Another article on the P800....this is one cool handset. If they can price it right, it is going to give Nokia some serious competition. Looking forward to seeing what Nokia has to answer this....
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Sony Ericsson touts Symbian smartphone
By: Jørgen Sundgot, Tuesday, 05.03.02 12:32 GMT
Sony Ericsson's new P800 has everything the Nokia 7650 has - and then some, including tri-band GSM/GPRS support and a larger, touch-sensitive display; see the pictures!
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications today unveiled the P800, the company's first multimedia communicator sporting tri-band GSM/GPRS and integrated Bluetooth, a 208 x 320 pixel resolution color touch-screen, and a built-in digital camera. Running Symbian OS 7.0, the P800 is the most advanced GSM-based communicator in the world to date, and bears the potential to give Nokia's 7650 some serious competition - although the smartphones don't really compete in the same class.
The P800 looks to be the same size as the Nokia 7650, but packs more of a punch
Similar to the Nokia 7650, the the P800 has a built-in digital camera for taking pictures, but where 7650 users will have to make do with a 176 x 208 pixel non touch-screen, the P800 has a 208 x 320 pixel touch-screen to allow users to control the interface - and, if they want, send pictures as an e-mail to a PC or as an MMS message to another MMS capable phone. While on the topic of pictures, the P800 also has the capability of assigning color pictures to listings in its address book that can be shown to identify who's behind an incoming call.
The P800 will offer the possibility of downloading and viewing video clips such as a sequence from a sports event, music video or movie trailer, and Sony Ericsson said that the company had enetered into a series of global partnerships with Sony Group’s content companies concerning mobile multimedia content and applications. One of the more direct consequences of this is likely to be Sony's music divisions supplying new ringtones for the polyphonic ringtone-capable P800.
Also featured in the P800 are PIM applications such as a calendar, an e-mail client, an address book and a to-do-list - all of which can be synchronized with common PIM suites on the Windows platform. Additionally, the P800 can record voice notes, and view Powerpoint, Word and Excel files, and the phone has an integrated browser, which supports HTML, xHTML, i-Mode and WAP formats.
The P800 runs the latest version of Symbian OS, v7.0, and incorporates the recently announced UIQ pen-based user interface. Sony Ericsson says the handset will be capable of running applications built with both C++ and Java, although did not delve into further details such as whether the handset natively supports J2ME.
Although the Nokia 7650 shares many of its features with the Sony Ericsson P800, the P800 does not directly compete with the 7650 since it is a more fully fledged handset and most likely aimed at advanced and corporate users. Still, given the similarities, it is likely to assume that users interested in these devices will ultimately choose based on a price point, for which neither Nokia nor Sony Ericsson has disclosed any details as of yet.
The Sony Ericsson P800 will be available during Q3, 2002, with the modified versions P802 and the P800c for the Chinese market that also handle Chinese character text input.
A hi-res picture series of the smartphone is available on the following pages. |
