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| By Luis Camino (Luis González-Camino Calleja) |
 
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1. Flip replacement/cover: P800's keypad can be removed, putting this cover instead. Thus the overall design is more stylized and lighter. 2. Earpiece: For common conversations without handsfree or integrated speaker. 3. Bluetooth LED: It blinks in colour blue when Bluetooth is enabled. 4. Net/charge LED: It blinks in colour green with normal usage and in red when battery is low. 5. CommuniCam shortcut button: It leads you to take a photo in Flip Closed or in Flip Open mode. 6. Internet shortcut button: It always leads you to the integrated Internet Browser, although some thirdparty applications take advatage of it (p.e. when ScreenCapture is active, you can make this blue button to take a screenshot and save it as an image).. 7. Memory Stick DUO slot: Placed under the stylus, it supports Memory Stick DUO memory cards of any size (currently there are only 16mb and 64mb models and a 128mb one will be available in April). 8. Stylus: It fixes very well and is extracted by sliding it upwards. It has a special design but it's not uncomfortable. Three extra spare stylus are included in the box. 9. Battery cover: Resistant, well assembled and easy to take off. 10. Integrated speaker: For handsfree conversations, alert and call tones, multimedia (games, audio, video...) and voice notes. It has an incredible power and quality: See video. 11. External antenna connector: For car handsfree kits. 12. CommuniCam integrated camera: It has a maximum resolution of 640x480 and it is very fast. 13. Stereo handsfree connector: It's a 3mm connector, the standard for handsfree, but smaller than the traditional audio standard (Discman, MiniDisc or MP3 players). Included stereo handsfree are a great quality Sony headphones with a button for answering and rejecting calls. 14. 5 way JogDial: The effective Sony navigation system. It consists in a wheel that can be used in five different ways: rotate up, rotate down, press inwards, press backwards and press forwards. Thus there are many operations that can be done with only one hand (such as locking the keypad: press forwards, press inwards). 15. Infrared port: It's not red, like in all devices, but blue in order to harmonize the design. 16. On/off button: The phone switches on or off by pressing this button for about half a second. You can however activate the option that when you push this button once, it asks whether to switch it off or switch it to "Flight Mode", turning off the phone functions but leaving the device on so you can safely use the PDA functions in planes, hospitals and such. 17. Microphone. 18. Handstrap hole: The handstrap is fixed with a hook under the battery and several pieces that prevent it to come off.  |
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The thing about P800 It's not a PDA, it's not even a phone; it's a P800. This tells the spirit of this revolutionary... device, Sony Ericsson's flaship. Originally written by Luis Camino in Esato forums on December 11, 2002 « Money is relative. If you say 800€ is excessive then if I buy a car for 1000€ am I crazy too? No, it depends on what you buy. I am definetly not buying a mobile phone at all. I'm buying a device that will, I'd say, save my life. There is not a single day in which at least once I'm in a situation in which I think "oh God, I had to have the damned P800 to do this". The thing is that I always use the 95% of the possibilities of all devices (and software, and everything in general). I don't leave any remote spot without rumagging it. I make my own necessities and I don't see bad point on this. They're things that ease my life. For example I wouldn't be able to live without reading email on my phone anymore --or at least without having the possibility to do so-- and I see GPRS as something absolutely essential, the connection to the outside. Why do I NEED a p800 by Chungagoring (Luis Camino). I always carry with me: 1. A t65: A mobile phone that can read emails, do GPRS, have all my contacts and schedules syncronized with Outlook and certain degree of personalization. 2. A SpyCam 300XS: A ultra small ultra light low quality digital camera, enough for taking photos of anecdotes or simply situations I come across and need to take a shot to. 3. A Notebook: A worn out blue Papyrus notebook where I jot down everything, draw, put ideas I have. When I finish it, complete all the pages, I buy another notebook. Same color same brand. I was born with the right hand in "holding a pencil" position and for computers I don't use mice, I use wacom tablets. 4. And I was planning to buy some kind of portable MP3 player. Now, the p800 offers me "a mobile phone that can read emails, do gprs etc."; "a ultra small ultra light low quality digital camera etc."; and "a notebook where I jot down everything, draw etc.". and "a portable MP3 player"and each one of this features being highly improved. So it already sounds great for me for the moment. But the real point is that in addition, the p800 will let me (now i'm going to strictly tell the things I'm going to use, not everything the p800 is capable): - Write texts in an electronic device, not in paper, quickly with a bluetooth keyboard, so I don't have to write them again in the computer. - Vectorize directly logos or drawings i've drawn. - See HTML pages that I feel like seeing (I want to see or do things in the very first moment I feel like seeing or doing them), including Esato. - See all attachements in emails the same way as in the computer. - Be connected to MSN Messenger anytime anywhere I am. - Remote control my PC via Bluetooth from the bathroom (i can't waste time!) - Connect my future Tablet PC to internet via Bluetooth. I say all this 100% seriously and I am really going to do all that and more. And everything in a one single device, enough small and light, with touch screen so i can keep the right hand in "holding a pencil" position. Something that in addition, looks (I mean, "looks") great to me. For only 800€. That is the key. After saying all that, I really see it as only 800€. 800€ for a new and improved style of life. Yes please, thank you very much. To summarize, 800€ is a lot money for me. I'm only 20 and I survive doing small and bad paid websites. Of course is a lot of money. But if I had to buy a Fiat Cinquecento for 5000€ it would still be a lot of money. Okay, but is it "a-lot-of-money-for-a-car"? And people who buy an Audi S8 they spend so much more money and no one says anything (in fact I am the first one who understand this people  ). It's not about "are you nuts you're gonna pay that dough for a car??? come on, it's just a car, buy a cinquecento!".» This text was written before testing a P800. Note after using a P800 for 2 months: I have just re-read this text and I can honestly say that this device shifted my expectations and my imagination. Surprising, charming, capable of almost anything you can imagine, and above all, extremely satisfying.
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More photos Photo comparing with Ericsson T65 (1) Photo comparing with Ericsson T65 (2) Photo comparing with Ericsson T65 (3) Photo comparing with Ericsson T65 (4) Photo comparing with Ericsson T65 (5) Photo of the synchronization station led Photo of the upper leds Photo of the CommuniCam protector Screen of the shortcut personalization Photo comparing the screen on and off Traybar icons Screen of the Multimedia Message creator Screen of the MobiReader e-book reader Screen of the TipicME instant messaging program Screen of the Icebloxx game Screen of the LoPan game Screen of the Jworm game Temporary videos Video showing the power of the integrated speaker (Music: "How soon is now - T.A.T.U.") |
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