Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications today unveiled the P800, a multimedia smartphone for world-wide communications. It has a large color touch-screen, in-built camera, access to the Internet and runs on triple band GSM and GPRS networks. Based on the open Symbian 7.0 platform, this is a fully featured mobile multimedia product, and the most advanced phone that has been announced in the GSM-industry.
“The P800 symbolizes what we mean by mobile multimedia products, a phone that will change the way people communicate and that will help people create new ways of expression and interaction”, says Katsumi Ihara, President of Sony Ericsson.
With the P800 it is possible to take digital pictures, view them on the 208 x 320 pixel color screen, store them in the photo album and send them as an e-mail to a PC or as an MMS-message to another phone. The P800 can also show a color picture of the person who is calling, for that personal touch.
The P800 offers the possibility of downloading and viewing video clips such as a sequence from a sports event, music video or movie trailer. The P800 is also an organizer, it can handle daily operations such as calendar, e-mail, address book and to-do-lists. All these features can easily be synchronized with the most common office applications on a PC. The P800 enables to take notes and view files such as Powerpoint, Word or Excel. Thanks to Bluetooth wireless technology, the P800 can be connected wirelessly to a Bluetooth headset, a PC, or other Bluetooth-enabled gadgets.
