Customer Reviews

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

First the not perfect: There is a steep learning, curve ... but with definite rewards for the faithful. The phone is a tad bulky too.

Then the myriad SmartPhone features: Camera (Not great, but usable), MP3 player, which is excellent. Speaker phone, Outlook sync (even tasks & notes) is superb. Jotter works VERY well (similar to Grafitti v2). Voice memos, solid internet & email/messaging. View MS/Office word files. Runs the Symbian 7.1 OS with the UIQ user interface (similar to Nokia's Series 60) with lots of 3rd party software available & more coming monthly.

Bottom Line: The PDA features are well implemented, I'm not missing my Palm at all! In fact, just sold it! The phone features are great too. This is not a PDA with poor phone support. This is an excellent GSM phone and my AT&T service has been solid so far (30 days).

I have this phone using the T-mobile service. The coverage is very good. I never had a dropped call. There are WAY too much features on this phone than all the NEWER pda phones out there. I upgraded my memory stick DUO from 16 mb to 128 mb. I can listen to over 3 hours of mp3 music while browsing the web site with this thing with the built in speakerphone. One of the favorite things about this phone is that it has voice command feature. You can store all your friend's names and just say his/her name and it connects you. Also you can take a picture of your friend with the comminicam and use it in the contacts to see who is calling you. You can also program a "magic word". after saying the magic word, you say your friend's name and it connects you. Hands free. This thing also has blue tooth, so you can use wireless earphones. The touch screen feature is cool. open it up, use the provided probe to open files and write letters. Use the voice memo to create your own ring tones. My next phone would be a p900.

It involves more money but it is worth the price. The improvements are excellent making it the best phone, PDA, MP3, mpg4 movies and internet browser combined.

This phone was the first to have PDA functions, combined with tri-band service bundled with bluetooth. In short, it was everything I was looking for in one relatively small package.

It does everything that's advertised but with such problems.

First, the power issue. When using any functions, there is no easy way to turn them off. If you don't turn them off (they run in background) you lose power. That power can be gone in 2 hours for no discernable reason. By the way, everytime you synch with Outlook, it opens about 4 of those applications and juice disappears in hurry.

Second, although several phone companies offer to use the P800 (I use Cingular), absolutely none will support it in any way possible. They will (for a cost) provide a sim card which will make the phone work, but the cost for any additional services add up very quickly. I am on Cingular's $69 for an ungodly amount of minutes but I have yet (in a year and a half) to see a bill for less than $140. I've asked for explanations and what I've gotten is that the phone is doing something, they can't tell what and they do not support the phone. They suggested I call Sony Ericsson who doesn't want to support the phone in the US.

Next are the support issues from SE. I paid over $700 for the phone. Then the screen broke (for no apparent reason) and I had to fight with SE over the warranty. They said I smashed the screen. Finally, I paid another $200 to replace the phone. I thought I was ok, but then several files on the phone got corrupted and I called for help. They recommended that I wipe the flash memory and reformat the phone. It wiped out all my applications, some of which I no longer have unlock codes.

Last is the bluetooth. This does work well and almost makes the phone worthwhile but you do have to keep getting on the phone and re-mating the bluetooth device with the phone. It doesn't seem to hold the connection properly.

In short, it does do it all, more or less but requires patience, focus and more time to setup and maintain than I'm willing to give. I'd advise you to pass, but chances are, if you're looking here, you're already planning to buy. I'd look on if I were you, both past this phone (the P900 is only a superficial improvement; mostly cosmetic) and Sony Ericsson.

Thee Sony Ericsson P-800 is an excellent convergence of technology and features. The only negative aspect is that the Camera is not too hot.

The ease of use and the intuitive lay out are very good. Some one in Sony-Ericsson has taken the trouble to actually make a USER friendly phone.

Between the phone, the ability to Synch (notes, email, contacts, calendar etc), the blue tooth features (I got the head set), the feature where it can act as a modem for your laptop (on GPRS), where it can download e-mails directly .....oh well ..... it is a good phone.

Definitely recommend buying to all who are interested in such features.

This is a great phone and PDA, until.... fails!, I enjoyed the P800 for 20 days, then, the touch screen stop working, on this device means all!, at the end only the on/off button works, The vendor saids that they can't apply the warranty becouse they don't have phones, unless I acepted a motorola with price $100 lower! and i would lose the diference. and the service center that I have to pay if I want that they fix It! (Is still under warranty!!) anyway was impresive for the time it works, my recomendation, Check if the company were you purchase the phone is honest and have the capacity to cover the warranty. It's a great phone, shiny it don't last.. (oh and the online support never giveme a solution!)

This Phone rocks!
It is a very good phone/PDA. Since it is Symbian OS, so no more "Microsoft Blue Death Screens". Being open source, and having the capability to program in C, and JAVA, this phone opens a new portal to mobile programming.

Advantages:
I'll leave that to any site that tries to sell this product.

Disadvantages:
1.Memory Stick Duo is relatively expensive, and small (128MB max)
2. Screen is only 4096 colours, so it may be a bit lousy when shooting pics. But with digital effects you can always adjust the picture to what you want.
3. Phone can't play MP3 ringtones. It only goes on WAV (Very large size), MIDI, OGG..and may be other formats but MP3 ringtones aren't supported.
4. MIDI table is kinda limited. If you have a rock midi it won't sound that nice on P800. But the MIDI table can always be changed with a better one, but on the expense of may be some delay in playing it.

make sure you steer clear of cleaning the screen too much. the screen is too sensitive to cleaning. i had 2 yes 2 screens stop working because of light cleaning. they should have made it more apt to cleaning because the screen gets smudge etc. the treo 600 gets smudge but cleaning it is much easier and i havent had it die on me...anyway its a cool phone but becareful when cleaning only use a slightly and i mean very slightly wet cloth

I was an intensive palm user (Vx), and I never thought about upgrading until a phone+pda which really worked was done. I left my old Vx mate at home when they gave me a p800 at work.

Pros:
-it really gets the job done; even for a palm maniac the graffiti is a good aplication and the screen is smaller but it's all right
-if you have 1500 contacts with home, cell, work phone as I have, its ability to dial from any contact it is a huge advantage and time-saving feature! the same for knowing who's calling

Cons:
-battery
-coverage: it works definitlely worse than a high range cell phone, sometimes loses signal...
-in general, phone features

My opinion: the device is a much worse phone than I expected and a much better pda than I expected. If you are a user looking for multimedia, entertaiment features in a phone, the pros are not worth the cons: you have a bad phone that still doesn't meet the highest standards for games, music that you are expecting... If you want to take one device out of your jacket and use your new 2-in-1 it as a organicing advanced tool, it really gets the job done, even tought as a phone is not great. That's my case, so I will keep my p800 for a long time.

I have been using this phone for almost a year and if ind it and excellent gadget.

SE P800 is, however, a challenge sometimes.
GUI could be improved to give bigger buttons when using touchscreen with fingers. Power saving mode could be improved.

I used it all over US, Germany and Russia. Works well. US mobile companies are way behind on SE pda phone product line. i don't know why. perhaps there's not a high enough demand in their estimations.

Sony are not making them any longer. It is time to upgrade to P910i.