can anyone with a p900 tell me all the great things about it that make it stand out from other phones? saw one in the shop today, the screen looks very enticing. but it couldnt be worth $1800 can it? where'd you buy yours?
I bought mine from a little asian import store in the Queens Arcade on Queen Street (Downtown Auckland) for $1,450. It's the chinese-english version, but that phone is pretty much all english with only minor Chinese-only areas and is otherwise fully usable.
You can't really compare this phone to other "regular" phones. The P900 is a "SmartPhone", and thus bridges the gap between PDA's and cell phones.
The regular phone features of the P900 are all adequate. It's nice assigning large color pictures to your contacts which display when the contact calls (and at full screen if you use a large picture, unlike Nokia Symbian phones, which display a tiny tic-tac sized picture). Voice dialing, custom caller ringtones (even mp3 ones!), speed dialling etc. are all there.
GPRS functionality works well, and this phone has a decent browser built-in. For more serious web browsing, you can install Opera, which is nice.
SMS, MMS and Email all support multi-tap, T9, on-screen-keyboard and handwriting input, as does the Jotter note-taker and any other areas that require text input. The handwriting recog. is pretty easy to get used to, good for quick edits, but I still use the on-screen-keyboard for most of my typing.
The camera is average, and inferior to others I've seen/used, but decent enough for basic usage. There not yet a phone on the market, including the new 1MP phones, that come anywhere near that of a true digital camera. The video recorder is decent for it's purposes, and let's you record unlimitedly, depending on the size of your memory card. You can also download small video to watch on this phone, in most popular formats (mp4, 3gp etc.). I've converted and compressed all sorts of stuff, such as Simpsons & Futurama episodes, off a my DVD's, to watch on my phone on the train on my way to work.
Speaking of which, the P900 support Sony's Memory Stick DUO (but not Pro), for a maximum of 128MB external storage - which is good for about 1 full CD of good quality MP3's, or 2 CD's of lower quality CD's. I used mine phone as an MP3 player all the time. If you get a 2.5mm-to-3.5mm phono jack converter, you can actually plug your phone in to a standard stereo mini-plug jack, such as an entertainment system, external subwoofer, regular head-phones etc.
There's a slew of other programs that come installed as standard, such as standard PIM (personal information management) apps like Calendar, Tasks, Voice Recorder etc. And the UIQ/Symbian operating system has a massive community bases and third party applications, all available online. This phone is infinitely customizable.
As for the screen; it's glorious - bright, colorful and clear. The 208x320 resolution makes all the difference. For a touch screen, it's very responsive and very reliable.
As a long time Nokia user, I took a deep breath when buying this phone - not really knowing what I was in for as far as interface experience was concerned - but thankfully my fears were unfounded. The P900 is not without it's faults, took a while to get familiar with, and there's things I miss from the Nokia SmartPhone world, but nevertheless, I'd have a hard time going back. I've gotten used to SonyEricsson's UIQ, and will most likely stick with it now until something even better comes along.
I could go on for much longer (yes, really), about how great this phone is - but I'm a self confessed gadget junky über-geek after all. The P900 satisfies almost all of my poking, prodding, fiddling, button-pressing and people-impressing needs.
For a SmartPhone, you can't get much better than the P900. It's closest competitor is the XDA II/iMate/Falcon, which runs Windows Mobile (no comment), but this device is, when compared to the P900, is butt-ugly.
Okay, so for the price what makes it worth buying over other phones? Well, depends on what you're after. If standard mobile services (voice/text) are all you need, then don't get a P900 - it's a very expensive "phone". but if you're a "smart phone" enthusiast, and PDA functionality PLUS mobile services PLUS internet services are what you're looking for, it's far, far superior to Nokia's $1,000-ish 6600, and much sexier than the iMate/XDA II series.
And as it's still fairly new on the market, you'll be in early. This means you'll get much more usage out of your phone than those who'll catch on in 6mths+, before the next model is revealed (whenever that may be).
I bought mine from a little asian import store in the Queens Arcade on Queen Street (Downtown Auckland) for $1,450. It's the chinese-english version, but that phone is pretty much all english with only minor Chinese-only areas and is otherwise fully usable.
You can't really compare this phone to other "regular" phones. The P900 is a "SmartPhone", and thus bridges the gap between PDA's and cell phones.
The regular phone features of the P900 are all adequate. It's nice assigning large color pictures to your contacts which display when the contact calls (and at full screen if you use a large picture, unlike Nokia Symbian phones, which display a tiny tic-tac sized picture). Voice dialing, custom caller ringtones (even mp3 ones!), speed dialling etc. are all there.
GPRS functionality works well, and this phone has a decent browser built-in. For more serious web browsing, you can install Opera, which is nice.
SMS, MMS and Email all support multi-tap, T9, on-screen-keyboard and handwriting input, as does the Jotter note-taker and any other areas that require text input. The handwriting recog. is pretty easy to get used to, good for quick edits, but I still use the on-screen-keyboard for most of my typing.
The camera is average, and inferior to others I've seen/used, but decent enough for basic usage. There not yet a phone on the market, including the new 1MP phones, that come anywhere near that of a true digital camera. The video recorder is decent for it's purposes, and let's you record unlimitedly, depending on the size of your memory card. You can also download small video to watch on this phone, in most popular formats (mp4, 3gp etc.). I've converted and compressed all sorts of stuff, such as Simpsons & Futurama episodes, off a my DVD's, to watch on my phone on the train on my way to work.
Speaking of which, the P900 support Sony's Memory Stick DUO (but not Pro), for a maximum of 128MB external storage - which is good for about 1 full CD of good quality MP3's, or 2 CD's of lower quality CD's. I used mine phone as an MP3 player all the time. If you get a 2.5mm-to-3.5mm phono jack converter, you can actually plug your phone in to a standard stereo mini-plug jack, such as an entertainment system, external subwoofer, regular head-phones etc.
There's a slew of other programs that come installed as standard, such as standard PIM (personal information management) apps like Calendar, Tasks, Voice Recorder etc. And the UIQ/Symbian operating system has a massive community bases and third party applications, all available online. This phone is infinitely customizable.
As for the screen; it's glorious - bright, colorful and clear. The 208x320 resolution makes all the difference. For a touch screen, it's very responsive and very reliable.
As a long time Nokia user, I took a deep breath when buying this phone - not really knowing what I was in for as far as interface experience was concerned - but thankfully my fears were unfounded. The P900 is not without it's faults, took a while to get familiar with, and there's things I miss from the Nokia SmartPhone world, but nevertheless, I'd have a hard time going back. I've gotten used to SonyEricsson's UIQ, and will most likely stick with it now until something even better comes along.
I could go on for much longer (yes, really), about how great this phone is - but I'm a self confessed gadget junky über-geek after all. The P900 satisfies almost all of my poking, prodding, fiddling, button-pressing and people-impressing needs.
For a SmartPhone, you can't get much better than the P900. It's closest competitor is the XDA II/iMate/Falcon, which runs Windows Mobile (no comment), but this device is, when compared to the P900, is butt-ugly.
Okay, so for the price what makes it worth buying over other phones? Well, depends on what you're after. If standard mobile services (voice/text) are all you need, then don't get a P900 - it's a very expensive "phone". but if you're a "smart phone" enthusiast, and PDA functionality PLUS mobile services PLUS internet services are what you're looking for, it's far, far superior to Nokia's $1,000-ish 6600, and much sexier than the iMate/XDA II series.
And as it's still fairly new on the market, you'll be in early. This means you'll get much more usage out of your phone than those who'll catch on in 6mths+, before the next model is revealed (whenever that may be).
its been like a year since I posted that, I changed my mind about the p900 I'm sticking with my 6600, the only good thing about p900 is the touchscreen.
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