The Sony Ericsson P800 is a
mobile phone
A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...
introduced in 2002 based upon
UIQ version 2.0 (which itself is based upon
Symbian OS v7.0) from
Sony Ericsson. The P800 is considered the successor of the
Ericsson R380,
and initial design work was done within Ericsson, but it was produced after Sony & Ericsson merged their mobile phone businesses.
Technical information
The P800 uses the
UIQ (version 2.0)
user interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fro ...
and has a
touch screen
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of electronic visual display, display that can detect touch input from a user. It consists of both an input device (a touch panel) and an output device (a visual display). The touch panel is typically l ...
much like a
PDA. It is powered by an ARM9 processor running at 156 MHz, which was also used for the successive models
Sony Ericsson P900,
Sony Ericsson P910. It came with a 16MB Memory Stick Duo but supports up to 128MB. The touchscreen displays 4,096 colours (12-bit colour depth). It was succeeded in 2003 by the
Sony Ericsson P900.
Later versions and successors
A updated version of the "P" series phones, the
Sony Ericsson P990 was launched at the Symbian Smartphone Show in September 2005. It is based upon the
UIQ3 platform (utilizing
Symbian OS v9.1).
The latest successor is the
Sony Ericsson P1, announced on 8 May 2007. Whilst using the same UIQ platform as the P990, it has a smaller form factor based on the
Sony Ericsson M600 and updated hardware.
References
External links
UIQ TechnologyUIQ Developer Portal
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Mobile phones introduced in 2002
Symbian devices
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter