Also you can listen to a radio but it requires to plug in
your headset (it serves as an antenna) and now it comes with RDS support which
is a cool feature.
Being a business oriented device P990 has Quickoffice group
which is an editor for Word (Quickword), Excel (Quicksheet), and PowerPoint (QuickPoint) documents. It also comes with support
for PDF documents in form of PFF+ application.
Bussines oriented device doesn’t mean in this case that game
support is absent in this device. The 2D/3D graphics accelerator (PowerVR from
ARM and Imagination Technologies) complies with OpenGL ES 1.0 APIs. Running at
80 MHz, it delivers a performance of 150 Megapixels per second and 1.25 million
polygons per second. A demo game that comes preinstalled Vijay Singh Pro Golf
2005 is showing what the P990 is capable to do in 3D.
In our tests device managed to stay 2,5 days on single charge
using about 30 min of talk, 30 min of SMS writing, 20 min of WLAN and taking
few pictures with it. It could probably do more if we had more powerful battery
than standard BST-33 which has only 950 mAh and that is an absolute minimum for
such feature rich device. Voice quality is excellent; the speaker has enough
power to clearly hear conversation even in the loudest environments. Also the
external loudspeaker is capable of producing some convincing loud tones so you
will be able to hear it in loud environment as well. The only drawback is the
lack of bass frequencies in the loudspeaker. Vibration is on the average.
After new firmware R5A17 have been introduced there is an
option to switch the transitions off and it that case menu speed improves dramatically,
and the phone seems now faster then before. It scrolls much faster through
contacts, e-mails, SMS. Also, it seems
that the phone handles RAM better then before and that you can run several
applications at once. Some users reported that applications are using less
memory then they used to do before. Java applets are loading much faster now as
well.
It looks that it took almost nine months for Sony Ericsson to
produce good firmware for this phone and I think they have restored the faith
in this specific device.
From this point of view we think that Sony Ericsson P990 is
a capable smarthpone. It does brilliant job as phone and the other stuff like
push e-mail and connectivity.
Conclusion
The range of functions on this phone is truly
staggering, and in a form factor that is really capable. We would only like to
see GPS sensor on board in future, maybe a camera with more megapixels and
larger battery, and then this device would be the ultimate smartphone. The new firmware really fixed a lot of issues and now it looks for a new phone. It is good for a business people and it has Wi-Fi.
I guess it is almost time for a new P series from Sony Ericsson and there is some space for improvement. P990 is the most equipped model from Sony Ericsson to date and its Camera, or MP3 player are doing a great job. It is a good business phone with some glitches finally fixed.
Specifications:
| Size |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Available colours |  Premium Silver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Screen |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory |
*Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Networks |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
