SonyEricsson: P800 Smartphone

The SonyEricsson
P800 is powered by Symbian OS v7 (UIQ), and is a combined mobile
phone and PDA.

The P800 is a tri-band GPRS phone with
Bluetooth, a colour touchscreen,
digital camera (like the Nokia 7650),
and has screen dimensions of 208×320. Memory expansion is via
a Memory Stick Duo slot
(the phone is supplied with a 16MB card)

Physical dimensions: 118 x 59 x 27 mm, weight 158g with the flip

Battery life: Talk time up to 13 hours. Standby up to 400 hours

Availability: This phone was released in March 2003, and
has now been superseded by the P910i.

It’s possible to use your P800 to
connect to the Internet to browse the web via the built-in browser,
check your POP or IMAP email, and look up WAP sites.

See our pages on P800 connectivity,
and using WAP on a P800

The
P800 lets you access your email via POP3 or IMAP (typically what
you use with Outlook Express). You can send and receive email
using a standard dial-up service, or over GPRS.
We’ve created a page dedicated to getting up-and-running with
email on a P800. See our P800 connectivity
page for more details.
For details of AOL and
Hotmail, see the dedicated FAQ below.

The P800
can connect to a PC via Bluetooth (P800 conforms to Bluetooth
v1.0), infrared or by cable. Here is a summary of how to connect your P800
to your PC:

• 
  IR connection.
  From the P800 menu, go to ‘Control panel’, select ‘Settings’
  and ‘Infrared’ to turn the phone’s IR on. Line up the phone
  with the PC infrared port, and Windows should detect the handset.
  Then, use the Sony Ericsson connectivity package to select the
  file you want to send to the P800.
  There are several IR adapters available, including the pictured
  ‘USB-IRDA Adaptor’ from Maplin Electronics (Cat no: RV88V).
• 
  Bluetooth connection. From the P800 menu, go to ‘Control panel’, select
  ‘Settings’ and ‘Bluetooth’. From the ‘Settings’ tab, set ‘Operation
  mode’ to "On", then move back to the ‘Devices’ tab.
  This should show you all Bluetooth devices in range. If your
  PC isn’t shown, press ‘Add’ and let the P800 search for the
  PC connection. When the phone and PC are paired, use the Sony
  Ericsson connectivity package to select the file you want to
  send to the P800.
  If your PC doesn’t support Bluetooth, then you can add it cheaply and easily using a USB
  Bluetooth adapter. We recommend the Belkin
  USB Bluetooth adapter
  
• 
  Memory card reader.
  If you don’t want to beam files from your PC to the phone, another
  option is to make use of the Memory Stick slot in the P800.
  Get hold of a Memory card reader for around £20 and copy files onto a Memory Stick card plugged
  into your PC. Find out more on our Memory
  card page.

Files received
on the P800 can be found in the ‘Beamed’ folder of the Messaging
application.

The SonyEricsson
PC Suite for the P800 can be downloaded from the SonyEricsson
Global Support site in a variety of languages

The
P800 has built-in support for Bluetooth for wireless file transfer,
copying files to and from a PC, and beaming of business cards and
other files to other mobile phone/PDA users. Access to the Bluetooth
settings screen is done via the menu’s Control panel option, and
the "Bluetooth" option under the ‘Connections’ tab.

For more on Bluetooth, see our dedicated Bluetooth
page.  

Once you have taken a
picture on your phone, there are three ways to get the files from
your phone to other people or computers:

1. You can copy it to
   your PC with the Sony Ericsson software supplied on the CD .
   Depending on what you have connected to your computer, you can
   use cable, Infrared or Bluetooth. Set your PC to receive files
   (using the IR or Bluetooth software supplied with your adapter),
   select the photo to send, then select "Send as" from
   the menu.
2. You can use the Messaging
   application and email the picture to yourself (or a friend)
3. Send the picture to
   another mobile using MMS. Costs of sending
   pictures by MMS differ depending on which network operator you’re
   with. Take a look at our MMS page for
   more.

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If you’re finding that only the person’s number is being displayed
even though you have the name entered in Contacts, this is probably
because you have the number in the phone twice (perhaps once on
the phone memory and once on the SIM card – in this case, the phone
doesn’t know which entry to use.

1. Go to main application screen
2. Select ‘View’ from the menu
3. Select ‘System information’ (there are two
   pages of info)

If you don’t
have the ability to beam files to the P800 via Bluetooth
or infrared (either from another handheld device or from a PC),
then you may wish to purchase an IRDA or Bluetooth adapter for
your PC (this means you’ll be able to install software, backup
and synchronise your P800).
The alternative, is to email the file that you’re trying to install,
typically a SIS (Symbian installation file) to your own email
account, and then use your P800 to logon to your email (details)
and download the SIS file as an attachment into your P800 Messaging
application.

Many files
are distributed in a compressed form (using the ZIP file format).

The
P800 has a ‘hidden’ service menu that allows you to access serial
numbers and format the Internal drive. This can be accessed by closing
the flip, then following this sequence:

Jog-Dial up
*
Jog-Dial down
Jog-Dial down
*
Jog-Dial down
*

Hotmail and AOL use proprietary email systems,
as opposed to the more common POP email systems – this makes it tricky to access mail on a mobile device. For email on the move,
consider using a standard POP3 provider such as BT Yahoo (see setup details) that offers free email accounts that can be configured on mobile phone email programs.

If you
want to access your Hotmail or AOL email, there are a few options:

• General: Try using a web browser on your phone (such as the Opera browser) to access Hotmail / AOL’s service via their webmail
  interface.
• Hotmail: Use
  the built-in WAP browser and from ‘Services’, enter the URL http://mobile.msn.com , and you’ll be able to access
  your Hotmail mail via WAP. There are some complications with
  this option, which we’ve detailed on our WAP
  page
• AOL:
  We’ve also been directed to
  an AOL
  Mail FAQ that suggests that a suitable email program can be configured to get email access via
  IMAP (as opposed to POP3). Many smartphones and PDAs support IMAP (check in the email section). For devices that don’t support IMAP, you can download one from Handango
• AOL: A posting
  in our forum suggests another option: Open AOL. Go to AOL
  Keyword. Type ‘AOL Mobile’ . Open AOL on your Mobile. Under
  Get Started, Open ‘Sign up now’.

For
more help, see our Connected? page

Rather than the software
that came as standard with the phone, there’s a rather useful
third-party application called Oxygen II– This application supports Contacts, Calendar,
Messaging and file management.
For details of how this works, take a look at our Oxygen
page