New P910 a reality?

Thanx Andrew.

Still quite funny how the distributors are so certain that it's being
released in October and all I can find on the net is speculation that it
might be released. Don't know how the distributors came up with a date, but
anyway.

We have 3 networks here in South Africa - VodaCom (the best and most
popular, which I use), MTN and Cell-C.
I know for a fact that GPRS and MMS are available on VodaCom and MTN. I'm
not that clued up with Cell-C though - they're pretty new (and useless, if I
might add).

I hope you enjoy your stay here :-)

Rapidblue.

"Andrew Currie" <me@NEINSPAMMENandrewcurrie.ca> wrote in message
news:080720040425002059%me@NEINSPAMMENandrewcurrie .ca...
> In article <40ec705c.0@news1.mweb.co.za>, Rapiblue
> <rapidblue@has.no.email> wrote:
>
> > Am I just slow, or has SonyEricsson already released the P910? I've done
> > searches online for it, and by the looks of it, it isn't official yet.
Now
> > how can a service provider (especially in South Africa) already be
saying
> > that they're getting it in October?
> > Anyone that can share some info here please?
>
> I guess you've probably seen this stuff:
>
> http://www.mobile9.com/news/2004/05/layla_gui_leaks.php
> http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=721&source=SEARCH
>
> BTW, who's your provider in SA? I'll be visiting Cape Town in August,
> and was wondering if GPRS and MMS was supported there...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew

In article <40ed8e64.0@news1.mweb.co.za>, Rapiblue
<rapidblue@has.no.email> wrote:

> We have 3 networks here in South Africa - VodaCom (the best and most
> popular, which I use), MTN and Cell-C.
> I know for a fact that GPRS and MMS are available on VodaCom and MTN. I'm
> not that clued up with Cell-C though - they're pretty new (and useless, if I
> might add).

OK, I'll be sure to use VodaCom when I'm down there -- too bad that
Fido, my Canadian provider, has no GPRS or MMS agreements with anyof
the SA providers :-(

Thanks for the info, though!

Andrew

In article <40ec705c.0@news1.mweb.co.za>, Rapiblue
<rapidblue@has.no.email> wrote:

> Am I just slow, or has SonyEricsson already released the P910?

It was =officially= announced today:

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5131.html

AC

Andrew Currie <me@NEINSPAMMENandrewcurrie.ca> wrote in message news:<080720040425002059%me@NEINSPAMMENandrewcurri e.ca>...
> In article <40ec705c.0@news1.mweb.co.za>, Rapiblue
> <rapidblue@has.no.email> wrote:
>
> > Am I just slow, or has SonyEricsson already released the P910? I've done
> > searches online for it, and by the looks of it, it isn't official yet. Now
> > how can a service provider (especially in South Africa) already be saying
> > that they're getting it in October?
> > Anyone that can share some info here please?
>
> I guess you've probably seen this stuff:
>
> http://www.mobile9.com/news/2004/05/layla_gui_leaks.php
> http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=721&source=SEARCH
>
Nice to see a keyboard of sorts, but hope their PIM is an improvement
on the 900. Never bought the 900 as Contacts restricted to just 3
numbers as I understand it - heck I've got more than that on my T98.
My Organiser has people with a dozen numbers, plus four addresses and
all sorts of other details (Notes) and any attempt for a phone to be
also a PDA will need to replicate that (a bit like the early Nok
9000s)

"Mr Rip Curl" <mrripcurl@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:6b97d7ef.0407150824.1b5a4151@posting.google.c om...

> Nice to see a keyboard of sorts, but hope their PIM is an improvement
> on the 900. Never bought the 900 as Contacts restricted to just 3
> numbers as I understand it - heck I've got more than that on my T98.
> My Organiser has people with a dozen numbers, plus four addresses and
> all sorts of other details (Notes) and any attempt for a phone to be
> also a PDA will need to replicate that (a bit like the early Nok
> 9000s)

Somehow you 've got it terribly wrong. You can have a ton of different
numbers for each entry (when you *seem* to run out, you just add more) ,
with descriptions (fax, home, mobile, work, etc), plus detailed address
(street address, postal code, area, city, country), and all this twice - one
for the person's personal details and one for their work.
And if you still need more, there's the notes page on each entry, where you
can store any additional information you want - plus a page for images.

If that was the only reason you never bought the P900, I think you 've been
missing out too long !

nick

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"Nick Hatzichristos" <nixx@EEEEEW,SPAM!!!!otenet.gr> wrote in message news:<cd6s4q$1lq$1@nic.grnet.gr>...
> "Mr Rip Curl" <mrripcurl@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:6b97d7ef.0407150824.1b5a4151@posting.google.c om...
>
> > Nice to see a keyboard of sorts, but hope their PIM is an improvement
> > on the 900. Never bought the 900 as Contacts restricted to just 3
> > numbers as I understand it - heck I've got more than that on my T98.
> > My Organiser has people with a dozen numbers, plus four addresses and
> > all sorts of other details (Notes) and any attempt for a phone to be
> > also a PDA will need to replicate that (a bit like the early Nok
> > 9000s)
>
> Somehow you 've got it terribly wrong. You can have a ton of different
> numbers for each entry (when you *seem* to run out, you just add more) ,
> with descriptions (fax, home, mobile, work, etc), plus detailed address
> (street address, postal code, area, city, country), and all this twice - one
> for the person's personal details and one for their work.
> And if you still need more, there's the notes page on each entry, where you
> can store any additional information you want - plus a page for images.
>
> If that was the only reason you never bought the P900, I think you 've been
> missing out too long !
>
Thanks for the info Nick

I must have made a serious error reading Ericsson's website where they
said "The advanced Sony Ericsson Phonebook - Contacts. You can store
three phone numbers for each contact - home, work and mobile. You can
also add their company name, title and email address. The perfect
phone book."

I didn't investigate further for a number of reasons. Lack of
keyboard, no easy upgrade from current PDA, quite frankly I'd prefer a
phone Without a camera, and I'd prefer CF add-on ability rather than
just Mem Stick (as I have abunch of CF cards). It seemed best to wait
and see what came along further on in time and in the meantime
perservere with my T68 + MC218.

Maybe will look at 910 in a few months when can get one to play with.
We all live in hope.

"Mr Rip Curl" <mrripcurl@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:6b97d7ef.0407220750.34410d77@posting.google.c om...

> Thanks for the info Nick
>
> I must have made a serious error reading Ericsson's website where they
> said "The advanced Sony Ericsson Phonebook - Contacts. You can store
> three phone numbers for each contact - home, work and mobile. You can
> also add their company name, title and email address. The perfect
> phone book."
>
> I didn't investigate further for a number of reasons. Lack of
> keyboard, no easy upgrade from current PDA, quite frankly I'd prefer a
> phone Without a camera, and I'd prefer CF add-on ability rather than
> just Mem Stick (as I have abunch of CF cards). It seemed best to wait
> and see what came along further on in time and in the meantime
> perservere with my T68 + MC218.
>
> Maybe will look at 910 in a few months when can get one to play with.
> We all live in hope.


Glad I could be of help. If you 're looking for something to take advantage
of your CF cards, you may want to look elsewhere though. Because, the way I
understand the business world (ok, it doesn't take a rocket scientist !) no
product with the word "Sony" in its name ("SonyEricsson") will ever use
anything other than memory sticks for storage/memory expansion. It's a shame
though, and I 'd still recommend test-driving the P910 when it arrives later
this year, as this will also have a thumb QWERTY keyboard.

However it goes, good luck in your next phone/PDA choice.

nick

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ICQ# : 48636115

910 is out. And sadly, the additional phone and email fields are NOT synced.
This has the effect, unless I'm mistaken, of making it impossible to
properly sync on two different PCs.

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/handpho...032162p,00.htm


"Nick Hatzichristos" <nixx@EEEEEW,SPAM!!!!otenet.gr> wrote in message
news:cdot6m$num$1@nic.grnet.gr...
> "Mr Rip Curl" <mrripcurl@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:6b97d7ef.0407220750.34410d77@posting.google.c om...
>
>> Thanks for the info Nick
>>
>> I must have made a serious error reading Ericsson's website where they
>> said "The advanced Sony Ericsson Phonebook - Contacts. You can store
>> three phone numbers for each contact - home, work and mobile. You can
>> also add their company name, title and email address. The perfect
>> phone book."
>>
>> I didn't investigate further for a number of reasons. Lack of
>> keyboard, no easy upgrade from current PDA, quite frankly I'd prefer a
>> phone Without a camera, and I'd prefer CF add-on ability rather than
>> just Mem Stick (as I have abunch of CF cards). It seemed best to wait
>> and see what came along further on in time and in the meantime
>> perservere with my T68 + MC218.
>>
>> Maybe will look at 910 in a few months when can get one to play with.
>> We all live in hope.
>
>
> Glad I could be of help. If you 're looking for something to take
> advantage
> of your CF cards, you may want to look elsewhere though. Because, the way
> I
> understand the business world (ok, it doesn't take a rocket scientist !)
> no
> product with the word "Sony" in its name ("SonyEricsson") will ever use
> anything other than memory sticks for storage/memory expansion. It's a
> shame
> though, and I 'd still recommend test-driving the P910 when it arrives
> later
> this year, as this will also have a thumb QWERTY keyboard.
>
> However it goes, good luck in your next phone/PDA choice.
>
> nick
>
> --
>
>
> Nick Hatzichristos
> AnimateThis
> nixx /at/ animatethis /dot/ gr
>
> ICQ# : 48636115
>
>
>