Sony Ericsson P990i Smartphone apparently with new features

Feb 06 Sony Ericsson P990i Smartphone apparently with new features
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Sony Ericsson has unveild some unannounced applications and entertainment content features for its P990 smartphone. The flagship of Sony Ericsson P990 is Wi-Fi enabled UMTS smartphone and was introduced to the Global Developers community in October 2005. The host of newly announced features about it include:

• New entertainment content and features
• Details on supported push email partners
• Business card scanner
• Application Shop
• Anti-virus/Firewall and VPN clients for secure corporate business


The P990 is successor in this line of successful Sony Ericsson smartphones - the P800, P900 and P910 – and is based on the same proven concept and recognisable form factor. It is meant by its developers and designed to be first and foremost a great mobile phone but also to offer all the benefits of UMTS including video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. With the help of new Opera 8 browser you can view these HTML pages in landscape mode quite well.
Entertainment

P990 users are expected to spend a fair amount of their time travelling on business and more has been added to the smartphone to make this ‘downtime’ in their working life as relaxing or entertaining as required. The P990’s suite of entertainment applications is supported by a 3D Hardware Accelerator and exciting 3D Java games such as Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005 from Gameloft, which will lighten up the longest journeys together with a fully equipped music player that supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ formats, and includes a flight mode allowing the music player to be used when the phone is switched off.

Push Email

Secure, simple and fast access to email and the Internet are critical requirements for true office mobility, and this is an area where the P990 excels. The ability to access email and calendar while out of the office is critical for mobile executives as they no longer need to return to the office to perform this task.

The P990 will support a range of push email services from the partners listed below:

Blackberry Connect
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
Ericsson Mobile Office (EMO) (Try and Buy)
iAnywhere Onebridge
Intellisync
Seven
Altexia
Visto

Business Card Scanner

Cameras in phones have any number of business applications for capturing and sharing images. Creative minds have moved a few steps further by turning the P990’s 2 Megapixel with AutoFocus camera into a Business Card Scanner, using character recognition software to convert the scanned information from the card to Contacts on your P990.

The large 2.8 inch QVGA (262K TFT) touch screen and large viewfinder help you to capture the full business card size in one go.

Security

Sony Ericsson has partnered with virus software giant McAfee to offer McAfee Virus/Firewall Scan to further strengthen the P990’s email and web browsing security. This Try & Buy software provides scanning services on emails, attachments and web pages for cellular communications, all to the same standard as its well known computer applications. Secure access to corporate networks completes the remote email story as Sony Ericsson offers a free VPN client powered by Certicom.

Application Shop

The broadest possible choice of new applications for the P990 will be available at launch from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop. The Application Shop is an important part of the Try & Buy concept. It will feature the full versions of the trial applications that are preloaded on the Memory Stick of the P990, included in the box. With the new mobile storefront, applications can be purchased directly from the phone and downloaded over-the-air.

“The P990 is a very significant new product for us. It’s a sophisticated device that gets us to the point where mobile executives can really start to minimize on the number of devices and paperwork they carry around with them,” said Husni El-Assi, General Manager of Sony Ericsson, Middle East and Africa. “The push email capability especially helps to bring true business mobility and we have deployed technology and formed partnerships to ensure that mobile email and web browsing access is provided in a safe, secure and fast environment.”

This Sony Ericsson P990i smartphone is ecpected to be commercially available in Q2 2006.

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