probably it's biggest downfall with constantly dropped calls in areas all around the country. Keyboard is uncomfortable to use. Finish is poor as it scratches considerably. Navigation is not great. I wish that had produced a 810 replacement as that was great. Sorry can't recommend it, can't wait until the end of the 18 month contract with Orange so I can get a replacement. Rating: Reviewed by Turtle =] on 26/06/2009 i've had the red verson of the C902 for two days now. omg it is driving me mad! on charging it comes up with serious error. stop chargung. stop using your phone and contact a sony ericsson call center. it freezes constantly. turns it self of. the camera has completly stoped working. a few people i no have no problems with the black verson so DO NOT get the red c902!! im fed up of this phone already.; my last phone was the W910i. that was also a pain. As Was My K550i. All My Soni Erricson Phones Have Had Something Wrong With them. Its Putting Me Of Buying A Nother One!!! Rating: Reviewed by Kev on 25/06/2009 Had my C902 for 1 year now,no real problems apart from signal strength....poor poor poor !!! Also the inability to move pictures to a seperate album (or am i being thick? ) As mentioned before the flash is useless so dont even try it. I also had the mis-fortune to drop my 902 in water and after a spell under the hair drier it worked !!! Wont be getting another SE. Rating: Reviewed by Craig on 24/06/2009 Found a few problems with it, as others have mentioned it tends to freeze a lot and reboot its self for no reason at all! I have also found that the keys are starting to stick but dont know if thats from over using it! But other than that I think its a decent phone, the battery life last about a day and half when used quite frequently and the camera is brilliant! The radio on it is crystal clear (use it when i go jogging). Av give it 3 stars for the fact that it does its job as a phone, there are no special features of any sort and its not exactly a poor phone! Rating: Reviewed by s. mcmillan on 20/06/2009 i find the keys very small and you can't download a different meassage tone but other wise its a good phone Rating: Reviewed by Nick Cornwall on 20/06/2009 I have had 3 C902's in 6 months, freezing up, tuning off. And when in contacts the key pad does not respond to the first letter pressed, I found this to be a common fault. 4 850i's and 3 c902 are in one 18 month contract. I am now nervous of Sony e, but transferring my numbers and other jargon to a say Nokia is also awkward as the software on these phones aren’t compatible. When you’re in the Sony e, stable, they try to keep you there. So now looking at the w705 'fingers crossed' At present there just is not a phone out there that can be deemed 100%. Perhaps cramming to much tech in to them is making them unreliable. First and for most it has to be a phone first'not a File Fax. Rating: Reviewed by charlotte on 19/06/2009 it is good but mine takes up to about a minuet to load... this can be very annoying as it freezes too and also the shiny cover scratches extreemly easy .. well i surppose it's not a good phone now lol! Rating: Reviewed by ashley on 18/06/2009 this phone is suck.it had a lot of problem when u msg, or play games it always hang. the part that i enjoy the most is taking picture with 5 megapixel. thats it and that all. Rating: Reviewed by luke on 16/06/2009 had this phone for 10 months on O2 it's only turned it's self off and on 6 times since i've had it i've had no the signal isn't good in some areas but thats really the only things wrongs with it but everything else is good Rating: Reviewed by Davis on 14/06/2009 I bought this phone 2 months ago on a contract. I've never loved a phone so much, until now. It's freezing about 5 times a week, it turns itself off randomly, battery life is aweful. The camera is only good and the flash never seems to be at the same time of taking the actual picture so night pictures aren't that good either. If the phone worked, I would probally still want it. But I've had enough of it now so I've gone back to reliable Samsung's by getting the Samsung F400. Let's hope it will be ALOT better!! Rating: Reviewed by Heather on 13/06/2009 I have had my Sony Ericcson c902 since September, and it has started turning itself off approximately once a day. I went to my phone retailer who told me to put the CD rom into my computer, attach the phone and install the latest software which would solve the problem. I did everything he recommended that I do to solve the problem. Since then my phone has continued to do the same thing. Very frustrating when trying to phone someone or txting as you have to wait until it reboots and then try again. Overall, not at all impressed with this phone Rating: Reviewed by dug on 12/06/2009 Great phone, never had any problems in the last 8 months of owening it. Rating: Reviewed by Ben Calvert on 08/06/2009 Good camera, apart from it's slow on the menus. The 'phone crashes all the time, switches itself on and off, has terrible reception and the battery life is ridiculously too short. Sony Ericsson say 'Cybershot-A camera with a 'phone attached.' I say 'A disfunctional camera with a really rubbish 'phone attached.' Rating: Reviewed by glyn on 07/06/2009 had a c902 as an upgrade for my k800i which is 3 years old now & starting to suffer. Found it to be a downgrade especially for indoor photography the led flash is rubbish compared to the k800i xenon. Why the backward step? Ok it has photo fix which takes ages but wouldnt be necessary with a decent flash. Reviews go on about it being 5mp but what a stupidly small lens compared to k800i. Lens size makes a lot of difference too. Expected much more from sony but I think they took a few steps back with camera side of this phone. Not as good to hold & buttons not as easy to text with. Rating: Reviewed by karen dickson on 06/06/2009 i have had the c902 since feb of this year 2009 only had problems recently with phone crashing twice in one day. Also the of button is to close to the internet button i keep pressing the internet button as well as the off button Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 05/06/2009 I have owned my C902 for quite a few months now, and i can safely saw this is the best Sony Ericsson I have owned (this being my fourth) It does everything its described to do very well, and if you have a bit of know how, you can greatly enhance the experience of using your C902. I have an unlimited web bundle with my phone, which in my opinion is a must. As there is no Map app on the phone as sandard, i downloaded google maps, and it has got me out of a few sticky situations! The web browsing is pretty decent for a phone whose main use is not solely browsing! The keypad does take a short while to get used to, but once you've had it a while there are really no complaints! The camera is great and the whole mechanism is really neat, the video quality is pretty good and there are lots of function options too. Pairing with other devices is a synch! And using as a modem when away is easy and effectve too! The screen quality is great and clarity is good too. Overall the u seability and quality of the phone is second to none! Ignore all the other reviews saying the camera is no good, is great, theyre just being far too picky! At the end of the day if your only looking for a decent photo/video ability the get a proper camera as nothing yet can compare, but this phone is not very far away at all, and when blown up the images are very very good! I have had no useability problems, like crashing, those who have are just unlucky! At the end of the day if you want a very good phone but dont want to pay top top end prices, get this phone as nothing apart from an i-phone will beat it!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Dayana Dymiter on 03/06/2009 its really good. the mega pixels are really good. it has a good memory and is a great hope filled phone everyone should get this phone. other people dont like it but i love its great and my dad brought it for me my other phone c510 was really good too but this one is sooo good well toodless. Rating: Reviewed by Steve from Durham on 02/06/2009 I can't wait for my 18 month contract to run out so that i can get rid of this rubbish. The wife and i both got this phone at the same time and both freeze up and crash on a daily basis. The battery life was terrible from new and although there are lots of things i like about this phone i am furious at how unreliable both phones are. We are currently in the process of cancelling our contracts with Orange who have the worst network coverage of all. Buy this phone at your peril, Sony Ericsson need to get their act together but for now i will be looking elsewhere. Rating: Reviewed by Hamish on 31/05/2009 Had this phone for 3 days, so far it has been brilliant! The phone is really slim and lite for having such a large camera, well done SE. The camera is 5MP and is really clear, plus it is hidden away though a clever cover which is sure to make your freinds go WOW! The touch sensitive buttons on the phone to control the camera are brilliant, they are really sensitive and act as really good shortcut keys. The two bad things about the camera would be not having a Xenon flash, but a (brighter than normal) LED flash. still good enough though, and the second fault would be when you zoom in and take a picture, it is quite pixilated.Many reviews say that the phone keeps on switching off randomly, mine hasn't(yet) so it looks like there a couple of batches that are not as good(so you should be aware of that when you are buying). The media player is almost as good as the walkman version and the speaker is exellent! Also the phone connects to A computer really easily so you can download music, pictures, videos etc... The software is fine but can be sluggish sometimes, but not to bad and the keypad is slightly slanted which can make it hard to press the right button, you get used to it quite quikly but may be a problem if you have large fingers. Good points: really slim and stylish - Exellent 5MP camera - good music system - very clever lens cover - can store up to a 8GB M2 memory card - usefull touch sensitive camera short cuts Bad points: no Xenon flash - system is somtimes sluggish - has some manufactering faults(swiching off for no reason etc) - keypad is a bit fiddily - not amazing battery life - small screen due to the touch sensitive buttons On a whole this is a really good phone as long as it doesnt start crashing! I would recommend getting it, but be aware of the problems. It has many camera features that i have not seen on similiar phones which is why i got it, and I have not been disapointed! Rating: Reviewed by Pervaiz Khan on 26/05/2009 i used the c902 handset and very delighted,because its looking good,percption is so good,camra quality is outstanding and all features which is in it every thing is termendus.But,i have some problem in saving contacts,in the fone.when i save the contact ,it when possible then there is space in sim card.why the contact not save in the fone.i waiting for your suggesion.my e-mail pervaiz.khan@diamondpaints.com.pk Rating: Reviewed by George on 25/05/2009 i have had this phone for around 2months now, it has turned itself off loads infact in the last 45mins twice and it has froze alot while listening to music, the battery life is terrible, i cant go to my girlfriends for a weekend because the charge goes, overall i just wouldnt get this phone, it is over priced and isnt worth the hassel. Rating: Reviewed by Kate on 24/05/2009 I've had this phone, nearly a month it's the first sony ericsson i've had i previously had an lg, it's nothing on the c902. The camera's brilliant the phone is compact and neat for a cyber-shot as most of them are bulky. Everything about this phone is brill! However the battery doesn't last long if your taking pictures, listening to music, or leaving your phone on for long periods of time. Overall, this phone is the best! I hope this helps if you are considering getting this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Tracey on 22/05/2009 Was a bit dubious about this phone after reading some of the reviews with regard to it crashing etc, especially as I loved my K750i, but eventually took the plunge. Sony must have ironed out the problems as I've had this phone for 3 months now and works perfectly. Excellent camera, lots of features which Sony are good at. Only downside is keys are smaller and take a bit of getting used to, and battery life is not as good. A charge only lasts me a couple of days, but overall, highly recommended. Rating: Reviewed by BB on 21/05/2009 Never ever buy a Sony Ericsson mobile, very simple reason is that the power connection method is that you shove the plastic connector into the slots, then when removing, no matter how you do it, one of the plastic connectors will break off inside the phone! Look before you buy, a simple look will show you how feeble and easily broken the cheap flimsy connection method is! BE WARNED.......... Rating: Reviewed by Phil on 20/05/2009 Had the Ericsson before this one not a problem at all, but this one is total rubbish had it nearly 12 months since iv had it it re-boots it's self 4 or 5 times a week the camera is rubbish the flash even worse dont even bother trying to take pics with it anymore, the vibrate is very poor carnt even feel it in your pocket and only just hear it when you leave it on a pile of change on your bedside table. But on the plus side its ok for keeping the Kitchen door wedged open on a hot day!!!! shame they dont have a -5 as thats what i would give this phone!! Rating: Reviewed by paddy on 19/05/2009 The phone is alright but when on stand by my bottom six lights stay on and my battery does not last very long. Is the lights meant to stay on. has this happened to anyone else. Rating: Reviewed by Rach on 19/05/2009 Come on guys, apart from the 'turning its self off' very occasionally (which is never good) this phone is a beauty. totally functional and wonderful. I bought a memory card for it last week and I have 152 tracks stored with room for fecking loads more... wa-hooo. To a music head, this is a gift. Camera is fab with it's slide show option! Fun and asthetically fine Rating: Reviewed by Brad on 17/05/2009 I like this phone, it has a good camera looks niice and overall is just a very niice phone. The layout is similar to other sony phones and apart from the flash(which isnt too good) I really like this phone and i reckomend it. Rating: Reviewed by Dan from Brighton on 16/05/2009 hey. i was really looking forward to getting this phone last year, but when i got it i wished i didnt bother. its been sent back 4 times now. the speaker chooses when it wants to work, the loud speaker mic doesnt work at all. it keeps restarting it self and its just disapointing all round. sade to say but i think i will be going back to nokia for the next phone Rating: Reviewed by mark on 16/05/2009 Excellant phone. I was worried about it crashing but like every other phone if you flick through the menues too fast it may freeze. Slide mechnisim could be better but on the whole a great phone Rating: Reviewed by Louise on 16/05/2009 I have had this phone for about 3 months now and haven't had any problems with it. I am a huge Sony Ericsson fan and this phone is no let down! I always worry when buying a new one if it is going to live up to my expectations. My past Ericsson phones have all been reliable and can't fault them (esp the W850i, which I still use alongside my C902 as I just can't totally part with it! lol the W850i is now 3 - 4 yrs old and still going strong!). I use the phone mainly for texting and accessing the internet. I can do both quickly and efficiently. Camera is great! I find you do have to hold the phone very still (no anti shake feature on this model!) to get a good clear picture but it's no hardship so no real gripe with that. I think it's the K800i where you can literally shake the phone while taking a pic and the image will be very sharp and clear!! Funny. The phone has some great features to be explored. Not got time to go in to them all but I'm sure you're aware of most of them by now. Besided, go buy one and check them out for yourself! Great phone! Rating: Reviewed by Helen on 15/05/2009 Had this phone for two weeks and had to send it back for repair. Randomly switched off mid-call and wouldn't switch back on again. Camera isn't much to rave about, for the price you pay for this phone you'd be better buying yourself a decent digital camera. Startup is slow, as are all the menu options. When writing a text message, the text showing up on screen is always a few letters behind your typing. Wouldn't recommend this handset. Or any Sony Ericsson, for that matter. It might look stylish in the pictures, but it's not that stylish in my opinion. It's an odd width - I don't find it comfortable or easy to hold, and it's quite heavy compared to other handsets on the market at the moment. Rating: Reviewed by jonlees on 14/05/2009 What a RUBBISH phone. I love me sony but this is a load of RUBBISH.. 5.0 megapixel my bum... Calls just drop off....Screen just locks so got to take the battery out all the time.....RUBBISH...Do Not Get This Phone.... Rating: Reviewed by jenny twigg on 14/05/2009 this phone arrived today... it has been out a while so im surethere is a newer version of it.. but it looks good and the camera is excellent i must say.. only thing is the key pads are too small so if you are a text person like me its noooo good,, and its quite heavy andn hard to hold.. looks like it will scrath easy too.. Rating: Reviewed by tt on 13/05/2009 I had to change this phone 2 times in the first week of having it as it kept on freezing. After that, I wasn't able to have a change of phone and it could only be sent off to be repaired. If i had my way, I would still be changing it a year on. I've had nothin but trouble. I can't have a phonecall without freezing every 5 minutes. I can't send a text without it freezing after every other word. It's really bad. I think anyone who buys this phone will find some sort of problem with it and i really advise noone to buy it. SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY! Rating: Reviewed by Richard From North Wales on 11/05/2009 I have had the C902 for about 6 months now on an Orange plan. I'm on my 3rd handset due to huge software problems with the phone. On the first handset the screen kept freezing and the phone would shut itself off and re-boot 30 seconds later (sometimes in the middle of a call). The second handset would also freeze when using certain functions before finally corrupting all the information in my contacts folder. Thankfully I had backed up all my contacts and photos onto the Sony Ericssson PC suite. To be fair to Orange they are as frustrated with Sony as I was. I had my third handset delivered by courier over the weekend; he told me out of the 15 phones a week they deliver 6 - 10 of the m will be C902 0r C905 replacements I wont be getting any more Sony's Rating: Reviewed by mikee on 10/05/2009 i had this phone, nothing speacial in my opinion in way of features but it was very unreliable and kept freezing, i swapped it for a lg viewty which is alot more fun!! Rating: Reviewed by milmol on 09/05/2009 Not a bad phone, but had to ditch mine because it just could not hold a bluetooth connection with a SE headset for more than 10 minutes at a time. I tried a number of headsets (assuming that to be the problem) before doing a trial with my partner's Nokia phone to discover it was the phone which had the problem. I did try to sort this with SE but to no avail. They stalled and stalled getting back to me insisting there was no problem with the phone. I now have a Nokia myself and no problem. If bluetooth is not your thing then the phone is quite good in a number of areas - nice looking, quite robust, decent enough battery life and excellent quality daylight photos and camera features. The flash on the camera is poor though for indoor shots. I did also experience some problems of it switching itself off & rebooting, maybe once a week or so, but that's a problem I've had with a lot of SE's and I can live with that...just the blutetooth I can't! I waited a long time to ge t this phone, been a long-time fan of SE's, but it wasn't worth the wait, it's fine, but nothing special at all. Rating: Reviewed by John Herbert on 08/05/2009 I have had this phone for a few months now. I also have kept my old K810i. The C902 has abysmal ability to pick up a signal compared to my old one. No one seems to review this aspect of a phone, just the gadjets. I would avoid this phone like the plague. Rating: Reviewed by sp on 05/05/2009 Got as an upgrade from Orange, after reading very mixed reviews about all my options and deciding to just go for it anyway. Haven't had any problems with it freezing, although occassionally it seems to pause for a second or two when scrolling through pictures. Haven't had any problems with the speaker. Battery life seems good, especially as it's a slim phone. The keys are small but, even with the silicone cover I bought for my phone, I can still use the keys fine. Minor things: - It didn't come with a memory card, and the phone memory is quite small, so you do need to purchase it seperately. - Personally I wish they'd kept the light and SOS feature on it, as I had on an earlier Sony Ericsson model. The only way to get a light seems to be to put the video camera function on and I agree that the flash and light don't seem as powerful as on earlier ones. - Also (although I have only had this phone for a few weeks and haven't read all the way through the manual and may just have missed how to do it) I don't think you can get the time and date to display on the side of photos. Other than that it's a great phone and the camera gives clear shots. The touch screen functions for the camera are good too (but you can also manually access them). It's light and super-slim. Rating: Reviewed by sony on 05/05/2009 the phon is a good phone Rating: Reviewed by . on 26/04/2009 great Rating: Reviewed by j. k. on 26/04/2009 I bought in Dec 08 and as of 26th April 2009 this has proved to be the most unreliable phone I have had the misfortune to own(previously owned 5 x Sony Ericcsons, 8 x Nokia) - despite latest firmware update. The internal earpiece has stopped working and the camera causes the phone to freeze requiring the battery to be removed to reset. The major high street shop I bought it from has been unable to repair and denied any knowledge of a higher failure rate, however 2 local specialist repair shops have the phone among their best "resellers" i.e. handed in/repaired. I had hoped when I bought it that all issues had been overcome, but it appears there are fundamental issues which firmware upgrades have so far been unable to resolve. This one is a Masochists dream come true!! Rating: Reviewed by jake on 24/04/2009 well what can i say, i dropped this in the pond last week and quickly got it out. then i took out my battery and back and layed it on the grass, later when i got home i placed the phone under a cool hairdryer for about 5minutes. then i placed my battery and everything back in and now its working fine! amazing Rating: Reviewed by J Taylor on 22/04/2009 Why are there so many idiots giving great reviews on this board the same day or just day after they got this phone. Don't you people realise that problems don't always develop immediately? This phone is the worst piece of junk I have ever owned and I would never ever use Sony Ericsson again. I have had it 3 wks, and began having problems 1 week in. Crashing, freezing, rebooting (oh yeah and was incensed to find no repeating text alert or missed call alert, yes these are phones first and foremost, not cameras/toys! I don't need to be checking my phone everytime I have to step out without it, I'd like to hear a noise to tell me I've missed a call or message). Then the fun really started, people are telling me they've been texting me, calling me, but unable to get hold of me (except on my landline), and I put the card back in my old Samsung and what do you know, a load of missed texts. Sony Ericsson no help at all, just send parrot fashion replies to emails without addressing the issues. Vodafone have signed me to a 2yr contract and tell me that although within 28 days all they can do is give me another C902. NO WAY !!!!! So I'm fighting for an alternative replacement phone which I should be entitled to but knowing my luck I will have to shell out for one. And if I do Vodafone can stick their service in future - and I've been with them for years. My warning is: DO NOT GET THIS PHONE !!!!! Rating: Reviewed by ju on 22/04/2009 well the c902 was a good mobile till i started usein it to get on the net on my laptop then the trubles started it crashes all the time even now ive put the update on n that was another waste of my time as the only thing that changed was 1 thing on my music player this phone is a let down sony need to bring a phone out good for music and pics not 1 or the other i was happy with this phone but slowly got dissapointed with it the idou looks and sounds brill lets hope so or sony will be off my radar for future mobiles Rating: Reviewed by Rachi on 21/04/2009 i work in a mobile phone retailer and i'm a big fan of sony ericssons (even though they have made some HUGE mistakes in the past with some models) and spec-wise this is a really cool phone...especially impressed with the reliability and responsivness of the touch camera controls. but sony still needs to work on its software. as with every single sony/e model within the past 2 years it crashes and freezes. if you are patient enough its a brill phone but not for those of you already with high blood pressure lol!! Rating: Reviewed by tayaba on 17/04/2009 this phone is an absolute shamble.i got in contract paying £25 a month for 24 months, thinking its an excellent phone due to the 5 megapixel camera but i was wrong. mind you the camera quality it good but the battery life is horrendous. so a month later i decided to flog it off. the shops offered no more than £70 for it. i ended up using an old samsung d500 which is taking its last breaths at the moment with no screen instead of this phone which tells you a lot about it. thannkfully iv gotten rid of it. had atrocious reception on it and finally its a very slippery phone and falls out of your hands easilly! prone to scratches.! Rating: Reviewed by JC Supastar on 16/04/2009 Had this phone as a replacement for my samsung soul which was awful. This phone was only needed for 4 months and it did the job lovely. Its a good phone that if you want a reliable phone which does a job then this phone is great. Im not must of a photo taker so i cnt say much about the cam but the performance of the phone was good, but still its still not quite the old k800i. Rating: Reviewed by Summer on 15/04/2009 I bought this phone a couple of weeks ago as part of an upgrade. Camera is great. But the screen is too small and texting is difficult as the keys are too small and too close together and slanted. I wouldn't recommend this phone if do a lot of texting. Rating: Reviewed by notsixseven on 15/04/2009 Not impressed. Very slow reactions and hard key pad. Rating: Reviewed by Colin on 13/04/2009 Had the phone sent back 3 times continues to freeze shut off and loose signal strength constantly. Shame as its a good phone to use,looks good and decent camera. Rating: Reviewed by Keris From S.Wales on 12/04/2009 Purchased this fone back in june from vodafone on an 18month contract, from abot the 3rd or 4th week it has frooze in the middle of a fone call or wen i am using the fone , totally annoying especally if ts an inportant fone call . but recantly after looking through all my fone features 4 the millionth time i came across update service which is on the settings menu under General, i clicked this to fin out what it was , it asked me did i want to update my system so i clicked yes ,it took about 10 -20 minutes to update , and ever since iv had an remarkable outcome , no more freezing when im using it and i can actually speak on the fone with out taken out the battery and starting all ova , i recomend you try this feature to see if u have the same outcome , overall its a pretty remarkable fone , battery last about 3days with out charging camras really good . the only otha downfall is the alarm ive been late many of time dure to the lack of it goin of , but i have not t ryed the alarm since updateing the fones system :D x Rating: Reviewed by phoebe on 12/04/2009 love my c902. only problem is that its quite slow, even when there is a lot of stuff on it.. Rating: Reviewed by gary on 11/04/2009 the screen is to small! the phone looads up slow and the keys are to small. looks a good phone but thats it! Rating: Reviewed by simon vilaboa on 07/04/2009 I have no complains about this model, except that it´s impossible to me find out how to instal a java game in it. When I use the computer it apears the folder "others" but my phone don´t have it. Rating: Reviewed by ian on 07/04/2009 I looked up on this site the recommendations of this phone before i decided to, or not to purchase one. Well from the reports i decided to get one! This was an upgrade from the "sony ericsson K8ooi" A phone that i highly enjoyed and thought would take some beating! It took a while to get used to my C902 but once i was up and running and set up the phone to the way i wanted was pleased with it, though not 100%. Well i think i peaked then as the phone has become a problem since. It drops calls, while the other person can hear i cannot hear them, then it comes back after a few seconds. It has turned off a few times and on one occasion it returned to basic settings loosing all my ring tones, some pictures and even some numbers. I have had the phone too long now to be under warranty with Orange. I have been on to the Sony Ericsson web site to download the updates and that has been a total loss aswell! My only answer now is to get in touch with Sony direct and send it to them. I wish i had kept my K800i, A much better phone !!!All the fuctions are good on this phone but the hardware seems to let it down! I have had Sony phones in the past and they have been fantastic! but this has been far from fantastic..... i'm not a happy person with this phone! Rating: Reviewed by Molly on 04/04/2009 I'm on a 24month contract with it, and recently i lost it in the snow, then it got found and it was ohhh so broke. The up button has stopped working, and the flash, and also it doesn't save any texts. Yep, i know it's my fault but hey. It was breaking before then. I sent it off to be repaired & as i'm not insured, it was not repairable. So now i'm stuck with it. But it was a great-ish phone before. Rating: Reviewed by ben cooper on 02/04/2009 hello, im a fan of SE's always have been, just got this phone second had, and i must admit i like it, but one big flaw, acording to this review the camera is compramble if not better than the k850i, this is just not the case, i had the k850i and loved it the camera being the best but, the c902 says its taking ia picture in 5 mps and well i have looked at the pictues on a computer and i believ there a 3 at best, and fear i could take similar pictures with a VGA webcam, other wise this phone is great, slim good build quality feels nice, just a rubish camera, og dont get the k850i it breakes in a most iritating way ... Rating: Reviewed by alex on 01/04/2009 sony ericsson cyber shot, a really good all round phone takes good pictures, textings good good pictures, havent learnt what I can do with it yet but as my teenage daughter says I'm an old fogey. But it must be a good phone as it has enough street cred, she wants it Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 31/03/2009 Have had this phone for 3 months now. I've been using Motorola since mobiles were invented and finally took the plunge to switch brand. Once I got used to the change I found the phone very easy to use. the keys are small but you get used to them and now they don't seem small at all. The camera is excellent quality. The shortcut option and quick dial option are very useful and easy to use. I had heard of some software problems with this phone but a simple check which you can do yourself on the phone updates the software if required. I do only use my phone for calling and texting - but if you turn the things off (Bluetooth etc) until you need them your battery should last about 7 days. A tip - don't fully charge the battery when you first get it, let the battery run completely down first. I would recommend this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Rosie on 31/03/2009 I bought this phone having previously owned the K800i, a brilliant camera phone that far exceeds the picture quality of the C902. Considering the fact that i bough the C902 because it was advertised as having such a good camera, it was extremely dissapointing to me to discover that the picture quality and camera are so inferior to the k800i. Quite a few of my friends also recently got this phone and none are happy with it. I am currently looking for another phone, one which i am easily able to take quality pictures on. Rating: Reviewed by Maggi on 30/03/2009 beeeeeest phone strong and sturdy best camera GET IT Rating: Reviewed by Kelvin Baker on 26/03/2009 Have read all the reviews below and have to say that the phone is a very good phone - looks and camera are great...BUT the software issue is a major one and Sony should of perhaps not released the phone with such major issues of freezing and resetting itself. I have though come up with a rather unusual cure to the freezing problem. If your phone glitches for even a second whilst txting or during a call, if left will only get worse. I have found if u reload your Theme from the file manager the phone then works perfectly again. I do love the phone and the software glitches are unforgivable but this seems to do the trick with mine. Rating: Reviewed by rushka on 26/03/2009 DISSS IZ A LOUSY FONE! WDF MAN! ITZ NOT TURNING ON! SO I SENT IT BK 2 FIX IT DEN D DUMBASS SENT IT BAK SAYIN ITZ FIXD BUT NO ITS DOIN THE SAME THING! HELLP! ITS NOT TURNING ON THE BLUE FLAS ALWAYS SHINES AND THATS ALL IT GOOD AT ATM! Rating: Reviewed by chris on 25/03/2009 Had 2 phones now for a mouth, all it does is froze several times then just died all together and wouldnt start up again just vibrated for a second then nothing, was charging up battery just before it ran out but ran out completly then the phone died, wouldnt charge up not even registing charging just vibrated again then nothing also the speakerwent after bout2 hur of muice so i would say STAY AWAY FROM IT ITS A WASTE OF MONEY TAKE MY ADVICE Rating: Reviewed by Kim on 24/03/2009 I really liked this phone to start with, but then it started getting slow, text messages stopped coming through, the camera isnt as good as I thought it would be, when I phone people I cant hear them, the battery life is rubbish. I normally really like sony ericssons but this one has been a real REAL let down, I am taking it back to the shop to exchange for a blackberry! Rating: Reviewed by Hayley on 22/03/2009 i wouldnt recommend this phone. I had to wipe everything off it because it kept crashing and now it doesnt work. i now cant use internet setting or mms and it wont store my pictures or videos. they didnt back up my messages either so i lost all of them. so dont get this unless your very patient :) Rating: Reviewed by mike on 20/03/2009 really nice phone only one prob it sumtimes turns itself off. Rating: Reviewed by Simon on 20/03/2009 This phone is awful, why are people still buying this junk. I have several friends with this phone who said it was the best thing since sliced bread, now they just want to smash it to pieces despite all the resests, downloads etc etc. DO NOT BUY you will eventually regret it!!! Rating: Reviewed by JennyR on 20/03/2009 Good phone, but still not perfect. I've had several makes of phone but my last two have been Sony Ericsson as they seem to combine all the right features. The C902 is a great size, seems to be stable and after 6 weeks doesn't crash at all, the battery life is good, sound is good, screen is good, is intuitive to use. And best of all, it doesn't have a toggle! BUT the 5MP camera is not as good as the 3.2MP camera from the K810i. The buttons are small and difficult to use, unlike the even smaller round buttons on the K810i which did work well. You need two hands to open the camera cover and the battery life, although I said it was good, is not as good as the K810i, particularly if you listen to music on it. So I'm still looking for my perfect phone - it would be a K810i that was the size of the C902! Rating: Reviewed by Steven on 19/03/2009 Had this phone for a couple of months (as has by g/f). No problems at all. I've upgraded my firmware twice, my g/f is still on the original firmware, no issues on either phone. It works perfectly with our MINI(BMW) bluetooth kits (which Nokia's don't). Camera is fine and the build is very solid. Recommended phone. Rating: Reviewed by joe on 18/03/2009 i have had my sony ericsson c902 for 3 months now and the only problem i have ever had with it is the memory card sometimes isnt read and i have to take it out and put it back in again but everything else on it has been a joy to have my friend had a k850i and it has been awful with the touch buttons and it is to bulky this phone is easy to use small and good sound quality the screen is a bit smaller than the k850 but the touch buttons for the camera more than make up for it and the battery life is great in standby i have not needed to charge my phone for a week all in all it is great phone once you get used to it Rating: Reviewed by thelumpster on 18/03/2009 This is a terrible camera phone. I have upgraded from the outstanding K800 and although only a 3 megapixel camera, the quality of the pictures were great. The C902's lack of a proper flash makes it unusable at night time unless the subject is standing 6 inches from you. Also i have yet to take a picture that isn't blurry, this includes daylight one too. The colour contrast is also way out, meaning if you managed to take a half decent picture by making the subject stand motionless and wait for the wind to drop, it is likely to look like they have some horrendous skin problem anyway. I fins the touch screen buttons are a waste of screen space, and make are easily touched accidentally. The new slim desig nlooks nice, but by doing this sony have done away with the play/pause music button on the side of the phone, meaning that you have to access you music player by way of the menu screen. this might not sound like much of a problem, but pausing music to talk to someone c an take over 10 seconds. I also find that its very temperamental what type of music files it will play, skipping over tracks but then playing another track from the same album. As an actual phone, its works fine, but these days you expect more from a camera phone, and especially from sony as they got it so right with the K800. I Hope the new idou will be a step in the right direction. Rating: Reviewed by kurt on 16/03/2009 i have had this phone for2 months. only crashed on me once during song playback. restarted and left off where it restarted within 10 seconds. the camera is pritty reliable but could be better with lighing issues. i previously had a k850i. what a bag of crap that was! replaced 4 times and had the same crashing problems that people seem to be having with this model. AVOID K850i!!!!. if i start having the same problems with this phone i will get a partition with as many people AND IM SURE A FEW PHONE COMPANIES ARE FED UP WITH THE UTTER DEMMAND OF REPAIR. i will go to trading standards against sony ericsson because 2 SE in a row will have the same problems and at £200 to £300 a pop at each phone it should be againsed the law too sell these phones especially at a time when the whole world is suffering from the CREDIT CRUNCH! it is slanderous that SE can do this and i feel utter sympathy for other consumers! fingers crossed my phone has been close to perfect. BUT AVOID SONY AT ALL COSTS! BUT AVOID SONY AT ALL COSTS! BUT AVOID SONY AT ALL COSTS! Rating: Reviewed by Debbie on 15/03/2009 I thought I liked the phone. The camera is great, but buttons are too small and the battery life sucks everyday you need to re-charge. If you use the phone for a call or sms the battery will be down to a half. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Rating: Reviewed by Ayman on 14/03/2009 hi all i have that device now a month ago. at the beginning and after i wandered through the internet, i was disappointed, because lack of xenoun flash, gps and wlan. but in time i found that, it's better to get a blutooth gps because it keeps the battery of ur phone for your phone, where devices with inbuilt gps get empitified quickly after using gps. regarding xenoun flash, no need for it if you have a good illumination at night and no need at all in morning. only that wlan?! i have no idea about its use to the battery, but of course it affects use..... also it's not that popular in all the world to find places have wifi!!! so finally if you are searching through sonyericsson phones, c902 is a very good choice of a sexy appearance and it's not a slide phone!!! take care slide phones are not a good choice at all to those who used cell phones a lot eng_ayman_74@yahoo.com Rating: Reviewed by Michael Jefferies on 13/03/2009 So often I find that phone design/designers seem obsessed with incorperating the latest hi-tech feature and completely miss the 'Bleedin obvious' ie The phone's every day, basic, modus opperandi. In my opinion the C902 is a good example of this: 1. Awkward little slippery keys bad for sending texts. 2. The text message is not displayed immediatley before sending. 3.'Delete' appears way down the list of options when clearing the inbox. 4. Why is the time not displayed in large numerals when the phone is not in use. 5. Its very easy to accidently delete a contact from the address book. 6. There's loads more but my dinner is ready. Rating: Reviewed by raj on 13/03/2009 I have used it for one month now, looks pristine and same as a brand new one and i suppose it will stay that way for a long time. It has exellent soft keys and a very nice speaker. UI is fluid compared to earlier Sony ericsson models(i had k810) and definately worth the upgrade. It sometimes freezes and restarts automatically though, may be around four or five time in my usage.camera is good but mainly for daytime shooting or around 'more than sufficient' light, LED flash wroks fine within 1 meter or so. Overall it feels very good in your hand and is surely high on style. Rating: Reviewed by RIck on 12/03/2009 c902 excellent EXCEPT the flash in low light, indoors....constant problems 9/10 photos are worthless. I used to love sony ericsson, but this model leaves me hanging and deciding on different companies. Called, updated to most recent software - to no avail. They seem to be unaware of the problem although i've seen post after post regarding this same issue. Rating: Reviewed by Daniel on 11/03/2009 Received my C902 titanium Bond edition on 12/02/2009. Actually wanted a W902, but my contract was about to expire and the W902 is not available in South Africa yet. Unfortunately on day 6 my first phone just restarted itself while typing a text message. Immediately took it back and received a replacement the following week. The replacement phone was also fine for the first week, but then it just started shutting off for no apparent reason. This happens every 3 days or so when the battery is between 50% & 60%. Unfortunately I am now stuck with this phone as in South Africa you can only exchange a phone within the first 7 days. After that the phone must go in for repairs. As this is now the second C902 with shutting down problems I doubt if repairs will change anything??? I have tried to update the software but apparently I already have the latest software. I have sent an e-mail to Sony Ericsson to see if they’ve got any ideas. If only the second one would just restart it self and not just shut down completely… Otherwise the C902 is a good phone with excellent features. The motion sensor works a treat and is wonderful for viewing photos and playing the Need for Speed game. The same goes for the touch sensitive camera short cut keys and the sliding lens cover. One disappointment is the sluggish menus (compared to my W810i… the best phone EVER). It is also very noticeable when typing a text message as the phone is not always able to keep up with me (and I am not a superfast typer). I cannot honestly recommend the C902 as there definitely seems to be something wrong with these phones as two in a row had basically the same problems. The C902 is my 5th Sony Ericsson phone (GH628, A1018s, T630 & W810i). Just hope that Sony Ericsson get their house in order before I upgrade again in 2 years time... Rating: Reviewed by Geordie Paul on 11/03/2009 Well ive had this phone around 12 months now...and all i can say is its just a great phone. Many comment on the freezing etc. Well just go to the Sony Ericsson website and upgrade the new software. All sorted. Fab phone. Will be hard to beat. Rating: Reviewed by robert on 09/03/2009 had phone 3 weeks it frezzis all the time sent it off to b fixed come back the same should just et nokia 3210 it is more reliable get i sorted sony stop macking phones i had w910i with same problem never got that fixed neather but i still have to pay the contract no more i not paying a nother penny to sony. sony should start looking after there coustermas.dont buy sony. dont buy sony. dont buy sony. Rating: Reviewed by John on 09/03/2009 I love the phone but there's been occasions where the alarm has failed to go off in the morning and many times when the sound has cut out for 5-10 seconds during a call. A couple of weeks ago it flatly refused to turn on - just vibrated occasionally, the buttons lit up, and a blank screen - then it'd occasionally vibrate every few minutes but nothing more. It went off to SonyEricsson to be 'fixed' and now it powers on but the screen is completely messed up - whenever scrolling through messages or web pages the screen goes all garbled up. If the software stability was better then this would be a great phone. Rating: Reviewed by Dani on 07/03/2009 I had the phone for 5 months, or the 1st 2 months, i loved it. I loved everything about it. However, after a few months, the camera touchscreen button broke, following this, the charger connection bit, broke. I use my phone 24/7 so i refused to take it back to 02 to get the phone fixed. Im in a Long distant relationship so texts are very important to me, i had filled up my saved messages folder and my templates with texts that meant something to me. This meant i had to save texts by leaving them in my inbox...A few weeks after the charger breaking and the touchscreen going, my inbox then...broke? Everytime i went to open my inbox, it would say something like operation aborted. I took my phone into 02 the next day and they said it was a software fault and they would send it off to be fixed. After a week of wating for my phone, 02 rang me saying that had a replacement phone for me as they couldnt fix it. I went into 02 and got the phone and tried to set it up in store. I couldnt believe it. The top navigation ky was broke! I was then told i had to send this one back to get repaired! I was so annoyed. I told 02 that i would get someone to buy out my contract so i could then have a new phone. I was offered a new phone with the same specifications as the C902. I am currently awaiting my new Samsung Tocco phone =D. I would NOT recomend this phone to ANYONE. I love Sony Ericsson phones, but this one is a joke and has put me off them for life. 1 star. Rating: Reviewed by omar on 06/03/2009 I recently bought a new C902. good pic quality, but there is something which is rather annoying. i have tried to take a picture while shaking my hand. the picture was not clear at all... why is that? as far as i know, cyber-shot is taking a clear picture in fast motion, am i mistaken or my phone has a bug? some dealers said that it might be a software problem.. and proposed changing the software into a lighter one. and idea if that is the problem? and after reading the reviews, it seemed to me that am the only one who's having this problem. am a bit consfused, hope anyone can help Rating: Reviewed by colin stewart on 03/03/2009 had this phone about 3weeks now camera is poor my SE k800i was better than this.also finding that fone turns it self off for no reason what so ever which is annoying exspecialy when im at work and have kids if any thing happens how does your partner get intouch with you!!wouldnt recommend any 1 to get this phone its realy poor.give me back my SE k800i any day Rating: Reviewed by Becci on 02/03/2009 DO NOT BUY!!! Rating: Reviewed by Daniellle on 01/03/2009 I got this phone when it first came out, ever since ive had it ive hated it! my old sony phone was ace, i even ran it ove in my car and not a scratch on it. this phone how ever i droped it and the screen cracked and the battery bent. the key pad has fallen off and it freezes all the time. the battery life is rubish. the only thing i can praise is the camera. Rating: Reviewed by Chris on 28/02/2009 Been over this phone which I got for my mother. Usual SE o.s etc. It is probably the best of a bad bunch of phones at this price point. The Camera pics are terrible even in good light. Don't think so ? Make sure your viewing the pic at 100% in windows previewer by clicking 'actual size' button or look at 100% in an other viewer. The artifacts on the jpeg (at highest quality settings) is rubbish even for a phone. Even my iphone which has a basic phone to say the least, produces a clear pic. The photo edit options are pritty rubbish too. I can clean, add filters, adjust the histogram etc on my iphone and get a much better result from a more basic camera (don't tell me it has 'more pixels', that makes no difference in image quality on a phone spec camera, the lences are just too small and not enough light can get in to worry about things like mega pixals. The phone is a good one, but don't think you can make good picture unless your planning on editing them and resizing them down afterwards. The walkman part is better and sony sound quality is the best by farand they have inproved the volume too, so it is loud enough. I'd probably go for a walkman series at this price though cb the camera is pritty bad even compared to some of sony's other models which I have owned. Remeber view your pics at 100% in a viewer on a PC and you will see the artifacts. I relise they are camera phone with small lences that don't compare with real cameras, but I have seen much better things from Nokia. Nice interface on the camera but sadly rubbish pics even with good light and at full quality, sad but true. If apple bring out a better camera, with the software you can run on the iphone you could have an amazing camera phone bc the photo software you can atm for it doesn't compare to any other on the market. You can get some excellent apps for photos and anybody into photography should keep a close eye to see if apple improves their camera. Overall the c902 is the best of a bad bunch in its class, but camera phone it ain't. A 4 star phone, which isn't saying much bc of the poor phones Nokia and SE are knocking out atm. I had to resort to buying an iphone which I thought I would hate, giving up mms and video etc. Turns out it is the best phone I have ever owned simply bc you never get bored of it bc the quality of the apps that are made for it are simply amazing. 3d games, synths drum machine, photo editors to name a few, alot are free and the quality is in a different league compared to some of the symbian stuff I used to have. Come on SE I used to love your phones! Catch up that Idou thing you about to release looks like another disaster like the w960. Get it togetehr Sony, we are not stupid! Rant over, but I hate buying Apple but Nokia and SE have left me no choice :( Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 26/02/2009 WOW Wish i knew all this before just bought this fone paided £130 pound for it ( Used ) i have a 28 days 2 take it back anytime and get my money back bad Point's it freeze's all the time 2 3 times a day when making a long txt message over 4 sms page's it wont send it's really anoyying when trying to tell the girl friend how much you love her lol. music video freeze's crashed loads i have went off sony ericsson i thought my w810i was going to be the last fone but this fone god help if i droped it i think it would break strate away do they even do test's on these fones before they make them i think they got so excited of advising this on jame's bond film & wanted it made as fast as they could they just took a chance of not testing these they must of all the only sony ericsson's have silly probklem's but nowt like this DONT BUY Rating: Reviewed by Rachel on 26/02/2009 Its such a disappointment :( It freezes up all the time, has fits where it lights up and goes crazy then shuts off, and the alarm sometimes wont go off or an alert will go off when its on silent!! It also cuts out for 10 seconds evertime I have a call. BUT my biggest complaint is the sound quality! When I play music on the loudest setting it isnt even half as loud as old sonys. Does any one else have that problem? I bought speakers for it and they make absolutely no difference in sound volume. Rating: Reviewed by sarah on 25/02/2009 iv had this phone for about 6 months and i relly dont like it. its good to look at and thats about it! it jus reboots itself whenever it feels like it, the camera is really rubbish compaired to other sony erics. i am realy dissapointed with it and cant wait to change it! do not buy this phone!! Rating: Reviewed by M on 25/02/2009 I think most of you are lucky in the fact that you can at least send it back to Ericsson to be repaired or replaced. Due to my lack of sense, and overall optimism that the phone would be reliable, i purchased it for full price while on holidays in UAE. (im from Australia). The first 2 months it worked nicely, apart from the occasional freeze that many of us have encountered. One day it decided crash, completely. And i have not since been able to switch it on. i've tried updating the software..but there was no success. The warranty is not valid here in Australia, it cannot be repaired here because the software is completely different to the models here.. My best option is to go back to the country where i purchased it...and that I cannot do. I'm still waiting response from service centres in Dubai for information on how i can get fixed. Anyway, it may be obvious and logical advice...but if there's anyone out there about to do something as silly as me...don't! (Don't buy phones overseas!!!) Rating: Reviewed by Debbie on 22/02/2009 Brilliant phone, stylish etc but battery lasts only a day can anyone help me please, im on road alot and cannot have this happening. Rating: Reviewed by Laura on 21/02/2009 I absolutely hate this phone, I've had it since December and I'm going to end up throwing it against a wall. 3 times today it's frozen, vibrated once and gone dead whilst in the middle of texting, the problem is getting worse, the alarm doesn't work and it cuts out in the middle of conversations. Absolutely DISAPPOINTING piece of technology. The K800i was much better, even the camera took better pictures.... Rating: Reviewed by syed on 20/02/2009 i love this phone...10000000percent recomended...i have i phone and n96 as well but i love photography and editing them with my c902..AAAAAAA++++++++++++++ Rating: Reviewed by s vickers on 19/02/2009 the only decent thing on this phone is the camera. it freezes constantly. i wouldn't reccommend it to any one. Rating: Reviewed by Rob on 19/02/2009 I am truly amazed at the lack of complaints about the one overall massive shortcoming of this phone. The overall functions offered are impressive, there is a huge BUT !! What a nightmare the 902 is to actually use. Don't Sony Ericsson bother to field test their products as part of their research & development? Unless you happen to have super-slim spider-like tiny little Japanese fingers forget getting anywhere useful with these ridiculous buttons and square navigator control. The buttons appear to have been manufactured from highly glazed ceramic (in other words hard glossy plastic) I have been close to throwing my 902 across the room when attempting to text. Your fingers (or nails if, like me, you have larger digits) slip and ricochet off one button onto the next. THIS KEY PAD IS VIRTUALLY UNUSABLE and I have a blister on my thumb to prove it. The equally hard 'enter' button in the middle of the square navigator command suffers exactly the same problem. All in all this keypad and navigator arrangement totally frustrates and spoils the whole experience, beyond that, once used to the firmware/software lag or apparent temporary freeze, the phone 'offers' good features, it's just totally frustrating trying to use them via those wretched buttons. This failing for me is appalling from a manufacturer who appears to be cutting edge in their innovation. Rating: Reviewed by livi on 19/02/2009 I got the c902 in august. Its a really good phone, and the camera is great. But with my phone i found it kept crashing and turning off of its own accord. This is SO frustrating and is very annoying, when your phone turns off through the night, when your alarm is on for the morning. But other than that the c902 is a good, easy to use phone. A good buy. I think i just wasn't lucky in the c902 i got. Rating: Reviewed by Mr A from london on 18/02/2009 bought this phone, and its great, nice and slim, great camera its just cool, but i had 1 problem with it, the screen went blank, it switches coz u can hear the sound and see the lights but the screen stays blank, the screen might be gone, ill ought to fix it hopfully but over all its a fab phone. Rating: Reviewed by S on 18/02/2009 This phone is an absolute pile of rubbish...it keeps freezing and turning off whenever it feels like it. RUBBISH! Rating: Reviewed by Jim Beam on 16/02/2009 First of all it's a brilliant all round phone & the thing i like about it is how fast the software runs, very quick without any lagging & very clear menus. There are one or two basic things that should be better. The first is adding & trying access mp3 files, you have to make sure they are in the correct folders before you can actually access them, i.e. to either play them or send them to someone via bluetooth. A pain to get sorted out. The second being the fact you can't stop the phone from saving things into history, i.e. sent text messages etc which is one of the basic options on any phone yet this doesn't have it. The sound isn't as good as could be, the speaker is on the back of the phone so if you have it on the table face up the speaker is partially blocked by the table which makes it sound 50% quieter. The camera is good given the right lighting, if it's too dark the pictures come out pretty dark even with the flash on, but given that pictures usually turn out to be of very good quality. If it wasn't for the above gripes i would have given the phone 5 stars. Rating: Reviewed by Jane on 16/02/2009 I've had this phone for a week now and I really love it! Its the first sony ericsson I've had (previously always gone for Nokia's)and Im so pleased I made the change! It really is a great phone - very sleek and great features all round. I've had no issues with re-booting or it crashing. Battery life could be better, and if you've got nails it is a bit trickier managing the keypad, and I do agree the camera flash would've been better with a xenon, but it still takes fab pics - and I still wouldn't swap this phone and I recommend it to everyone! Rating: Reviewed by krle on 15/02/2009 The fone is great , i feel like james bond :) Guys JUST TURN OFF THE 3g, and the SIGNAL is great ... trust me on this one. Settings-Mobile networks-Gsm/3gnetworks- GSM "check" Rating: Reviewed by Alexanders-mummy on 15/02/2009 this is a top phone i was a bit iffy about getting one after i had my k800i droped in a cuppa by my son. but this is good the camera is better then the k800i and the video clips are amazing im more of a photo taker and this phone is ace it has the best pic feature aswell as the face recognition, it is easy to use once you get the hang of the new features, id say its well worth a look at ! everythig you would expect from a s/e phone and more i love it ! Rating: Reviewed by ken on 14/02/2009 had phone for 2 months on vodafone - it kept crashing so it's in for repair. Hope it works cos it;s a beatiful piece of kit and it does everything - i'll post on here in a couple of weeks if SE have fixed problems. Rating: Reviewed by Stevie on 14/02/2009 Well... I must say that this phone is utter rubbish... Camera - very poor Buttons - hard to use Making calls- some times you can hear the other person ... most of the time you just hear yourself . im on vodafone and never have a signal ....... its the phone not the network vodafone told me so they are swopping my phone for me to fix the problem and advised me not to buy a Sony phone !!!!!! after 4 months of complaining Positives - 0/10 its being swopped Negatives -10/10 now where to start ?? Camera - very poor whats tha point having 5 mega pixel if its poor quality? Buttons - hard to use Making calls- some times you can hear the other person ... most of the time you just hear yourself . im on vodafone and never have a signal ....... its the phone not the network vodafone told me so they are swopping my phone for me to fix the problem and advised me not to buy a Sony phone !!!!!! after 4 months of complaining .and it crashes ..... Rating: Reviewed by katie on 13/02/2009 i have had this phone since end of novemer and i am on my 4th which i am refusing to use till carphone warehouse swap it.the battery been faulty and all 3 of them have turned themselves off the last turned off n died.what a loada rubbish.i wud advise anyone never to purchase 1 especially from carphone warehouse as there customer service is shocking. Rating: Reviewed by Jess on 10/02/2009 One of the worst phones I have ever had .. it cuts out during calls, the screen freezes, it turns off when it fancies it and generally works veryyyy slowly! I do not recommend this phone at all Rating: Reviewed by rolly on 10/02/2009 the k850 is good in camera features . however the xenon flash, is too strong . for close up shooting. thats why sometimes the shot beome over xpose Rating: Reviewed by Fraser on 09/02/2009 This phone is appalling! You think it's amazing when you get it but wait until you've had it a couple of weeks - nothing but trouble. Screen goes blank, resets itself, freezes while texting, freezing during coversations...what good is a phone if you can't hear the person at the other end of the line? Sony Ericsson and all the providers are well aware of this. I have given it 1 star because this review form won't let me rate it any lower. DO NOT GET THIS PHONE!!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! Rating: Reviewed by Helen on 09/02/2009 a gd fone overall but the camera has got scratched by the slider n when flash is on a white smudge is in the whole photo...no problems with software no freezing or random shuting down...tho wen write a txt with music or media system up writing becomes slow...on the plus sde gd speaker loud n clear with gd bass...i like the idea of the touch screen buttons for the camera but the price is the screen Rating: Reviewed by Zoe on 07/02/2009 Been through two handsets now and they both have a problem of switching themselves off randomly. Luckily I could take them back and cancel the contract as this happened within fourteen days of purchase. I would not have another one and have gone back to my beloved k800i with a sim only monthly tariff. What a relief that is! I would not recommend the C902 to anybody. In my opinion it's a piece of junk. Rating: Reviewed by Chloe on 07/02/2009 This Phiine is mint Rating: Reviewed by Steve, Edinburgh on 07/02/2009 "The keypad is a good old-fashioned one that has good-size square keys giving tactile feedback and enabling fast texting" I'm sorry but whoever wrote this was clearly hallucinating. The keypad is appalling and gives absolutely no feedback whatsoever. You never know if you've pressed a key or not without checking the screen, sometimes they work with barely a touch, but mostly you have to really force it down - not even remotely fast texting! I only got this because my K850i was stolen and frankly I'm disgusted. The Ericsson I had 10 years ago was a better phone than this one, the keypad makes it unusable so any other features are moot. Rating: Reviewed by annoymous on 06/02/2009 nothing but trouble this phone on 3g, freezes and switches off all the time,reception goes down all the time, the 3 customer service team don't even listen if you tell them what's wrong with it they don't seem to understand you! Rating: Reviewed by Mo on 05/02/2009 Awesome phone except for the screen size which is too small, especially for a cybershot phone..also standard memory in south africa is disappointing..overall it is a wonderful, simple, good-looking phone thats not too complex for its own good..i use it as a 2nd phone to my pda phone, and it serves its purpose very well.. Rating: Reviewed by Gill on 04/02/2009 What does GSM only mean? i want my phone to stop restarting! I've had the phone since october and love everything else about it, even the camera. Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 04/02/2009 Just received this phone as wasn't many on offer for upgrade with orange. Very dissappointed from what i have seen so far a very standard phone, nothing special about it. Thats just my opinion, screen brightness is nothing compared to my previous samsung u600. Also the camera in my opinion is complex to use !! Rating: Reviewed by anniemac on 03/02/2009 got this 6 months ago and am already on my 3rd after various repairs. Same problems keep occuring and REoccuring!! Not good. Its going in for another fix, but apparently i get a new model. I will not be returning to SE. Thinking a blackberry if all well. Do not recommend this phone at all - absoulte pain. Problems - slow - keeps turning itself off - very unresponsive (even after software upload) SE have failed me once too many now! Rating: Reviewed by the man on 02/02/2009 this phone is AWFUL just had to send it off for the second time so it to can be replaced again! it just keeps tuning off and on every time i press the call button or txt. i have always had sony ericson no problems but now what a joke! my contract wont let me change phone either!!!! ahhhhhhhhh Rating: Reviewed by MrsG on 02/02/2009 I've had my C902 since Aug 08 - at first I thought it was brilliant - I've always had an eric for my past 3 upgrades. I have this massive "sticking" problem - happens when I am writing text messages - it's as if I am writing too fast and the predictive text can't keep up! Very annoying, and the software download hasn't done anything about it. I can't be bothered to send it off for repair at present, but it has put me off my faithful eric and I think I may be looking at other competitors when I am due my next upgrade.... Rating: Reviewed by Luke on 01/02/2009 I've had the C902 since august 2008 and i really like it, it has rebooted it's self about 5 or 6 times since i got it and don't like where sony ericsson put the camera that much and it's signal is not that good in areas where you go but otherwise it's a brilliant phone. Rating: Reviewed by Rich on 30/01/2009 smashing phone, I got the Titanium Silver Bond edition of the phone yesterday and its brilliant. Feels solid, easy to use, stylish, good camera and features. I'd reccomend it to anybody, but I've heard some have freezing problems, although it hasn't happened to me yet fortunately Rating: Reviewed by Imran on 29/01/2009 luks gud feels gud Rating: Reviewed by SK on 29/01/2009 For everyone having crashes, update to the latest firmware. Using the Sony Update tool and the USB cable. Coming from a k800 the let down is the camera. Is quicker to lock onto focus but it struggles for a quality image struggles with anything indoors. Comparing the size of the lens to the k800 its easy to see its 70% smaller in diameter. So I'm guessing it would need to use a higher and noisier ISO. Its got a fancy flash system - but it can't compensate for the small lens. The rest of the phone is great. Call quality, interface, style all excellent. The only mistake SE made was calling it a Cybershot. If your looking for a decent camera phone for all conditions choose a N95. If you want a smart phone for occasional photos then choose this. Rating: Reviewed by Ami on 29/01/2009 I had my c902 for 4 months and then i started experiencing it just shutting off and then coming back on again, then just recently the middle button has COMPLETLY broke & i cant get on anything. Its nice to look at & camera is excellent, but i wouldnt recommend it has it doesnt have many things on it either. Rating: Reviewed by carina on 28/01/2009 what a rubbish phone, i have had 3 replacement phones from o2, all phones having the same problem, cutting out and restarted whenever it wants, its a recognised fault with the phone, check the sony ericsson website and u wil find an update which is meant 2 stop this problem, but it doesnt... being only 3 months in2 a 18month contract, i have now been offered a tocco, hope this is better, as the C902 is the worst fone i have ever had, no more sony ericssons for me for a while!!!!my advice, avoid it!!! Rating: Reviewed by paul on 28/01/2009 Worst phone I’ve ever had has been back to Vodafone 3 times for repair. Then they finally changed it for another one which has also gone faulty. Steer clear of this phone especially with Vodafone there no help at. Rating: Reviewed by rosered on 28/01/2009 I've had my C902 for three weeks and had no "bug" type problems, touch wood, yet! Had K810i before so wanted to carry on with Sony Ericsson when contract came up for renewal. They have moved the function of a couple of the keys and that has taken a bit of getting used to but moving from one model to another has been pretty painfree. On the whole I am pleased with it, don't think the camera is any better despite increase in pixel size and the flash is worse, but then I don't really use it as a camera other than odd snap. The only negative is the keys... I am a huge texter and I find the narrowness of the keys from top to bottom is a bit of a problem. I'm ok just about as I have strong nails and can use them to text with, but two friends tried who bite their nails and it would be impossible for them so lord knows what it would be like for a bloke with blokey big fingers/thumbs. Rating: Reviewed by Kev on 27/01/2009 Had a k800i before which was great but this phone is such a disappointment. The camera is ok in good light but the led flash is pants,not worth having on the phone and the keys are small which is hard for texting(not got massive fingers btw!)they are mounted at a funny angle, should have waited for c905 even though a lot more bulky looking Rating: Reviewed by SpliffSter on 27/01/2009 Awesome phone, i like all the features, all though they could have added the GPS as the C702 has 1, The pics are very attention to detail, I also has the probelm where it started freezing and it got worse - 1ce a day.. i updated the software.. after 5days it froze again- rebooted, now i will try switching off the 3g, if still occurs ima send it in.. My alarm works fine.. no other problems actually... 4/5. Rating: Reviewed by Charls on 25/01/2009 This is the worst phone i have ever had. I had the K810i which was brilliant and decided to upgrade to the C902. This phone randomly switches itself on and off. It cuts out during phone calls. During many calls you can't hear the other person but they can hear you! It is so bad that i am going to buy a new phone even though i still have 12 months left on the contract. I would not recommend getting this phone. Rating: Reviewed by jack on 25/01/2009 i got this phone on saturday and my god its great no probs up to nw fingers cross it will stay like that Rating: Reviewed by Beth on 24/01/2009 Iv had this phone replaced four times, and repaired several times within the 2/3 months. The camera is a let down to say that it is a 5mp camera, the k8ooi camera is MUCH better. Also in artificial lighting the camera is fuzzy and poor! The phone constantly freezes and reboots itself when im in the middle of using it. The phone also takes along time to turn on, and the battery life is rubbish The keys are tiny and a right problem to text of. Iv always had sony eric phones and have never had problems and though they were great phones, but this is a complete letdown. I wouldnt advise this phone to anyone, and if you do get the phone i advise you to take out insurance! Rating: Reviewed by Mr Kev on 24/01/2009 Can't remember if I have reviewed this or not, but if I haven't, read this. This phone is an absolute pile of ****. Avoid at all costs as you will be so dissapointed. Poor flash (led), shockingly slow menus that keep crashing and generally just naff. Yes, it has touchscreen technology for the camera, but the camera is naff anyway. Yes, you can have the phone as a phone and take along a digital camera, but when the menus crash, you can't even use it a phone!!! PS also avoid Vodafone Barnsley. Bunch of tools when you try to take something back!! Rating: Reviewed by A col on 22/01/2009 BUY THE K850I HIGHLY SUPERIOR,BETTER SCREEN,THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN IS PEOPLE WHO DONT USE IT RIGHT,I KNOW ITS BIGGER BUT IS THE BETTER SONY PHONE, Rating: Reviewed by Zoe on 22/01/2009 Only had the phone for four days and I was reading some bad reviews about it on the first day - and then suddenly it shut down on its own! It's miles to the shop where I bought it so I checked for software updates - none were available - but I completely replaced the software anyway. I just live in hope now that this has ironed out the glitches. Otherwise it's a lovely phone. Feels and looks like quality, good camera, music player etc. A few things that are annoying though is that it has no xenon flash just an LED one, no sleep clock or text reminders/missed calls reminders that were present in the K800 and K810i. I can live without these but not with it switching itself on and off. Rating: Reviewed by paul jones on 20/01/2009 having owned a number of sony ericsson phones i have just upgraded from the w810i thats a good all round phone as well, i chose this phone for the camera the quality is superb in daylight but in the house on low level lighting it`s a bit dark but still ok.the 3d games are top notch too added with the clear display and fast menu`s it`s fantastic battery life is a bit heavy but it lasts me about 5 days. i upgraded the firmware off the web site as it was locking up now and again also if you turn it gsm only that made it run better too all in all a good quality phone i wouldn`t go back to nokia now. Rating: Reviewed by Katie on 20/01/2009 I had this phone for about two months before I gave it back due to it freezing and turning its self off. It was also extremely slow when opening applications/taking photos etc... I wouldn't recommend this phone at all. In my opinion Sony have tried to cram pack it full with so many fancy features (which I must say are ok...if it didn't take a good five minutes for everything to load) that the basic needs(such as getting it to stay alive for at least ten minutes) have been totally bi-passed. If you want a good, reliable phone then I suggest you look elsewhere, which I am doing. Rating: Reviewed by martin lim on 20/01/2009 stupid phone Rating: Reviewed by Megs on 18/01/2009 I realy really love this phone. But it freezes quite often. It freezes when Im sending texts, or play music. Has anyone else had this problem? Rating: Reviewed by Megan (UK) on 17/01/2009 Hi I'd just like to say this is an amazing phone and it has an ace camera, allows a memory card which means you can have LOADS of music and photos on your phone like me. One downside though, when im listening to my music, it tends to stop part way through.. and i have to wait a minute before it starts playing again. This is really annoying. Has anyone else had this problem? Overall i would reccomend this phone because it is awesome. FOUR STARS! Rating: Reviewed by Stef on 14/01/2009 Had the k790 and loved it....but very disappointed in the c902 in respect to the camera taking pictures in low light situations. I dont know if it's a problem with the led flash vs. xenon or if it's a sync problem with actual pic taking as it seemed that every pic that needed that flash would take the pic and then the flash would go off. All low light pics with friends, or other trial situations proved horrible!!! Attempting to contact SE to see if this can be fixed via a software update. Please be advised!!! You can pull up the few opinions on line related to same problems with the pic taking with the flash. Rating: Reviewed by NickC on 14/01/2009 buy this phone, i did, and its great, untill my number 5 button stopped working properly, instead of pickin a new letter it keeps typing 'P', the camera gets dust in, and so does the video cam on the front. Rating: Reviewed by anonymous on 13/01/2009 The only think i hate about this phone, is the battery, but i don't mind charging it evrynight, i love the camera, i like evrything about this phone. its the best one, iv ever had!!! Rating: Reviewed by Josh on 12/01/2009 Absolutely terrible, freezes all the time, restarts, cuts people off mid call, very slow to navigate with, camera is difficult to work. Having said this, if all the features worked quickly, smoothly and without freezing it would be the best phone iv ever had. Rating: Reviewed by mogadasku on 11/01/2009 i love this phone!!!!its amazing id recomened it to any one!!! best phone so far!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Phil on 10/01/2009 This phone is a really good phone, the only problem I have, is the battery life isnt amazing. Its good, but if your into playing music alot through it, or taking lots and lots of photo's, it dies a little bit, REALLY REALLY REALLY good phone though =) Rating: Reviewed by jack on 10/01/2009 this phone is fantastic but my complaint is for phones for u because i bought this phone for £195 and the sales man said that it was unlocked because i have a tmobile contract sim card and this phone was on 02, i got home i put my sim card in it and it would not work, my dad took it back they were so ignerant it was untrue they said i had lied and did nothing about it but evantually they said they will my dad is taking it back on monday lets hope they do take it i'm really hoping, but the phone is fantastic so still get it but not from 'phones 4 u' Rating: Reviewed by martin on 06/01/2009 i am very dissapointed with this phone. I had the K800 and was looking forward to an even better camera. This is not the case - the flash is poor on the C902 compared to the the K800. The picture quality is better although it is too easy to get a blurred picture especially in poor lighting. I have had no problems with the c902 and the phone itself is fantastic. But if you want a phone for its camera alone do yourself a favour and spend £80 on a new K800 instead of £180 on a C902. Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 06/01/2009 This phone is brillent! I have the C902 Titanium Silver from 02, i have had this since Friday and so far its all going well, the camera is fantastic, outstandingly good picture quailty on phone and computer! the touch camera icons that light up at the side of the screen and easy to touch and give a slight vibration work perfectly Good loud speaker. Key pad is perfect for me, since im a teenager. Sound quality when making a cool is loud with no background noise. Battery life is good, charged it up over night to full, now its wednesday and just got a little over half, which isnt bad considering i play a few games. Overall i think this is a very very good phone Rating: Reviewed by Floyd Sekokotla on 06/01/2009 Ultra trendy phone with hi-tech features, but I'm not impressed with the stiffness of the key pads. Also the screen is too flush with casing, making it easy to be finger printed... I love my PHONE... Rating: Reviewed by suki on 05/01/2009 it is an amazing phone i have never had any phone better!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Samantha on 04/01/2009 I'm on my second C902. I had the original black first but it kept crashing,freezing during calls and texts, turning itself on and off whenever it felt like it and claiming I hadn't phoned my parents for over a month, whereas I talk to my mum most days!So I sent it back. I've had the titanium one for less than a month and it's started doing the same thing.So this one will be going back and I will be asking for a totally different phone.I've had the K800i in the past and although it was a good phone it also went wrong in the end. I agree with other people about the camera also.A very poor phone indeed. Rating: Reviewed by LUCIA on 04/01/2009 The sony ericsson C902 have 5 MAJOR problems, guys and gals u MUST KNOW 1)The cover at the back is very hard to open, not like G502, or any other sony ericsson model. You need to use your nail to insert to the little gap that is provided, and need STRENGTH.I bough it for 1 day. The Thin Metal Sheet is begining to show scratches and bends, now the back cover have a gap when it is closed!!! It is REALLY VERY THIN. 2) I bough the louscious red. yeah it’s one day one and i find the paint already start to come off. come on, it’s not as sturdy. not sure the black color have the same effect, but it look good when i buy it from my local Mobile Phone shop . but when you actually use it, it is not as sturdy. 3) The Camera? yeah that’s a problem, You need to OPEN the cover, and it’s a PULL and PUSH. how many time can you pull and push? it’ll subject to wear and tear very fast. you need to put your fingers with some amount of strength, and pull it up, and push it down, and THE FEELING isn’t SMOOTH. like not build for being pull and push. 4)Software wise. Yeah it’s the same as the few OLD MODELs. Nothing’s NEW 5)The Screen, i always find it have a GROOMY effect. not as bright as the last few good models. it have a few theme, but all dark and glomy. for those of you who want your screen to be bright and lifely. it’s not a choice. Dark, Foggy, Groomy. 6) 5 Mega Pixel. Yeah try taking picture and put in your pc. You will know what i am saying about. 7) Expensive High End Phone– doesn’t live to what it take. Rating: Reviewed by anonymous on 03/01/2009 This phone is so awesome! i love it so much! the styles suits me. and let me tell you about the settings! Wow-wee! its amazing, i was speechless when i first got the phone!to those people who said the phone is rubbish, they dont have any sense of phone! Rating: Reviewed by Katie on 02/01/2009 With my experience with this phone, I would not recommend it. It freezes all the time, in the middle of phone calls infact anytime.Always breaking and resulting in me have to take out the battery and reboot it. This hasn't just happened to me either, my friends have the phone and the exact same thing happens to theirs. Also once the camera gets dirty it gets dirty and wont take a 5 megapixal style picture any more! So if you want my opinion I would go for another design. Its not worth the money! It only gets 1 star as it looks good! Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 02/01/2009 Had this phone in black for just over 3 weeks now, had no problems what so ever! Camera is by far the best iv seen, the flash COULD be brighter, but with quality and features like it has, who cares!? its brilliant! Previously had the sony ericsson w580i. i loved that phone, despite it freezing, but never had 1 problem at all. Rating: Reviewed by cluez on 30/12/2008 I am a new owner of C902..love the camera features and just found out about the touch screen by the sides aft reading this review however, I'm exhilarated to know:). I love everything about it except for the weight... Rating: Reviewed by Queeniexx on 30/12/2008 Cant fault this phone, its easier to use than its predecessor the K850i (and i owned that one) i like the key pad much much more. The camera is excellent ..and its memory is amazing the amount of "stuff" it will take ..PERFECT. I LOVE my new phone!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Jamil on 29/12/2008 phone is good, camera good but the keys keep on locking have changed the phone twice and have had it repaired 3 times but the same problem exists. there seems to be some inherent difficulty with this model of Sony phone Keep away from it Rating: Reviewed by MrKev on 28/12/2008 I upgraded my contract phone (k800i) for this phone on Saturday. Sunday and the phone was taken back - thank god for sunday opening hours! Shocking phone really - kept freezing, kept re-booting and menu keys took ages to work - could be a software issue that may be fixable, but I ain't risking it! Flash on camera is poor as its an LED, and the keys (when they worked) were fiddly. Decided instead to go for the C905 - hope SE will continue to make a decent phone - I can only assume that they sub-contracted the build of the C902 to someone like Lada!! Avoid. Rating: Reviewed by eamon on 27/12/2008 I'm not a mobile phone nerd so don't really care about the fancy extras as such. Having been severely let down by the quality of previous phones (namely nokia E65 + samsung E33) I think this phone is quality. Nice and compact, easy to navigate through the settings and decent camera. Rating: Reviewed by ro ro on 27/12/2008 The phone is good however sony ericssion updater is really slow and take ages Rating: Reviewed by Mikey on 26/12/2008 No i had mine 4 months and now the up button doesnt work at all very annoying. i think that it is to expencive for what you get and not reliable :@ Rating: Reviewed by Amber on 25/12/2008 Got this phone in black for Christmas (Orange Dolphin 25 contract) and love it to bits =) Camera's excellent - won't replace a top-range digital camera, but nobody asked it to! The music player might not quite match some of the Walkmans, but it's certainly close. Great unless you demand the best, in which case maybe go for the C905 (if you can be bothered spending about £400 sterling.) Those of you with the freezing problem - I downloaded the latest SEUS software from sonyericsson.com and had no problems since; just make sure to back up the memory before SEUS-ing! Took me a while to get it right, but that was because a) I hadn't downloaded the Adobe Flash 10 software and b) I'd stuck the USB into the wrong port. Whoops! Looks gorgeous, feels like real quality in the hand. Wide but very skinny I have a gripe about the keys - they're small and oddly angled, but you get used to them. Probably not ideal for larger fingers. I'm a teenage girl, so I get away with it, but everyone's different. I gave this four stars because it is irritating doing the software update and also the keys are annoying at times, but you do get used to the keys and the software is completely worth the hour or so it takes figuring out and putting in. If it came ready equipped with the right software I'd give it 5/5. Those with problems, google "C902 FIRMWARE UPDATE" and see what you get. <3 Rating: Reviewed by tim on 23/12/2008 this phone is rubbish. I wish i still had my k800i the camera and flash on that was amazing. This phone looks good and is nice and slim but doesn't do the job it should do properly. Avoid this phone!! Rating: Reviewed by andy on 23/12/2008 best phone ever Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 22/12/2008 Having had the C902 for a month now, i see no problem with it other than the general second freezes here and there (You get this with most phones). But it seems it's one of those phones that slips out of your pocket (having lost mine 3 times in one week, 1 time dropping it out of the station then walking home and t get a call from the finder) so be careful what u wear with it. Also its battery life is quite long lasting (3-4 days) without hard use. but soemtimes fails to charge oddly. Buy this phone deffinately worth it Rating: Reviewed by Kai on 21/12/2008 This phone is rubbish to put it planely always freezes on the fone doing a text takin a video or even lookin at the time freeze after freeze what a load of rubbish this phone is my nokia green screen didnt cause me this much stress it would seem the more important the fone call the more it freezes i wouldnt recomend this phone to anyone! Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 21/12/2008 this is the worst sony ericsson i have owned!. it started out to be such a good phone but over time have started to notice things like: when listening to music the whole phone just slows right down expecially when texting, the words dont show up when you are typing it so you have to wait. but even without the music player on it is slow to load up things. when receiving a text or call it doesn't show up to say what it is it vibrates firstly then you know its a call or text. i'm 5 months into an 18 month contract with it. Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 21/12/2008 Glad to see that some reviewers have good experiences of this phone - It's easily the worst I've ever had. But some people either aren't having the persistent problems with it freezing, rebooting, switching itself off (or even on sometimes!), tragically poor photo quality, an MP3 player that skips constantly, the worst keypad I've had - you get RSI sending a message! - and a ridiculously inefficent battery (So much for the claims of nearly a week on standby - yeah... right) Sorry but I can only use 1 word - avoid. Rating: Reviewed by Jagjit on 19/12/2008 I have had this phone for a week now. As soon as I got it I updated the firmware. Crashed on first attempt but went through the second time. Like with all SE phones this one is stylish and easy to use. Menu is standardised but without any new features compared to a SE phone from a year ago. The keys are a bit funky- you think that you will press the wrong one but I rarely do. You just need practice. Camera does not seem that much different, and don't really see the point of the face recognition. I mean okay it knows you are taking a photo of a face- what special thing does it do it? Flash is a let down. This is marketed as a camera phone but has a led flash. The memory card is a pain as it sits behind the battery. The back cover opening system is flawed as the cover never fully shuts inviting dust a grit inside. Overall the phone is very hyped up and has its flaws. A little more was expected in terms of functionality. Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 19/12/2008 Well ive had the phone about 6 months now. The phone is great. Does everything you could possibly want. The battery lasts about 3 days, and i use it alot. The camera could have done with a xenon flash, but hey it still works fine. You can still use it as a torch aswell - switch tthe camera to video mode and put the flash on - hey presto a torch. I did experience alot of freezing / crashing at first, but simply log on the the Sony erricson website, and update the software - takes about 5 mins, and that ends all freexing. Great phone. Rating: Reviewed by alison on 17/12/2008 Avoid this phone...works well for 2 months then freeze freeze and freeze again on texting. wait a while it will let you continue if you are lucky otherwise it locks out and switches off!!!!I waited ages for this phone and am so dissapointed should have gone with the LG or nokia 95 at the time. Rating: Reviewed by Steven on 15/12/2008 I just got this phone today after exchanging it for a samsung pixon I was wanting to try out touchscreen phones and to be honest I hated it It's a cracking phone but just not for me...so I went in today and chose this lil C902 so far I'm loving being back with a keypad...the camera isn't super great but then no camera phone is going to produce the images of my canon 1Dmk 2 so as a phone my C902 is excellent I got it sim free and an 8gig card so I'm pretty happy :-) Rating: Reviewed by Ed W. UK on 15/12/2008 Having read so many positive things abut it, I bought myself a C902 sim-free as an upgrade to my trusty K810i. I wish I hadn't. Yes, it takes 5 megapixel pictures, but the display on mine is dark even when set to full brightness. The texting screen goes alternately dim/brightER and the really tough keyboard, with its slippery, awkward angled keys drives me mad. Mistakes in texts are frequent as letters get missed out through so much key-resistance. I'm back on the K810 now and SO happy to be so. Its flash pictures are actually better too. Rating: Reviewed by Steph on 14/12/2008 Had this phone a month and the camera buttons started playing up. and i dropped it once and then the 4, 7 just stopped working. overall a good phone. Rating: Reviewed by Lauren on 14/12/2008 i am on 3 and msn keeps comin on all the time and i exited out of it and it froze and i cant get the back off it is like glued on! any1 know how to get it off???!!! Rating: Reviewed by Peter on 14/12/2008 An actual rubbish phone had it 6 months - It constantly freezes - Resets its self - The camera has developed permanent markings on pictures - The slide feature just scratches it to hell - Slow zoom response on camera - Slow software I am sending it back, either to get a new one, or trade for another phone. Highly recommend not getting this phone, SE is such a let down. Rating: Reviewed by Hannah on 13/12/2008 Had this phone for about 5 months now from orange and problems have already started to occur. A problem that frequently occurs is ehn taken a photo and trying to upload onto my laptop it says the photo is corrupted and cannot view it on my laptop or on the phone anymore. Also after recieving thousands of texts the inbox starts to go weird and put the messages youve just recieved into the middle of your inbox so yuo have to try and find them again. Apart from these issues it is a good phone for what i need it to do. Also when playing music with headphones in the phone crashes quite alot and it quite slow. Rating: Reviewed by Marc Lucas on 13/12/2008 I have had my Sony Ericsson C902 for about 3 months now. Firstly the camera quality is awful, the pictures are dark & blurry, especially when viewed on a pc, I have owned the K800 & K810i the quality of these pictures was great, even in a nightclub the pictures I took looked great! Also as the flash is an LED type it’s simply not bright enough. I have mine on the Orange network & it never seems to have any signal, I have to end up driving around before I can make a call! I have been with Orange for many years & have never had this problem before. The style of the phone is great, it’s slim & lightweight. It is only let down by the poor quality of the camera & poor signal. Rating: Reviewed by Paulo on 13/12/2008 The C902 phone is my replacement for the exceptionally bad Sony K850i.Im on contract so I had little choice of replacemnt phones.The C902 seems to be like Marmite - you either love 'em or hate 'em, there's no inbetween.I think this is a great phone.Ive had no issues with freezing,etc. Having had the K850i I really do know how frustrating that is.I do agree the battery seems weak, and the keys are at an angle and make texting difficult. I certainly wont have another Sony once my contract is up though.Too many people seem to have too many problems! Shame,as the lack of development by Sony is certain to lose them customers. Its certainly lost me once my contract is up!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Yogesh khemani on 11/12/2008 C 902 camera quality is very good but you may get disappointed by the flash working when you click photo the flash do not work it just give light before it actually take the photo. Rating: Reviewed by JC Supastar on 10/12/2008 I recently had problems with my samsung soul and sent it back to o2, they stated they couldnt send me a new samsung soul and sent me the sony ericsson c902 titanium as a replacement, as my sister also had this phone i was confident to get it a go. And so far after 3 weeks i have not had one single issue, the phone is strong and the weight i personally think gives it stability. Battery life is much better than my previous phones, all in all i like this phone and either way only got 4 months left on contract anyways. Rating: Reviewed by Rob on 10/12/2008 I've just upgraded to a c902 and hate the thing,The phones slow responding,the keypads tricky to use and the volume isn't as good as my old phone.Considering I used to use a nokia n70 which was slated by almost everyone i thought 2 years down the line all phones must be much better by now.WRONG and theres no way i'll be keeping this even if it means selling it on ebay!!! Rating: Reviewed by Louise on 09/12/2008 Overall a great phone and I haven’t had any major problems. Only dislike is that the battery life, I find myself charging it all the time and I wouldn’t say I use it loads!! It is also quiet heavy for a small phone. Rating: Reviewed by Sickle233 on 09/12/2008 this phone is good but I had the same problems as everyone else but a firmware update sorted out most things. I got it off www.firmware1000.com. But Accidentily ran over it with my wheelie bin whilst picking a fight with my drain pipe one morning. Oh well, but carphone ware house gave me the n95 free cos they though it was hilarious. Not worth £200 though. Nice camera though. What's better the c902 or the w910i? I know the w910 elite is a Walkman. Shake feature a gimmik. 2.3 seconds to shake shuffle the tracks and 1.2 secs to press 'next'. Rating: Reviewed by kane on 08/12/2008 had this phone for about 3 weeks, and i really like it. the camera is really good, and the touch buttons on camera mode are really easy to use. My fingers glide over the buttons whilst texting, and i really like the 'auto rotate' on media. Overall an outstanding phone, stars from me! Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 07/12/2008 This phone is terrible, i've had mine since august and it was ok until i moved down to Plymouth for uni. Im on vodafone so i dont know if theres something wrong with the connection but to me it definitely seems like its the phone. It freezes all the time. When im on the phone it will just cut out and i cant hear the person on the line but they can hear me until the phone just decides to turn itself off. Its so slow and when writing texts it always stops and you have to wait a minute before you can write anything. The camera seems to be ok, i think if it didnt freeze all the time it would be great but i cant stand it anymore. I was a nokia person till i got this phone and i can safely say i will never be getting a sony ericsson again! Rating: Reviewed by blade on 07/12/2008 why is this phone crashing all the time can you please tell me why i would be really greatfull. merry X-mas. Rating: Reviewed by a on 07/12/2008 best fone ever Rating: Reviewed by Becca on 07/12/2008 I do like this phone, but I'm not going to say it is amazing because its really not, but it is useful for what I need it for. Occasionally when I'm running applications the phone does decide to freeze and restart itself, but because its happened often it doesnt seem like a major issue, and yes it does cut off when I'm calling someone but it hasnt happened to me recently.This is the first phone that I've had in a long time which really does suit my lifestyle Rating: Reviewed by kev on 06/12/2008 c902 quite simple RUBBISH Rating: Reviewed by kevin on 05/12/2008 in a nutshell, this phone is ABSOLUTE RUBBISH, do not get this phone under any circumstances, it may look nice and slim and have a 5 megapixel camera, but be warned, STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE, i have had this phone for 2 months, and at 1st thought it was the bees knees, but since i have had it, how wrong i have been, the Camera is rubbish, i ave better quality on my old 3.2 megapixel camera phone, it cuts out in the middle of conversations, where i continue talking but can't hear the person on the other end, so people be warned DO NOT GET THIS PHONE, it is RUBBISH Rating: Reviewed by Amie on 04/12/2008 Had my phone 4 less than 5 weeks and ended up with the following problems: Camera flickered when recording, music kept skipping and cutting out, phone kept switching itself off when it felt like it, phone kept freezing when txting, settings i.e ring tone kept changing randomly etc. About 2 weeks ago, phone switched off randomly, couldnt turn it on and ended up sending back to SE, They said the motherboard had corrosive damage due to liquid..... never been near water!!! Do not get this phone if you are a Sony fan, it is appaulling for SE technology. Don't get me wrong, gorgeous design brilliant camera minus the rubbish LED flash but it just isn't worth the hassle. Rating: Reviewed by davy mac on 03/12/2008 Had the C902 a week & returned it. Sticking with my old K810, a better phone. Battery life & signal better by far, keypad easier to use. I don't have large hands but C902 just to small for me. It may be slimmer than my old Sony, but it is heavier. As for the camera, took like for like photos with my K810i, hard to notice any difference. My old phone has a proper flash aswell, unkike the C902. Then there is the top right hand button on the keypad, which promps you, Back, when using menus in the phone, press this once to much by mistake & on O2 & you are connected to the O2 internet. You then spend most of the day checking the phone to make sure you haven't. Rating: Reviewed by julie Workington on 03/12/2008 i only got my phone a day ago and had no problems with it at all, i also work for O2 i i am able to see what the problems are before getting a phone i have read quite a few reviews and i have to admit we as a company haven't had any promblems with the hand set i just feel sorry for all the people that are. but all in all its been one of the best phone's that i have had it has everything on that i need i would recommend it to everyone that comes in my store Rating: Reviewed by Tyesha on 03/12/2008 i have had this phone since about september and imk getting rid of it. the reason for that is coz i went over im bill by a lot so mi dads takin it of me lools:]. also it wont let me view my photos is very slow on music and turning of and also the worst thing is that it turns itself of and on on its own accored to be honist with u i would not buy this phone. STAY AWAY STAY AWAY STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Victoria Burns on 02/12/2008 I love the elegance of this phone. However im struggling with the camera, but my stepdaughter has the same phone and her pictures are awesome so maybe i need a crash course from her. Rating: Reviewed by Daniel on 01/12/2008 Had this as a replacement for the new LG Cookie which was awful. Love this phone,it just works. OS doesnt slow, vivid rich screen, the camera is fine for what it is. Turn off the 3g if you dont use it and switch it to GSM only, saves battery. Battery is also good (on par with k800i). The only complaint is the buttons but ill get used to them. Plenty of themes, java, flash stuff etc to download and use. Solid phone! Rating: Reviewed by BURT on 01/12/2008 This phone is perfect, "great camera" "good battery+loads of memory" "music player and radio" although it does freeze about twice a day,a nd occaisionally, turns off... you can get PAYG on vodafone for £200 Rating: Reviewed by Luke on 30/11/2008 One word to sum it up, rubbish! Ive had 5 of these phones now, all replacements from orange. They simply develop faults left, right and centre! I had 2 the screens stop responding, 1 that wouldnt charge properly, 1 where the blue lights for the camera just stayed lit up all the time and draining my battery like mad and another that the speaker kept turning off and freezing. My girlfriend is also on her third phone because they are that bad. HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED, if there is nothing else make sure you get insurance, i promise you, ity will develope a fault. Apart from that the phone its self is ok, nothing special pretty standard compared to most phones today really. Ive got a G900 now, traded mine and £100 gladly!!! Rating: Reviewed by Tomasso on 30/11/2008 This is the biggest heaviest monster phone I have ever owned! When i put it in my shirt pocket it looks like I have a boob. I had to get a strap for it and put it around my kneck like a cow bell... It will give me a hump on my back in no time if I dont get rid of it soon...when I walk up the stairs it swings all over the place and when I come down it tugs at my neck like a someone trying to strangle me. Anyways it has nice features when you do actually use it.... Rating: Reviewed by Richard on 29/11/2008 Right i used this website along with a few others to find out what people thought of the c902 before i upgraded to it. it was a fairly mixed reaction about the phone especially with regard to the phone crashing and reseting. i upgraded with o2 i will state confidently that this phone is fantastic, maybe the people with crashing phones should think about switching phone companys instead of slating to phone on websites like this. its an excellent phone camera is great... its no digital camera but takes a great pic to print out, has a handy light tourch like the w810i which i thought would be hard to beat as it was a such a good all rounder. this has done the job. well done im happy! Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 29/11/2008 It seems with every sony ericsson phone I've had it's gone downhill ever since. The k750i was one of the best I'd had over the years. When I was given the c902 everything was ok upto now. The battery life seems to go downhill with everyone I've had. The main frustrating thing with this phone is that it can freeze up, especially when texting, and then after a minute it will continue. But everything is just SO slow to access. I hope there is a latest update for this phone as I will try this. On the plus side it's a very slim, good looking, well built 5 megapixel phone. You still get good quality pictures, obviously at night this is a different matter. No matter how steady you hold it you will get some dodgy pictures!!The sliding feature to conceal the lens is nice and I'm glad they've got rid of the joystick that were in the earlier models. I've always had ericssons because of the easy to use, nice looking menu, and don't want to sway away from these phones but this freezing issue makes me think again. If it never kept crashing then I would at least rate it a 4. Rating: Reviewed by cheryl banks on 28/11/2008 Worst phone I have ever had. Don't buy it. I agree with all the bad reviews given. My one switches on and off all the time. When I make a call it drops out and more often than not the other person cannot hear me. It also freezes a lot when I use it. It is my first Sony Ericsson and it will be my last. I heard from a lot of people that their phones had switched off but I thought I would still go ahead and get this phone as I thought it would be ok. No such luck! Although I have still got 15 months left on my contract I am going to buy a new phone. Rating: Reviewed by LW on 28/11/2008 Mistake!!!! This is what you will be making if you get this phone, hmm where to start, it crashes all the time for no reason, the camera is so annoying and laggy to use. The battery is literally imposible to take out by hand, you need to know how to take the battery out because of the sheer number of times this phone crashes and the only way to resart it is to take the battery out. The battery life is really poor oh and the keypad is a pain. Yeah, i highly doubt real MI5 agents would use this phone somehow, trust me on this and stay away from this phone, seriously... Rating: Reviewed by la on 26/11/2008 it is relly better phone in world Rating: Reviewed by gemma on 25/11/2008 ive had my c902for 2 weeks now and ii think it is great. i prevously has a samsung u900 and am usued to big font so am strugglng alittle with the text size apart from that everything is top! i love the 5 jack so i can use other head phones. big thumbs up from me Rating: Reviewed by Sock Monkey on 25/11/2008 I have had this handset for less than 3 months. So far I have experienced the following problems: 1. It turns itself off and the battery has to be completely recharged on an almost daily basis 2. It freezes during texting and phone calls. This happens pretty much every other time I use it 3. I cannot get it set up to send or receive picture messages 4. The alarm cannot be guaranteed to work every time 5. The flash never works I wish I had not chosen this handset. THis is the worst phone I have ever had. Rating: Reviewed by Ellen on 24/11/2008 I have had my C902 for 5 months now. Had no problems for first 3 months but lately it is getting worse and worse. Cannot make a phone call or receive one without it cutting out. The person at the other end can hear me but I cannot hear them. It is so bad I don't make calls anymore but text. I then have difficulty as the buttons keep sticking. It also turns itself on and off on its own. I was beginning to think someone has been using a spy on my phone getting really neurotic about it. Today I downloaded the update software and called someone but it still happenned. Have tried everything suggested on troubleshooting on the website to no avail. A load of rubbish and will never buy Sony Ericcson again!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Chez on 22/11/2008 I've had this phone for 3 months now, and up till now its worked fine. But things are starting to go very wrong, the vibrate no longer works, the rotating my phone to landscape sticks and wont revert back!! very very annoying! The touch buttons for the camera dont work, the flash doesnt always go off. This phone is going back today!! My advise.... steer clear!!! Rating: Reviewed by Phill!!!! on 22/11/2008 Great Phone I wasnt sure to buy it at first but I am glad I have now Dont take any noice of reviews saying about the phone crashing it does not happen and is not heavle at all as people said it light and great to have in ur hand and and people said 2 on here about the sceen dark when it in key pad lock but remmember it in key pad lock and not in use to ring someone etc but when u unlock it the sceen fine and it wonderful theams to have on ur sceen on ur phone...... It is a must pay for anyone who likes a phone that does all I used to have the k800i but i find this phone diffened to use in words i mean i feel it better than the k800i coz the i find the k800i the camera cover to keep it closed did have the habbit of opening up at times when it was in my trouser pocket bag etc... WELL DONE SONY ERICSSON WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by nicola on 21/11/2008 i've just got this phone, really like SE's but i'm struggling with the text messaging. i'd prefer to just have the name of who's text me in my inbox and when i receive a message, but im getting the name and the 1st part of the message. with my old SE there was an option to just have the name appear, has this option been taken off this model or is it something i'm doing wrong? anyone know? Rating: Reviewed by Zoe on 20/11/2008 Well! I have had this phone for just over 6 months today i have recieved my 3rd one! They crash, mp3s skip, coloured lines across the screen..have to wait for the letters of the text to appear. randomly reeboots. no sound when answer the phone.i now have the new titanium one i turned it on today and suprise suprise already crashing...one word..RUBBISH..poor effort from SE Rating: Reviewed by FedUp on 19/11/2008 Ive been on Sony Ericsson since way back and have never been dissatisfied until this nonse. keeps crashing and "freezing" mid call it goes dead and then the only thing to do is take out the batter. have taken it back for repairs twice. Will try Nokia in the new year when the january sales kick in, in the meantime i am using my W810i which is still going strong! Rating: Reviewed by mc on 19/11/2008 The worst phone i have ever had! I've sent two back...now on my third...and still the problems remain: alarm doesn't work - sluggish interface - intermittant freezing - randomly turns itself off - very short battery life - bad at picking up reception... do i need to say more? Now that the honey moon period is over, i wonder how many more people are having problems with this model? It is truly terrible. Rating: Reviewed by Ayaan Ali on 18/11/2008 This phone, is possibly one of the worst phones i've ever come across. Like the people before me have said, it freezes mid conversation, mid text. It randomly switches itself off and on. I was foolishly allured to it because of how nice it looked, but this phone completely misses the mark of the purpose of a mobile. If i cant text or have a conversation with it, as nice as it looks, thats not the reason it was bought. I've sent it back numerous times and its still not working, my advise to other, if you want a needless headache and a useless phone then buy this c902 model. Rating: Reviewed by Graeme Harvey on 17/11/2008 Brilliant phone no complaints:DNothing has gone wrong with It:D Rating: Reviewed by Brendan Gibbs on 16/11/2008 Ive had this phone 4 a few days now, and i must say its money well spent. I enjoy all the features it has 2 offer. I could go on all day about what an awsome phone it is. I highly recconmend u all try the c902 marvel a go! Peace out! Rating: Reviewed by jon on 16/11/2008 had this phone for a few months now, and think its great, once you get past the problem of it shutting down, freezing and re-booting itself. I got past this by downloading replacement software from Sony Ericsson`s web site. Now its fine! Rating: Reviewed by chris on 16/11/2008 just got this phone on orange and like it a lot! pro's:takes great pics great looks came with a 4gb card hidden camera lens accelerometer bright screen above avarege battery life con's: screen could have been a little bigger would have prefered the bigger screen and not the silly touch buttons but never mind ummmm... the backs abit fiderly to get off this is my first se phone after being a long term samsung user. get this phone now!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Appl818 on 14/11/2008 This phone is rubbish - I've pretty much stopped using it because it keeps crashing, cuts out half way through conversations, freezes. I've taken it back to the phone shop 2 times now - no improvement. What are my rights on this matter now? Rating: Reviewed by FurstyFerret on 14/11/2008 This phone is great, the camera is pretty dawn good for a phone and the sound recording is AWESOME! Rating: Reviewed by Bob on 14/11/2008 This fone always freezes... turns itself off...and is slow...! Rating: Reviewed by rickie kingscott on 12/11/2008 when i upgraded i was exited as this phone was ment to be the dogs...... here i am a monthe down the line and the absalout bag of junk keeps hanging up when im making a call,you try videoing and it either freezes,switches itself off or goes back to the home screen its slow stupid and in genural a complete load of rubbish. ddont buy 1 of these phones ever cuz they really are bad and wouldnt last the contract that you sighn 4 Rating: Reviewed by Chris A on 12/11/2008 I've had mine for a couple of weeks. Screen used to stick so I got a software upgrade from the SE website and it's been great ever since. I got the phone to use on hols to take pics. Picture quality excellent! You need a memory vard for it as it doesn't hold that many tunes. Get a 4gb one and you'll be laughing. Great phone. Looks good to which is always a bonus! Rating: Reviewed by Ingrid on 11/11/2008 This phone has really dissapointed me, I thought it would be much better than sony ericsson k850i which I had previously but how wrong I was. When I got it I was very excited about it, but since then I've experienced number of problems; firstly, the battery life is very poor, secondly, the alarm works only when it feels like so number of times i overslept; then during phone calls the phone goes silent so I am unable to hear anything what the other person says, have to ask them to repeat things to me and lastly text messaging is much harder than any of the previous sony ericsson phones. I have always been fan of sony ericsson phones but this one is definitely not worth it. Getting really fed up with this phone, can be quite frustrating at times so going back to the previous SE 850i which i have not experienced any of these problems. Rating: Reviewed by adam ashton on 11/11/2008 my mate baught this phone and only had it for 1 week and it seems to freeze quite alot i personally have been looking to buy it because i love sony ericsson mobiles Rating: Reviewed by Neil on 11/11/2008 Be very careful when following reviews from websites like this one. Thats exactly what i did when they gave the C902 five stars, but to be fair to them it's been reduced to 4 stars now due to problems experienced by customers. The C902 is driving me mad, Keeps locking up all the time, Downloaded the firmware upgrade to no avail. Turns itself off regulary and typing a text message with large hands well ou may as well forget it. It's rubbish. Take my word for it. Rating: Reviewed by Amanda Adams on 11/11/2008 I've had my phone for three months now so I can write a proper review. I have to say I love it! I've not had any problems with crashing re-booting etc, quite the opposite! I find it incredibly fast, easy to use and capable of doing anything you want it to. The camera takes a little while to get the pictures right but it's worth it. This is not a point and click camera it is complex with lots of different options and it's worth taking the trouble. If you can't be bothered your pictures will be crap. Take the time and they'll be the best pics you've ever taken. Battery life can be a bit short when you're using it with all apps open. You do have the option of switching it to just GSM which doubles the battery life! Sony seem to have got a good 'un. Go for it. Rating: Reviewed by saraah on 10/11/2008 this phone has to be the werst phone i have ever bought. the buttons always stick. and the batery it rubish. and it smells of burning. x Rating: Reviewed by tommi on 08/11/2008 got this phone yesterday and i am very happy with it and the cam is very good on it the best i have seen i just love what the phone comes with 10/10 for this phone Rating: Reviewed by Bobby on 07/11/2008 I came from a K800i which quite honestly is the best phone I have ever owned and I won't be going back to Nokia now. I looked at getting the Nokia 6220 Classic but it's build quality is pretty bad. So the C902. Great looking phone. Great Sony build quality and nice and easy to use. Initial reaction in comparison to the K800i, is that I actually preferred the joystick on the K800i in comparison to the Joypad on this C902. The C902 pad sometimes you miss press the keys if you have bigger fingers, but Im sure the pad needs time to wear in and I will get used to this. I have had a C902 on Orange and you get the normal horrid Orange logo on the phone, awful branded menus and it is sim locked. Decided to go over to O2 and you get none of this. Just a decent phone unlocked too. Lets start with the bad: - You have to take the back off the phone to get at the M2 memory card if you want to take it out to get pics/media off of it, and the back is tricky to get off. - More fragile than the K800i. A friend of mine dropped his and the screen cracked. - C902 lost the play button on the left hand side that the K800i had. - No WIFI on this model - No Xeon flash. This phone has an LED flash which is a step down from the K800i sadly so photos needing good flash suffer. - Camera although 5 mega pixel, is not much better in image quality than K800i. New firmware apparently might solve this. - Power/usb/headphone socket is on the left side of the phone so when you have headphones plugged in it makes the phone even wider in profile and less comfortable in your pocket. Would have been better if they could have kept the socket on the end of the phone. - You have to go into a seperate photo gallery area to be able to view pictures in a long grid like thumbnail view. K800i seemed to load the preview image inside each thumnail quicker even with more of them on the page. - No dedicated back button now. Layout of buttons changes slightly. - Still cannot silence a call. Well, I can't find a way to. You have to pick up or drop the call/send them to voicemail. - No 16 million colour screen like other phones and the screen size is smaller. However, this aids battery life and allows for touch sensitive buttons around the screen in camera mode. - No shortcut buttons top left and top right of the screen like on K800i. This was a quick way to go into photo area although shortcuts can be assigned. - Cannot turn off the agressive power save dimming of the screen and ambient light sensitivity which also dims the screen further in darker lighting. This is also an advantage as battery life is increased. - No dedicated off/standby/on button which took you to the profile and shutdown screen on the old K800i The good: - Much sleaker flatter design, means its more comfortable to carry about than the K800i. - Looks great and very stylish camera operating slider. - The camera cover/slide has now been designed so that it does not open and waste battery power in your pocket. - Nice sharp screen and easy clear menus. - Packed full of features and additional new things like google maps, geo photo mapping, new media designed menus, nice themes and the usual suspects you have come to love from Ericsson. - Good build quality - Good clear signal - Good battery life. The people that complain about this are probably the people that use their phone 24/7 with music/video, text, internet and apps all going at once with £g and Bluetooth permanently left on. This phone has much better battery life than other slimline phones like the 6220 Classic from Nokia. - An extension from the above point, the power save and ambient light adjustment of the screen is agressive and keeps power munching to a minimum. Some people don't like this though. - Great new camera mode with nice LED lightning and touch sensitive buttons around the outside of the screen. - Has auto key lock unlike some extremely expensive whizzy nokias - Has alarms that you can set weekly rather than having to set them daily like on some expensive whizzy nokias. I have had no issues with alarm what so ever. I would suggest anyone that has to update the firmware or realise that you slept through the alarm ;o) - Has the ability to make and recieve 3G calls with a camera on the front to show your face to the person you are having a 3G call with. The C905 does not have a front camera for this even though it is a 3G phone. - Good clear speakerphone - Loud enough to hear ring and message tones - Now comes with better inner ear head phones with a 3.5mm jack adapter in the pack To summarise. If you can afford the C905, then this is obviously better being the flagship new sony, but the C905 is much bigger and brick like, like the older K800i and does not have a camera on the front for 3G calls. C905 also has the benefit of wireless, xeon flash and 8 megapixel, but it is much more expensive. The C902 is a great extension to the Ericsson range and most annoyances are minor and mostly comparisons to older extremely good and well rounded K800i. Most notably the lack of Xeon flash is a step backward with image taking, but the camera is good and certainly equal if not slightly ahead of the k800i which is fine. The C902 is a sleak, stylish flat phone with good battery life in comparison to other slim candy bar phones, is well priced and has the majority of features you could desire in a non symbian phone of this nature, apart from WIFI like in the C905 (which none of its cmompetitors have either to be fair). It is well built and nice to use and free from bugs in the version I have. It is slightly frustrating that phone manufacturers can simply never make the perfect phone. The K800i was close, but the camera slider was a pain when it came undone in your pocket and it was slightly too brick like due to the slider. The C905 doesn't have a camera on the front for 3G calls and is bordering on too chunky. The C902 gets the size and build right, but loses the Xeon flash. All great phones but come on Sony....listen to the annoyances of others and its so easy to make a perfect phone by fixing a few little tiny things sometimes as simple as being able to silence a call. Rating: Reviewed by SR on 07/11/2008 This phone is total utter rubbish. And the worst of it is Sony won't acknowledge there is any issues with it. Still there is no firmware upgrade either. Hey don't bother connecting a 'Parrot' to it either, it's even worse. Wake up you SE morons and look at the reviews, everybody is experiencing the same problems. Stick with Nokia is my advice, they no how to make phones. 1 star is too generous for this, so I'd like to make mine a brown star!!. Rating: Reviewed by Kelly on 06/11/2008 My Sony Ericsson is RUBBISH, it crashes/freezes all the time. Im on my second phone already as the first one did the same. Dont buy one!! Rating: Reviewed by Sherwin on 06/11/2008 To be honest with you. i still cant believe i still have this phone and its in one piece. the things i have wanted to do to this phone are endless.... throw it out the window on the highway, smash it onto concrete, even flush it down the toilet... i mean how can sony ericsson, such a well established company release such a piece of junk? hey i dont even have anger issues! im as calm as they come :) Rating: Reviewed by M on 05/11/2008 I have had 2 different c902 phones within one month of an upgrade! It is ridiculous?!... first time the back part of the phone was loose, this time it keeps turning itself off?!! o2 are unacceptable! I cannot cancel the contract! I cannot get the new c905 (without paying £100!) and if i change the handset altogether I have to keep that one and can't change it!! not a very good phone if this keeps happening if you ask me! Rating: Reviewed by Steven on 05/11/2008 If I could have given it 0 stars I would have... Simply an awfull awfull phone, yes it looks lovely and feels nice to use, and initially i was excited about getting it, however almost from the first week it has crashed as a daily routine, very frustrating. Many other software faults, too many to mention. Have been late many times thanks to the unreliability of the alarm-it just doesnt go off! Its unbelievable, this is such basics to be going wrong. reboots itself on a whim, freezes during EVERY phonecall, rendering it practically useless in all situations because lets face it the camera despite its 5 mega pixel claims is far inferior to previous Sony generations (i.e K800i) and the flash is so poor I havent ever bothered taking pictures during the night time or when Im out. MP3 function is passable but nowhere near makes up for the other downfalls - avoid this phone like the plague if you want a mobile that actually works!! Rating: Reviewed by kb on 04/11/2008 i think they should give a memeory card with the phone! Rating: Reviewed by Richard on 02/11/2008 A brilliant phone had it for 2 weeks now and it's never dissapointed me once all the people who have put it lower than excellent are wrong and i am right. Rating: Reviewed by Bri on 02/11/2008 I reviewed this phone a while ago but just wanted to post a quick update. Originally I gave it 5 stars but having only had the phone for a matter of days I didn't really test it properly. I've now had it for around 5 months and have had my fair share of software issues such as random freezing, choppy MP3 playback and poor images taken with the camera. However, I have since upgraded the software and now things are much more improved and none of the above issues now exist so I STILL give it 5 stars. So basically if you have this phone and are experiencing issues with it I recommend getting on the Sony Ericsson website and downloading the new software. This phone is now the best phone I've ever owned :) Rating: Reviewed by Bakr on 31/10/2008 Great phone, one of the best, love Rating: Reviewed by Kirsy on 30/10/2008 I got this phone and loved it but i droped it and it keeps cutting my phones calls off and i cant get any signal help! Rating: Reviewed by lor on 29/10/2008 Does anyone have the problem that when you are on the phone, all of a sudden you can't hear the other person talking? They can hear you but it all goes quiet my end! Then when I say, i'll call you back, it miraculously works again!!! Weird, not too impressed at all. So frustrating when it freezes, switches itself off and takes forever to come back on. Rating: Reviewed by simon on 28/10/2008 C 902 what a donkey, had a k800i before and the joy stick packed up 2 weeks out of warranty 02 very kindly gave me a refurb c902 because i had purchased the k800i at full price because i am on a sim only deal,it worked properly for 2 days , a software upgrade later and it was working again , connected it to my laptop via bluetooth and it was up the creek again, a complete download of software this time and two hours on the helpline phone that was after 45 minutes waiting for the right department, had to buy a new battery after two weeks it stopped holding the charge, another week and all the music and photos dissapeared of the super special extra expensive memory card? good opertunity to spend an hour loading up some more music, next morning ( saturday ) of for nice walk with dogs , headphones on ,,, music gone, on the phone , software fault ,, its deleting everything for some unknown reason and there is a background hiss all the time when making calls, not no more , 02 refuse to give me another phone because it was a courtesy offering because they were being nice, my paper delivery lorry has driven over it now and it is squeeling like a dead lobster, oh well back to vodafone , 02 is spanish now just like my abbey national bank account, good old blighty, Rating: Reviewed by Rishi on 27/10/2008 Very Stylish, but whats the point if it is as reliable as a second hand car salesman. The phone keeps crashing every few hours. Also, have the problem of not being to able to hear people for a few seconds every minute of a conversation. Just Poor! Rating: Reviewed by Joe on 26/10/2008 HAd this phone for 3 months, and the same thing keeps happening, it crashes, cuts of mid way through calls. had it reaplaced and the same thing keeps happening! Been having sony Phones for about 4-5 years now and this is the worst one i have had, yes its sleek and stylish but its just poor Rating: Reviewed by Philip on 26/10/2008 I'd love this phone, apart from one tiny, tiny detail... WHEN ARE SONY ERICSSON GOING TO START USING A 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK??? Rating: Reviewed by martin on 25/10/2008 What a phone??? Pure class had mine 4 weeks and it just gets better... Rating: Reviewed by Oly on 25/10/2008 After recieving the third one with the same problem (intermitant fault of dead ended calls - no sound) I sent it back for a Nokia 6220 Classic. It may not feel and look as good...but it works much better! Nokia - I should never have left! Rating: Reviewed by HP on 24/10/2008 Ican't recommend this phone. It looks great and I thought it would be another in a long line of Sony's that I ahv ebeen pleased with but no. It freezes, turns itself off, alarm is not reliable, keys slow to respond. My supplier is Vodafone who have hardcoded the internet access into the right softkey which is also the back key and inevitably I end up online without wanting to be. Camera is average so all in all nothing to get excited about. I doubt I'll go for a Sony next time. Rating: Reviewed by Lauren on 24/10/2008 I got this fone at the start of May when my friend who works in a phone shop got me it before it hit the shops... but i regret it now...it may have just been one of the bad batches but in all i dont like this phone.. It freezes all the time and cuts out of phone calls.. I was told by SE to update the software which i did but still nothing changed... I love the fone for the camera and memory but other than that i wudnt give it a good rating... Sorry SE but after this hiccup i wont be going back to you when my contracts up =[ Rating: Reviewed by Lucy on 24/10/2008 I HATE this phone. I was excited to get it and it looks great but honestly it is the worst phone I have ever had. It crashes constantly, signal is poor (despite me getting great signal strength in my house on my last phone). I have just had an update and it is still playing up. My advice would be that if you rely heavily on your phone then look elsewhere. Rating: Reviewed by Paul Banyagi-Mugenyi on 24/10/2008 I’ve had the K800 (brilliant, brilliant ‘phone), the K850 (just the worst ‘phone on the planet) and now the C902. I love this ‘phone it is brilliant; mine works perfectly and is a joy to own. My only very very slight grumble it the battery life but as everything works so beautifully I’m not going to complain. Rating: Reviewed by Jason B on 23/10/2008 I have to say this is the worst mobile phone I have ever owned! I cannot reccomend this product to any one. At first it seems ideal, stylish, great camera and thin but then it all goes wrong. Literally... I am now on my 4th phone as is everyone else I know, why you have to put up with the phone crashing all the time I don't know. The flash has given up the ghost and now every one tells me I sound like I'm 4 miles away! Soon I'll be on my 5th. I'm a huge Sony fan and my previous 6 phones have been SE phones but I cannot reccomend this one to anyone. Rating: Reviewed by lawrence on 23/10/2008 i hate to say it as looks wise its a lovely phone and feels good in my hand but thats as far as it goes, it keeps restarting itself repeatedly, freezes in the middle of a call which is annoying for business calls, the video camera skips frames and is incredible jumpy, the alarm is hit and miss as to whether it will actually wake you up several times i've been late to work or uni because of this, the camera is good except when you start to zoom in margenely it is way distorted, and is grainy in low light stay clear of this phone if you can help it! Rating: Reviewed by Jon W on 22/10/2008 Had the phone about 2 months now, really enjoy using it. All features sem to work well, has great photos and video. A good upgrade for my previous K750i. Had crashing problems, and occasional sound cut-out problems like some others, but downloaded and installed SE's software upgrade a week or so ago, and these problems seem to have gone. Also, battery life seems to have doubled! I can now get 3 days use on a charge, which for me is great! Rating: Reviewed by Jonathan Goldsmith on 22/10/2008 My C902 is with 02.. Does anyone have theirs set to 'any-key-answer' ?? Mine wont do this, and as I ride a m/bike with gloves, the little 'answer' button isnt practical without the 'any-key' facility. It says it is set, but the thing doesn't work. Sony Ericsson told me to upgrade the software, this made no difference. They offered to repair the phone but couldn't confirm this feature actually works on any phones they have available. This would also take 10 days to repair when I would have no phone. 02 are sending me a Titanium version this week as an exchange.. hopefully this will work otherwise I will be back to Nokia again... Rating: Reviewed by JJS on 21/10/2008 I've had this phone for a couple of weeks and so far I'm loving it. The camera is excellent and it's really useable. I've had Sony Ericssons for a while now W810i & K550i and this is easily the best I've had. I don't know what the people who've been complaining about the battery life are doing with theirs but I've had no problems despite a lot of texting and calling. Speaking of texting, admittedly the keys are a tad fiddly but you will get used to them. Pay attention to the chap who suggested switching the network to just GSM because in doing so I've had no issues with it rebooting (touch wood...) and from my experience don't point the camera directly into sunlight as it results in pics being blurred for a couple of days... Rating: Reviewed by r butler on 21/10/2008 i had problems with freezing and the scroll up key not responding had to return it after twelve days they gave me a new handset battery life is not great but overall a good phone Rating: Reviewed by del on 20/10/2008 rubbish the useless thing locks up and freezes save youe time and energy and get a nokia n95/6 ps vodafone customer services sucks (not that im bitter or qnything) Rating: Reviewed by Gleb on 18/10/2008 Exellent PhoneMobile Rating: Reviewed by Steven on 17/10/2008 The buttons are a bit fiddly, the flash isn't great, and the screen is a touch on the small side, but otherwise it's very good phone. It looks great. The build quality is very impressive. In decent lighting conditions, the camera takes a pretty good photo. I've had it three or four months now, and the only problem I've had with it (calls would go silent on me when I was talking to people, even though they could hear me) was sorted out with a software update from the SE website. No problems with the alarm - I use it every day. My first Sony Ericsson, after years with Nokia, and have to say I'm quite impressed. Rating: Reviewed by Amy on 17/10/2008 This phone is god awful! honestly i have had it a few months and it has been a constant pile of crud. I havent had a week where it hasnt either frozen on me, or simply just turned itself off! Wouldnt recomend it at all! Rating: Reviewed by Alan on 17/10/2008 Had this phone a few months now, my girlfiend has binned hers and my daughter replaced it twice and eventually changed the phone. Shame really it could be a nice phone. As previously mentioned - they had the same problems, as mentioned below. Cutting off in mid conversation.-switching itself off etc etc - think I will try to upgrade the software, hopefully that will sort it out. I suggest Sony have some serious issues with this one. Photo wise I find my old panasonic 2 meg takes better quality photo's Nice features but overall - disapointing Rating: Reviewed by Kirsty on 16/10/2008 I have had this phone for about 3 months now & I've had nothing but problems with it. It freezes during phone calls & when I text. It turns off whenever it feels the need. The camera is nothing special as when you zoom in it pixalates terribly & the quality is awful. I would not reccommend this phone to anyone. Rating: Reviewed by Tash on 15/10/2008 Had this phone a few months now. It looks great and feels heavy and solid in your hand. Unfortunately I have had stacks of problems! The alarm does not work anymore and I have had to go out and buy one as I was late for work on more than one occasion! It switches itself off when it feels like it and freezes a lot too. I have just downloaded the lastest software so fingers crossed this works or I will be going out to get another phone on a new contract! Rating: Reviewed by Jonny Campbell on 15/10/2008 Just got the 007 titanium limited edition model and I think its top notch. Its got loads of funky little things which I think are great and its much better than the K850i which I had before this 1. It hasnt crashed...... yet. Very simple to use. If youre going to go for this phone I think its better if you get the 007 titanium model. It seem to be better. Not so fond of the buttons though. there a bit small and the camera's flash range is not the greatest Apart from that. Very goosd phone Rating: Reviewed by Ian on 15/10/2008 this is probably the best phone i've ever had. if you ever have problems with it freezing during calls, alarms not going off, randomly switching on/off, or random crashing, it's out of date/corrupted software. simply go to sony's website and download the latest software update. downloading it straight from the phone DOES NOT WORK, so make sure you plug in your phone. this software update sorts everything, i've had no problems within the month i've had the new software. Rating: Reviewed by ... on 15/10/2008 Im on my 3rd one and ready for a 4th even though carphone warehouse are crap and will only send it off to be repaired. It freezes on absolutely everything I go on to. I send a text and cant write a whole one without waiting for it to come back to life, then can't listen to a full song without it stopping every 10 seconds. Then it turns off every hour without me even touching it or when im in a call where it will either freeze and waste credit (cuz you cant do anything) or just switch off completely. Thats happenned to all 3 now and my internal memory isn't even full. I wouldn't advise it to anyone. However when it is working it has all the right features. Rating: Reviewed by Cheryl on 15/10/2008 The phone is quite smart but trying to text fast gives you repetetive strain injury as the keypad is so small.Also it is supposed to be a superdupa camera but the pics seem to come out really dark. I dont know if it is me or not as i have tried all the settings but think the pics on my k810i were a lot better.Other than that i do like it which is why ive not sent it back yet !!!! Rating: Reviewed by Chloe on 15/10/2008 Hi i got the samsung d900i and i thought it was amazing and then i got it and that was at christmas hate it. But then i gott this one I LOVE IT!!! Rating: Reviewed by chris leonard on 15/10/2008 well had this phone , for a month and got to say . . . cracking little phone. before i updated it via the sony update service and its been rock solid . mp3 ( with the headphones on ) very clear precise sound with pleny of bass. camera well mixed bag on this to be honest could have been better in some cases have to mess around with the settings , but having said that you name a camera that does take 100% perfect pictures on a phone , you bound to need to do the odd tweak here and there. this phone reminds me of my favourite phone i owned ( sony ericsson w810i) , now i have used and abused most phones i am a store manager of a large independant retailer that works on behalf of orange. battery life is top notch and internet is quick and easy to use. i think this phone is a keeper , the keyad takes some time to bed in , but since then i love the simplicty of texting on a sony . i would reconmend this to anyone who wants a good day to day phone that does exactly what it says on the tin . job well done sony and keep up the good work , looking forward to the c905 now !!!!. Rating: Reviewed by Staceyk on 15/10/2008 I agree with most reviews here, not a patch on other Sony Ericssons that I have had for years. The camers is awful and nowhere near as good as the K800i, the flash is so dark you can't see anything. I also have the same alarm problems which has resulted in a number of late mornings at work! It also crashes a lot and I get the crackling noise while talking to people. Not sure what has happened to Sony Ericsson lately but they need to up their game!! Rating: Reviewed by Charz on 14/10/2008 Dis 1 is my first Sony Ericsson phn..I had been using it from last 1 month.No doubt in appearance wise it's dam guud..sleek,stylish,trendy..with camera opening in a stylish way(just as i wanted)..but wat sucks is it's battery as it's stand by time is quite low.Lack of xenon flash also sucks..n wat frustate me d most is CRASHING of this phone wenever it feel likes.It reboots itself ,gets hanged up. POSTIVE POINTS: 1. 5 mpx camera 2. sleek n stylish 3. self rotation feature 4. face detection feature 5. big screen NEGATIVE POINTS: 1. hangs ,reebots N crashes a lot 2. no xenon flash 3. low battery 4. hard keypad 5. Unsatisfactory sound quality In my opinion if u wann to go only 4 luks,then only go 4 this cellphn else go 4 nokia or sum other sony 1's. Rating: Reviewed by Lee on 14/10/2008 Changed to a C902 from a Sony K800i. In comparison the reception on the C902 was appauling. I thus changed the phone for a new one within days. The second one regularly had a problem with blue tooth operation. In breif, when disconnectin (manually or by auto car off)from the car the phone screen changes to non-blue tooth mode. therafter the phone ringer will sound, but neither speaker or microphone operate. you can use the phone howeve in speakerphone mode. The only cure being to turn the phone off and on again. another phone replacement C902 follows, which again locks after ever blue totth use. I shold note the K800i works without fault and the car has sony's own blue tooth/audio system. In short then, this phone is not compatible with blue tooth in car operation. Very disappointed. Additionally, sony themselves have no fix yet to this problem. They are not admitting a problem, but the facts speak for themselves, the K800i works perfectly, but the C902 has poor rec eption and blue tooth that renders the phone unfit for the purpose it was purchased for. Rating: Reviewed by Nick on 13/10/2008 This phone is a nightmare! Call quality terrible, battery life terrible, and worst of all it hangs, freezes and reboots CONSTANTLY. It reboots itself almost everytime I am on a call (I use this for business too) and can take an age to restart, it seems to have a mind of its own, I normally have to remove the battery. During calls it all goes quiet, I can’t hear them but they can hear me cursing my darn phone, sometimes it will catch up and drop the call, and you can call back, but most of the time the screen goes black, the camera shutter button lights up and it will just sit like that or about 15 mins. The alarm goes off inconsistently so if you use it to get up for work, get an alarm clock, you can’t relay on this. If you do need to take the battery out to restart it, its impossible to get the back off if you don’t have nails, so I have had to leave the battery cover half off so when it dies its easier for me to to the battery. It is absolutely disgraceful that manufacturers release products which are so clearly still in development stages. I appreciate the product life cycle is short and competition fierce, but this is surely more damaging than being late to market? As a loyal customer I am now off SE… I am thinking of getting a Blackberry. I know it sounds like I am being a grumpy guss now, but it does get worse. The camera is rubbish too, very poor image quality by no means an improvement on previous models, lots of noise, bad focus, flash not very good. Its been a total let down and stress. I have yet another replacement coming on Tuesday and I am currently in ‘negotiation’s’ with o2 to get it replaced with another model. O2 are notorious for complete denial when it comes to faulty handsets, you can search on the internet and find hundreds and hundred s of complaints yet their staff will happily tell you that no one else has reported a problem. Yeah, right. This is one of the most annoying things about mobile phones, no matter how many ‘review’s’ you read, you’ll never really know whether you’re going to get a dog until you get one or unless you wait for several months after they have come out before buying. And if you are unlucky enough to get a pigphone, you have to battle with the provider to replace it with something that actually works. I.e. you pay them money, they don’t give you a service back and then you have to jump throw hoops and argue like hell to get them to provide with the service you’re paying for. England, the country where customer is king. Not. I feel better now… :) Rating: Reviewed by Jonathan on 13/10/2008 I've bought a black C902 and have read the majority of the reviews on this site. I can safely say that having owned SE's this is easily the best. The downsides are few and far between. Turning on and off is a little fiddly and start up takes a little longer than my old K series. However this is about it. The camera is great, the music player is great, the size and buttons are all great. Don't listen to the Nokia employees, this is an excellent phone and thoroughly recommended! Rating: Reviewed by rachael on 12/10/2008 terrible. Have had two in a month as kept crashing. awful phone, dont buy it! Rating: Reviewed by Glen on 09/10/2008 wow after reading some of the reviews im actually relieved , i thought i was going mad , mine freezes all the time when im on the phone , they can hear me but my end is silent, i cant even end the phone call or turn the power off i have to remove the battery to end the call, my alarm harly ever works witch i thought i just slept though until i woke up early but the alarm still never went on, i have found if i deleate all my mesages and photos the phone works better i now save everything to memorie card even text so the phone is free to run at full memorie but it still crashes time to time, awsome phone looks great alough the keys are slanted and makes writing texts a pain if the phone did not crash it would be 9 out of 10 but i would give it 2 out of 10 as the softwear/processer is rubbish , as proven by other reveiwers :P Rating: Reviewed by Ron on 07/10/2008 Had to get replacement phone after the phone started freezing,rebooting etc.New phone a treat to use,if your having these problems take your phone back,all the reported problems cant be wrong, I rate the phone highly now after problems were addressed and faulty phone replaced Rating: Reviewed by Kevin on 06/10/2008 i personally have had no problems with this phone at all i find the MP3 player is awesome much better than an I pod great phone all round. Rating: Reviewed by Chris on 06/10/2008 I have been using this phone for roughly 3 months now. Although most/all of the features are up to date and give the user good value for money, I am extremely disapointed. I am dissapointed for one reason only, the fact that it crashes. It seems that I can't go one single day without it crashing, it has now got to the point where it crashes during phone conversations. I really should have returned it during the 14 days. I will be looking into exchanging it for another phone, or I will be going back to my Samsung U600. Before I returned to using a Sony Ericsson, I had great respect for the make. I was simply trying samsung for a year to see what they were like, and although I was dissapointed with some aspects of the Samsung U600, after this experience I will be going back to Samsung. After all, it doesn't matter how good the phone is, if you can't use it. Rating: Reviewed by rj on 04/10/2008 A simple LED flash on a 5MP cybershot phone? Come on! What stopped the Sony guys from installing a Xenon flash on it like all other cybershot phones? hald the charm is gone.. Rating: Reviewed by emily on 04/10/2008 omg i thought i was the only one that was having issues with the alarm and constant crashing of it!!! i have always had a sony ecricsson phone but i have got to say after having this phone i am certainly considering not going bck to them! does any one elses phone get hot if they take a lot of pics? i have got to say the camera is good and probably that is the only thig that is good about it! i would seriously advise anyone who wants to get this phone to perharps look at something else! Rating: Reviewed by Scott on 03/10/2008 Very surprised by the good reviews this is getting had it a couple of months now and im fed up of the constant crashing of the phone, the alarm doesn't go off now and again on mines, the camera is rubbish if you're taking pictures in a nightclub(where as older Ericssons have been great for this), its slow to respond and the new media folder setup is god awful. I'd rather have the k750i any day. Rating: Reviewed by sophie on 03/10/2008 ive had my phone a month... the worst phone ive ever had.. it freezes all the time. when im on the phone talking, texting,listening to music.!! the alarm doesnt work, ive been late for work because the alarm never went off... if i had read reviews before getting my phone, i would never have got one!! its awful!!! Rating: Reviewed by marie on 03/10/2008 I do like the phone - WHEN IT WORKS!!! Pretty much had the same problems as everyone else, freezing, switching itself off and not being able to hear half the conversation i'm having with someone!! Took mine back to 02 today who will send it back and i dont doubt it will come back with the same problems, then they will give me a new one then i will keep taking it back until 02 get totally p****d off with me they will give me a different phone altogether!! Thats my plan anyway and I recommend it to others (The plan, not the phone!!) Rating: Reviewed by darkwing56 on 02/10/2008 had the phone about 8 weeks keeps freezing slow naviagtion wish i never had it. when i on a call its cuts out an i cant here wat there saying a piece of junk Rating: Reviewed by Pat Lynch on 01/10/2008 got the c902 at the end of July and have been delighted with it... until now.. I did notice that some of the other reviewers here had mentioned that the alarm sometimes doesn't go off, but I could live with that (I assumed that SE would fix that with a firmware upgrade). So, in th elast 2 weeks I've gotten more issues (and no firmware upgrade) - When I'm on the phone, it goes dead for 10 seconds at a time so sounds like the call is dropped, then comes back in - happens consistently every minute while on a call. - alarm doesn't always go off (so I have to set all of them hoping that one will go off) - Text (non-T9) hangs a fair bit - so when I'm texting it stops taking characters for 10-20 seconds and then starts taking key strokes again.. - loses connection to the network for 10-20 seconds then comes back in. The rest of the phone is excellent though - love the camera, the games etc.. jus the phone (most important) part is useless to me :( I love the SE range of phones (I had the k750i & k800 before this), but the C902 is taking away from those user experiences.. hopefully SE release a firmware update because these issues are annoying me at this stage!! Rating: Reviewed by kev on 01/10/2008 OMG, first of all please read the review by allanah on 21/09/2008. I would put everything I own on her/him working for sony ericssons marketing dept. Nice try at sales allanah but if this thread saves one person from buying this phone the thank god! Yes this phone looks good and all the jargon you get from the sales person in the shop sounds like you are away to get a pretty decent phone. However PLEASE AVOID THIS PHONE LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!! If you are happy to return the phone every two weeks for repairs and use a courtesy phone more often than the one you purchased/recieved via contract then this is the phone for you. It is an absolute nightmare and a scandal that a product so faulted and dodgy has found its way to high street shelves. Constant frrezing. Mine freezes for hours. First the main select button froze two weeks after i bought it. when it returned from its "repair" none of the keys on the keypad worked. Its now going in for its third and last repair. If this doesnt work the phone is getting launched from union street bridge in aberdeen. Ive had enough and will not use sony ericsson again. Rating: Reviewed by Nadine on 01/10/2008 Had the phone for less than 2 months.. Just like everyone else, it would freeze, turn off around for a good 2 mins around 5 times a day.. But Sunday night it went off and that's it.. It will turn off and come back on for 15 secs then turn off again. So it's pretty much useless. I got it abroad so I can't exchange it for anything anywhere bec I don't have a warranty. So I pretty much have to just throw it away. Never again will I get anything other than a Nokia. Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 30/09/2008 Got the phone, seemed great except for whenever I put a memory card in it switches on and off by itself. Other than that it's a nice phone. Got a new one and still had the same problem, as do a lot of other people from what I see. However you might be lucky and have no problems. Rating: Reviewed by sian wales on 30/09/2008 having been a samsung phone lover decided to try this cybershot phone...worse thing i ve ever done, for an expensive phone its useless...constantly crashes...freezes during conversations, makes videos instead of pictures..i absolutly loathe it and to make matters worse, phone provider will not change handset until sony ericcson can deal with this known fault, so im stuck with an expensive useless phone i hate. Rating: Reviewed by angela on 29/09/2008 loved the phone until i started having problems just like mentioned below. was away and it really started playing up. wanted to throw it at the wall and i'm a very patient person. taking it back!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by steve Lippert on 29/09/2008 The problems I've had are identical to the ones Sarah (below) has had. The mobile phones I had 10 years ago were far better than this. Other than the nice camera aspect, as a phone this really is the pits. No more SE for me! Rating: Reviewed by Sean on 29/09/2008 Me and my best friend both have this phone and the exact same problem happens - It Freezes when doing anything, i could be on the phone, sending a text or even just using the calender, but the screen will go off, but the lights on the keypad stay on, then the blue light on the side of the Camera comes on, but still no screen...the phone then does this for around 1-2 mins and then the screen comes back on, and where it normally says the network you are on (O2, Orange etc,..) it says searching, this stays like this for 20 secs and then back to normal! It was getting very frustrating, so i took it back to 02 and they gave me a brand new phone, only to discover that this new one does the exact same thing.! Does anyone else get this same problem or is it just me and my friend?? Rating: Reviewed by kruton9000 on 29/09/2008 I have had this phone for a few months now and think it IS a very good phone, not perfect, but a very capable phone. The lack of xenon flash may be a sore point to some but the light is more than capable and the camera detail is better than the K800i/10i. The lack of flash was to cut down the phone depth which is now much better and feels solid and quality. My only gripe is that on times the alarm fails to go off meaning yiu have to set a couple of alarms to be safe. My phone has never frozen but sometimes flickers using video. Rating: Reviewed by .... on 29/09/2008 Keeps freezingg! turning off, music stops now and then , sometimes alarm doesnt go off nor ringtone or message alert and when ijm on the phone it freezes for at least 15 secs. dont know how to take it backas i got it off ebay and unlocked it, so i havent a guarantee , advice? Rating: Reviewed by Richard on 28/09/2008 Totally agree with Sarah about the flaming thing switching itself on and off. Have came close to throwing it against the wall a couple of times. S E want to get a grip with the softwear, its poo. It could have been a really quality phone if these problems were sorted out. Oh and also had the problem with the alarm not working. Rating: Reviewed by Lisa on 27/09/2008 This phone is terrible! I waited for it to come out when I was due to upgrade from the K850i (which I loved)and I've had nothing but problems. It constantly freezes when I'm talking to people. They can hear me but I'm unable to hear them! It re-boots itself all the time, just starts vibrating then the blue camera light on the side comes on! I'm currently on my second handset and have decided to change to something else. This phone looks lovely but the slide out camera quickly gets filled with dust and the paint flakes off the back! All in all, very disappointed, totally not worth the money! Sony ericsson need to have a look at what they are doing wrong because a few of their phones have the switching off problem! Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 26/09/2008 New C902 fine for three days then fitted a 8Gb Sandisk card and loaded some music. Worked two more days then tried the radio. That worked fine also but following day card was permanently unreadable - I can only think it was trashed by phone. Reinstalled firmware. Then when I tried to goto web bookmarks phone crashed repeatedly. Despite numerous firmware problems reported in many places I see SE have not updated it since July. Why not? Do they care so little? Solid phone but serious problems. I'm able to return phone but am unsure what to get next. Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 26/09/2008 Had the C902 phone for about 3 months, today it decided to cut out on me which it has done before! but always came back on! still after 6 hours of taking out the battery and trying to start it up again, all i get is a vibration and the right hand side light and keypad light show up whic stays there constantly, and still no screen! NOT happy!! i had no problems with the sony ericsson walkman. Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 26/09/2008 I used to love SE phones but not this one. It was fine for a few weeks but then it started switching itself off several times a day, freezes during texting, goes dead during phone calls for a few seconds (the other person can hear me but I cannot hear them). Called 3 who have taken me through a 'guaranteed' fix (whatever!)- basically reset the phone.Let's wait a see. Rating: Reviewed by Harry on 25/09/2008 Had this two days as a replacement for the excellent K800i and it's going back to Orange. This really is not a good phone and is a backwards step. The phone is slow, the keyboard feel is vile, and the build / material quality it not what I'd expect from SE. The camera is ok, slightly better than the K800i, but you can offset that against the lower quality flash. However, the main reason I hate this phone is the lack of a sleep mode clock. This may sound trivial, but you have no way of knowing if you have a missed call, message, what profile it's on, unless you press the nav key or the side volume key and wake it up. For those of us that have a phone on a desk / dashboard / bar it's nice to be able to glance at a phone and see what it's doing without thinking it's switched itself off, or looking rude or obsessive. I have no idea why SE did this, it's a show stopper for me, so it's going back. Shame really as the C902 looks so good on paper. Rating: Reviewed by Mel on 25/09/2008 I got the c902 as an upgrade as it looked like a sleek and stylish phone and had many good features and they are good when the phone is working. this was after my previous w850i and now wish I hadn't bothered cos I have had to send the phone back with faults such as the phone not saving my pictures to the screen going blank and the phone turning off, I was on my 4th c902 when the message came up that I hadn't inserted my M2 memory card, after many attempts I still couldn't get it to read the card so I contacted orange and they are now sending out a new Samsung G800, just hope I have more look with the new phone, don't think I'll be getting another Sony Ericsson phone for a while. Rating: Reviewed by emerson taylor, manchester on 24/09/2008 i love this phone, had the phone since it first came out and only had the problem of freezing happen to me twice! no software problems and the reception is good everywhere ive been, the camera is outstanding and the text is simple and easy to use, i was dubious about getting a sony ericsson as they in the past have been difficult and confusing to use and have stuck to nokia but after relentless problems with the n series phones of nokia decided to resort to changing manufacturers and am extremely happy with my decision!! get it!! Rating: Reviewed by Max on 22/09/2008 An utterly dreadful phone. DO NOT GET THE C902!! It freezes permanently, and now it keeps switching itself off and then on. If you depend on your mobile, then PLEASE choose another model. Extremely disappointing and frustrating. :-( Rating: Reviewed by Cara on 22/09/2008 I got this phone the day it come out, had nothing but problems with it, freezing, crashing, cutting off calls and reception very poor in good areas. I'm now on to my 3rd handset and still the same problems! but the new one which i have doesn't even tell ya who is calling just rings with the wallpaper on and when i get texts its shows the text symbol but when you go into my inbox its not there? so you have to send yourself a text to receive it??? then you read it go back into your inbox and the text has gone????? I love sony Ericsson's used them 4 years but i had 3 k800i's aswell, so since April this yr i've had 6 sony phones and they have all had major software problems! I'm hoping to get a replacement latest samsung!! Bye Bye Ericsson's (which i'm very disappointed)!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Sean Grant on 22/09/2008 im not at all impressed with the phone having had it 4 2 weeks.. i have had sony ericsson cybershot phones for years... k750i, k800i, k810i ant they all still work perfectly. yet the thing i am not impressed with is the strength off the signal this phone can recieve... it is very very poor... it seems to have taken a step back 4 or 5 years...... places were i would have no problem at all getting a signal when the signal is a bit week, i can making a phone call with my k750i with the c902 i am struggling!!!! also for a 5 MP camera... why oh why put a led flash on it????? it is not good enough at all... with all my other sony ericsson phones the camera it brilliant at nite... with the c902 it to very very poor.... this weekend when i went out i actually left it at home and took my battered k810i out so i could take some pictures an actually see what they were supposed to be in the morning!!!! wish i hadent off bother upgrading mow and waited till a better phone came o ut... wouldnt off been hard!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Joe on 22/09/2008 I really like this phone. The camera is good, and just like any other Sony Ericsson it will last for ever and you can't beat it for value for ever. However, i think for a phone with such a good camera, the screen needs to be bigger and i dont like how you open the camera. Also, the speaker is really loud which is handy. Rating: Reviewed by alec on 22/09/2008 just upgraded from the samsung g600 to the c902 and am very impressed on 1st impressions i would recamend to anyone Rating: Reviewed by Kelvin Baker on 22/09/2008 Would just like to address the issues brought up by a few people on here regarding this phone, especially "c". The freezing issues is a problem - I`ve had my phone for 3-4 months and every now and then during a txt the screen will freeze for 1-2 seconds and then continue as normal. This happens during calls aswell where for 1-2 seconds the phone "dies" then is ok. A cure for this is to save contact pics to phone memory and not memory card. Sony phones are notorious for being released with buggy software. An update should solve the problem but it shouldn`t have been there in the first place! I have to say that the camera is the best quality cam phone yet with 5MP. Images are crisp and sharp and full of detail and when printed out at postcard size (normal pic size) then you would be hard pressed to see the difference between this and a stand alone phone. Face recognition and twilight options are superb. People just need to know how to use the camera properly!! (And yes you can put pics in folders like you always have been able to on Sony phones - USE THE FILE MANAGER!) As regards to 3G coverage this all depends on your operator. I am with o2 and web pages load up super quick on HSDPA. THIS PHONE IS 3G!!! Overall it is a great phone in a nice slim design. Sony should check their software with the various operetors first as a few minor bugs do become annoying. By all accounts o2 ones don`t seem too bad compared to some peoples. But people saying the phone doesnt do this or that when clearly it does is just Sony bashing to the exctreme! Read the instructions and play with the various settings and you have a very good and capable camera phone! Rating: Reviewed by m on 22/09/2008 i would aviod this phone, if the alarm doesn't work then it likes to freeze, sometimes it catches itself up otherwise you have to take the battery out, other than that, camera is good Rating: Reviewed by allanah on 21/09/2008 the sony ericsson c902 cyber shot is the best phone i have ever had with its 5 megapixel fine camera, you wont need a digital camera. the c902 also has fm radio which also is a nice feature. i wouldnt listen to the people who say its junk because in a nutshell this is the best phone out. its reliable and is quick.i have had this phone for 3 months and i love it to bits. i recommend this phone to every one out there who are looking for a reliable good looking, organised phone. after reading this i hope it persuades you as by far this is the best phone.i havent had any problems with this phone. the one thing i would change about this phone is that it doesnt have infared! you can mark files and move them which saves no end of time. the internet on the phone is amazinly quick. the perfect partner for the cyber shot is the 4gb memory card!it has 3g web browsing which is good!! overall this is the best ever phone made by the sony team! Rating: Reviewed by julie on 21/09/2008 had the c902 since June i'm on the 2nd handset have completed various software downloads and it is now going back, screen freezes, turns it self off, alarm does not work - been late for work on occasions, it is the worst phone sony have brought out. looks the part but as they say its not all in the packaging Rating: Reviewed by C on 19/09/2008 To summarize: Great built, great feel, poor camera, rubbish software, and no 3G web browsing. (Yep, you read that right!) The details: Phone 1: Lasted 9 hours before freezing up and required battery pulling out. A few hours later when making calls, got nothing but dead silence - no ring tone, and when other person answered I couldnt hear them & they couldnt hear me. This continued until battery was again pulled. Then suffered persistent switching itself off/on problems - up to 8 time a day. Phone 2: Lasted 12 hours before freezing up and switching itself off/on. So far no other software problems…although it has only been 48hours since getting it. **Basically its a massive disappointment. My previous phone was a Sony k750i which (apart from replacing it once) kept me extremely happy for 2.5 years. The camera on the c902 might be 5Mpix, but the image quality is poor - much lower than the 2MPix on the k750i. Night shots are a joke, images are often blurred, the shortcut touch options on the screen are a nonsense, photo recognition doesn’t work, and in the tutorial they promote a feature called "Twilight Portrait" (to help with night shots), although this doesn’t actually exist on the phone! Plus, once you’ve taken the photos, you cant create separate albums to put them in, their deletion is painfully slow, and you cant even 'mark several' at once to speed things up. What else……. - had to install MMS setting myself - had to install WAP/Internet settings myself - when I noticed that internet browsing was slow (with 'mobile' version pages typical of WAP) I phoned my operator for help and was told that the phone DOES NOT SUPPORT 3G web browsing. Oh it picks up 3G coverage, it even tells you when it has HSDPA coverage, but it cant use it. Hows that for a slap in the face?! About the only thing you can do is make a video call……and who realistically does that? - 'Current location' on Google Maps is always out, but then you expect that since its based on serving cell & timing advance not GPS. (Although on the plus side, usage of Google Maps is pretty good.) - and as minor points, theres no floating clock in standby mode & you cant delete entries from 'most recently texted list' In short, this phone is all bling and no balls. If you want something that does 'the business' get an N82 or 6220 (although cheap plastic keys). However, despite its faults, you cant but help like the c902. Almost everyone admires the style and build quality. Try harder next time Sony! If you do get/have one, some top tips: + vastly speed up internet browsing by installing Opera Mini (and set up a shortcut to it) + despite the sony website showing the phone to have a 'Light' function, it doesn’t. Get around this by changing the settings so that its permanently on in video mode. For some reason you cant do this in picture mode, so just toggle between the two modes when you want it on. + to conserve battery select 'GSM Only' (3G is pointless anyway), reduce the brightness of the screen to 50%, and if you use Bluetooth select the Powersave option. Have fun. Rating: Reviewed by Chris Martin on 19/09/2008 I think this phone is superb; phone it's self is great, size and design is great, and the functions are great. However, I'm havign a real issue with the Alarm feature! I have to set all 5 in the hope that one will go off! Really can't understand why? Rating: Reviewed by Alan D on 17/09/2008 Had this phone for 2 weeks. Pretty good upgrade from the w880i. It's on Vodafone so has their version of the firmware but seems to work fine. Not had any issues with crashing/drop-outs at all. Lots of features for an Ericsson. Little disappointed they've not got more software avaliable but that's a minor gripe really and I'm sure that'll change over time. Camera is best on a phone that I've seen, had a look at the N95 but this is a better all-rounder, camera may not be quite so good in C902 but not much to choose from. Very impressed so far. Rating: Reviewed by ruth on 17/09/2008 What a nightmare! I've had the phone now for about 6 wks. First 3 weeks no problems at all, scince then it keeps freezing and turning it's self off then back on at random then today it switched off and i couldn't get it back on for about 5 hours...I had to take battery & sim out more than once before it did anything!!! Have phoned 3 who have told me they've had no other complaints and i need to send it back for their engineers to look at!!!! I am livid and don't know what to do, I do not want this phone back with all it's problems it's doing my head in!!! If it wasn't for all these problems the phone could be great!!!! Sony Ericsson sort yourselves out, your losing customers fast!!! Rating: Reviewed by Simon on 17/09/2008 Looks the dogs nuts BUT has started to go wrong within 3 days of having it from Orange. Would appear to dial OK but losses dialing tone and you can't hear anyone the other end after they have picked up. A reset sorts it but an hour later, its back again. Its going back for a new one but after reading some of the comments on the web I'm not really expecting anything better from the new one. It still amazes me why these stupid manufacturers put these phones out with so many bugs when they clearly are not ready at all, especially Sony Ericsson. Rating: Reviewed by Nyla on 15/09/2008 Bought this phone from Vodafone in red. It looks BEAUTIFUL! Or should I say LOOKED...I returned it because I just don't think the camera was up to scratch. I previously had the SE K800i; it's only 3.2 megapixels, but in a series of 'tests' I conducted comparing the picture quality of the two phones, the K800i was better! The C902 does not take good photos in unnatural lighting either, despite it's flash. I was really disappointed in it's performance :-( I love camera phones, but the C902 did not live up to the expectations I now have of SE. For those who are not fussed about the quality of pictures however, I would say DEFINITELY get it! It looks so cute, the way the camera pulls out is so stylish and I loved the touch screen buttons. Oh yeah, there's also a really cool feature where you can watch all your recent photos along with a choice of different soundtracks at the touch of a button! Something to show off to your friends! But the photo/video quality just didn't do it for me. You failed to impress me SE - I'm disappointed. Now I must find another phone! Rating: Reviewed by jason on 15/09/2008 phone features are great but the keypad is something you should definitely check out in store first on a model beacuse it can be quite fiddley for people used to a nokia or samsung Rating: Reviewed by meercat on 15/09/2008 good phone worth the buy Rating: Reviewed by Shauna on 14/09/2008 Had The Phone For About Two Months Now And I'm Replacing it within the next week.Loved it at first then after 2weeks i realised it is the Worst Fone i think i've ever gotton although the camera is fantastic it turns off when im in phonecalls, texting,taking a picture or just randomly for no apparant reason. It takes minium of 5 min to turn back on.It is very slow and the sound isnt great. Would not recommend the mobile Rating: Reviewed by Kevin - Glasgow on 14/09/2008 I had this phone for a week and returned it because like whay other people are sayng it kept turning itself off whenever it wanted. It frooze while in mid text and would thne turn itself off and also the bluetooth conncection kept failing and losing my earpeice although it said it was connected. When I got my new replacement handset the same problems occured. Absoutly hopless. Have since argued my case with 02 and am changing to the Nokia N95. Rating: Reviewed by Andrew on 14/09/2008 Jamie Flynn pretty sad to call you as a fool. How dare you call yourself as A.N. Expert? All your childish comments made a fun on me, and for all of the owner with a lot of problems, update your phone software la aduh.. First time use phone meh.. Keep on complaining nonsense but never try to find an answer Rating: Reviewed by K.T. on 13/09/2008 The best phone ever! Beautiful phone with excellent software. The camera is outstanding good Rating: Reviewed by jimbob mgloughplin on 13/09/2008 i personally think that the sony ericsson c902 is a supoer duper smash a rooney phone, and i would rcommend it to any fellow cowbow out there in the wild west, cya later partener Rating: Reviewed by Shaza on 12/09/2008 Had this phone just over a month first ever sony phone and was talked into not getting another nokia. Wish i hadn't bothered. I would advise not buying this phone. It constantly freezes, flash comes on when it feels like it, have been late for work due to alarm not going off, switches itself off and wont go back on for ages, last night it lost the ability to ring, i think its about to die lol. i've never had a phone so bad, sending it back and i will never get another sony. nokia all the way for me. Rating: Reviewed by Euan on 11/09/2008 Had this phone for 2 weeks now. Upgraded from the K800i (which is unbelievably good) and was hoping this new cybershot model would live up to its expectations. To put it bluntly, it did! This is for sure the best phone I've ever owned. The 5 Megapixel Camera certainly does not disappoint with many features to play about with at just a press of the touch screen buttons, which light up blue, on the side of the screen. (it's a nice little party piece that). The video camera (which was rather disappointing on the K800i) has improved tenfold so sound and visual quality is ace. The Accelerometer which detects which way the phone is being held and rotates the picture to siut is another fancy trick that works well and will impress your mates! haha. As for people talking about freezing, I have not come across this problem as of yet, but i think if you just take your time and don't rush things it shouldn't happen, same principle as using a PC. Other little features within the phone such as trackID are ace aswell and a lot of fun to use if you're into that kind of thing (which I am). All in all I really think this is a crackin' phone and is definately one to consider. From me, it has earned 5 stars! Rating: Reviewed by Chich on 11/09/2008 Do yourself a favor and don't buy this phone. It is riddled with software bugs which your provider will not address. Rating: Reviewed by Jamie Flynn on 11/09/2008 Have had many many different phones, as am a mobile phone salesman for one of the big companies.........the c902 has superb features and is a very good handset but has unfortunately been put together badly and the software is plauged with problems. Common among which are: problems charging and retaining a charge, turning on and off problem, turning on and off by itself, momentary loss of signal during calls which usually returns but sometimes results in phone switching off and probably not coming back on for about 10 or 15 mins....and many more. DO NOT BUY. From A.N.Expert (seriously take my word for it) Rating: Reviewed by kellie on 11/09/2008 sooooooooo anoyin!do not by this phone!! i hate it, and have to keep my contract for 12months!! hate it Rating: Reviewed by Chloe on 10/09/2008 I have had this phone a little over a week now and I have mixed feelings about it. I upgraded my phone from the very reliable K800i which i loved and had for 18months with no bother, so I decided to stick the Sony and upgrade to the C902. The phone has a lovely look about it, theres no doubt about it, it looks the part andthe slide up camera with touch screen lights was a great idea, however the camera isn't that great, so I was very disppointed. I know its a 5 megapixel but the flash is a total let down and the camera on the K80I is much better due to this. My other issue is I have to charge the phone everyday, so the battery power is not great. Apart from these two issues, this is a great phone. And I am pleased with all its features, it kind of does everything for you. I already had a memory card from my previous phone and just transferred all my data onto this phone and to appericate how good a phone it is for music, picutes etc you should really buy a memo ry card. Due to the flash on the camera and the battery life i give this phone a 4 star rating because overall im pleased. Rating: Reviewed by mc from south africa on 10/09/2008 Had the phone now for a week - should have stayed with Samsung!I expected better battery life? Very annoyingly - keys are slanted and slippery, difficult to text. No recurrent text alert reminders; it alerts once, screen goes back to standby and I keep on missing my text messages. Alarm too loud on loud setting and too quiet on the normal setting. Camera seems to work well but I think the slide will pick up lot of dust over time. Rating: Reviewed by Louise on 10/09/2008 Great pictures, but you can't take pictures because you have to spend all your time restarting the thing!! It crashed continually, cancels calls as and when it feels like it and decides to switch off all the time too! Sent it back and got a replacement, and it did the exact same thing!! Rating: Reviewed by N Kelly on 10/09/2008 Had phone for about month and a half and I have to say it's terrible... does anybody know whether or not it would be possible to chaange it after the 14day period? crashes all the time. camera's ok... please help!! Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 10/09/2008 I absolutely love this phone. The camera is brilliant, not only in design (has the sliding top hidden camera been done before?), but in image quality. The overall design of the phone is excellent. The silver trim has a subtle yet stylish and futuristic look all in one. So would I recommend one. ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! I've had it just over a month, and in throughout I've the phone crashing for a few minutes when I'm typing texts, and during a phonecall it just goes silent for up to 30 seconds. It gets annoying askin the other person to repeat themselves cos my phone went on strike. Can't fault it for its design and features, but what good is a phone that you can't use to make phonecalls Rating: Reviewed by Emily on 10/09/2008 i hate to admit my phone isnt as i hoped, only 3 weeks in it crashed, it turns off atleast 4 times a day and the only way to get it back on is to take my battery in and out. it freezes for mintuets through calls so i cant put the pohne down and the person on the other end is still talking to me... after reading the other reviews i realise its not just my pohne, which i thought it was, mine is the black model, and aparently its ment to be more reliable...i dont think so. But if you have the patience to deal with your pohne constantly turning off this phone is amazing, camera is fabulous! but i wouldnt buy it as its expensive for the quiality it is! Rating: Reviewed by David on 09/09/2008 Had phone a couple weeks - absolutely no problems at all. I wonder whether the freezing problems i am reading about were with earlier software as i have had nothing go wrong at all. This phone basically has everything I want with the added bonus that it is 10mm thick - who wants a touchscreen brick that is literally twice as thick at 20mm - not me thanks. This phone is stylish, easy to use and right up there at the top end of current mobiles. Finally found a phone to make me upgrade from my faithful (and one of the best phones ever) W810i Thanks SE Rating: Reviewed by John on 09/09/2008 if you had a k800i or similar phone you will love the C902 Got this phone a few weeks ago and haven't really had any problems with it and i can highly recommend this phone to anyone who loves Sony Ericssons. its got virtually the same interface as all other Sony Ericssons apart from a few improvements here and there. The sound quality while listening to music and talking to people on the phone is outstanding. and the Camera is absolute fun to use and picture quality is amazing once uploaded to you home computer/laptop. some people think the screen size is smaller then a lot of other Sony Ericssons but this is wrong its the same screen size as my old k800i which was totally perfect for me. i love this phone for the slimness, good features, good sound quality, and great camera. judge for your self i found this phone to be very suitable to my liking. (for people having freezing or rebooting problems my friend solved this problem by updating the software via the Sony Ericsson CD provided with your phone or just use the website either 1.) Rating: Reviewed by Jimmy C on 09/09/2008 Got this phone as a replacement for my W800 and what a mistake it was, within 2 days it froze 5 times and the reception was so poor I kept getting cut off. Not impressed with the touch screen, maybe I'm just not patient enough because it is very slow to react and there was no need for it the functions it replaced were fine. Also what has SE done with the return to front page!!! Bring it back!! Camera fine, same as 2MP W800, the motion sensor looks good but a bit of a gymic. Because of it freezing I replaced it with the C702 and much more impressed with this. Rating: Reviewed by keith on 08/09/2008 Got the phone 6 weeks ago and it's now back with Vodafone for repair. Worst problem is it keeps switching itself off. Next is cutting out while having a conversation. Next cutting out while listening to music. Next is poor battery life on 3G, so much so I've switched it off. Last if the keypad which is just so stodgy it's really tough to text quickly. I've done the firmware update and it's no better so it's back to Vodafone for "repair". Why something so new has to be sent for repair rather than simply being replaced is beyond me. Especially when there are so many known faults with the phone! Would I buy it today - no way. Rating: Reviewed by arak on 08/09/2008 the phone is superb to many other phones , highly recommended Rating: Reviewed by Oly on 08/09/2008 Nice smart phone but this is the third one I have had, all with the same problem - occasionally the ringing someone neither end can hear anything even though the call has connected. Flash is poor too and camera quality on the three phones has been inconsistent. Dissapointed, otherwise a great phone (I was nearly tempted to keep it dispite these problems) - what a great phone this could have been if only the firmware was better! Sorry Sony - back to Nokia (6220 Classic) I think. Rating: Reviewed by Chris M on 08/09/2008 Well I was really liking this phone, camera's good, quickly got used to the key pad, love the fact it's not got a joystick - but a few things i've noticed that i think are missing: I can't seem to organise txt messages. Standard setting is 'no arrangement' which means all the old messages sit at the top, and new ones at the bottom. Until you don't reply to a text, then if you reply to newer text the unread txt sits below them. If you select 'arrange by date' then it just groups the messages in the same random order but by date so all messages recieved today are in one place. Also you can't change the viewing options on the old k810i you could choose to view the date, info etc the c902 only seems to let you see the contact name and first line of the message. If anyone has a solution please email me cmorse83@o2.co.uk - thank you! Rating: Reviewed by Billy on 08/09/2008 Don't listen to foolish as them. They keep complaining about the alarm and freezing of the phone, its just because they just stupid enough to do a software update. Or, they just get a faulty one, cheat by vendors because of the low prices. Check the factory its produced, camera is great with unique lens cover, sound quality is adequate but lower volume(compare to walkman series), but this is not a problem. Keypad are stiff like they said, but after some 'training' it can be type text at speed. My c902 never freeze before, even with 4gb of memory card and haven't done the update. This is for you when u need a nice camera phone with slim and sexy design. Don't listen to those who don't really know how to use a phone. Farewell. Rating: Reviewed by David on 08/09/2008 Received my phone a couple of weeks ago and have nothing but praise for it. Everything works as expected and I have found no faults at all with this phone. The size and weight are perfect for me and the phone looks and feels "right" I am not a great fan of these 20mm thick touchscreen bricks that seem to be the in thing atm, and at 10mm the C902 is beautiful. The lack of any visible camera with its usual lumps and bumps at the back of the phone is great. I have had absolutely no disconnection problems, freezing problems or alarm problems. I bought a 8gb M2 for it for £27 and this works fine and brings the phone up to the level of the much touted 8gb built in memory phones (but with 1/2 the bulk) Battery life is fine, although I dont use the net very much, and lasts me personally 2 days before charging although with a Lithium Polymer battery you can recharge at any time and don't need to worry about running the battery down to flat every now and then. I have read quite a few negative reviews of this phone and all i can say is that my C902 is a beautiful piece of high end kit and i would recommend it to anyone based on my personal experience of it I have read quite a few negative reviews of this Rating: Reviewed by Billy on 08/09/2008 Owned c902 for a weeks, from final choice. It really a great phone with nice looking. The feeling when flip into pocket is amazing. Camera is nice and it never freeze like those said even i haven't done the update. Speaker volume is a bit low when compare to walkman phone but i don't think that is a problem. Sound quality is adequate. Keypad are stiff but it still can be press at speed after some 'training'. What more to say, the unique camera lens cover is really stylish. The only things i feel uncomfortable is the dust, need to clean phone regularly, and the original handfree is worst(it normal for camera series). Overall, really a nice and stylish phone. Rating: Reviewed by ollie morgans on 07/09/2008 ive had this phone for about 2 months now and hav found that it is a very good phone as the camera is exellant and the speaker quality is much higher than that of other Sony Ericsson mobiles. but recently i have found that the phone randomly turns itself off alot and especially when i am trying to text, and quite frequently it crashes and then either restarts itself or just completely stops and you have to remove the battery to restart it. these are quite major issues so i would not say this is the perfect phone but it would very close if it did not have such flaws in the firmware. Rating: Reviewed by jason on 07/09/2008 you can update the phone now via the phone, it does fix the crashing probs etc, BUT it wipes your internet settings out and may do some other stuff to ut phone. i had to do a master reset to get my internet settings back. my mate did it and then it killed her sms inbox?! she had to get a new one! hmmmmm? Rating: Reviewed by Charlotte on 07/09/2008 Ive got to admit, the sony ericsson C9O2 looks nice, and has been made out to sound AMAZING! But i have had it for about 3 months now, and all ive had is trouble with it: Songs crash half way through, and oftern the phone restarts itself mostly during music and the wallpaper goes back to the one that goes with the theme? The texting is rediculously SLOW! Th performance overall is slow, and i dont think this is due to memory because regardless to how much memory i have it still seems to do it. when i plug it into the computer and click on example: pictures, it will say unable to load all pictures from: and then the file name, although theres not that many on my phone. recently i have experienced the most terrible of the lot, i was out lastnight and my phone did a quick viberate and turned off so i was guessing it was restarting itself agan as always, so i tried to turn it back on, as i was holding down the on/off button the lights lit up and it did a quick viberate again, then the screen went blank and everytime i turned it on it did the same thing, BUT after trying and trying, after taking the battery out repeatedly and the sim, also a few times the memory card too, it finally turned on! and someone called me and then the screen went dark grey and just kept viverating as it was being called, then it turned itself off and ever since then it has never came back on, ive plugged it in the computer, ive taken the battery out countless times, along with the sim and memory stick, ive plugged the charger in and left it for ages then tried to turn it on but still nothing. The only thing the phone IS good for is the camera, its good quality, other than that the phone is a COMPLETE waste of money and just stresses you out. and also, i brought mine on pay as you go, and i got NO memory stick with it what so ever!? but you seem to get one if you take it out on a contract? Pretty pathetic. Ive spent pointless time and money on this phone, and would rather be without it than with it. Rating: Reviewed by stuart simper on 07/09/2008 i have expierenced all of the problems mentioned but a sortware download from se website has put it rite now the phone works perfectly.the only downside for me now is that its just a k850 on a diet. gud phone tho ive changed from a n82 and think the 2 of them are on a par with each other but it could have been better with wifi and a larger screen. recomended tho Rating: Reviewed by Wai on 07/09/2008 Had this phone for 6 weeks. Looks quite cool, and not too heavy or light. My favourite thing about the phone is the 5MP camera. Quality of photos in good lighting is as good as a digital camera. Night shots even with the flash on can come out quite dark unless you are close up to the person you are aiming the shot at. Have experienced pretty good reception with this phone for Vodafone. Haven't had any major problems with the phone, sometimes it freezes or takes a few seconds to action the button you press, eg if you are trying to press 'send' on a sms, it won't recognise it instantly. Only downside I find is that the battery does not last as long as it claims to. My battery seems to last around 48 hours max without making calls on it or sending sms. On days where I might talk for an hour and send 20 texts, it will last for 24 hours. If the phone is used alot for photos, then the battery really doesn't last long, but it is expected, as its primary function is as a ph one and not a camera. Also, the recurring alarm doesn't always goes off when you want it too. My first SE phone and quite impressed, especially since all my previous phones were Nokias and my last one was constantly crashing and dying on me. Rating: Reviewed by trev on 07/09/2008 great phone . what can i say than that Rating: Reviewed by mole on 07/09/2008 great phone would rec mend it Rating: Reviewed by Sarah on 06/09/2008 I have had my C902 for over a month. Having had 2 SE walkman phones i decided to opt for the Cyber shot option. Really like the phone, but starting to get annoyed with it now, the alarm clock decides when it wants to work, been late for work twice, so have had to buy an additional alarm clock. Also woke up to find it had turned itself off, despite being on charge! It also cuts out mid way though a call, and goes silent mid call. Had to take the battery out to re boot it. Was advised that having a bigger memory card would help sort the freezing and crashing, but to be fair it's only made it worse. Txt messaging is a bit slow as well, waiting for the letters to come up and occasional freezing. Have found the music player skips and jumps like a cd on some songs which are fine on my laptop. To be honest i am disappointed with this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Josie on 06/09/2008 Im so annoyed with this phone. Was so excited when i got it and now i wish i hadn't. Turns on and off every day, last night it was doing it for 20 minutes and i couldn't do anything with it, when I'm ringing people it its cuts off so they can hear me but i can't hear them, writing text messages freezes all the time. Taking it back today and hopefully getting a new phone as I'm not paying £35 a month for a phone that doesn't work!! I've never had a problem with Sony Ericsson before so this is such a shame! Rating: Reviewed by Annoyed on 06/09/2008 I've had this phone for a few weeks now and love it. It replaced the RUBBISH iPhone. I love everything about it except the keypad. It's fiddly at best but I'm used to Nokias. For those complaining about the camera, go buy an actual camera! You bought a phone, not a wonder-phone. Do you really think you should be getting a top notch camera AND a phone for pittance? Rating: Reviewed by Aaron on 04/09/2008 Had most of the K series SE and the C902 is a replacement from Orange due to all the problems I had with the K850i which I had 5 replacements! The C902 was ok for the first 2 weeks, then crashed and got stuck in a constant re-boot, ended up with a replacement from Ornage which was a referb and isnt much better!! Will SE ever make a phone that will not re-boot every other day! Nice looking phone, good features, just a shame on its reliability! Rating: Reviewed by francomur99 on 03/09/2008 Does anybody knows if the sony c902 as the power saver time out and the light time out in the display under setting.... the display of the phone after 10 seconds goes off. I've got also the Nokia e65 and I can put the time I want I can't find it in the sony c902..... please write me if you know something at francomur99@yahoo.it Thanks Frank Rating: Reviewed by francomur99 on 03/09/2008 The sony c902 is a very nice phone but I would recommend the sony c905 or the samsung i8510 and the nokia n96. They've got everything inside. For crazy gadget people there is also the sony c906i but available only in Japan.....as we know the japanaise people are 5-10 years at list in front. Good luck and good choice. See you l8r Rating: Reviewed by Mark on 02/09/2008 Got this phone a few days ago. It is fantastic - light but packed full of clever features. I am very happy i made this choice! Rating: Reviewed by Rachel UK on 02/09/2008 Dont buy it! It re-boots constantly it cant cope with fast texting or flicking through the pictures AND the video starts to flicker aftera while I know a few people with the same problems although the network always deny it (I worked for one of the large networks so I know for sure) Sony need to get a fix in place. I always had Nokia's before this phone and Iouldnt get another Sony after this. Switching to GSM works for a bit not good enuf!!! Rating: Reviewed by Radek Cech on 01/09/2008 Face Detection Slimmest Cybershot Phone Play Now TrackID Video QVGA 30fps Slide Out Lens Cover Rating: Reviewed by Jo on 01/09/2008 I just got this phone today and so far i am impressed but there is one thing that is bugging me and i was wondering if anyone could help. When i was looking at the camera in the shop i accidentally got it to take it using the lens on the front (facing towards you as you look at the screen) but now i have no idea how i did that. Can anyone help me? Rating: Reviewed by TR321 on 01/09/2008 the phone keeps crashing and the 5MP camera is simply not good enough for a cybershot camera. I've used phones with better cameras than that on the C902. Rating: Reviewed by reez on 01/09/2008 i hant even used the phone yet but sum 1 sed that the battry life aint gud well its cuz wen you first get the phone you need to charge it for 16 hours before you can use it cuz then the battery life is better,but you have to do this with all/most phones, Rating: Reviewed by Neil on 01/09/2008 My previous phone was the Samsung U600 which was very sensitive around the Dial symbols so I got rid of it and got the K810i which is simply outstanding. My recent upgrade is the C902 and I did my research before I ordered it, all the reviews said it was outstanding also. I have had it for two months now and i can honestly say, it annoys me to the point where I would like to smash it on the floor and jump on it ! The camera is excellent and takes fantastic photo's, detail is amazing. The battery life is poor at 1 & 1/2 days before dead, the bluetooth is rubbish and keeps disconecting from my incar parrot system, the keypad is far too fiddly for large hands, the menu system for the photo's is awful even backward (Can't store pictures in named folders but only by month they were taken) and has to update it self everytime you delete a photo taking 5 seconds before you can use it and lastly it freezes, crashes, pauses whatever it's really irritating. I'm gonna sell mine on ebay and either get another K810i or swap to Samsung. Be warned as you will be very dissapointed if this happens to you. Rating: Reviewed by Brian on 31/08/2008 I've had this phone for around 6 weeks now and after initialy being impressed with it the problems began to start. Just the usual ones listed here texting and not being able to hear the person I was talking to plus the songs pausing for a second or so. What you need to do is update the firmware. I have just done this and all the problems have gone. It's now working as it should. Only fault I have is the keypad. I would have prefered the buttons to slope the other way or not slope at all. Rating: Reviewed by bill on 31/08/2008 Upgraded from k610i. C902 supposed to be step up, superior spec. inferior phone, clunky slow software, awkward uncomfortable 'wooden' keypad, poor signal reception (both calls and internet). Who knows, maybe i got a bad one but strewth how could they have got it this bad. Ah well, just off to E-bay to see if i can get something of some use. P.S. The bad keypad only comes to light with use, if i could give it no stars then i would - A pretty case and good camera do not a good phone make. Its supposed to be a phone first and foremost people, i think Sony have forgot that Rating: Reviewed by Andy on 31/08/2008 love this phone, best one i have had by far, the camera on it is brilliant. Rating: Reviewed by Godders on 30/08/2008 Probably the most disappointing phone I've ever owned. Very buggy, continually freezing and switching itself off. Alarm function seems to make up it's own mind as to whether it will wake me or not. Keyboard layout is very fiddly for texting. The cover at the back of the phone doesn't even seem to fit properly! A poor phone IMO Rating: Reviewed by Nicola on 30/08/2008 I have had this phone just over a week having 'upgraded' from a k810i . I think that the flash is very poor and over-exposes a lot of my pictures. Also the reception is terrible and often the phone will just refuse to make a call or cut out when ringing. I have also had problems with freezing and find the whole phone very slow. There doesnt seem to be any other ohoens out at the moment that will have jsut as good a camera but weigh the same or less as the k810i. I will be sending the c902 back and will switch to a sim only tariff and keep the k810i!! Rating: Reviewed by James on 29/08/2008 Such a shame a nice phone like this cant be reliable. Software issues. Cant handle fast texting (pauses mid text if you are too fast). Pauses mid conversation randomly. Crashes whereby you have to remove battery. Not good and hope a patch is released real soon. Not fit for purpose Im afraid. Only give 2 stars due to the style being perfect. Rating: Reviewed by ang on 29/08/2008 Love it!! Rating: Reviewed by specificfreak on 29/08/2008 I got this phone yesterday, unlocked, unbranded...one of the first things I did, I updated the firmware from original that came with the phone R3BA035 to the latest I could find R3CA038. I can't say that I have experienced any of the problems as of yet. Even playing with it on the original firmware was not bad at all. Menu is fast, phone is over all speedy. Had no probs. getting all provider/network settings for my phone. It's very very slim, almost too slim I would imagine for some. Camera is fun tho one has to get used to the layout of buttons and such. I am not an avid SE user, I have been riding Nokia's forever so this is a bit of a different beast for me. Over all I love the phone, yes it could use Xenon flash, but it's not the end of the world and there is no sense in comparing it to other smartphones like Nokia N95, N82, N85 or N79. SE 902i is superb at what it's meant to do. It's fast, has got 160mb of memory on borad plus you can install additional memory c ards, good camera, good mp3 player...and its very very compact. Again like any phone it is not for everyone, what it was designed to do, it does well so far. If I change my mind be sure to hear from me yet again. specific Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 29/08/2008 Got the phone on 3, had it about 2 months. Constantly freezing, especially while texting and deleting messages. Slow to load... everything. Photos come out terribly. 2 biggest problems? Lately the phone just stops working while I'm talking to people. Usually one end of the line will work, so you can hear the other person saying "hello? hello?" then hang up. Or you're the other person. Also, my camera has recently shut down completely. Forget rubbish pictures, I can't take ANY pictures coz the CYBERSHOT screen appears for half a second then disappears. So it's basically a pile of junk, DON'T get it. Rating: Reviewed by Adam Wilkes on 29/08/2008 As reviewed by M Chandler on the 27/08/2008 I have to agree with him - this phone is dire! Mine also freezes frequently and resets itself on and off at regular intervals throughout the day - worst of al i swhen im in a call and the call freezes - the other person can still hear me but i cant hear them! Most annoying and coming close to the most problematic phone ive owned! Thought id go with a sony e phone for first time and wish id stuck with samsung! Rating: Reviewed by Mat on 28/08/2008 Really goog phone, feels very solid, well made and very good battery life. Features work very well and the camera is as good as the other reviews say. The reception is better than my old LG as well. Very good free upgrade. Rating: Reviewed by M Chandler on 27/08/2008 This phone is absolutely rubbish. I'm on the 3rd handset in less than 3 months (would love to change it but can't as tied in with Orange). It freezes frequently, turns itself off and then just dies. I know 2 other people with the same phone and they've had the same problems. DON'T get it, is my advice. Rating: Reviewed by richard from uk on 26/08/2008 Had this fone 3 weeks now looks good feels good battery life excellent.. reception seems very poor thou. fone allways showing network bust when trying to make a call 6 out of 10 attempts. Rating: Reviewed by Francesca on 26/08/2008 Worst sony ericsson I have ever purchased. From day 1 the phone was faulty, it turns itself off at least 5 times a day, the alarm does not want to work at 8am in the morning for some reason, and the phone keeps on freezing. I wouldn't recommend anyone getting this phone, what a total waste of money, shame because other than the frequent problems it would have been a cool phone. Rating: Reviewed by joshua beagrie on 26/08/2008 it's a pretty cool phone, light and slim. but the video quality isn't very good. the camera is nothing outstanding either. it's just slightly better than the 3.2 mp. and it takes about 5 seconds to delete a photo, it goes: deleting, please wait then updating and then finally it's done. if only it had the efficiency aswell as the looks. sony can do better, much better for £300. Rating: Reviewed by Stephen Lee on 26/08/2008 I have had this phone for nearly a week too, had no issues at all, it seems that the earlier issues have been sorted by quality control, superb, and no issues to report at all :o) Rating: Reviewed by Ev on 26/08/2008 If you're having problems with this phone download the firmware from Sony Ericsson. My phone was buggy and was freezing. It did the trick with my phone and it is as good as gold. Rating: Reviewed by Magic on 26/08/2008 Lovely looking phone and would be awesome if the alarm was reliable and the phone quit freezing :0( It has a real habit of freezing in the middle of calls and texting, you have to remove the back, pull out the battery and reboot! Nightmare! Rating: Reviewed by r hayden on 25/08/2008 phone crashes and freezes and loudspeaker not good Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 25/08/2008 I got this phone primarily for the camera, it takes good pictures although the flash isn't the best so night time pics can be a let down. I have had this phone since it was 1st on sale, at first I thought it was amazing but in the past few weeks it has really started to annoy me. I have been needing to charge it almost daily, even if I am not using it that much. It also freezes quite a bit, which is a total pain. Sometimes it freezes for only a second but other times it takes a good 5 minutes before it turns itself off & on again, it also vibrates & random times. A few times I have also had problems during calls, but I don't know if this is my phone or the other persons. In any case if it keeps up I will be sending the phone back! Rating: Reviewed by david on 25/08/2008 this phone is an absolute cracker.had a nokia before and thought of upgrading to a sony ericsson c902 and it was well worth it. camera is amazing and so is the touch buttons on the side which light up when you open the camera. Rating: Reviewed by saddken on 25/08/2008 first time ive had SE phone, had a nokia's for the last 10 years.im impressed so far, but the ring tones are not loud enough even on the loudest settings, i find im missing calls whilst out side working on building sites. Rating: Reviewed by abhishek on 24/08/2008 good phone its definateky better than nokia n95 it has gps system too.sleek and heavy, a great pictue experience.you should buy it. Rating: Reviewed by Pod Person on 24/08/2008 Hey Emma, I experience flickering in the camera/movie mode too. When inspecting the movies on my computer it seems that the flickering frames have been moved horizontally and vertically. Does anyone else have these problems?. Apart from that, seems to be a decent phone. Feels very solid in my hands. Rating: Reviewed by Sheila M Searle on 22/08/2008 I have owned this phone for a week now and I am delighted with it! The camera is excellent - showing detail and brilliance in all circumstances (comparable with my Cybershot 8mp) and the clarity of reception of incoming calls is excellent. I have had no problems at all with this phone (freezing, etc. reported by other users) and I am truly amazed by the diversity of functions, many of which I have not had time yet to explore, which this phone offers. I must add that it is the most good looking (red version) light and compact phone around! Anyone in any doubt - buy this phone! You will not be disappointed! Rating: Reviewed by naomi on 21/08/2008 i have had my c902 for about 2 weeks now, having updating from the w580i which was a complete waste of time had 9. apart from taking quite a while to switch on and the keys being a little small this is a awesome phone, the camera is brill, the motion sensors are a nice touch i didnt discover this until messing around on the media player. i have had no problems yet so figures crossed. this is a ver |
