Unlocked Cell Phones - Customer reviews - Sony Ericsson P990i Unlocked Cell Phone with 2 MP Camera, 3G, MP3/Video Player, Memory Stick Pro Duo Slot--International Version with No Warranty (Premium Silver) |
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Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson Mobile
List Price: $449.99
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Name: P. Sabourenkov
Location: Australia
Date: 2006-09-28
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Not even a public beta
Comment: Bought this phone yesterday (not from Amazon).
Amazing little device with a lot of innovative features. For example, the phone notifies the user of failure to connect to a WiFi network by crashing and rebooting. A dialog box pops up after the reboot to tell me that the phone restarted to "improve performance." Same thing happened when I tried to scan in a friend's business card, tried to fetch my email, take a photo, sync by bluetooth... the list continues. In fact, in just one day the phone restarted itself to 'improve performance' so many times, the performance must be getting really great by now.
Maybe a firmware update will help? Downloaded the Sony Ericsson Update Service (2.6.4.9). Ran it on my XP box at work - once installed, it played a Sony Ericsson eyecatch animation, then crashed with a 'java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException', but at least it kept planing the eyecatch over and over. Ahhhh. Tried it on my XP box at home - this time the installer came up with an empty window which stayed empty. No luck there. Finally tried it on an old Windows 200 laptop - this time it worked, recognised the phone, downloaded about 150M of something from the internet, pretended to flash the phone with new firmware. The result - same firmware, and more 'improving performance' messages.
The bottom line is - it is a very promising device. The hardware is good, the software is not even a public beta quality - proof of concept prototype at best. Not ready for public consumption in any shape or form. This seems to be a trend among smartphone manufacturers - release the product once the hardware is finished, promise to finish the software in new firmware releases, stop releasing firmware updates as a superseding model is in the works - leaving the consumer with a kind of working device. Sort of. Sometimes.
Name: Jacky Terrasson
Location: NYC, United States
Date: 2006-09-22
Customer Rating: -
Summary: BUGS, BUGS, BUGS
Comment: I'm a gadget addict, had to have this phone because , on the paper, it's the best phone/pda/younameit that was ever made. Now the TRUTH: This device is full of bugs, it's ssssssslllloooww, it freezes, it's bad news. I had to return mine ( did not buy from amazon). Do your own research and see what people say.
Shame on S.E. for releasing this. Like many, I was waiting for over a year for the P990. As I said , love gadgets.
JT
Name: T. Beierle
Location:
Date: 2007-01-30
Customer Rating: -
Summary: That business phone keeps you busy!
Comment: When I first heard about the P990i and the specifications, I was really impressed. After I received it, this became less and less. So many bugs and crashes with a cell phone! Incredible! So I waited for the long promised firmware update, everything should be ok then, at least they promised. But this phone is still of minor use. Here are some major reasons why:
1. No transflective display, barley to use outdoors in a sunny state like CA!
2. Far away from the promised 14 day standby (6 days in best case)!
3. Restarts quite often when using it with 3rd party applications!
4. Also built in applications do crash sometimes!
5. No icon "appointments today"!
6. A backup saves only a part of the settings and no third part applications/settings (and even worse: all recorded voice commands are lost)!
7. Crashes sometimes during a phone call!
8. User buttons can only be defined with a few and different functions, dependent on the button!
9. Number keys can only be defined for phone numbers, no additional functionallity like "Bluetooth on/off"!
10. Office sync does not work for international phone numbers!
11. Have you ever had a phone that takes almost 2 minutes for booting after turning it on???
These are only some of many problems this phone still has. After all that trouble I wish I could give it back and buy a working phone from a different vendor. It really seems like this phone and its software was built up in a rush and nobody ever was testing it in real business conditions (leaving the SQA for the stupid customers). This is really poor after all that long development time. I will definitively never buy a SE phone again, the market is full of much better working devices. And it will become even better in June... Good to know that there are at least some companies who really know what counts to keep their well paying customers!
Name: J. Cagnol
Location:
Date: 2007-08-06
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Phone frezes often. Avoid!
Comment: This phone is packed with features so we bought it. It turns out the phone freezes very often including on some simple operations.
If you don't mind removing the battery and restarting the phone every now and then, this phone is for you. If you want a reliable phone, avoid at all cost.
Name: Sejo Jahic
Location:
Date: 2006-11-19
Customer Rating: -
Summary: It does not work
Comment: I have been using it now for 5 days and I can not believe that Sony Ericsson would release a device that does not work. The phone crashes pretty much every time you try to get connect to the data network (forget about using WiFi throught more than 4 web pages). And yes I do have the latest versio of the software.
It takes more than 1 minute to boot this thing up. All applications load with a good 1-2 seconds delay, actually the software on this device is amasingly slow. It is very hard to switch to a speakerphone during a phone call. Email software is really slow and hard to use. It takes 2-3 clicks to tell your email program to go download new messages. Good luck trying to make ActiveSync work - please tell me how if you ever succeed. It does not run Good Technology or a Blackberry software so if you want realtime access to your email - you won't get it.
I am not sure who the target market for a device like this is and still quite shocked that Sony Ericsson would release something that is this bad.
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