another P910i review (03/2007)

Posted by pacy4
I own P910i form two months. There are so many things to like about this phone and a few to dislike. I bought it second hand with visible traces of usage, but in good technical condition.
Battery life seems fine to me- up to three days with intensive use in flip open mode, and one hour a day usage like mp3 player.
The processor is powerful enough to handle (and loads quickly) all the applications, except the unability to render video files with decent quality.
Symbian 7,0 and build in apps never crashed in my hands and never stuck, so there wasn’t any need to restart my phone.
I like the huge easy to use touch-screen, which is bigger and better than most of 320x240 new phones, despite the 320x208 resolution.
Great phone to browse the net- Opera browser is awesome. Build in e-mail client works fine and is very useful. It is very handy to work with texts.
There are a lot of programs wrote for this phone, so you can fine almost everything. I use dictionary(eMO Dict Deluxe), ICQ client (Jimm), few extra games , book reader (ReadM), file manager and task manager (SMan), Opera browser. All of the apps I mention are freeware. It is strongly recommended to use SMan to control running processes and memory usage.
In flip closed mode the screen is well protected and the phone is easy to use for calls and messages. The QWERTY keypad looks too small, but I used to it and now I’m typing faster than on the standard phone keypad.
My phone render 4GB memory stick card which is great, but there are some limitations. I can’t see it trough pc suite. If I full the card more than 58% appears “corrupt files”. Anyway the card is usable, and allows me to use my phone like an mp3 player with decent quality. The sound of the included handsfree isn’t bed at all.

The things I don’t like:
Missing software updates form Sony-Ericsson for more than 1-2GB memory stick cards support. The 32-bit processor of P910i theoretically and practically can address to at most exactly 4GB. It is a pity not to write update to do that without any “corrupt files” problems. There isn’t an update for PC suite to recognize such cards either.
The PC>phone file transfer is damn slow. You should use a card reader. I had such PC connectivity problems before. PC suite software is a disaster.
Phone can’t play any good quality video no mater which program I use to convert it (“Super” is freeware). It seems the processor speed isn’t enough to play good videos.
The phone build in camera, despite the bad resolution (VGA) is very low quality. For me it’s unusable nor to take pictures, nor a video.
Missing WLAN(Wi-Hi).

My conclusion- I love this phone, it gives me everything I need- book reader, 2-4GB mp3 player, dictionary, net browser, ICQ client, pop-mail, good for smatphone battery life.

[ This Message was edited by: pacy4 on 2007-03-13 11:08 ]