Sony Ericsson P10 (Paris)
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Info
Model name: P10
Codename: Paris
Internal name: P200i
Planned announcement: 17th of June
Planned release: October, 2008
You know what happened on June this year? Sony Ericsson has decided not to enter into mass production models Paris and G702. Both phones are based on the platform UIQ 3.3. Which could be a big competition with Nokia and S60 5th. Could, but unfortunately all things go differently.
I remember as the beginning of the year for any Internet blogs like mushrooms after the rain started to appear spy-photo successor SE P1. Slider out keyboard with the QWERTY-known models M600i/M610i, disputes with tactile display, memory card slot Memory Stick Micro, and 5mpx camera with flash. Everyone waited for his release, went rumors that 20 June would be held official “birth” phone, unfortunately, was the official “funeral”. Phone literally dreamed about which each holder of P1 or another based on Symbian UIQ 3.0 hardware. Unfortunately (quite likely that by not good-looking review / description of the model Paris on one of the largest portals dt. Mobile) someone from the “top” of Sony Ericsson said, however, that there is little point in putting it on the market. It’s hurt me to exactly the same as when Nokia that it had been ridiculously did the same in 2004, Nokia 7700 (also in June … (bad period for new phones)). From the information that came across on the Internet while browsing for any discussion learned that “home base” Swedish-Japanese group located in Sweden ordered all testers Paris ask them just to them, who did not have to face serious consequences. And so the whole holiday “began pestering the” single holder Paris in Bulgaria and already had come to finalize the transaction when that ‘Possessor ” disconnect with me without a word contact. Thought that you will never succeed me to get this (though it was not new) prototype. We still gather information about persons who may be in possession of this model and would be willing for its re-sold. One worker with the SE 3 (!) Art of the phone suggested the amount of 5,000 euro per 1 copy … I considered it quite strongly exaggerated price. But recent times thanks to my good friend FOXIK online forum www.uiq3.eu who sent me in due course a private message about the fact that the allegro is Paris appear and in a very favorable price (1100z?, I managed to gain a little price;) ). Not hesitantly I called the dealer and after a short conversation came to an agreement on a price Paris. Purchase made through Opera Mini is installed on the N96. Experienced stress-related disputes with the anticipation of the shipment (even taking into account the fact that the seller sent me a scan to give evidence where the bull was selected as “insurance EUR 30.00), but thank God the whole package arrived and healthy. Good enough to invite these survive the test.
First impressions
Shortly after removing the wonders of technology with the package, I began to wonder why SE did not make it into production. The phone belongs to a sliders family. His size and the mass is very similar to the model, Nokia N96.Z front of the phone, we see great tactile display, a 2.6-inch display which is capable of 256 thousand colors. Just below it is a manipulator code, which fulfills its task hundred times better than a well-known from previous models JogDial. Around the pad to find lots of touchable buttons which appear only in a specific situation (this is the same as in the case of the N96 music keys). After slide phone shows the type of QWERTY keyboard which is 99% recalls that the model M610i (the only difference is that the latter is pressing the government lower the minimum narrower than the rest). On the right side of the device found chute camera buttons louder / quieter and direct to the media. On the opposite side is the only Fast-Port connector and a memory card slot for M2. On top of the keyboard there is a blockage by movement button, trigger and place on the stylus. On the back of the phone appears lens cover, which, by its resolution 5mpix in conjunction with the flash is in a position to do a very good quality photos. The battery used in this phone is known from previous models based on UIQ, BST-33 with a capacity of 950mAh.
Internet
In this model, as in previously reported by me Beibeiu installed Opera Mobile browser version 9.5. Which allows us to open up 99% Internet web pages without any problems. Above all, thanks to handle the type of Flash animation, ubiquitous ads for which so much is not being lost or display. On the one hand does not know how to hurt a full (computer) version YouTube portal, but on the other hand, after what to whom, when on the mobile editing, you can already see so many movies, portals do not make the type throw major problems (movies is a little including, without outside plea).
Thanks to touchable screen , touchable buttons just below the display, qwerty keyboard and browsing the Internet is a real pleasure. Opera behaves known as the iPhone Safari browser, namely the double-page press the stylus to expand smoothly in that spot. With 802.11g WiFi module inside, can browse the Internet for free using Hot-spots. An interesting point is also able to use the widgets to make access to information for example, the weather we have available through just one click. As well has a widget responsible for collecting news portal with CNN.
Office
Sony Ericsson was to be Paris without the slightest doubt of business class phone, you can see it even after they have a range of applications in its interior. We find here min. application is responsible for reviewing the files of the Acrobat Reader (. pdf), Quickoffice package by which we can open / create any file from Microsoft Office. Equally interesting is the business card reader, which automatically after affixing the camera to the eye, this card gets the appropriate data and creates a new contact in the phonebook. Do not run the applications to communicate using Active-Sync from Microsoft. It just makes it can synchronize your contacts, calendar, calendar of meetings with those that we have in our Outlook. Thanks to a fairly structured calendar can be really quite exactly to plan our meetings. Could not run the recorder from the recording time limited only by available memory. (SE Hooray!). With drivers in the developer version of the SE M610i (available online), could Paris synchronize with your computer, no problems does not make it to exchange all sorts of data type.
Navigation
Nobody in the world does not know what type of GPS module was installed in the model Paris, but I can say for sure that it operates at 100%. In contrast to the well-known from Beibei, here catching fix takes into the sky about 2 minutes, which is fully acceptable time. Navigation may be based on Google Maps, or at the Wayfinder. Personally, I use this one, because after the first is free and secondly, provides a much simpler user interface. Data downloaded from the Google server, are quite valid, the GPS correctly detect my location, only happened once, that is confused about some 200 meters, but I have to stress that if there were not too good weather conditions.
Entertainment
The menu proudly named “Entertainment”, we can find many interesting applications. For sure one of them is “Track ID”, which allows few seconds after recording a song, and submit it to the server, read the names of the team, what song and album comes. MusicDJ can be summarized as known, but forgotten in some newer models of cells, a composer who has a really big opportunity. Each decoy is something here for you. It is for this poorly in the game, there are just Sudoku. Well, in the end, it was to be the phone for businessmen … Big advantage is backward compatibility UIQ 3.0 UIQ 3.3 from which you should not run the application. 5mpix resolution of the camera lets you take photos really good quality. Setup menu has a lot of really advanced configuration, ranging from white balance, mode (document, landscape, etc.), the type of photos (series or individual). Very cool feature is the “Touch focus” by which we select your finger / stylus to place the camera viewfinder and he tries to get the best sharpness. Nothing precludes the BT thanks to the standard 2.0 to send someone a file. Using a set of headphones attached to listen to the radio makes a real pleasure. They are made of really high-grade materials, while listening to when no noise. But if it comes to listening to music on a stereo speaker is equally good, which can only hurt the volume that is truly “give rock.”
Stability
You probably think that, since the telephone was detained at the stage of development “EP” (Engineering Prototype) you will surely have a mass of errors in firmware prevent its use. But all this is not the case. The system is extremely stable. There are no known black-screens even with the prototypes P990i. The biggest problem they had with the phone addressed the Polish language, which has been uploaded by the seller. Unfortunately for some time he did not want to start and I had to reset it to factory settings, which Sri Lanka lost but gained a stable and functioning telephone.
Summary
I know that I am freak and look at the prototype veeery subjectively. But look at this on the other hand, or not you want to phone, such as Paris? Which is exactly everything that is needed to man. Does not require the phone that it has “hundreds gigabytes of memory”, displays with HD resolution, etc. etc. For me, Sony Ericsson, just as the M610i, Beibei disputes had committed an error. Currently, there is a cry of a spillage of milk, the last time last employees responsible for the development of UIQ have been released / transferred to other departments. Even the head of the SE confirmed at a trade fair that “UIQ is dead.” Well, I had the opportunity to fight for Nokia, but decided to join and create phones in the Symbian Foundation. If you ever have the opportunity to acquire Paris, do so for sure you will not regret this.
(c) Mateusz Kurowski
