Sony Ericsson P910

The Sony Ericsson P910 is the Sony Ericsson P900 smartphone's successor. The P910 has a full QWERTY keyboard on the back of the flip (The flip can also be removed completely, allowing for a 'traditional' PDA form-factor. The biggest change from the P900 to the P910 is that the P910 now supports Memory Stick Pro Duo (up to 1GB) and the phone's internal memory has been upped from 16MB to 64MB. Although Memory Stick Pro Duo comes in larger capacities, the maximum supported by the P910 is 1GB owing to performance lags. It is powered by an ARM9 processor clocked at 156MHz and runs the popular Symbian OS with the UIQ graphical user interface. Also, the touchscreen displays 262,000 colours (an 18-bit colour depth) , as opposed to the P900's 65,000 (16-bit). It comes in three flavors:

• P910i (GSM 900/1800/1900)


• P910c (GSM 900/1800/1900 for China mainland)


• P910a (GSM 850/1800/1900 for North America and Latin America)

One of the key aspects of the P910 is its ability to input text via several methods; multi-tap and T9 text input using the numerical keypad, hand-writing recognition with the pre-installed Jot-Pro software and touchscreen, virtual keyboard on screen and the new QWERTY keyboard on the inside of the flip.

Other enhancements over the P900 include support for HTML browsing, a new numerical keypad with larger keys and a slightly changed outer casing.

Its closest competitors are the palmOne Treo 650, and the Nokia 9500 Communicator.

Other competitors include several PDA-phones powered by Windows and manufactured by Taiwan-based HTC.

Sony Ericsson will be releasing the successor to the P910 in early 2006. It will be called Sony Ericsson P990.

Specifications

• 208x320 screen resolution


• 65,000 color touchscreen LCD


• Symbian OS 7


• UIQ 2.1


• 115 x 57 x 24 mm in size


• GSM 1900/GSM 900/GSM 1800

Sony Ericsson P900

The Sony Ericsson P900 is a Symbian OS v7.0 based smartphone from Sony Ericsson.

It is the successor of the Sony Ericsson P800, and like the P800 uses the UIQ user interface.

Like other Symbian-based smartphones, the P900 is an open phone, which means that it is possible to develop and install third party applications without restrictions. A Symbian C++ SDK is freely available from the Sony Ericsson developer website. Additionally, the P900 supports applications written in Java.

Because of this openness, a great number of third-party applications exists that can be used on the P900 and other UIQ phones (such as the Motorola A1000 and BenQ P30). Many are shareware and freeware and can be downloaded from various websites such as Handango and My-Symbian.

As the P900 uses UIQ version 2.1 it is backwards compatible with UIQ 2.0 as found in the P800. Applications made for the P800 will normally work on a P900 as well. It still has the ARM9 processor clocked at 156MHz as for the P800 & P910i.

The P900 can be used without the flip as well, acting more like a PDA, but still usable as a phone. P900 supports Memory Stick Duo up to 128MB as for the P800.

An updated version of the P900, Sony Ericsson P910i was released in July 2004. It features a small QWERTY keyboard, a little enhanced software, but had a higher use of battery, and today sold with 64MB instead of 32MB memory. P910i can carry a memorystick duo (pro), which can be up to 1GB.

The P900 is the first Sony Ericsson product for which Research in Motion's BlackBerry wireless email service will be available.

Some of the specifications of the P900 are:

1. Triband - GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz


2. Dimensions: 115 x 57 x 24 mm


3. Weight: With flip-150g, Without flip-140g


4. Internal Camera: VGA, Resolution Up to 640 x 480 pixels


5. Connectivity: Bluetooth, Infrared, USB Data Cable


6. GPRS (Wap 2.0)


7. Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, POP3, IMAP, SMPT

Sony Ericsson P800

The Sony Ericsson P800 is a Symbian OS v7.0 based smartphone from Sony Ericsson. P800 is kinda the successor of the Ericsson R380 but it was designed and produced after Sony & Ericsson united together.

The P800 uses the UIQ (version 2.0) user interface and has a touch screen much like a PDA. It is powered by an ARM9 processor clocked at 156MHz, which was also used for the later models P900 & P910. It came with a 16MB Memory Stick Duo but supports up to 128MB. Also, the touchscreen displays 4,096 colours (12-bit colour depth)

Trivia

A slightly dressed up version of the P800 was placed in the James Bond film Die Another Day.

A P800 can be seen on the street among the wreckage in the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse