Comments on: Review: Sony Ericsson P1i

By: Deepak kumar

Deepak kumar — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:28:00 +0000

I lost my CD driver.There is problem coming when i connect p1i with my laptop for internet…….can anybody solve my problem.if u can plz mail to deepakkumarchy@gmail.com

By: yogananda reddy

yogananda reddy — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:59:55 +0000

my se mobile cam is not working properly when it has fully charged it works charging downs 50 persent cam will not open “the message is inisiliging press 0 for help” please help me any budy if any suggesion mail me “yogananda2020@gmail.com”.

By: gasccokay

gasccokay — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:12:44 +0000

damn the p1i is the best phone so far the keyboard is the best

By: Audi

Audi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:09 +0000

I recently bought a bluetooth headset and paired it to my P1i phone.
Though i can use the headset for making and recieving phone calls, im unable to use the same for listening to music.
I checked the same headset with my other nokia phone it works prefectly fine.

Anybody here can help me resolve this???

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:39:49 +0000

Maybe the issue on the “Search” function is now addressed. when i first got hold of my P1i, I also was disappointed as there was indeed no search function, until i explored the phones functionality by pressing keys. The “search” function is imbedded in P1i. After going to contacts, you just have to press the first letter of the contact you wish to look and presto! you have your search. Oh ya, and the key pad? I read a lot of negative opinions or feedbacks about how hard it is to type using the qwerty key pad. But hey, Im using my phone now for the last 8 mos. and I have never been more efficient in typing txts. Once you get used to it, there is no reason for you not to like the phone. I just love this phone. It really is a very big help to me especially the office application. I can finish my reports where ever I go, as long as I have w/ me my SE P1i. About the sound, ya, it’s a bit strange when using the speaker. But when you listen to music w/ the headset, plus the music equalizer, i think the sound is good.

By: Moe

Moe — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:02:24 +0000

The keyboard layout is awesome now that im used to it !

By: blitzglide

blitzglide — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:54:49 +0000

its a great phone.. i’m lovin it… i hope i can get use to it on my 1st week of usage…..

By: Thomas Mason

Thomas Mason — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:46:50 +0000

Aragorn asked – WHY can’t I select the time out before the automatic keylock kicks in???
You can solve this by upgrading the firmware, via the Sony Ericsson Update Service:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones/topic/updateserviceapplication?cc=US&lc=en
The latest version doesn’t automatically lock the keys – rather, it tends to leave the phone unlocked.

Dexter asked about sound quality. Sound volume rather than quality has been the biggest frustration of mine – I think it may be something to do with EU volume limiting regulations. I have found that you can get the best volume and sound for music and speech by setting the graphic equalizer within the Music Player to ‘Classical’.
You can boost the volume a bit by adding the 3rd party CorePlayer application for Symbian UIQ3. However, this soon leads to distortion.

This phone outperforms the new iPhone 3G on quite a few features – better camera, video recorder, FM radio, MMS messaging, all of which makes me reluctant to trade it in for a new model on 11 July, despite some very tempting iPhone tariffs with unlimited data from O2 in the UK. However, I think max memory in the P1i is 4GB by upgrading the memory card.
I too really like the keyboard now I’ve got used to it – I find it works best if you completely turn off predictive text and just type away.
Therefore very reluctant about upgrading to a new phone without a keyboard – the new Samsung Omnia i900 sounds pretty good however if you want a phone that does absolutely everything! I don’t think the new Sony Ericsson Experia X1 is going to be a massive advance on the P1i other than in looks – watch this space.
If anybody else knows about another forthcoming ‘does everything’ iPhone killer, please let me know!

By: John

John — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:59:14 +0000

I agree that the functionality of the P1i is worse than the P900. The only exceptions are the nicer keyboard, screen, WLAN, and camera. I’m considering to switch back: A phone book without search function is as useful as a car without wheels!

By: Aragorn

Aragorn — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:41:43 +0000

In general I like the phone but I wouldn’t have bought it had been for me loosing my old P910… As it happens, the old phone turned up again and now I’m in the situation that I’m using the new phone while strongly consider to go back to the P910. Why?
Well, while the P1i has some features that I don’t dislike, e.g. Wi-Fi, a better camera and … uhh..? Well, the fact is that if you don’t really need high speed connection and already have a digital camera (yepp, that’s me!) you shouldn’t bother to replace your P910 (unless you think it’s too big).

Some P1i issues:
- it takes almost 2 minutes to start
- it can be incredible slow (especiallym but not only) if you don’t close open applications
- it’s more difficult to find free applications compared to the P910 (hopefully, this might change with time)
- stupid implementations of various functions, e.g:
WHY can’t I select the time out before the automatic keylock kicks in???
WHY is the navigation in Contacts much better in the P910? P910 had tabs with 3 letters which made it fast&easy to find the entry I wanted, an excellent “Find” function and easy&fast folder selection. With P1i I have to scroll and scroll and scroll…… to find an entry and while there IS a find function, I can not even search all fields in the contacts, only the name… and the folder selection? Hidden away with other functions under “More”…
A nice new feature is the (up to 15) icons on the “home screen”. But WHY 15?? Why can’t I decide myself?? Why not 5, 10, 45??? combined with a smart scroll function.

Hopefully, in the future new SW versions will correct some of this but so far no updated versions has been made available… Maybe the philosofy of SE is that “Hey, why bother upgrade the SW? The suckers already PAID for the phones and soon we can sell them another one! With non compatible cables, connectors, adapters etc, etc…..)

Btw: see also the comments and blog of Sergey Zak above. Right on the spot.