The Sony Ericsson P910 is a

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introduced in 2004 and the successor of the Sony Ericsson P900. The P910 has a full

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keyboard on the back of the flip (the flip can also be removed completely, allowing for a 'traditional' PDA form-factor). The biggest change from the P900 to the P910 is that the P910 supports

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and the phone's internal memory has been upped from 16 MB to 64 MB. Although Memory Stick PRO Duo comes in larger capacities, the maximum supported by the P910i is 2 GB. It is powered by an ARM9 processor clocked at 156 MHz and runs the

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with the UIQ graphical user interface. Also, the touchscreen displays 262,144 colours (an 18-bit colour depth), as opposed to the P900's 65,536 (16-bit). It comes in three versions: * P910i (GSM 900/1800/1900) * P910c (GSM 900/1800/1900 for China mainland) * P910a (GSM 850/1800/1900 for North America and Latin America) One of the key aspects of the P910 is its ability to input text via several methods: multi-tap and T9 text input using the numerical keypad, hand-writing recognition with the pre-installed Jot-Pro software and touchscreen,

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on screen and the new QWERTY keyboard on the inside of the flip. Other enhancements (compared to the P900) include support for HTML browsing, a new numerical keypad with larger keys and a slightly changed outer casing. Its closest competitors are the

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, and the Nokia 9500 Communicator. Other competitors include several PDA-phones powered by Windows and manufactured by Taiwan-based HTC. Sony Ericsson released the successor to the P910 in early 2006. It is called the

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Specifications

* 208x320 screen resolution * 262,144 color touchscreen LCD * UIQ 2.1 based on

7 * 115 x 57 x 24 mm in size *

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P910i (Europe): 900 MHz/1800 MHz/1900 MHz, P910a (North America): 850 MHz/1800 MHz/1900 MHz

Standard Functions and Programs

Business

* Calendar * Contacts * Jotter * Messages * Pdf+ reader * Phone * Quicksheet * Quickword * Tasks

Tools

* Calculator * Control Panel * Demo * File Manager * GPRS Data Log * Remote Sync * Sound Recorder * Storage Wizard * Time

External links

Review by The Register

Sony Ericsson P910i Manual
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