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Unlocked Cell Phones - Customer reviews - Sony Ericsson P1i Unlocked Cell Phone with 3.2 MP Camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, MP3/Video Player, Memory Stick Micro Slot--International Version with No Warranty (Silver Black) |
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Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson Mobile
List Price: $599.99
Our Price: $365.99
You Save: $234 (39%)
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Used Price: $349.96
Average Customer Rating:
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Name: etc
Location: CA, USA
Date: 2007-12-01
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Great Phone!
Comment: 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).
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.
Some people mentioned that their phone froze a lot. I think they 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
Name: nagappa
Location: Houston, TX United States
Date: 2008-04-01
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Finally a cool, intuitive and pocketable QWERTY/Smartphone that Sony Clie owners will appreciate!
Comment: The Sony Ericsson P1i uses the Symbian UIQ 3 operating system, which is the next best thing to Palm OS in terms of intuitive capabilities. Its user interface is the best I've seen among smartphones.
Combine that with an excellent TFT touchscreen, a jog dial, an amazing rocker-style QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2MP camera, an MP3 player, wi-fi, Blackberry capability, excellent desktop synchronization software and you've got perhaps the best "all in one" device.
The beauty of it is that this phone is small enough fit in your shirt pocket without showing a bulge, while retaining a relatively large 240x320 pixel screen that rivals larger, clunkier smartphones. It simply blows away the Nokia E61 that I was using previously.
Former Sony Clie users will appreciate the jog dial which allows you to quickly scroll through or select entries and the return button that lets you exit or move back a level.
My reservations about the rocker-style keyboard vanished after a couple of days of use. I am actually able to type faster than I ever could with the clunky Nokia E61. I can do most of the operations with one hand, like make calls, send emails, SMS text-message or edit calendar or contact entries, without ever having to use the stylus.
The Sony Ericsson Desktop synchronization software works seemlessly with Microsoft Outlook. The synchronization process and logic is very similar to the "Hot Sync" application used in Palm OS or Clie devices.
On the technical side, this is a GSM/GPRS tri-band world phone. It also has built in wi-fi, infrared and bluetooth. It comes with the UMTS 2100 version of 3G which is commonly used in Europe and Asia, but not here in North America where we use the HSDPA 3G standard. It also lacks EDGE capability. Thankfully, the speed of GPRS is good enough for basic browsing and sending emails. In my view, 3G would be most useful when using this phone as a modem for your laptop.
The P1i's signal reception is excellent, and I've had very few dropped calls. Its voice quality is slightly shy of the Nokia E61 I had previosuly, but not enough to cause concern.
I have not tried many of the multi-media features of this phone. However, the picture quality of the built-in camera is quite good, although I'd say its sharpness is not good enough to justify its 3.1MP capability. The built-in flash provides just enough light at very close range.
Sony Ericsson was nice enough to provide a couple of extras with this phone, a 1GB mini-SD card and a pair of good quality stereo earphones.
Depending on which version of firmware you have on the phone, the P1i comes with one of two "push" email software installed: Blackberry or Exchange Activesync. The Sony Ericsson support website allows you to download either application for free if you need to.
You can also use third-party applications. Both GMail mobile (free from Gmail website) and ProfiMail (from Handango) work well with the P1i. ProfiMail allows you to receive email in a "quasi-push" way by allowing you to set intervals to download email headers. Personally, I prefer ProfiMail for its excellent user interface and flexibility.
In conclusion, I highly recommend the P1i for both casual and business users.
FIRMWARE:
A lot of the unlocked P1i phones being sold in USA and Canada come with either a Singapore or Hong Kong version of the firmware. (Mine came with the Singapore version). This typically restricts language selection to UK English or Chinese.
I changed the firmware on my P1i to the "Generic World 1" (GW1), which is not as restrictive as the Singapore version of the firmware.
(Please click on the "Comments" associated with this review to see my instructions on how to upgrade the firmware).
Name: Alexis Rodriguez Salvo
Location: Santiago de Chile
Date: 2008-02-08
Customer Rating: -
Summary: The phone I always wanted
Comment: Excellent product. Good quality. Fast operating system. Practical ways to interact with it. Superb longlasting battery. Excellent audio quality.
It is an improvement to precedent models like M600i.
I recommend this product.
Name: Patricio E. Biondi
Location: Buenos Aires. Argentina
Date: 2008-06-13
Customer Rating: -
Summary: excelent combination of gadgets
Comment: I choose this phone because I was tired carrying an mp3 player, a palm TX and a cellphone. I found this great phone very useful and lighter (despite its 130 grs). I have to say that navigation over menu's it is not as fast as iPhone but if you disable some "fancy" features you can speed menu's.
I felt confortable with its keyboard although I get caught the first time I used it. Camera's autofocus is little bit slow but picture and video quality are very good from my point of view. I also found very interesting the possibility of use Blackberry service with it. Unfortunatelly download emails using wifi connection was pretty disapoiting. I still have not foung the best configuration. I think this phone is a good choice when you turn from stylus' type hanheld to a smart phone. hope you find this review usefull.
Name: Luis A. Monge Mata
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2008-07-21
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Perfect
Comment: This cell phone was a gift from a friend in Costa Rica, and he says works perfect; any problem with all the features, and he hasn`t any problem with the activation.
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