The Sony Ericsson P series smart phones have been around for a few years now, and over their various generations have gone from being a fairly bulky PDA alternative with the early models P900 and P910 through to being an extremely capable smart phone that leads the market with the latest generation P990i model.
Although slightly larger than many competing smart phones, the Sony Ericsson P990i is well worth considering for business use thanks to its comprehensive range of features, which include a complete QWERTY keyboard hidden under the regular dialling keypad, which flips down to reveal it.
The phone has a touch screen, and can be controlled with a stylus in order to enter data or navigate through the menu systems, and it runs on the popular Symbian operating system, meaning that anyone who is used to smart phones should have no trouble in adapting to the ownership of a Sony Ericsson P990i from their previous model. One of the biggest upgrades on the latest model is the fact that it can now offer a 400 hour standby time and more than 9 hours of talk time when fully charged.
As you would expect from the flagship model in the range, the P990i has been released with almost every conceivable gadget built in, including a 2 mega pixel camera, a fully featured MP3 and media player, and is able to connect to a wireless network as well as a standard mobile phone network as well.
With its large screen and keyboard, surfing the internet is a straightforward matter, and, if you have wifi access where you are, the download speeds are exceptionally fast. Most prominent document types are supported on the phone, including Microsoft office files such as Word and Excel, and you can open and read PDF files too.
The P990i is fully capable of being your digital assistant, and users can keep in touch in practically any location with its mix of Quad band and 3G networks that support email, SMS, MMS, Video Calling, and instant messaging through the wifi connection to the Internet.
Although most of the functionality of this particular model is geared towards the heaviest business users, the P990i is still worth considering for other purposes, and many people who make the switch to this kind of top end phone soon discover that it offers them everything that they need to stay in touch, and acts as a digital handbag rather than just being a simple phone.