Decent BBC news article on the hot smartphone of the moment, the P800 from Sony Ericsson and the wide array of features it has:
The P800 unquestionably boasts a tantalising array of features. It has a built-in digital camera, video player, an MP3 player, a personal organiser with a colour touchscreen. It boasts polyphonic sound, picture messaging, java and Bluetooth. You can also play 3D games in “widescreen” format using the on-screen touch controls and you might actually forget it is a tri-band mobile phone that also supports high-speed data via GPRS. It is the mobile equivalent of the Swiss Army knife. You almost expect it to have a tool for taking the stones out of horses’ hooves. The question is whether the P800’s alluring feature-set can protect it from the competition it faces on the High Street.
What’s a bit odd about this piece is that the author then goes on to compare the P800 to Palm’s new Tungsten T, and to two Pocket PCs, Dell’s Axim and HP’s iPAQ H5450. Now, not to be one of those people, but wouldn’t it make more sense to compare the P800, which is a combination phone/PDA, with other gadgets that are also combination phone/PDAs, like Palm’s new Tungsten W or the Pocket PC Phone?
