P990 unveiled
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Tuesday 11th October 2005 00:44 GMT
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Sony Ericsson has updated its flagship P-series smartphone line by announcing a model with 3G, 802.11b.
The manufacturer has also beefed up the camera and display, and finally added BlackBerry Connect and VoIP
support in the bundle.
In its P800, P900 and P910 incarnations, this has become the single most popular smartphone design in the world -
thanks largely to its unobtrusiveness and ease of use as a plain ol' phone. A flip means that the data part of the deal -
the PDA and browser - can be accessed and put away very quickly.
Despite its beefier specifications, the P990 is the same weight as the P910i it supersedes, and only a millimeter larger all round.
In the latest model, the fifth generation of this design in as many years (if you count 2000's R320), Sony Ericsson has shrunk
the physical dimensions of the screen while increasing the number of pixels on offer. The P990 uses the 320x240 resolution
originally touted for UIQ. This was judged too wide for screens available back in 2001, and "Thin Quartz" was subsequently
developed; this is the version used by subsequent P-series phones. The smaller screen allows room for a QWERTY button
board (we hate to call these things keyboards) on the body of the phone itself. Last year's minor P910 revision added QWERTY
buttons to the flip - but in practice, this caused problems balancing the unit.
read the whole article at the register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10...p990_announce/
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to me this looks pretty cool as it can take the 4 gig sony memory sticks therefore it could be alot better than nokias N91
(and im a big nokia fan owning a 6600)
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suuuuwwwweeeeeeeet
Gotta watch that DRM tho! Bastards
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yeah the new nokia has that new mobile drm :SOriginally Posted by Krell
buggers
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Yah, I examined the specs on that 9300 and was pissed.
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yeah
and the nokia n91 music phone has drm too
most likely stop u sending ure songs over the built in wifi connection
that will be sweet, jukeboxes with adhoc wifi....
file sharing in towncenters and with friends
at awsome speeds
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