Sony Ericsson have released the K850, the latest high-end Cybershot handset.

Packing a beefy 5 megapixel camera with 16x zoom and Xenon flash, the K850 weighs in at 118 grams, ever so slightly more than the earlier K800 and K810 devices. Available in Luminous Green or Velvet Blue, the phone has a 2.2inch 262k colour screen, 40mb internal memory and an M2 slot, with a 512MB stick thrown in for good measure.

Although initially sounding similar to the earlier K series handsets, the K850 does come with a few key improvements. First, the phone is the first to include an automatic lens cap, activated by pressing the camera button. It also comes with a new image manipulation program, Photo Fix, to automatically improve light balance on pictures. Sony Ericsson has also said that while in photo mode, only camera shortcut buttons will be illuminated on the main keyboard, as opposed to all buttons being lit all of the time.

K850 Specs
- 102 x 48 x 17 mm
- Weight: 118g / 4.2oz
- Size: 2.2 inches
- Networks: K850i (UMTS/HSDPA 3.6Mbps 850/1900/2100-GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900)
- Screen: 262,144 color TFT
- Video: capture/playback at 30fps, QVGA (240x320) resolutions
- Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
- Phone memory: Up to 40 MB
- Memory card support: Memory Stick Micro M2 and micro SD (512MB M2 bundled)
- Talk time GSM/UMTS: Up to 9 hrs/3 hrs 30 min
- Standby time GSM/UMTS: Up to 400 hrs/350 hrs
- Video call time (K850): Up to 3 hrs 20 min
- SAR Value - 1.14 W/kg
- Colours:
Luminous Green
Velvet Blue

Camera
-Auto focus
-BestPic(tm)
-5-megapixel
-Digital zoom 16x
-Image stabiliser
-Picture blogging
-Red-eye reduction
-Video record
-Video stabiliser
-Xenon flash


K850i Firmware

R1EA031

Improvements / Changes
- General User Interface performance improvements.
- Notable performance improvements with the Media Centre User Interface.
- Improved sound quality from Media Player
- Key response menu added in Settings -> Sounds & alerts, allowing the selection of sound or vibrate when pressing the touch sensitive buttons.
- The ability to select HSDPA as your preferred communications protocol has been added to Menu Settings -> Mobile Networks -> GSM/3G networks
- The Video Player's audio synchronisation / stuttering issues are still present, but have a different profile to previous firmwares.

Bug fixes
- Fixes battery longevity issues introduced in R1DA038
- Equaliser now remembers custom settings.
- The zoom buttons no longer change the volume when zooming into a picture if you are listening to music in the background.
- Fixes for Bluetooth compatibility on certain devices, e.g. Audi & Mercedes car bluetooth modules & the SE Bluetooth watch.
- Prevent some boot issues due to Java Script errors.

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 445
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 431
- JBenchmark 2: 932
- JBenchmark 1: 6103

Software versions:
EROM: 1200-4341
LCD: 200712121
Camera: 3.7
Videocall camera: 3.0
Content: PA17
Java: 8.2
Text: BB

R1CA037

Improvements / Changes
- H is displayed instead of 3G when connected via HSDPA
- The Media player speed has been increased when dealing with many entries.
- Phone UI speed has been increased.

Bug fixes
- Improved / fixed flash synchronization, preventing photos taken in dark conditions from coming out as very dark or black.
- Prevent some boot issues due to Java Script errors.

Bugs
- Shuffle functionality in the Media Player repeats the same track until you manually skip to the next.

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 96
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 199
- JBenchmark 2: 926
- JBenchmark 1: 5913

Software versions:
EROM: R6A008
LCD: 200708241
Camera: 2.9
Videocall camera: 3.0
Content: PA13
Java: 8.0
Text: AC

R1CA029
- First release

Bugs
- The flash doesn't always sync with the image capture, leaving dark or black photos in night conditions.
- Manual equaliser settings are not remembered when exiting and then returning to the media player.
- Play/Pause and FF/RW controls on HPM-82 do not work
- FF/RW controls on DS-980 skip tracks, but cannot be used to FF/RW (Note that the Play/Pause button does work with DS-980)
- Trying to continue music playback, after phoning out using the DS-980, fails.
- Phone can crash when using HPM-82
- Phone can crash whilst in standby mode, requiring a hard reboot (taking the battery out)
- Corruption of the file system can occur affecting photos, applications etc
- Alarms only produce three beeps on some phones rather than play the selected ringtone.
- Some Video playback is out of sync with the sound
- USB photo transfer can lead to duplicated pictures / removal of other pictures present on the phone
- Video is of lower quality than the K800
- Occasional second or so delay between the vibration of an incomming text/call and screen illumination.
- Audiobook functionaility cannot be accessed
- If the phone goes into standby whilst viewing photos, resuming the phone isn't possible unless you exit this mode.
- When you connect the phone via the usb cable, You cant see the ringtone folder
- Phone doesnt support some Mp4 files and doesnt support some jpeg photos.
- On some phones the shutter ocasionally fails to open when taking a photo
- Not all symbols are possible to enter in the email client settings, e.g. not allowing you from adding a : for gmail addresses.
- The zoom buttons both zoom into a picture and change the volume if you are listening to music whilst browsing pictures.
- On some phones, the volume keys do not respond, requiring a reboot to restore functionaility.
- On some phones, adding a birthday to a contact does not give you a chance to add it to the Calendar.

>*<<*<* to check your firmware version or check it via phone's Update Service under software version.

<Tips : how to update your K850i's firmware>
i) Go to http://www.sonyericsson.com (choose region)
ii) Go to their Support link and then search for a software named "Sony Ericsson Update Service"
iii) Once completed download, run and install software (software will auto update itself to current version if it's not)
iv) Follow the simple instructions provided by SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Service).

alternatively you can try choosing FOTA (firmware over the air) update from your phone but not suggested cause it's too expensive.

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K850 Related Links/Softwares
~Version 1 Thread~
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This post has been edited by dragna: Apr 15 2008, 04:59 PM

Screen protector that covers the viewable area is good enough. It won't come out anyway unless they purposely put fingernails to try to take it out.

gratz..phone hvn out already ver 2

This post has been edited by ybtan: Nov 4 2007, 11:02 AM

aiyaa.. he tot someone asked to open ma. anyways congratz on v2

but oso cant simply start lidat..where's other info?so much less than ver 1..

hehe..spam here~ anyway..we have 1 user only?

so far yess...
hopefully after raya, more ppl wud get the phone n contribute 2 for the betterment of the phone n thread...

hope price drop once N95 8GB released...but some forum criticized this model...

why is tat?
wats wrong with tis model?

welcome to V2. but summarised la the essay and be a bit creative, make the first post more interesting. no one is going to read that long essay anyway.

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Added on October 14, 2007, 7:47 pmthe picture produced is not as impressive as n95. high noise, prone to over expose.

This post has been edited by youngkies: Oct 14 2007, 07:47 PM

err.. the camera does have cover or not?

its like those real cameras'...auto shut...shutter

here is a blow by blow, detailed review comparing the K850 to N95...

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k850...-review-162.php


for a phone that come one year later than N95, it is a shame that Sony Ericsson fail to maintain its superiority in its camphone capability. then again, for diehard SE fans, any new Cybershot phone is a good phone and no amount of reviews are going to change their minds. it is just like that crippled piece of shat of an IPHONE... except for its beautiful Internet browser, everything else about that phone are old and outdated by today's mobile phone technology and yet, there are droves of brainwashed morons, more commonly known as fanboys, buying it just because of the HYPE
and because it is from APPLE.

don't get me wrong. I am a proud owner of the K800 and have it for nearly one year and had never regretted buying it and its excellent camera have proven handy to me on my many outings and overseas trips and I will continue to buy SE phones if it continue to release good quality products. But as it stands out, I am left wondering why the fark do I wait one whole year for this phone when I could have bought the N95 months ago.. this is a shame

This post has been edited by sanook: Oct 14 2007, 09:05 PM

whao, already got one K850i user, more reviews pls..

That review has been posted lots of time and I feel it isn't that accurate as it uses prototype K850i. Besides, it uses poster to snap the photo as comparison. I feel that the review should use real photo instead of poster to make a review.

Anyway, SE will update the firmware and it should fix everything.

Sony Ericsson should consider using high quality optics like Carl Zeiss.

One thing major advantage of having good optics/lense is colour reproduction and sharpness.

This is very apprarent as I've experienced in phones such as the N73 ME, N93 and testing with N95.

Most obvious is the absence of purple-fringing/abberations in the N93 (Carl Zeiss optics) while the problem happens a lot on the K800i/K810i due to poor lense.

lol true true, at first i tried to read and then stop when i scroll down

Theres not much to chat coz too little users now.,.

the green one look cool man. I wonder when will I got the chance to get it.

'man man lei lor' haha. So expensive now, don't expect numbers to grow immediately.