Finally got my Sony Ericsson P990i. I have been waiting a long time for it and I am in general happy with it.

I am real power user. I have tried almost all features, and many of them I will continue to use regularly. I have a 1GB card for music and it works pretty good as a mp3 player. I have a 4G memory stick duo on order.

What is really great is that it is a completely integrated device that it is pretty smart. If you are listening to music and you recieve a phone call you can smoothly answer the phone and stop the music. I connected the P990i to my car stereo with an old fashioned cassette adaptor. It is a great hands-free device.

I have also been using the Opera with wifi and it works great on PDA sites. And the rss reader also works great.

There is currently no VOIP features and according to S-E sources there will not be any for a year or so. This is not for technical reasons, they need to figure out their and Ericssons business models with regards to VOIP. Third party VOIP applications could become available.

I nice feature is the built-in flash. It is pretty effective. 90% of all camera phone pictures are horrible because they are taken with insufficient light.

I am for some reason looking forward to the next version in the P-series or perhaps a new series. I would not mind for it to be wider in order to fit a better keyboard and bigger screen. It is a bit boring that almost all pda phones currently use the same size 320×240. I would also like to see a built-in GPS. When the successor arrives it should have better video playback capabilities. The P990i supports a few mp4 versions and is pretty useless as a video playback device.

One really incredibly stupid thing Sony Ericsson is doing again, is to set the limit of the memory sticks capacity too low. This time it is 4GB, it is apparently a limitation in the P990i and not the memory stick architecture.

With the rapid development of flash technology it would be possible to cram 16GB on a memory stick duo in 18 months. My P900i had a 128MB limit which was maybe even more stupid. Compact flash and SD are older technologies and have no such limitations. It has been mentioned that the P990i is the last phone with memory stick duo. The successor, memory stick micro, has a upper limit of 32GB.

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