Features: Sony Ericsson has launched its much awaited P990i smartphone in India. The P990i will be the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform. This flagship UMTS smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled, has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and features a new hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad.

The P990i is the next in line of the very successful Sony Ericsson P910i and is based on the same proven concept and recognisable form factor. The P990i is designed to be a great mobile phone alongwith the benefits of UMTS including video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. These are viewed in landscape on the new Opera 8 browser. In addition, the P990i is prepared for all major push e-mail clients enabling full e-mail access with attachments, anywhere, anytime.

It has an internal memory of 80 MB, which is expandable via Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo cards upto 4GB. A 64 MB Memory Stick PRO Duo is included in the box, preloaded with a VPN client and trial version of a virus scan package.

Writing e-mails is easier as it has a large 2.8 inch QVGA touch screen. It enables the user to browse the Internet, send and receive files at the same time while talking and all this is possible due to the enhanced capabilities of the new software platform.

The 2 Megapixel camera with autofocus, digital zoom, photo light plus the bright TFT screen and video recording provide a high quality imaging experience. 

The smartphone is based on Java Platform 3 (JP-3). It supports four new Java Specification Requests (JSR's) including Web Services (JSR-172) and is the twentieth phone from Sony Ericsson supporting Mobile Java™ 3D, demonstrating the company's leadership in this new technology. Standard Java™ applications can be run with either the flip-down keypad open or closed.

Price: It will be available at leading mobile outlets across the country at an estimated street price of Rs. 37,000/-