Europe : Sony
Ericsson revealed a host of unannounced applications and entertainment
content features for its flagship Wi-Fi enabled UMTS smartphone, the
P990, which was introduced to the Global Developers community in October
2005
The P990 is the
next in a 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 designed to be first and foremost
a great mobile phone but offers all the benefits of UMTS including
video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability
to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. These are viewed in landscape
on the new Opera 8 browser.
“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,” says Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive Vice President,
Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “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.”
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:
AlteXia
Ericsson Mobile Office (EMO) (Try and Buy)
iAnywhere OneBridge
Intellisync
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
RIM - BlackBerry Connect
Seven
Visto
Standard Email - IMAP IDLE working on all standards compliant servers
Security
Sony Ericsson has partnered with antivirus software giant McAfee to
offer McAfee VirusScan and Firewall Mobile to further strengthen the
P990’s email and web browsing security. This Try & Buy software
provides scanning services on emails, attachments and web downloads
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.
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.
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.
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 will be commercially
available in Q2 2006. The variants will be:
P990i Dual mode UMTS (2100MHz)
- GPRS 900/1800/1900 for Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa
P990c Dual mode UMTS (2100MHz)
- GPRS 900/1800/1900 for Mainland China. (Launch for mainland China
dependant on availability of 3G services.)
P990 – Features at
a glance:
Imaging & Messaging
2 Mega pixel camera with
AutoFocus
2.5 x digital Zoom
Video Telephony application with dual cameras and MPEG4 support
Camera light
Streaming video and playback of video (30 fps QVGA)
Touch based Picture editor
Large 2.8 inch QVGA (240 x 320)
Touch screen with 262 k colours
Entertainment
Stereo Bluetooth support
DRM: OMA phase 1
Ring signal: 40 voices MIDI,
Music player: dedicated access button, play lists support (m3u) and
MP3, AAC ,AAC+ and E-AAC+ and m4a support
MusicDJ™
3D touch based Golf game
FM RDS radio with Clock radio
Stop watch and timer
Connectivity
80 MB internal memory
64 MB Memory Stick PRO Duo in the box
Memory Stick PRO Duo support up to 8GB
Bluetooth 2.0
IrDa
WLAN 802.11b
High speed UMTS modem (384 kbps)
USB Desk stand
USB full speed and charging
USB Mass storage
PC synchronisation software
Business
Business card scanner
Backlit thumb keyboard available in 4 hardware keyboard variants:
QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY and Russian
Smart typing: Word completion, next word prediction and handwriting
character recognition
Word, excel and PowerPoint viewers/editors (text only)
Adobe PDF viewer
Opera 8.0 web browser with landscape full screen support
RSS news feeds support
Flight mode (Activate WiFi )
Office hands free (speaker phone)
External antenna connector
Calculator and Converter application
Multi tasking
E-mail provider support:
AlteXia
Ericsson Mobile Office (EMO) (Try and Buy)
iAnywhere OneBridge
Intellisync
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
RIM - BlackBerry Connect
Seven
Visto
Standard Email - IMAP IDLE working on all standards compliant servers
Security and VPN support
– Anti virus - McAfee (Try & Buy)
– Firewall - McAfee (Try & Buy)
– Encryption - Pointsec (Try & Buy)
– VPN - Certicom (Free)
Symbian 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 software platform
Size - 114 x 57 x 25
Weight - 155g with battery and flip keyboard
