mobile phone
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Sony Ericsson
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introduced in 2004 and the successor of the
Sony Ericsson P900
The Sony Ericsson P900 is a Symbian OS v7.0 based mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It was introduced in 2003 and is the successor of the Sony Ericsson P800; like the P800, the P900 uses the UIQ platform. The P900 was well received and is someti ...
. The P910 has a full
QWERTY
QWERTY ( ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six Computer keyboard keys#Types, keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: . The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sh ...
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 Memory Stick PRO Duo 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
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processor clocked at 156 MHz and runs the
Symbian OS
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with the UIQ graphical user interface. 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,
virtual keyboard
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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 palmOne Treo 650, and the
Nokia 9500 Communicator
Nokia 9500 Communicator is a mobile phone produced by Nokia, introduced on 24 February 2004P990, in 2006.
Specifications
* 208x320 screen resolution
* 262,144 color touchscreen
LCD
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Symbian OS
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* 115 x 57 x 24 mm in size
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GSM
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