If you don’t mind, I’m going to take a little side step in this post and instead of waffling about my camera or my photographs, I’m going to talk about my mobile phone.

Or at least my new camera.

Or phone.

Or, well…

OK. I know camera phones have been around for ages, but I’ve always found them to be blurry awful things with more shutter lag than a thing with a lot of shutter lag. (Frankly when I heard stories of people using them to peep on people getting changed, it always amazed me – any phone I had in the time it took you to peep and take the picture, the person could have been washed, dressed and halfway to the pub.)

But, since it was contract renewal time and I didn’t want an iPhone or Google thing I took a look at the Sony Ericsson C905.

I’m not going to talk about the phone. It takes calls, makes calls and does those text message things. So that’s all good.

But some genius built a Sony Cyber-shot into it. Yup, a genuine Sony Cyber-shot 8 megapixel camera. That’s 8 megapixels, a decent lens, a flash, a video camera and a bundle of love like face detection, macro mode and shiny shiny goodness.

It even takes a nice picture…

If you want technical specs, you can get them here.

If you’re in the market for a phone and a camera, then this seems like the business.