Sony Ericsson P900: Smartphone Extraordinaire! - Mimicking a PDA
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The PDA features of the phone include everything you could need when out of the office. There is an integrated document viewer, allowing you to open and view MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and even Adobe PDFs. There is a standard calendar application allowing you to schedule meetings and appointments; it also breaks down your time into month, week or day views. The time function is pretty standard too, although one nice touch is that the world time features are pre-set and allow you to quickly see the time in almost any foreign city in the world instantly. This is useful for knowing when to contact associates working abroad. You can also set multiple repeating alarms, and it even lets you use MP3s as alarm tones.
Separate from the calendar is a task application, which lets you set daily tasks. It's basically an electronic to-do list. There is nothing really outstanding about this app, but it does let you instantly add tasks as appointments in the calendar. The jotter is a notebook-like program for creating quick notes and sketches. Again, it is basic but functional, providing some formatting through bold or bulleted text. The handwriting recognition is a little unusual at first, but takes little time to get used to. For those that can't wait, there is always the virtual keypad: a full on-screen QWERTY keyboard.
The built-in file manager, unfortunately, is rubbish and gives you access only to the space available to you for storing files. This can be rectified by downloading one of a number of freeware file management applications, which, once installed, give you access to the whole of the device, including the system and hidden folders.
The contacts application is laid out in a user friendly way and lets you enter vast amounts of information for each contact such as three different telephone numbers (home, mobile and work), as well as fax, email and Web links, and full home and work addresses. You can also add pictures, notes and voice dialling options to each of your contacts. Adding, deleting, moving and sharing contacts are all intuitive, painless tasks. There is space on the phone for up to 1000 contacts, which should be more than enough for anyone (with the possible exception of world leaders).T
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