Sony Ericsson’s P1 Smartphone Gets Rid of the QWERTY

The first thing that reminds you of Sony Ericsson’s newly announced smartphoneis the keypad. It resembles the M600i, which is the kind of good-looking phone, which almost makes you forgot that it’s one of those mid-range phones that do not have a camera. The P1, though, is in the same line as the P800, P900, P910 and P990.This is Sony Ericsson’s next generation smartphone and improves on everything except for the absence of a QWERTY keyboard. The P1 is a Symbian 9.1 smartphone with UIQ 3.1 interface. It’s 2.6 touch screen should be just a tad better than Sony Ericsson’s previous PDA-like smartphone. It’s a 3G triband GSM, GPRS and a UMTS 2100. It supports both 802.11b and 802.11g WiFi with VoIP support. It doesn’t have HSDPA, however. Onboard is an Opera web browser, push email, RSS reader and basically all the other functionality that you were used to in the P910 and P990. It’s a Sony Ericsson smartphone with the form factor of the M600i plus a 3.2MP camera, which should make it among the most attractive high-end phones when it becomes available Q3. Press Release