What impressed me most on the K850i’s software is that it multitasks. It doesn’t run on a smartphone Operating System, but Sony Ericsson endeavoured to make its Cybershot different to every other camera-feature-only phone by implementing some decent software. Not that it beats the Nokia N82, but then again, the N82 is a fully-fledged smartphone, which leads us to the discussion of what really is a smartphone. Is it just a device that multitasks? Is it a device that provides internal APIs and allows its use? Or is the K850i a smartphone? We will not consider it a smartphone in our review, but will rather just treat as a non-smartphone, camera-feature-only phone.

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