Sony Ericsson’s K850i is a 3.5G phone which was launched in October 2007. The phone is the latest offering in the K series of Sony Ericsson’s camera phones. It comes in a candy bar shape with the dimensions of 102x48x17mm weighing 118 grams, which makes it one of the lightest phones in town.

The display screen of K850i is a 2.2inches TFT display which has exceptional clarity and contrast. The display resolution is 240x320pixels. The phone has a 5 megapixel camera at the rear and a VGA camera in front for video calling. The rear camera is the highlighting feature of this phone as it takes an amazing quality picture with its sensor assisted by other features like an ISO-80 which allows the camera to take clear images without any distortion or noise.

Also for night shooting, the phone is equipped with a Xenon flash which is very good tool for taking pictures in zero light conditions. For taking Videos, though is where the phone has surprisingly poor performance. There are 3 Led lights which sufficiently illuminate the surroundings.

The Phone is also equipped with standard features like a Java virtual machine which supports MIDP 2.0, an fm stereo with RDS, a full fledged media player on the lines of Walkman players. One of the new features in this phone is inclusion of motion sensor which changes the UI of camera phone from portrait to landscape and vice versa when the display is flipped.

For connectivity, the phone comes equipped with Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPRS, 3G connectivity and further 3.5G HSDPA connectivity. The on board memory of the phone stands at 40MB which can be expanded to up to 2GB by memory stick micro M2. The package comes with the handset, standard charger, driver’s cd and a complimentary 1GB memory stick. The phone is a very good buy considering the price and the quality of camera. It aims at young users who want a replacement for their cameras for day to day usage.

By: Mark Hirst