Sony Ericsson P1i Silver/Black (unlocked)

by Sony

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000UU4M68
• Item model number: P1i
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,664 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 6, 2007

Product Description

General Network UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 Announced 2007, May Status Available Size Dimensions 106 x 55 x 17 mm Weight 124 g Display Type TFT touchscreen, 256K colors Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches - QWERTY keyboard - Handwriting recognition Ringtones Type Polyphonic (72 channels), MP3, AAC Customization Download, order now Vibration Yes Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Call records Practically unlimited Card slot Memory Stick Micro (M2), 512 MB card included - 160 MB shared memory - 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps HSCSD Yes EDGE No 3G Yes, 384 kbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP Infrared port Yes USB Yes, v2.0 Features OS Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0 Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging Browser HTML (Opera), RSS reader Games Pro Golf, Qudrapop + downloadable, order now Colors Silver Black Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video, flash; secondary VGA videocall camera - Java MIDP 2.0 - Video playback - FM radio with RDS - Media Player (MP3, AAC) - Sync ML - Office applications - Business card scanning - Organiser - Photo album - Voice memo - Built-in handsfree Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1120 mAh Stand-by Up to 440 h Talk time Up to 10 h

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Phone!, December 1, 2007

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etc (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Ericsson P1i Silver/Black (unlocked) (Electronics)

I found the previous review by "tj" very inaccurate, so I decided to write my own.

I've had this phone for over a month, and I LOVE IT!!
I don't talk much on the phone, but I listen to music, watch video, take pictures, and send text msg with it a lot. I charge my phone maybe every three days. I think the battery last a very reasonable amount of time for the way I use it.

The keypad might take awhile to get used to, but I am a keyboard person and I really love the QWERTY keypad. I can type pretty fast with this keypad (I used to think sending text msg was a pain because of the ABC keypad).

I don't understand what the previous reviewer meant by "cannot download the pictures in a format that you could browse on your computer." The pictures are in standard format: .Jpeg. Of course it's readable on the computer. The video taken with this phone is in .3GP format. You can just google search K-lite mega codec and download the codec pack. Then you can play the video you take on PC. And the codec pack is free! Or if you think installing codec is too much, you can just download Quicktime. It's also free.

When you buy the phone, there is everything you need inside the box, including menu and CD software.

On the home screen, there are 15 shortcut spaces for you to put some "hard to locate" applications. For internet browser, I recommend Opera. It's way better than the one came with the phone. When I use internet, I always go to the connection (top left corner) to make sure I am connected to a wifi connection. So I never have a problem with it.

The previous reviewer mentioned that his/her phone froze a lot. I think he/she just got a bad phone. My phone has only frozen once for this one and a half month. Compare to M600i, P1i is really tons faster and responsive. Everything is just so smooth.

I love this phone because it's basically a small PDA with phone function. I can make to-do list. I can read pdf, doc, ppt, etc files. I can watch movies and videos on it. I can listen to music on it. I can use Skype. I can use messengers. For the music player, you can minimize it. So you can actually do something else on the phone while listening to music. There are pretty useful symbian and uiq softwares you can install onto the phone. The most I use is AED (advanced english dictionary). You can also download/buy game console emulator and play old games on the phone! Like GBA, NES, etc.

I also bought a bluetooth receiver for my computer. So that I can connect the phone with the computer through BT, and it is VERY convenient. I can transfer all my files and photos within seconds. I do use card reader to transfer big files like videos since BT is not a fast way to do it.

Now Sandisk makes 8gb M2 card and this phone supports it!

There is only one thing to complain: I still can't get the PC Suite to work... But I can live without it.

In a nutshell, P1i is a great phone. I don't think I will need to buy a new phone within the next three years :D

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, May 4, 2008

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Rodrigo Mejia Munguia "Rodrigo M." - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony Ericsson P1i Silver/Black (unlocked) (Electronics)

I had had all the sony ericsson P series, and this have been the most ewesome phone I ever had, it's amazing all the options you can have with this gadget.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a lovely Item, Strongly Recommended, March 6, 2008

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Felix Mejia "Félix David" (Santo Doningo, DO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony Ericsson P1i Silver/Black (unlocked) (Electronics)

Well, I find this phone is the best gadget I've ever bought. It comprises all the functions of my old Palm TX, and my W600 cell phone in just one item, but with more power, and I don't have to carry PDA and phone anymore !!! The only thing I don't like is that the screen is smaller than the TX's, but it is pretty readable. Battery life is more than 48 hours with sporadic internet access (via WiFi and cell connection) and with frequent BT sync'ing with my laptop. The SE Desktop Suite for SmartPhones works perfectly, pictures from the 3.2MP camera are very good when shot with good enough light conditions, I access GMail and my corporate email server from the built in messaging application, manage multimedia, images, video, and sound (the built in recorder is awesome).
The phone also gets the TrackID application, where you can record a clip from a song (approx 10 secs) and then the app connects to the internet and sends the clip and you get in return the name of the song, the artist and album. Pretty nice feature.

On the first weeks I had it, it was freezing like once a week, typically when using the camera at the same time as I was using the BT interface. Then I decided to take the phone to my cell phone company, and they replaced firmware. The phone has never crashed again.

Buy it with your eyes closed.