***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

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

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

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 had a SE P910i which would still be the perfect phone if it had 3g, WiFi, a faster processor and could take larger capacity memory cards. I thought my P990i would be such a phone but sadly, it just crashes when you ask it to do more than make a phone call, send a text, wake you up ... yet it will do some taxing jobs with no problem. It will make video phone calls easily and well but surfing the internet either with the built in browser or Opera Mini just results in crashes which makes all the communications options pointless. It has WiFi, bluetooth, 3G, infrared etc. and, as yet, I still can't bring myself to sell this phone on so it must have some charm I ...  Read the complete review