Test Photos
Camera Effects - Left to right, Negative, Black & White, Solarize and Sepia.
Environment
Portrait
Macro
Flash/Night Shot
Barrel Distortion Test, Document Photo, Red-Eye
Panorama
Video taken with K800 / K790
Conclusion
I was thoroughly impressed with K790’s camera performance, it really does deserve the stamp of Cyber-Shot. Most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a photo taken with a K790 and another taken by an average compact digital camera. As the test photos have shown, the Xenon flash has little trouble in taking shots in complete darkness, up to around 12 feet, not much to gripe about there.
The K790 still has problems with low light condition shots. The main issues revolve around noise and blur shots. Blur shots can be resolved by using the BestPic feature, so the only real issue is noise. With today’s technology I feel Sony Ericsson struck a good balance between quality and portability in the K790. If we really wanted to reduce the noise in photos, we could add a bigger lens, change the sensor to a high end CCD, add a higher capacity battery, but then we’d end up with a behemoth on our hands. I’m thankful Sony Ericsson decided to stay relatively close in size of their previous mobile handsets.
The video recording quality is rather horrible I must say, so if video recording quality is important to you, you can forget about taking the K790 seriously.
The majority of faults found in the K790 are really minor in my opinion. The K790 still performed like a superstar in terms of photo quality and ease of use.
If you desire a cell phone camera that can deliver superb quality photos, look no further, I give the Sony Ericsson K790 a highly recommended!
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Odd question, but I just bought one of these bad boys in the UK when i was visiting, vendor told me it was unlocked and I found that to be certainly untrue when I came back to the states. Now for the last 3 weeks I have been using it as a $200 paperweight. I’ve visited about 2 dozen shops around Chicago and a handful of websites and still can’t find anyone to unlock it, you wouldn’t by any chance know anyone who can unlock it?
Now, you really pushed me into buying this phone. Thank you very much for the great review. I will be going back here for more updates. MORE SE REVIEWS!
Eja,
Hehe, just try to remember, I’m not a salesman, I just try to show the product for what it is. I’m glad you enjoyed the review and I hope the product is everything you expected it to be.
As much as I’d love to do only SE phone reviews, I’d rather not give readers the impression that this site is a SE only site. No worries though Eja, I promise you that I’ll continue reviewing more SE products in the future.
joel… i dont know that too.. i suggest u fly back 2 the uk and kick that guys ass XD other than that…
hmmmm… try some asian stores… they can usually unlock anything but for a price…i think its close 2 $100 CND (im from canada) sry dude thats the best i can do
Thanks Kai for your help. I ended up selling it on craigslist to another Chicago resident who, lucky for him, visits the UK so much that he has a vodafone contract out there.
I would personally like to see a review of the iPhone. Gimme!!!
Hi i purchased the Sony Ericsson K790a brand new on ebay and when i recieved the phone it was locked to Rogers. I thought the phone came unlocked and I have a T-mobile sim card that I was wanting to use with the phone.. Do you know the best possible way that I could have the phone unlocked so I can use my sim card with the phone??
Thanks for your time!
Kyle
Kyle,
Excuse the late reply, I was managing the website’s database and lost some recent changes made to the site, such as your comment. I managed to retrieve your comment and repost it.
About your problem, I found some bits of info that will help point you in the right direction.
If you have a friend that uses Rogers, you could ask them to pretend they own your phone, and ask the customer service reps about getting unlock codes. Depending on the cellular provider, they have different rules for allowing unlocks, some more difficult than others.
For example, Cingular will only let you unlock your phone if you are traveling out of the country, and you have to go through a lot of questions with their fraud team before they actually give you the code. They also check to see how long you’ve been using that particular phone, and if it hasn’t been long or at all, they don’t give you the code.
I’ve never dealt with Rogers, so here’s to hoping they are lax about unlocking code policies.
For more information on the topic visit this website.
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I recently got Sony Ericsson Camera phone, but I didn’t get the software to upload pictures to laptop, What do I do, how do I transfer my pictures to pc.. please help
Sara,
You can transfer the photos from the SE phone by going to Start > My Computer then double click the SE phone, it should show up as an external USB, from there jump into the folders until you find the photos you are looking for. Then it’s just a matter of dragging and dropping the photos onto your desktop. Let me know if you are still having issues. I’ll be glad to help.
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