Battery Life

Nokia 7380 is equipped with Standard Battery BL-8N 700 mAh batteries that used to give about 180 minutes of GSM talk time and can be active in stand by mode for about 240 hours (more than 10 days) in a single battery charging.



Talking of the battery talk time, the battery is somewhat good than the battery of Motorola E770 by providing 10 minutes more talk time in a single charge, but the battery is as poor as Nokia 3250 giving the same talk time. I think that most of the batteries are giving over 200 and 300 minutes of talk time, consider Motorola Razr V3x that gives 300 minutes of talk time and even Nokia’s brands Nokia E-60 and Nokia E-61 used to give about 400 hours. The battery in Nokia 7380 can never challenge the batteries of Sony Ericsson’s brands which used to give about 3 times more time, e.g. Sony Ericsson P990.

Memory

Motorola Rokr has only 75 MB of built-in internal memory that is shared among all of the applications like text messages, multimedia messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list etc. There is a MiniSD card slot available to extend the memory. Using the extension slot you can extend the memory up to 2GB or more. Nokia E-70 supports “Hot Swap” for easy MiniSD card insertion and removal. Hot swapping is the feature that enables the handset to swap out one memory card for another without removing the battery.



Nokia E-70 has the same internal available memory as Nokia E-61 has, 75 MB, but I would definitely say that Sony Ericsson wins in this bout as well by providing more internal memory than Nokia E-70 like Sony Ericsson P990 provides 80 MB of free memory, Sony EricssonW550 has 256 MB of internal memory and Sony Ericsson W900 has 470 MB of internal memory. So Nokia needs to think over the available memory in the handsets because I think that this is the maximum internal memory which Nokia has provided in any handset.

Wi-Fi

Although Wi-Fi in the handsets is a new technology but Sony Ericsson P990 is equipped with Wi-Fi support, so no need to worry. The smartphone handset supports Wi-Fi 802.11b, and now this handset can be a big rival of the Nokia E-Series and N-Series in the coming days.

Browsing Support

Sony Ericsson P990 was made while considering the needs of business users. So Sony Ericsson was up to the mark in assisting the users to keep in touch with the outer world via internet.

Sony Ericsson P990 supports WAP 2.0, xHTML, and HTML multimode browser to facilitate the internet browsing. This is not all, the smart phone also support Opera 8.0 browser that is capable to support framed and JavaScript, this is definitely a new feature at its own which will definitely facilitate the internet lovers.

General

On 10th October 2005, Sony Ericsson announced to launch next generation smartphone having Symbian Operating System. Sony Ericsson P990 will be the first ever handset that will be available commercially adopting Symbian Operating System Version 9.1 and UIQ-3 Software platform.

Sony Ericsson P990 is a tri band GSM handset supporting GSM 900, GSM 1800, and GSM 1900 along with the support of UMTS (3G) network. The handset will be available commercially for shipping during First Quarter 2006.

Sony Ericsson P990 is available in a single stylish color, Premium Silver. Hopefully Sony Ericsson will manage to launch the handset in other different colors as well.