The New Sony-Ericsson P800

The P800 is the 21st Century communications device we've all been waiting for - not just another 'phone with bolt-on extras'. With its large color screen and sleek lines, it's designed to impress. The P800 is the most advanced mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It has an integrated digital camera, a colour screen and a wide range of imaging features. Take a picture, compose a colourful Multimedia Message, (MMS), and send it instantly, to an MMS capable devices or to an e-mail address. Add photos to your contacts to see who's calling, and design your own wallpapers and screensavers. The P800 acts like a mobile and thinks like a PDA. You can store up to 1000 contacts, organize meetings and tasks in the calendar and make notes (written or voiced) in the notepad. The P800 also handles e-mail with attachments, and has four viewers for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acrobat documents – plus more than 20 viewers for other document formats on CD. Contacts, calendar, notes and e-mail can all be synchronized with Outlook and Lotus Notes on your PC via Bluetooth™ or cable. The Symbian operating system (OS v7.0) and Java support lets you store new applications and games to customize the P800 to fit your needs. The P800 also supports GPRS, High Speed Data and WAP 2.0 with one button access to the mobile Internet.This tri-band phone (GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz) will have access to around 160 networks across five continents with the capability to access the Internet through available GPRS connections.
The P800 will be released during the third quarter of 2002 -sometime after the first few Sony Ericsson products are to be released into the market.

• Triple band GSM 900/1800/1900
• Performance talk time up to 13 hrs
• Standby talk time up to 400 hrs
• Camera image size up to 640 x 480 pixels
• Color depth 16 million colors (24 bit)
• Operating system Symbian OS 7.0
• Memory 16 + 16 MB; flash 12 MB available for images, contacts etc.; Expandable memory: Memory Stick DUO
• Java support J2ME CLDC/MIDP and PersonalJava
• Wap - WAP 2.0, incl HTML, XML and cHTML
• Phone dimensions - 117 x 59 x 27 mm
• Screen size: Flip closed: 208 x 144 pixels, (40 x 28 mm);flip open: 208 x 320 pixels, (40 x 61 mm)
• Weight: - 5.28 oz without flip; 5.64 oz with flip



• Tri-band phone (GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz) with GPRS connectivity
• Pen-based smartphone with colour screen and built-in digital camera
• MMS compatibility
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Open operating system (Symbian OS v7.)
• Able to run downloaded Java and C++ applications
• Built-in PDA-like software with viewers for common office applications
• Integrated browser compatible with HTML/xHTML, i-Mode, WAP


The P800 has a dedicated CommuniCam button. Click once to switch on the viewfinder, click again to take pictures with the built-in camera. Capture moments as they happen, then combine photos with text, pictures, animations, speech and audio, any way you choose.Snap, send and share! Enrich your communications with images - for light-hearted fun or serious business use.

• Send a multimedia location report back to the office via MMS or email, or to a friend's phone via Bluetooth.
• Upload your favorite images to the Sony Style Imaging online album to share with friends
• Store up to 200 images in the Photo Album for impromptu shows



Photo album & Picture Phonebook
Built in editing tools mean you can control image size and quality, adjust brightness and contrast and modify the white balance of your images, for a perfect result.

Images stored in the P800's photo album are available for other applications to use: snap a picture of your friend and save it in your Picture Phonebook - next time they call, you'll see their smiling face.

Pictures can be easily sent as a Multimedia Message. Simply select a picture, add a message and send just like an SMS, or build a slide show with several images and your favorite sound clips. A multimedia message can be sent to another MMS-enabled handset, an E-Mail address or a non-MMS enabled handset.

Connectivity
The P800 features an integrated browser capable of browsing WAP and Web content, as well as the ability to connect wirelessly to local devices using infra-red or Bluetooth™, meaning that you and your P800 are never out of touch with the rest of the world. Bluetooth™ is a key technology for the P800, providing instant, wireless connections that work without line of sight:

• Share your data with other devices within range of your P800
• Let other devices use your P800 as a modem to connect to the internet
• Special radio-off mode, so you can still use your P800 PIM functions on a plane

The P800 is fully equipped to deal with today's information environment, capable of securely browsing content using:WAP,WWW,cHTML,Backup media .
Wherever you want to go, whatever information you want to get, and however you want to get there, the P800 delivers.

Memory Stick DUO
The P800 comes with a 16MB Memory Stick® DUO which more than doubles the storage capacity and allows you to transfer files from your phone to your PC and vice versa. Use it to:

• Backup media
• Transfer between PC and P800 or between P800 and another P800
• Distribute software

The P800 has all the professional essentials too: like large color touchscreen with stylus input, to-do notes and synchronizable appointments, tasks and contacts, to name just a few. And with GPRS, WAP, an instant Internet access button, e-mail and triple-band GSM, you're always connected and in touch - wherever you may wander.

Entertainment
Just in case the camera isn't entertainment enough, the P800 comes fully equipped with games, movie clip viewer and enough customizable features to keep you happy for weeks.

Games
• Embedded Men in Black and Stuntcar Extreme games
• Hey, grandmaster! Play chess with your friends via SMS
• More games supplied on the P800 CD-ROM

As soon as it's in your hands, the P800 becomes your phone to customize to your heart's content. The Symbian Operating System and a generous 12 MB* of memory mean you can create or download applications to make your P800 unique. It's all about openness. Symbian OS 7.0 is at the heart of the P800's power and openness

• Symbian OS 7.0 is at the heart of the P800's power and openness
• Java compatibility lets you install games and utility programs that fit your needs
• Software developers' kits (Java and C++) are available to increase the number of P800 applications

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For Business
Software included in the P800 makes it possible to log in to secure networks via single-use password generation. Corporate applications may be deployed on the P800, extending information access to the smartphone:

• The Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) gives handheld devices access to Windows, UNIX and Java applications using low bandwidth links
• Lotus® Mobile NotesTM will be available for the P800
• Oracle and Sybase database and e-commerce solutions in development IBM device management solutions in development

For pleasure
The P800 supports Java, and is ready to run many applications written for handheld computers and mobile phones, like games, instant messaging and chat.
Third party applications may make use of the communications, display and storage facilities of the P800: stand by for faster, more exciting games! Applications are easily downloaded directly to the P800 using the browser, or may be installed from a connected PC.



The official P800 release is expected to be in November. The phone is still a prototype and running unstable Beta software with many crashes when browsing the Internet or playing games. It fits perfectly in the pocket, it is easy to use, looks great and isn't that large after all. SonyEricsson will deliver a product, which cannot be competed with at the moment.
The phone has everything you want and will cost around 850 Euro's.($850)
The touch screen light is remarkable and is perfectly bright under all circumstances. You will be able to browse and feel the Internet like you are on a regular PC. Some people don't like the idea that is too big and how you got to carry the camera around. On the phone side there is a separate Cam-Button, so that you can do photos easily with one hand. This comes also useful when you try to take a pic of yourself. You could look into the focus and control the touch screen at one time.
You can also watch a TV program with a memory stick.