The Sony Ericsson P1 is an exciting new smartphone that is to undoubtedly reign in the current Sony Ericsson portfolio. Powered by Symbian OS and featuring a QWERTY keyboard, a touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution and a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, it represents the next level of the development of UIQ smartphones. As such, it seems that the Sony Ericsson P1 will be the flagship of Sony Ericsson smartphone line overrunning even the Sony Ericsson P990 and we were more than curious to find out how it performed in real life.



Key features:
Symbian 9.1 OS with UIQ 3 user interface
QWERTY keyboard
2.6" 262K colors TFT touchscreen display
3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus
Memory Stick Micro M2 memory card slot
UMTS, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, USB, Infrared
Secondary camera for video calls
Walkman-grade MP3 player and FM radio with RDS
Jog Dial navigation

Main disadvantages:
Awkward keyboard
No HSDPA support
No EDGE support

Naming the device P1 seems rather logical, since the next SE super smartphone should have come as P1000. But 1000 sounds really trite, so choosing the device model to be P1, is a good move. Rumors had it that the device would be called P700, and even our test handset reported being P700. We guess that the decision must have been taken in the last moment. The Sony Ericsson P1 seems more of an upgraded M600, but then again we suppose that the wide range of features it boasts motivated including it in the P-series. So the P1 would definitely be the flagship among Sony Ericsson smartphones, but hardware wise, it seems to be powered by the same 208 MHz processor as seen in M600, W950 and P990.

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that's correct
they must consider upgrading ram & cpu speed coz we run a large number of s60 uiq applications.

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