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Sony Ericsson's P990 goes LocationFree

17 October 2006 by
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• Sony Ericsson P990
Owners of the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone can now enjoy their favourite local TV shows on their phones wherever they are in the world
LocationFree(TM) from Sony redirects TV shows from your home television to target devices such as your P990, so you can keep up with your favourite programmes whether you're on the beach, in an airport or just in your local park.  You can watch live TV, playback recorded programmes and even set up future recordings, all on your P990.
 
"LocationFree completely removes the constraints of having to be at home to enjoy your favourite programmes," says Steve Walker, Vice President Product Marketing, Sony Ericsson.  "The P990 with its large 2.8 inch touchscreen is the perfect device for this. It is a high performance smartphone that gives a really great viewing experience, coupled with high-speed connectivity.  If you love television and spend a lot of time travelling or generally out and about, then LocationFree on your P990 is a must."
 
LocationFree uses the internet to redirect content from your home to your P990 wherever you are.  At its heart is the LocationFree Base Station available from Sony, together with LocationFree Player software supplied on your P990's Memory Stick or by download. 
 
Set up is extremely straightforward and you can be enjoying TV content on your P990 within minutes.  The Base Station plugs into your existing home network or establishes a wireless link to a broadband internet-connected device such as a Sony PlayStation Portable ® system, notebook or desktop PC.  When you're away or out of the house, you simply connect to the Base Station with your P990 to watch TV, enjoy one of your own DVDs (provided it's in the player), or control your set top box or DVD/HDD recorder to make your own recordings.  You can choose the best way for your P990 to connect to the Base Station depending on where you are, and this can be over the Internet, through a wireless connection if you're in a Wi-Fi hotspot or through your 3G network.  The Base Station itself also doubles as a wireless access point, providing the basis of a home wireless network.
 
"Keeping up with your favourite TV shows is just the start," Steve Walker continues,  "There are many more uses for LocationFree on your P990 as it will transmit content from any number of devices that are linked up to the Base Station.  For example with a video camera or video recorder connected you can use your P990 to see friends and family while you're away, or even keep a check on home security."
 
The P990 is the latest, high performance smartphone from Sony Ericsson. It offers all the benefits of UMTS/3G connectivity, including video calling, push email, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages.  Designed to minimise the number of devices that people carry around with them, it brings true mobility to the business environment, or to anyone that wants a truly connected lifestyle, wherever they happen to be.
 
LocationFree Player is available on the Memory Stick with the P990 or can be downloaded at www.sonyericsson.com/support/. The LocationFree Base Station is available to buy in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK.  More information about LocatiaonFree from Sony is available from www.sony.net/Products/LocationFree/support/

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Comments
On 11 Nov 20:08 shockdaddyd wrote
Yes, the P990 has some issues. That said, it's a damn fine device. With luck the next firmware upgrade will fix the issues others have posted here -- all of which are fair gripes. Well, accept the removal of the flip. CraigPickersgill got that wrong -- it in fact can be removed.
On 7 Nov 22:55 nikidor wrote
P990i best crap in market! I had all serries from p800, p900. p910, and now biggest unusfull p990!!!!!!
Why Sony Ericsson is trying trust theirs old customers SO BADLY ???
*P990i is hanging upp, few times per, day. axept sundays, cose then i dont use phone!
*MENY IS IS MORE COMPLICATED MADE LIKE IN OLDDAYS MOTOROLLAS.
*ENTER KEY IS LOCATED THAT I DONT DARE TO CUT MY NAIL FROM THUMB- THE ONLY FAST WAY OF PRESSING BUTTOM.
* HAS ANYBODY HEARD ABOUT BUSSINES TOOL WHICH DOESNT HAVE TO BE FAST? HERE P990i.
FASTEST WAY TO GET U CRAZY!

I DONT WANNA COMPLAIN JUST GRATULATE SE SELLING PRODUCT AND MAKING JOKE OF THEIRS BUSSINES CUSTOMERS.
On 1 Nov 22:14 StillaP900user wrote
I can confirm the problems JoseIsrael listing...
1. The P990 suddenly reboots itselves.
2. And even more frustrating, without showing any errors at the display at all, the phone don't work. You have to try to make a phone call or you are told by people trying to call you that your phone is not on.

Please fix the problems...
On 23 Oct 21:00 JoseIsrael wrote
We have a P800, P900, P910 and all of them are excellent phone in paricular the P910 is the best of the best. In the other hand I hava a BUGGI P990I that reboots itsel, can't backup, aplication like contacts an the messahe server crashes. When the phne is charging power off it still has a light, that bother you when keep it close to your bed. It takes several minutes until you can make a phone call after power on. So PLEASE !!!! FIX THIS PHONE FIRTS, so I can use it as a bussines tools and we can switch from the old relayable P910. Thanks.
On 18 Oct 18:28 CraigPickersgill wrote
I have owned the P800 and the P910i I dont think I will be gettin the 990i it is a bit ugly keyboard cant be took off :(
On 18 Oct 15:42 p990i wrote
SE goes LocationFree???

why not fix p990i first?

they should concentrate with p990i since SE release a half-finish product.
On 17 Oct 22:05 Thirdcommenter wrote
I do not understand a word these first two comments try to say ?!?!?
On 17 Oct 17:32 goldenface wrote
Plus 3G streamed TV on your mobile has terrible picture qualilty.
On 17 Oct 14:57 AamirAliAfzalAizaz wrote
Wats the use of 3G networks then providing coverage of matches of say for instance Soccer or Cricket when u have the coverage on TV on ur Handset-Besides is that for P990 alone or for even Nokia?

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