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Sony Ericsson P990 discussion |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
Posts: 248
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@mathios, if you just join in to read tis forum, then you dont know why and I am not inclined to repeat. |
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loneranger
Joined: Oct 06, 2006
Posts: 1
From: malaysia
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where can i download free stuff for 990? can i activate the green led? |
anielgrover
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
Posts: 19
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On google you may find few sites listing freeware you may be looking for. As for activating light it only comes on when you charging the phone or else if you recieve a missed call or a sms message.  |
Enigma-UK
Joined: Jun 20, 2004
Posts: 72
From: UK
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Well guys & girls, just got my P990 for 400UKP and.... I must say I'm not overly impressed at the moment. It's growing on me though.
When I took it out the box I was suprised at the size and weight. I've read all the specs etc, but I couldn't believe how light and "plastic" it feels. It's almost like a toy. If I'd had this a year ago I'd be excited, now people either think I've got a blackberry or "some old brick" when they see me using it. Probably would have been bigger still with something like GPS built in!
Updated it straight away it with SEUS, unit label says made in France, and SEUS detects it as Worldwide Generic 1. Phone was in UK English the whole time and came with an English and a Spanish(?) manual.
Didn't bother with the CD at all, just downloaded the latest apps required from SE.
While the OS feels quite solid in some areas, others are quite "clunky." Previously I have been using a Mio A701, and while this was awkward having to swap the SD card for an SD WLAN card, the Windows Mobile 2005 OS has not let me down and has been easy to use.
Having previously had a P900 and P910, the OS will still take some getting used to. Some things seem to take an age to do compared to WM2005. I haven't found the UIQ3 to be too slow, though when it is it's down to the fact that the menus are animated and when you stylus tap an item the highlight scrolls smoothly from another option. Vital milliseconds which give the impression it is thinking too hard.
Had a couple of errors, browser shut once for no reason, and when answering a phone call had an "App CLosed" error with loads of tech info which I couldn't see as it went on hanging up. Didn't affect the phone call though?!!
Also when adding a person's birthday in Contacts, it jumps to the calendar, and once you select the date it adds it, closes and saved the contact and leaves you inside the Calendar app. I then had to exit this, and open contacts, find the contact and edit it to carry on adding details.
Predictive text is very good, and I am gonna have to leave flip on, as I find using the keypad and predictive text very fast for typing texts, one handed while walking, so I'm glad to have a hardware keypad back again.
I suppose I was always going to get this phone because of what it is, and my love of the P900/910. I think it has a long way to go, and I hope that there will be more support for it over the coming months with regards to software, themes etc. Being a more business like phone it will never have the community spirit such as the Nokia S60 which spawns forums and apps every 5 minutes, but while I persevere with it, I have a strange feeling that I will soon be upgrading on to something else much sooner than my P910 days. |
Illidian
Joined: Nov 17, 2005
Posts: 36
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For all P990 experienced users, I'm a newbie here, does your phone pause music playback and ring your assigned ringtone during an incoming call, as mine just beeps and vibrate without pausing music playback, i hate this feature, is there a way to change it, please!!!
Thanks in advance! |
dr_thug
Joined: Nov 11, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: India
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hi i am a new P990i user...sofar loving it
can anybody help me in guide how to turn of the lcd when the phone is switched off and kept for charging???
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xerx
Joined: Jul 31, 2002
Posts: 375
From: New York City
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i think the lcd does not turn off while charging
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gommace
Joined: Sep 22, 2006
Posts: 30
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True, the LCD does not light off when the phone is switched off and charging. But, it does when on and charging. |
john-se
Joined: Aug 11, 2003
Posts: 196
From: Philippines
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hi, anyone tried editing their contacts adding labels to each of the phone numbers you have. like instead of using so many MOBILE (W) MOBILE (H) can anyone add a tag or label or change the mobile word to CELLPHONE or ANY other tags that you wish,??? or maybe after the field MOBILE (w) can you add any word before you put the number on it like MOBILE (W) office 17005550303 ???
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philosophy72
Joined: Jul 15, 2004
Posts: 40
From: So Cali
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has anyone figured out how to not use their stylus(or finger) to access the drop down menus on pages. I discovered this by playing around with it and noticed when you hit and hold the ALT key and press the CAPS key the drop down menu is displayed. if u hit it again and their is other drop down(like in your message folders) that will also work. then u could just use your arrow keys to scroll down and across. Hope this helps some people the ones of course that dont know. Maybe all have figured it out. |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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thanx .. not many have figured out all these short cuts... some please give us more |
doublecheese
Joined: Sep 12, 2006
Posts: 145
From: Istanbul
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On 2006-10-08 15:05:11, Illidian wrote:
For all P990 experienced users, I'm a newbie here, does your phone pause music playback and ring your assigned ringtone during an incoming call, as mine just beeps and vibrate without pausing music playback, i hate this feature, is there a way to change it, please!!!
Thanks in advance!
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Sorry illidian
What's the way it's done.
GH337, GH388, GH 688, SH 888, P800, P900, P910 and now P990i and P1i and HTC Touch Pro |
Osmano
Joined: Jul 22, 2006
Posts: 252
From: Trondheim, Norway
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On 2006-10-11 04:03:38, drgopoos wrote:
thanx .. not many have figured out all these short cuts... some please give us more
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It's also useful to read the manual, cause every shortcut I've seen described is in the manual.  And yes I know that some of you guys are allergic to userguides..... |
SL33PYH34D
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
Posts: 486
From: Berkshire, UK
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For those who are interested the HCH-64 car holder now appears to be available from a couple of places: The SE Store (UK), L8shop.net/Blueunplugged.com. |
Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: UK
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I bought myself a P910i as I gave my old one to a friend about 18 months ago. I wanted to understand the differences between this wonderful device and the P990. After about half an hour I would say that what SE seem to have done is to try to make the P990 less like a 'computer' and more accessible and simpler to use. It is too early to draw too many conclusions except that my view that the P990 should not have had a "P" prefix as it is not a development of the P910 it is a different kind of device. Which tells me that SE should release a P950 which would have been a real development of the P910. And meny people I suspect would have been happy with UIQ 2.1 on 2.5G & EDGE. Hmm... |
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Posted: 2006-10-06 18:07
