Smooth Video Playback on the Sony Ericcson P1i

Time to confess, we’ve all done it. Copied a video that plays fine on the computer yet shutters, skips and pops as soon as it hits your Sony Ericsson P1i. There is a fix. Limited system resources to decode large video files is one gotcha, the fact I broadcast audio to a Bluetooth headset makes the ‘shutter, skip, pop‘ effect even more annoyingly obvious.

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Sony Ericsson P1i FAQ Launches

The Sony Ericsson P1i FAQ and Sony Ericsson P1i Forum are online.

If you have any questions about the Sony Ericsson P1i - from loading music onto your mobile to building UIQ themes - this is the place to ask. Drop in a request that you’d like answered, even the simplest questions will be seen to.

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Wireless Winamp with the Sony Ericsson P1i

Wireless Winamp on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Wireless Winamp for the Sony Ericsson P1i

The Sony Ericsson P1i is equip with 801.11b wireless network support, so you can browse the internet, check your e-mails and update your feeds - without using a paid 3G or GPRS mobile connection - simply by connecting to established home and office wireless networks.

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Vibrating Selection keys on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Switch on the Sony Ericsson P1i vibrating Selection keys option so that every time you press on the bottom-bar buttons (Calls - Select - More) the phone goes into the motions and vibrates. It makes using your phone fun!

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Sony Ericsson P1i Wont Play Music In-call

Grrr… sucks!

My brother pranked my phone this morning, you pick up and a girl comes on and starts talking dirty with you. She wants to meet and stuff.  At the end of it you’re left wondering ‘what in hell’ until someone (usually witin the next minute, or end of the day) tells you it was an automated conversation; an MP3 played over the call to fool you.

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Motorola S805 meets the Sony Ericsson P1i

First major upgrade for the P1i has to be putting those tinny provided air-buds in the bin and getting serious with quality headphones, welcome the entry level Motorola S805 Bluetooth DJ Headphones, snap it up from $120 AUD and upwards.

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Handwriting on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Handwriting for the P1i is an art, there I said it! You either get it or you don’t, and for about a fortnight I had no freaking idea what was going through the UIQ departments heads when they did handwriting for mobiles!

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Making the Sony Ericsson P1i apart of your Mobile Experience

It doesn’t take long for Sony Ericsson’s new flagship smart-phone the P1i to make a heavy impact on day to day mobile activities. This is my second smart-phone after retiring my i-mate after a night of clubbing; PDA’s don’t take kindly to falls, or being trampled on!

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Interaction and Touch Screen on the Sony Ericcson P1i

Hidden in the top-left of the phone is the stylus pointer used for navigating the Symbian powered touch system, an alternative approach for right handers is to grow out your right hand thumb and index finger nails, file them both to a point and leave your stylus in it’s bay! Works a treat and you’ll never lose your stylus.

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Keyboard and Navigation on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Writing on the keyboard as a first time QWERTY mobile user is a very foreign experience, my first 100 character SMS must have taken 10 minutes to type out, but with a bit of time this new method becomes very intuitive and there’s no going back. The P1i sports dual-function keys - each key has a left and right function to it - coined ‘rocker’ keys, an example is the 3 keys on the keyboard “QW ER TY”; 3 keys with 6 functions.

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