Sony Ericsson P990i

***An introduction which has nothing to do with the P990i - If you JUST want to know the specifications of the phone, then I suggest you scroll down my review!*** Back in 1997 my friends started getting pagers, and shortly afterwards mobile phones. I wasn't having any of it. "How childish!" I used to exclaim as we sat in the pub and they compared ringtones. "I'm never going to get a mobile phone. I hate phones anyway. I don't see what all the fuss is about!" I do hate phones, speaking on them in particular. I always have, it's something I've inherited from my father - luckily unlike my father I realise that when on the phone to ...  Read the complete review

UPDATED after installing and using the latest firmware for about 3 months.... So you want to know about the P990i... I had a P900 for 2.5 years before I got my hands onto the P990. Mind you, since the P990 was so delayed I advised my brother to buy an iMate JasJam. I then bought the P990i. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly: The good: Music --> Not too loud, but sounds great with the headphones and easily managed. I love the bass! I listen to the same MP3s on my IBM PC and the P990 definitely sounds better! Camera --> 2MP maybe but I compared it to most non-SE phones and the camera on the P990i is ...  Read the complete review

The P990i is the latest in the UiQ-based Symbian smartphones series from SonyEricsson. Since the P800, the "P-series" has been the state of the art for pocket-sized smartphone-come-PDA devices, with an easy to use interface, great multimedia features, internet connectivity and literally thousands of applications available for download. To start with the physical/design aspects, the P990i makes several improvements over the P910i, the most important is that the QWERTY keyboard has been moved from the back of the flip to just below the screen on the main handset. This makes it possible to use the keyboard even with the flip removed (so ...  Read the complete review

My brother, after months of searching through the different phones in the market, finally settled on the SE P990i. i was excited. for the first time i was going to use a smart phone. and it had a touch screen. great! so it was with great expectations that i held the phone in my hands, stupidly staring at it for a few minutes. it looked good. very good actually. stylish, albeit a little bulky. yes! bulky is the word. with phones beginning to get slimmer and lighter, the p990i felt surprisingly heave. i finally recovered from the initial shock of holding a smart phone, and gathered enough courage to press a few keys. "the menu," i thought, "i ...  Read the complete review

I have waited for a while to get my hands on this phone. Once I got and put it to a test drive for a few months now, I have to say it is far from the promised leader. Indeed it is the smallest 3G full featured smart phone out there but it lacks in so many ways that my over all conclusion is disappointment :( The UiQ platform is full of bugs and has way too many errors, reminds me a bit of a MS beta version... Not a lot of software out there for the UIQ 3 platform in this is a big disadvantage and the little out there is very expensive. The camera is a good one but has a very slow reaction time and is not that friendly. The orignial OS suck big time and ...  Read the complete review