Sony Ericsson P990i Premium Silver Phone (unlocked)

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Put your office in your pocket with the incredibly stylish and powerful P990i smartphone from Sony Ericsson. Featuring Symbian OS 9.1, the latest version of the Symbian UIQ software platform, support for high-speed 3G (UMTS) Internet access, video calling, secure push email, and more, the P990i takes effective communications to new heights. The P990i also has a 2 megapixel digital camera with video capture capabilities, allowing you to catch the moment and save it or send it.

Put your office in your pocket with the incredibly stylish and powerful P990i. See the P990i video.

The latest Symbian UIQ software lets you do more than ever before.

Messaging and email is breeze--support for push email systems from BlackBerry and Exchange are built in, too.

If you have UMTS service, take advantage of video calling.

Design
The P990i is a candy bar phone on steroids. The slim form factor makes the P990i easy to carry, hold and use. You can carry it comfortably in your pocket or in a bag. The touchscreen and Jog Dial navigation make using the P990i easy and intuitive, and a large, 240 x 320 screen that supports 262,000 colors is excellent for watching video, viewing images, and reading email and other messages. A full QWERTY keyboard is located below the screen. The keyboard is revealed by flipping down the P990i's dialpad, which is removable if you just want to use the touchscreen dialpad. Meanwhile, the phone's touchscreen navigation is intuitive, allowing you to tap any function icon on the P990i desktop to open an application.

The P990i features 60 MB of internal memory, and a 64MB Memory Stick PRO Duo is included. Of course, you can always augment this with larger Memory Stick Micro media. The phone also features connectivity via USB (USB mass storage is supported), a Sony Ericsson "fast-port" for high-speed data transfers and power charging, and infrared. Bluetooth is also built-in, enabling wireless communication with other wireless devices, such as headsets, laptops, and PDAs. Plus, you also get Wi-Fi capabilities allowing you to tap into a fast Internet connection whenever you're in range of an 802.11b Wi-Fi network.

Calling Features
Because the P990i is a Symbian UIQ smartphone, it features solid integration of phone, contacts, and calendar applications, making it very easy to bring your office with you wherever you roam. The phone supports polyphonic ringtones, as well as musical ringers in MP3 or AAC format. For times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear. Video calling via a UMTS high speed wireless data connection is also supported, thanks to the video camera located on the front of the device.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The P990i is a 3G/UMTS data-enabled device, so you know it's going to pack a lot of great Internet and messaging features. In addition to MMS and SMS messaging, push email is supported. You can use the device's integrated handwriting recognition to write your email and SMS messages. With a carrier data plan, you can easily connect to the Internet and browse the Web with the included Opera browser, which supports HTML, xHTML, CSS and Javascript protocols. You can also use the P990i as a modem to provide an Internet connection to your laptop or PDA via Bluetooth or USB. As mentioned, Wi-Fi connectivity means that you can tap into wireless hotspots for fast Web browsing.

When it comes to important tools, the Symbian operating system has you covered. Easily edit documents you receive as attachments to emails, or that you have stored on memory card. Or use other tools, such as the alarm clock, a stopwatch, task and notes applications, a sound recorder, a and a file manager. As mentioned, fully-functional contacts and calendar applications are included, and they can be easily synchronized with other devices and services. You can also save time by using the handy business card scanner.

Entertainment
The P990i shines as a music player, offering a great way to listen and organize your digital tunes on the go. The in-phone media player supports video and audio playback--supported audio formats include MP3 and AAC. There's even an application, Music DJ, that allows you to compose your own musical ringtones. Mega Bass sound enhancement makes your low notes really thump, while support for stereo Bluetooth headsets means you can jam out to tunes wirelessly, or just listen to your favorite radio station with the P990i's built in FM radio.

And don't forget gaming! The P990i supports Java-based games, as well as sophisticated 3D games that make the P990i great to have along when you need to turn downtime into fun time.

Vital Statistics
The Sony Ericsson P990i weighs 5.3 ounces and measures 4.4 x 2.2 x 1 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 7.5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 340 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS and 2100 MHz UMTS frequencies.

Customer Reviews:

I Love Surfing, and the P990i Takes Care of That.......2007-09-12

My wife bought this smartphone for me as a present. I love it! And the glitch? Non-existent!

However, I didn't feel that way in the beginning. I thought this phone was a waste. For one, it was slow. Additionally, it kept hanging up and crashing. Finally, this darn thing was so complicated.

After I downloaded the phone's software on my computer and did an update, it fixed everything. It got rid of the glitch, and this awesome gadget is now operating the way a laptop-slash-phone machine is supposed to be running.

Generally, here's what I think about this phone:

The Good
Wi-Fi - imagine sitting at the airport, reading your RSS feeds, checking your e-mail or your favorite Web site, and talking to your loved one -- all at the same time. And since you have wi-fi capability, your Internet is free. You can't beat that.

Picture - this phone allows you to take a picture, crop it, enhance it, save it, and send it to your friends. It's all done in the phone. And since you have a wi-fi, you can upload your newly-taken picture onto your blog and share it with the rest of the world.

Multi-media - good video capability, but I haven't tried streaming videos; you can also talk on the phone while viewing pictures or surfing, to name a few.

File Manager - it's easy to move files from your your laptop. Basically, go to the File Manager, click and drag, and you're done. That goes for all the other documents that you want to move or copy to the phone. I tried copying and pasting MP3's, videos, spreadsheets, Word documents, and PDF files, and they turned out just fine.

Synchronization - unfortunately, I haven't tried synchronizing with the Outlook.

Contacts - you have speed dials, and it's really easy to do a search for one of your contacts.

Antenna - I have Cingular, which is now AT&T, and I don't get a lot of dropped calls. I owned a smaller, regular Sony Ericsson K700i, and that thing kept getting disconnected. Not this one.

Screen - it's crisp. Also, you can change from portrait to landscape when surfing, which is nice, too.

The Bad

It's complicated - you need some time to learn how to operate this phone because the manual and the Website don't tell you everything.

Screen Visibility - you can't see what's on your screen under bright conditions. So, when you're taking a walk under the sun and you want to call somebody and you need to search that number, good luck.

Speaker - it lacks the "oomph" factor. The company certainly could have done better.

Camera - at 2 mp, this is anemic. Heck, smaller, regular phones now pack in 3 mp.

Memory - you can only install up to 4-gig memory stick. Why not 8 gigs, like the I-phone?

The Ugly

Size - Size doesn't matter, right? Wrong. In this case, bulky is bad. I usually put my phone in my pocket. After a while, it feels like I'm dragging a dead cow.

Qwerty Keyboard - it's small, and it's challenging hitting the right letters.

Crash and Hang-Ups - you'll experience them with this cell phone, so update it right away to prevent them from happening.

Phone frezes often. Avoid!.......2007-08-06

This phone is packed with features so we bought it. It turns out the phone freezes very often including on some simple operations.

If you don't mind removing the battery and restarting the phone every now and then, this phone is for you. If you want a reliable phone, avoid at all cost.

Do not waste your money on this.......2007-07-22

I am a fan of sony ericsson, I love the cellphones they make I bought the P990 and I regret it, it constantly freezes, turns off on its own, I can't call because when I try is like if I have no service and I do have all signal... So I don't recomend this Item. I believe sony should make something better, the phone looks nice and it is not so big I guess that if sony could fix all the problems it has, wich I believe might be related to software problems It could be a great phone, (I tried everything, I even upgraded the software and It's still the same) In my personal opinion this phone still has a lot of work to be done on it. Sony should have waited longer and tested it a little bit more. To finish this I DO NOT RECOMEND THIS PHONE, buy something else instead the W series work, I am using the W300 instead and I have no problems.

Get to know it and all will be well.......2007-07-16

Pros:
- quality camera
- it is a comfortable device to hold against your face and talk with, screen is slightly recessed so it does not contact your face and you do not need to continually clean it. Fundamentally it is a good phone.
- Flip can be removed if you want a candy bar-style device with QWERTY kb
- good accessories bundled including charge/sync dock

Cons:
- no standard 3.5mm headphone jack
- uses proprietary expensive, low capacity Memory Sticks :-(
- OS and UI slow but not much more so than a 400MHz Windows Mobile device
- Complicated and inconsistent menu structure (alleviated by learning hotkeys)
- slightly bulky

Give it at least a week before you decide whether to love it or hate it. I hated it at first, now appreciate it as a good phone first with extras whereas some PDA competitors are mainly extras with a mediocre phone tacked on.

Full Featured Cell-PDA-Camera-Music Player.......2007-07-11

When i purchased this phone over 6 months ago, I was leary of all the issues that the reviews and comments mentioned. But nonetheless, I purchased it to see how it was for myself. I had a P910i and it paired with my car's Bluetooth flawlessly, but I was extremely bugged that the P990i could not pair up with my Bluetooth on the BMW. But with a couple updates from Sony Ericsson it was fixed.

In the beginning there were a few bugs, like the certain softwares on the phone took longer to load (i.e. camera), and if you had a couple programs running together (i.e. music player, camera, web browser) it would have a tendency to freeze up. But the wonderful parts about this phone are that Sony Ericsson's firmware updating team has been doing a great job in keeping this phone up to date and running at it's best, it's features are second to none. (2mp camera - great pictures, Wifi, QWERTY, Sony's music player[MegaBass], PDA, web brower).

So don't worry about the other reviews that claim it has bugs, all the majors issues have been ironed out and the phone is running well (with the latest update from SC) It's a great phone, but I only wished that SC made it slight smaller so it wouldn't be so bulky in the pocket.

Firmware:
Phone: CXC162037 R9G007
Bluetooth: CXC162058 R5A01
Organizer: CXC162036 R6D23
CDA: CDA162007/1 R6D23

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