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Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed (Again)
Big Mike writes "c|net just published their review of the Sony Ericsson P800. They deem it the 'Maserati of smart phones'. Built- in camera, speakerphone, 16MB Memory Stick Duo, Bluetooth and IR connectivity, wireless e-mail, MP3 audio and MPEG-4 video capable, and more. Sounds good to me..." Of course, it looks pretty slick too. Infosync looked at this phone last month, and more praise is heaped on this time around too.
Not only do you get to own a seriously sexy and functional "phone", you also get to be the envy of both jock and nerd. Oh, and it also runs one of the coolest browsers out there, Opera!!
...and to be quite honest, it looks UGLEEE!
Apparently, a 14 year old girl recently asked the Ericsson board why their phones didn't look as cool as Nokia's. I've asked myself that question a lot of times.
Being Swedish, I'd love to have an Ericsson. They've got plenty of features that I want in a phone. Unfortunately, the only ones that have all the features I'm looking for are the ones that are ugly as heck. And they wonder why they're not selling as well as Nokia.
In the end, I actually went with the German alternative. My Siemens S55 does all I want it to do. Bluetooth and IR connectivity, which allows me to connect my laptop to the net via GPRS. It's got neat features such as a color screen and MIDI ringtones. It's designed to make PHONECALLS on (why, imagine that!) and, it actually looks pretty darn good too.
And the best part is, it has no stinking camera! =D
The p800 is pretty expensive here in the UK. I had a look the other week and it was about £280. I am with Orange and despite spending about $45/£30 a month on my phone they won't give me any discount on it at all. The phone companies need to wise up and discount these new handsets, otherwise people like me are going to stick to normal phone calls and texts and the phone companies won't be able to make any money from picture messages or data calls and those hugely expensive 3G licenses will have gone to waste!
In my opinion there are just as cool and wonderful phones offered by Ericsson's rivals Nokia, Siemens and Motorola (at least here in Europe). Yet Slashdot keeps posting this adulation crap about a single phone from Ericsson. Nokia, for example, released something like 12 new phones a week or two ago. Where's the story about those?
At least make a section for the P800 so I can block it from the front page.
It is a lovely phone, given the large screen and wealth of software you can get for it already, but you just can't play games with a stylus. It can run MAME, great, but try as I might I just can't play frogger, pac-man, etc with a pencil. May well go back to my 7650...
One can argue about whether the M$ or the Symbian solution is better, and certainly their feature sets are not dissimilar, but they're very clearly different platforms. They can't run the same software, and have important technical differences.
For my taste, the basic design strategy makes Symbian's platform superior. It was designed from the start (as Psion's EPOC) to run on handheld devices, taking into account their strengths and weaknesses. Windows CE has been designed from the start to be as close as possible to Windows in its appearance and functions. I gather Windows CE has got a lot better in recent releases but that still seems to me a flawed strategy.
I agree that the P800 looks like a clunker, but I really have no idea why you're saying the T68 series sucks.