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Sony Ericsson today revealed its new Wi-Fi enabled UMTS smartphone, the P990. The P990 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. Sony Ericsson also revealed a host of applications and entertainment content features such as details on supported push email partners, Anti-virus/Firewall and VPN clients for secure corporate business, Business card scanner and new entertainment content and features.
Main Specifications:
- Size: 114 x 57 x 25 mm (4.4 x 2.2 x 1 inches)
- Weight: 150 g (5.3 oz)
- Networks: GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, UMTS
- OS: Symbian 9.1 and UIQ 3.0
- Memory: 80MB internal, Memory Stick Duo (Pro) expansion
- Display: 262,144-color TFT, 240×320 pixel
- Camera: 2 Mega pixel camera with Auto-Focus, Light
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, IrDa, WLAN 802.11b, UMTS modem, USB
- Key features: Business card scanner, RSS reader, Video call, music player and FM RDS radio, 30fps video recording.
The P990 will be commercially available in Q2 2006. For more information about this extraordinary phone visit P990′s page on Sony Ericsson’s site.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
