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P990 showing very cool features

Today I went to the Sony Ericsson stand a little early to avoid the most crowded hours. It seems like many of the manufacture representative you meet are hired directly from the street and just briefed shortly about one particular phone model. This was not the case today with Joseph from Sony Ericsson. He spotted that I was from Esato and offered me a demonstration of a couple of cool features found in the Sony Ericsson P990. The P990 is the new high-end business model from Sony Ericsson available in June. It has WLAN, 3G, touch screen and runs Symbian OS. Browsing full HTML pages in landscape mode using Opera is nice, the email client is elegant but what caught my eyes today were two things:
The new spell checker and the business card scanner application.

Typing text on the P990 can be done in three ways. Either with the stylus pointing at the virtual keyboard, using the stylus and handwriting recognition or using the keyboard below the display. The Business Card Scanner (BCS) application was breath taking. It was still under development, but after a hard reset of the phone I saw an impressive demo. First you capture a picture of the business card. The BCS analyze the photo and magically adds all vital scanned text to the correct filed in the phone book. Considering that no business card have the same layout or font, I is a difficult task to figure out which line of text should be placed in the Name, Title, Address, Email or Web fields. The BCS managed it all. It even recognized a Norwegian character in my last name. In addition to the recognized text, the application also saves the business card image with the contact data.

The second cool feature demonstrated was how the new spell checker works. The demo phone was set up to recognize German and English at the same time. Joseph started typing "Dear " using the stylus with handwriting recognition. The P990 responded with inserting "Sir" as a suggestion to the next word in the sentence. After clicking on "Sir", a space was automatically inserted, and the next word "and" was typed. To finish off, P990 suggested "Madam" as the final word when this was typed in "Dear Sir and ". It did not need the "M" to suggest "Madam". Impressive

User comments:

gdesk p990i

By ali on 1 Mar 20:20

Me encanta el SE P990i es uno de mis favoritos a pesar de los avances en celulares este cubrió mis expectativas moderno, elegante y sofisticado.

By Roberto on 14 Mar 00:30

i'ts so amazing & i love the product

By fei on 22 Jun 08:58

just got this phone from expansy this is sick!
sick being so good....
i was born to have this fone..

By usman on 13 Oct 02:40

looks great, pretty much put a hole in my pocket.. i bet its gonna be worth it though

By adrian on 24 Jun 19:25

I waited 1 year for this phone and still waiting! Almost caved in today......and June's going to end soon.....

By Eunice on 24 Jun 16:08

Does anyone know what networks are gonna have it? I'm due an upgrade and absolutely loving the look of this, money no object, I have to have it!!!

By Katie on 17 May 00:21

Anyone know whether it will sych all day recurring appointments (eg birthdays / anniversary etc) with Outlook? My P910 wont!

By Dodgy on 22 Apr 11:49

As a former P910i user I was suprised with how many technical and asthetic improvements had been made, as soon as these bad boys are available in the UK I will definately be heading to the shops.

Steve

By SteveLoweStaffsUK on 20 Apr 13:26

oh my god.. i have to have one. the business card scanner is amazing, i can't wait to see that in action..

What will it cost?

By jarrod on 10 Apr 07:49

Hope the bugs in the software are sorted by June

By Alpine on 5 Apr 01:14

I am NOT upgrading, see me posts on next pages why.

By zak1974 on 25 Mar 19:51

Costis: unfortunately no - the P990i will only have a 3-way rotary knob. I'll be missing th 5-way knob too, but I just KNOW I'm going to upgrade...? :-)

By Johan on 24 Mar 19:11

good thing its out in june. gives me judt enough time to save up for one plus the 4GB cards. its SOOOO COOL i can't wait for it. really envy gusy at UCSE & estato who get to try them out.

By 7916 on 24 Mar 17:09

great phone, great looks, will be out soon?

By eyesee on 24 Mar 10:50

Definately in my list of shopping this year!!! BTW can P990 Watch TV?

By KSM on 16 Mar 01:03

Will it have its predecessors' 5-way rotary knob on the side? This feature is one of the greatest inventions ever in mobile phones.

By Costis on 14 Mar 15:12

Im inlove ;)

By upper on 14 Mar 03:51

Such a long talk since last year. Soon be outdated

By Frankie on 11 Mar 17:22

I was told in June

By laffen on 10 Mar 19:18

yes, but will it ever actually be available?

By goran on 10 Mar 18:13

Thats very impressive,i can't wait to get one!

By axxxr on 10 Mar 11:52

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