Sony Ericsson P900 information

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

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

The
P900 can connect to a PC via Bluetooth , infrared or by cable. Here
is a summary of how to connect your P900 to your PC:

• 
  IR connection. From the P900
  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 P900.
  There are several IR adapters available, including the pictured
  ‘USB-IRDA Adaptor’ from Maplin Electronics (Cat no: RV88V).
  
  
  
• 
  Bluetooth connection. From the P900 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 P900 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 P900.
  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 P900. 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 P900 can be found in the ‘Beamed’ folder of
the Messaging application.

The SonyEricsson
PC Suite for the P900 can be downloaded from the SonyEricsson
Global Support site in a variety of languages

The
P900 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.

If you
don’t have the ability to beam files to the P900 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 P900).
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 P900 to logon to your email
and download the SIS file as an attachment into your P900 Messaging
application.

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

The
P900 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
*

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 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

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.