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Sony Ericsson P800
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The P800 is a multimedia smartphone for world-wide communications. It has a large color touch-screen, built-in camera, access to the Internet and runs on triple band GSM and GPRS networks. Based on the open Symbian 7.0 platform, this is a fully featured mobile multimedia product.
With the P800 it is possible to take digital pictures, view them on the 208 x 320 pixel color screen, store them in the photo album and send them as an e-mail to a PC or as an MMS-message to another phone. The P800 can also show a color picture of the person who is calling.
The P800 offers the possibility of downloading and viewing video clips such as a sequence from a sports event, music video or movie trailer. The P800 is also an organizer, it can handle daily operations such as calendar, e-mail, address book and to-do-lists. All these features can easily be synchronized with the most common office applications on a PC. The P800 enables to take notes and view files such as Powerpoint, Word or Excel. Using Bluetooth wireless technology, the P800 can be connected wirelessly to a Bluetooth headset, a PC, or other Bluetooth-enabled gadgets.
The P800 runs on the latest version of the open operating system, Symbian OS v7.0 and incorporates the recently announced UIQ pen-based user interface. As the P800 is open, one can download applications based on Java and C++. This opens up possibilities in several applications areas and it means that consumers will be able to update their handsets regularly with new applications and content.
The P800 is open in more ways than one. Its integrated browser can access the web (HTML and xHTML), i-Mode and WAP. Furthermore, the P800 can be used across five continents and in around 160 countries as it runs on GSM 900/1800/1900.
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 the third quarter, 2002.