Sony Ericsson P1 review

Sony Ericsson P1 Specifications:-

• General:-
  Announced:-2007, May
  Status:-Available.
• Size:-
  Dimensions:-106 x 55 x 17 mm
  Weight:-124 g.
• Display:-
  Type:-TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
  Size:-240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
  - QWERTY keyboard,- Handwriting recognition.
• Ringtones:-
  Type:-Polyphonic (72 channels), MP3, AAC
  Customization:-Download.
  Vibration:-Yes.
• Memory:-
  Phonebook:-Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
  Call records:-Practically unlimited
  Card slot:-Memory Stick Micro (M2), 512 MB card included
  - 160 MB shared memory,- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM.
• Data:-
  GPRS:-Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
  HSCSD:-Yes
  EDGE:-No
  3G:-Yes, 384 kbps
  WLAN:-Wi-Fi 802.11b
  Bluetooth:-Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  Infrared port:-Yes
  USB:-Yes, v2.0.
• Features:-
  OS:-Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0
  Messaging:-SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
  Browser:-HTML (Opera), RSS reader
  Games:-Pro Golf, Qudrapop + downloadable.
  Colors:-Silver Black
  Camera:-3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video, flash; secondary VGA videocall camera
  - Java MIDP 2.0,- Video playback,- FM radio with RDS,- Media Player (MP3, AAC),- Sync ML,- Office applications,- Business card scanning, – Organiser,- Photo album,- Voice memo,- Built-in handsfree.
• Battery:-Standard battery, Li-Ion 1120 mAh
  Stand-by:-Up to 440 h
  Talk time:-Up to 10 h
• Price:- 404.99$ Approx Rs 15,000 – 18,000/-
• The Sony Ericsson P1 is an exciting new smartphone that is to undoubtedly reign in the current Sony Ericsson portfolio. Powered by Symbian OS and featuring a QWERTY keyboard, a touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution and a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, it represents the next level of the development of UIQ smartphones.
• Key features:
  Symbian 9.1 OS with UIQ 3 user interface
  QWERTY keyboard
  2.6″ 262K colors TFT touchscreen display
  3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus
  Memory Stick Micro M2 memory card slot
  UMTS, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, USB, Infrared
  Secondary camera for video calls
  Walkman-grade MP3 player and FM radio with RDS
  Jog Dial navigation
• Main disadvantages:
  Awkward keyboard
  No HSDPA support
  No EDGE support.
• Silver framed
  The P1 smartphone measures 106 x 55 x 17 mm and weighs 124 g. The central place in the body is taken by the large 2.6″ touchscreen TFT display. Above the display you can easily see the eye of the frontal VGA video call camera. Next to it, right in the dead center is the in-call speaker grill. Below it is the QWERTY keyboard that is almost a Sony Ericsson trademark – we haven’t seen a similar design in the common mobile market. Three or four characters share each key and it depends on your pressing its left or right side or pressing it in a combination with the ALT key, that determines which character gets printed. A clever design, no doubt about it, but we would see if it’s user-friendly enough to serve its purpose.
• The Sony Ericsson P1 has a nice 2.6″ touchscreen 262K color TFT display with a QVGA resolution. It deals well under direct sunlight – we have seen worse performance by high-end mobiles by other manufacturers. It must be noted that

  , when it comes to performance under bright sunlight… Let’s just say that in this respect Nokia have been doing some really great work lately – their displays are among the best ones we’ve seen – both on smartphones and feature phones.

• Telephoning
  As anyone could expect, Sony Ericsson P1 offers nice signal reception strength and we found no problems during calls. The vibration is on a medium level – the same goes for the ringing volume.
• Call management
  The Call log lists store all the information about the calls received or made. Now, when it comes to call management, besides call filtering there are also two nice things that the P1 can do for you. The first one is to send an SMS with a predefined text to the person whose call you are rejecting. The second one is to automatically store a callback event in the calendar every time you reject a call.
• The music player is the same as the one used in the Walkman-branded Sony Ericsson phones. It supports playlists with shuffle and loop options while offering the usual equalizer presets including the Walkman MegaBass one. It’s worth noting that Sony Ericsson W950 is equipped with a better player, which has many additional options, but the P1 player surely does not disappoint either. There are no graphic visualizations but you can view album art, as long as you put the cover in the album folder. One of the coolest things about the player is that you can scroll through your tracks a lot easier using the side Jog Dial.The Video Player application offers nice functionality. You can watch your videos in landscape mode at fullscreen view. The P1 has support for streaming H.264 video content so you can surely watch high-quality streaming TV on it.
  The stereo FM radio that the Sony Ericsson P1 is equipped with supports RDS and can store up to 20 radio stations. If the radio station has RDS broadcasts, it gets stored in the phone’s memory with its name. The radio is equipped with the TrackID function that allows you record several seconds of a song you are listening to, match it against Gracenote’s server database and return you the name and artist.
• The camera interface reminds a lot the interface of the latest Sony Ericsson phones and has a rather similar graphics and functions, but unfortunately is not as snappy as the one used in their feature phones. The highest resolution available is 2048 x 1536 pixels, which practically shows that the 3.2 megapixel sign on the camera is a marketing gimmick as the real resolution of the photos is 3 megapixel. There are three quality levels and the camera has a full automatic exposure control but offers nice manual overexposure control accessible from the main viewfinder interface.
• 3G comes easy
  When it comes to connecting the Sony Ericsson P1 smartphone to a computer or other devices, you have various options. You can use the integrated Infrared port, a USB cable or the Bluetooth 2.0 functionality. Connecting the smartphone to a PC via the Bluetooth worked like a charm. The Bluetooth capabilities of the device include support for the A2DP profile, which allows you to use a stereo Bluetooth headset for listening to music.
• Conclusion:-
  Summing it up, the Sony Ericsson P1 offers more than every other Sony Ericsson smartphone before. Positive changes are noticeable both in system performance and in the hardware equipment. In terms of software, the handset is identical to the previous UIQ 3 handsets and when compared to Nokia S60 smartphones it does lose only on Internet calls capabilities, which are much more developed in the latest S60 mobiles. Apart from that, the Sony Ericsson P1 could have put up a very good fight with every competing messenger device currently on the market if it were not for the inconvenient keyboard solution.
  Whether you should choose UIQ for your next smartphone is a matter of discussion and according to us the most controversial point of argument should be the touchscreen functionality. We feel that the toll it takes on navigation usability is greater than the added benefit of handwriting recognition, which is the only feature that really can justify the use of a stylus. Somehow, the smartphone platform cannot really use the stylus efficiently as much as PocketPC does and it turns into more of a deterrent since you have to use both your hands to do things you could have easily done with a simple joystick or a D-pad if one was available.