Unveiled today, the Sony Ericsson C905 is the very first camera phone for the UK that will break the 5 megapixel hurdle, coming in at a huge 8.1 megapixels. But the question is? will it put all other mobile phones in the shade?

Sony Ericsson ? the history of camera phones

If you think back in the long history of mobile phones, it's difficult today to think of them having no camera, as the massive total of mobile phones that don't have cameras in the universe, today, is about 4 and a bit. Camera phones are so ubiquitous, today, that it genuinely IS difficult to picture a time when they didn't exist, even though it was only about 5 years ago. Well, it was a single company who really set offkicked off the camera phone madness in the UK, and brought about the evolution of the huge variety of camera mobile phones that we have today, and that was Sony Ericsson.

The first phone to come to the UK that had a built-in camera was the Sony Ericsson P800, a touchscreen device that redefined what mobile phones could be and do. And yes, it had a camera. Not a great, granted, since it was only VGA, but that's not the point. It set the path for others to come later. So, it really was Sony Ericsson who started the craze in the UK, way before happy slapping videos, and Youtube uploads from your mobile. They were the mould-breakers, the ones who changed the world.

And they've done it again, with their soon-to-be-released Sony Ericsson C905, a mobile phone set to become the greatest camera phone the UK has EVER seen!

Sony Ericsson C905 ? the new king of camera phones

Let's start with the obvious killer feature: the Sony Ericsson C905 has an 8.1 megapixel camera. It's the first mobile phone announced in the UK to have that, so it's not unfair to say that it's getting some very admiring glances because of that! The key issue, though, is whether this Sony Ericsson beastie is actually any good, because as we all know, increasing the megapixels without doing anything else won't make a truly mind-blowing camera phone. It needs good lenses, good software, loads of features and lord knows what else to make it truly amazing.

Luckily, know what they're doingtheir stuff (they were the first, remember), so what we get here is not JUST 8.1 megapixels, something that other new mobile phones can and will overtake over time. Unlike from other manufacturers, you also get Cyber-Shot technology, meaning it really is a proper successor to your digital camera. And the example photos floating round out there tell us one thing especially; categorically, here and now, the Sony Ericsson C905 is going to blow your mind!