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The touchscreen selectors, physical keys and that rail of a D-Pad are well designed, but fiddly and unintuitive in combination. The 5MP snapper takes nice shots, but with a time-to-shoot of at least 5 seconds and considerable shutter lag even when it's awake it still feels like a cellphone. The picture blogging feature is neat, though trying to type on that art installation of a keypad isn't. It's the software, however, that S.

Among the goodies are 3D games, simple photo and video editing suites, a bizarre image morphing program, an RSS feed reader, the NetFront web browser, and the usual PIM suspects.

Of the 3D games, the tennis and Need for Speed titles are flashiest, but the accelerometer-driven version of Marble Madness is the one most likely to get you flattened by a truck. What iPhone SDKers are just now brewing, Ki users have been enjoying for months — though apart from the addictive controls, it's not a particularly good rendition of that classic game.

The PlayNow music store was not tested, as it wouldn't consent to operate without a better network connection than what it could acquire.

It's clear Sony Ericsson takes photography very seriously. When you activate the camera mode the row of buttons containing '3', '6', '9', and ' ' light up along with symbols for timer, flash, shoot mode, and scenes.

You can gain access to other options with the touchscreen and D-Pad, and there's a sense when you're taking pictures that your phone really has become a camera. Even here, though, there are peculiarities. There's a rather smart mechanical lens cover that flicks open when you press a small button on the side of the phone, but in front of that there's a piece of glass that never comes off. Apparently, it prevents the lens from becoming scratched should the automatic cover accidentally open, but this is a bit like making somebody wear clothes indoors in case the house blows away.

And if the fixed cover gets scratched, you're boned. Given the odd D-Pad, we were sceptical about whether the Ki would work as a gaming device, but while we haven't had cause to abandon our scepticism entirely, the selection of embedded games did much to put our minds at rest.

For a start, there's an unusually generous range, albeit mostly of demos rather than full games. Sound with the included stereo earbud headset with inline mic HPM is also clear and quite loud. Standard features include speed dial, smart search when in the home screen enter the first few letters of a name to bring up matching contacts to call or text message them , voice dialing using voice tags not true speech recognition , caller photo ID and distinctive ringtones set a specific ringtone for a contact.

You can use the included dull ringtones or set any MP3, video or recorded audio as a ringtone. Ringer volume is just adequate, and the phone has a very gentle vibrate mode which can be used in conjunction with a ringer or in silent mode. That's not hugely impressive when we've seen speeds up to k on smartphones and the upper 's for the N The web browser and CPU's rendering capabilities likely hamper download speeds when compared to a smartphone.

Downloading videos from the web was a fast affair on the other hand, and applications likewise download very quickly. Obviously, the 5 megapixel camera with autofocus lens and Xenon flash is the centerpiece of the Cybershot Ki. And it didn't disappoint us, in fact for the first release firmware out the door the camera was stable, and overall did an excellent job of imaging.

Those of you who were hoping for a clear winner between the latest versions of the N95 and the SE Ki in our camera battle will be disappointed. It's a toss up-- with each camera winning in different categories. The Ki is the clear winner in usability, which is to say offering a more dedicated camera-like experience.

The N which runs the latest camera firmware available for the N95 line is still too slow: it takes several seconds longer for the camera application to launch and be ready for first shot, autofocus times are improved from early N95 releases but is still slower than the SE, and file save times seem interminable compared to the Ki. The SE isn't as fast as a dedicated digital camera, but it's quite usable and you just might manage to catch a fleeting moment that the N95 will assuredly miss.

The phone has a hardware slider button that you'll use to select photo, video or playback mode. There's a tiny camera application launcher button that turns the camera on and off as well as controlling the lens cover. When the camera app is running the entire screen becomes the viewfinder and it runs in landscape orientation. The topmost number key row become camera settings buttons and light up in blue. Photo quality is excellent overall, with more usable data than the Ki and Ki's 3MP images and better exposure no white haze or washed out effect which we sometimes noticed with the Ki.

Colors are accurate, if not sometimes understated and we couldn't find a hint of color cast in outdoor shots. Indoor shots became overly warm as the camera didn't compensate well enough for incandescent lighting in auto exposure mode with the flash on turning off the flash fixed the problem.

Indoor evening shots in poor light were pleasing with good blacks, but surprisingly the N95 managed a more exposed shot Nokia's weak spot used to be their low light image quality. The Ki's Xenon flash illuminates close subjects very well, but doesn't add much ambient lighting, which means your subject will be decently exposed but awash in a sea of near blackness.

For all but dark club shots and outdoor night shots, we recommend experimenting with turning the flash off-- we consistently got brighter and more balanced shots with it off. The camera uses an LED actually 3 tiny LEDs to illuminate the scene for focus and fires the power-hungry Xenon flash only when snapping the photo. Should Ki owners upgrade based on the higher resolution camera? But if you want to print photos, the extra pixels and sharper images are worth it.

From what we can tell, the lens quality hasn't improved. Sony Ericsson's BestPic feature shoots several shots with varied settings so you can choose the best one, and Photo fix lets you tweak photos you've taken before transferring them to a PC.

The camera has 16x digital zoom, but alas no optical zoom that's still a rarity on camera phones. Though only QVGA resolution, video quality is very good with no jerkiness or blockiness. Colors are strong and accurate, even in low light and sound is clear. Photos taken at 5MP auto settings with the Ki. Color balance in auto mode is too warm. The Netsuke was in a room on a white not yellow shelf with good natural lighting. No complaints for the other two images to the right, which are excellent.

Though the N95 tends to over-enhance colors, the Ki's are more vibrant in this photo. Absolutely perfect shot! Good depth of field with strong detail on the lilly and no washing out of highlights. Not good with auto settings and Xenon flash on a very dark day indoors that looks more like the dead of night in this photo. The camera did a better job of this shot with the flash turned off. Though not a great capture, the N95 wins here for getting ambient light right and exposing the scene more accurately and with more light.

Too warm and white fur is over exposed, fur shows the N95's tenancy to oversharpening. The phone has 40 megs of free internal memory for storage and a memory card slot that accepts Memory Stick Micro M2 and microSD cards microSD card support is rare from Sony Ericsson thanks to Sony's interest in the Memory Stick format. Sony Ericsson does not disclose the CPU used in their phones.

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