Just be lucky those only work in Europe. I've got both a K610i and P1i, and those are the last SE phones I'll ever buy. Really the only complaint about K610i I've got is that it doesn't support A2DP, otherwise it does what it's supposed to and it does it reasonably well. It's not a smartphone, but I didn't expect it to be (and it still has 3G and such).
P1i, on the other hand, is something else. I found out it can't handle an email account AND syncing the calendar with my computer at the same time. I don't know what those two have to do with each other, but as soon as I removed the email account (by the request from SE support) syncing worked again. With the email account it only synced one-way. And that's supposed to be their flagship smartphone model? Yeah, right. In addition, it's just as slow as the damned Nokia 9300i I replaced it with, it crashes every now and then (and displays "Your phone was restarted automatically to improve the performance".. just when I was writing a message? Rrrright.
If only P1i would sync AND provide email and be juuuust a bit faster and more stable, I probably would say it's the best phone I've ever had. Now it's the reason I'll never buy another SE again. And I thought Nokia phones were crappy.. I've yet to see what I can buy next. :( iPhone might be it, but not as long as they force me to a 2yr slave contract. No phone is good enough to play with Sonera even for a week, not to mention to lousy and expensive plans they offer, not to mention almost nonexistent 3G coverage even in the center of our beautiful(?) capital :P
I thought I'd post this as a warning. Both phones sound nice from the first, but so did P1i. Only after buying it I was told that even though they have iSync plugin on their website they don't really support using Apple machines at all, and that the inability to both sync calendars and read emails on a BUSINESS PHONE is not really a bug, it's a feature. If you want a music player, buy iPod. If you want a phone, buy a phone, don't touch these. (Small wonder their profits are down..)
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Just be lucky those only work in Europe. I've got both a K610i and P1i, and those are the last SE phones I'll ever buy. Really the only complaint about K610i I've got is that it doesn't support A2DP, otherwise it does what it's supposed to and it does it reasonably well. It's not a smartphone, but I didn't expect it to be (and it still has 3G and such).
P1i, on the other hand, is something else. I found out it can't handle an email account AND syncing the calendar with my computer at the same time. I don't know what those two have to do with each other, but as soon as I removed the email account (by the request from SE support) syncing worked again. With the email account it only synced one-way. And that's supposed to be their flagship smartphone model? Yeah, right. In addition, it's just as slow as the damned Nokia 9300i I replaced it with, it crashes every now and then (and displays "Your phone was restarted automatically to improve the performance".. just when I was writing a message? Rrrright.
If only P1i would sync AND provide email and be juuuust a bit faster and more stable, I probably would say it's the best phone I've ever had. Now it's the reason I'll never buy another SE again. And I thought Nokia phones were crappy.. I've yet to see what I can buy next. :( iPhone might be it, but not as long as they force me to a 2yr slave contract. No phone is good enough to play with Sonera even for a week, not to mention to lousy and expensive plans they offer, not to mention almost nonexistent 3G coverage even in the center of our beautiful(?) capital :P
I thought I'd post this as a warning. Both phones sound nice from the first, but so did P1i. Only after buying it I was told that even though they have iSync plugin on their website they don't really support using Apple machines at all, and that the inability to both sync calendars and read emails on a BUSINESS PHONE is not really a bug, it's a feature. If you want a music player, buy iPod. If you want a phone, buy a phone, don't touch these. (Small wonder their profits are down..)