Sony Ericsson P910i Information

The P910i
is an evolution of the P900 smartphone.
It’s slightly smaller and lighter, and is powered by Symbian OS
v7 (UIQ 2.1). It’s a combined mobile phone, camera and PDA.

Prices:

• Available
  on contact for free on some networks – see MobileShop

March 2006 – SonyEricsson P990i now available!

See our pages on P900 connectivity, and using WAP on a P900

The P910 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 P910. See our P900 connectivity page for more details.
For details of AOL and Hotmail, see the dedicated FAQ below.

The P910 can connect to a PC via Bluetooth , infrared or by cable. Here is a summary of how to connect your P910 to your PC:

• IR connection. From the P910i menu, go to ‘Control panel’, move to the ‘Connections’ tab and select ‘Infrared’ – from here, select "PC connect" and "On" 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 P910.
  There are several IR adapters available, including the pictured ‘USB-IRDA Adaptor’ from Maplin Electronics (Cat no: RV88V).
  
  
  
• Bluetooth connection. From the P910 menu, go to ‘Control panel’, move to the ‘Connections’ tab and select ‘Bluetooth’. From here, set Bluetooth "On", then move to the ‘Devices’ tab. This should show you all Bluetooth devices in range. If your PC isn’t shown, press ‘Add’ and let the P910 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 P910.
  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 available for around £15 from amazon.co.uk.
  
• 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 P910. 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 P910 can be found in the ‘Beamed’ folder of the Messaging application.

The SonyEricsson PC Suite for the P910 can be downloaded from the SonyEricsson Global Support site in a variety of languages

The P910 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.

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If you don’t have the ability to beam files to the P910 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 P910).
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 P910 to logon to your email and download the SIS file as an attachment into your P910 Messaging application.

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

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

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

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

The P910i has a ‘hidden’ service menu that allows you to access serial numbers, test options and a way to 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
*

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.

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.