![]() Motorola's MPx200 smart phone, the P900 has a separate lightweight charger that you can take on the road. Also included in the package are a black nylon carrying case, a 32MB Memory Stick Duo card, and an adapter.The Sony Ericsson P900 has all the standard features, including picture caller ID (where available), conference calling, voicemail, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a phone book (you can store names and numbers on the SIM and Memory Stick Duo cards), a calendar, a calculator, a to-do list, and wireless Web access for WAP and XHTML sites. You also get voice-activated dialing and commands, 24 polyphonic ring tones, a built-in speakerphone, and a voice recorder.
![]() Sanyo's SCP-5300, but we didn't miss it. You can take pictures in three different resolutions (640x480, 320x240, and 160x120) with the 300,000-pixel camera and store as many photos as your Memory Stick Duo can handle. What's more, moving files between the 16MB of free onboard storage and the included 32MB Memory Stick was painless, and the P900 can accept up to 128MB of total storage. Once you capture images, you can save them as wallpaper or screensavers or associate them with a contact in your phone book. Like many of these devices, the P900 produces images that are mediocre at best and not suitable for printing.
![]() Performance section for details). Finally, this mobile sends pictures to other MMS-enabled phones on your network, and it does SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 e-mail. For working on the go, the bundled Quickoffice application allows you to view and edit Word and Excel files sent through your e-mail.
You can send and receive corporate mail on the P900, but you'll probably need to contact your IT department to set it up correctly. The P900 handles e-mail via a redirector, so messages are synced when you either connect the Sony Ericsson with the desktop or launch the Remote Sync application from the phone. Unlike the Treo devices, the P900 doesn't have a built-in keyboard, so you'll need to use either the virtual model or the Jotter (Graffiti-like) handwriting program, both of which are less than ideal.
As advertised, the P900 plays MP3s, but it doesn't handle the task too elegantly. You transfer files to the device by right-clicking the phone icon on the desktop, choosing Explore from the pop-up menu, and dragging MP3s to the mobile's memory. In our tests, file transfers over USB were slow, at 0.02MB per second; if you have a dedicated Memory Stick reader, you can circumvent this task. Once the MP3s are loaded on the device, they're easy to find in the menu, and they sound loud and clean.Overall, this world phone (GSM 900/1800/1900) performed well. We tested it in the San Francisco Bay Area using AT&T Wireless service and found call quality to be exceptionally good. Callers said they couldn't tell we were ringing from a cell phone. On our end, they sounded loud and clear. Additionally, the speakerphone quality was quite impressive, and callers didn't even know we were using this feature.
![]() Nokia 3620, we were also able to send and receive images via Bluetooth.
The mobile didn't fare as well in battery-life testing. Though talk time was impressive at 10 hours, 40 minutes in our tests, it was shorter than Sony Ericsson's claims of up to 16 hours. We managed close to 6.5 days of standby time. While it's not nearly as much as the company's rating of 20 days, it's still decent. Hide Review
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1 star: 6 My Rating 0 stars click stars to rate product Most Helpful User Review 4.5 stars 3 of 3 users found this review helpful Pros long battery life, up to 20 days on stand-by, pretty decent mp3 file transfers,very loud volume with the headphones it comes with, can also transfer mp4 files. Cons it can only take up to a 128mb portable memory card, mp4 files can't be viewed very well. Summary Overall, it is a very good phone, when someone calls you, you can view their image. The stylus can get lost easily if you aren't careful with it. Recommend buying it. Summary: Overall, it is a very good phone, when someone calls you, you can view their image. The stylus can get lost easily if you aren't careful with it. Recommend buying it. Most Recent User Reviews (Showing 2 of 104 reviews) Thanks for your submission!
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