Sony Ericsson P990

The Sony Ericsson P990 is a smartphone the Swedish- Japanese mobile manufacturer Sony Ericsson. It came in the third quarter of 2006 to the market, is the successor to the Sony Ericsson P910 and thus continues the P- series. The P990i is running under the operating system Symbian OS version 9.1 and uses the Sony -Ericsson - UIQ3 own surface. Furthermore, the P990 WLAN, IEEE 802.11b standard, as well as UMTS -compatible. Also, video calls are possible, but there is a second small VGA camera on the front. On the back is a 1.9 megapixel camera with autofocus is attached.

The QWERTZ-/QWERTY-Tastatur is on the device itself and not attached as the previous model, on the inside of the numeric keypad cover ( flip ) and illuminated. Thus, the touchscreen surface contracted at the same time increased resolution which corresponds now to the QVGA size ( 240 × 320 pixels). In flip closed a part of the display is obscured and the touchscreen functionality disabled; the P990 is like a regular mobile phone use. The flip can be dismounted using the supplied tool, since the phone even without the numeric keypad stays fully operable.

The smartphone runs on an ARM main processor from Philips with 208 MHz clock frequency. Competitors include the HTC Wizard (T -Mobile MDA Vario II ), various Nokia Nseries and Nokia Eseries models (Nokia N80, Nokia E70, Nokia E61i ) and the Motorola MPx220, with all models listed to differ in at least one criterion (weight, size, processing power, price, etc.).

Meanwhile, a Skype client is available for Symbian OS. With the software Fring for UIQ is possible with the P990 IP telephony.

The P990 can also recognize handwriting.