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Remember yesterday when we touted cellphones with 5 MP digital cameras? 5 MP? Piffle!

Sony-Ericsson has upped the megapixel ante with its slider-style Cyber-shot C905, which contains an 8.1 MP digital camera, which will be available in the fall for $499.99.

Since Sony has affixed its Cyber-shot name to the C905, you can be assured that its camera meets Sony's exacting optics and image capture standards. Behind the sliding shutter guard are Sony lenses, a Xenon flash and video light. Like the company's standalone digicams, the C905 includes "smile shutter," a software sensor that detects a subject's smiles and automatically snaps the picture, "smart contrast" that compensates for varying lighting situations from one part of the picture to another and, of course, the ever-present face detection.

Your viewfinder is a bright 2.4-inch, 240 x 320 scratch-resistant glass LCD screen. To get the high-res photos off the phone, the C905 includes DLNA-compatible WiFi to transmit photos or video to a DLNA-compatible HDTV or upload to your blog site, a USB adapter, and will ship with a 2 GB Memory Stick micro (M2) that slides into an M2 slot that accepts up to an 8 GB card.

On the phone side, the 7.2 Mbps HSPA network compatible C905 includes A-GPS, which combines cell tower triangulation with traditional satellite GPS to speed location detection and also geo-tags images, a media player and stereo Bluetooth. For the fashion-conscious, it'll be available in Night Black (pictured), Ice Silver and Copper Gold.

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