is the p800 worth selling my 9290 for?

i might be bias here to say Y E A H ! ! ! 😃

But seriously, I your current phone dont have the things you've listed, then I think yes. BTW, you might still be able to go for trade-in, if you have that in your area, since your phone is still quite brand new.

Go on, get a P800, you know you want it really.
You do want it, don't you, sir?
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I had the 9000,9110,9210(9290 US) & 9210i.

well I still have the 9210i I I would see if the P800 was the right phone before I dumped my trusty Nokia. I have not used my 9210 since I have had the P800.

It all depends what you excpect from a phone, the 92xx is more of a business phone, the handwriting req on the p800 is great but you cant beat a keyboard.

The Office apps( word, excel ) are good on the 92xx an area the p800 lacks until quickoffice is released.

Then theres FAX, could come in software form on the P800.

The size is smaller build is a little less solid than the 92xx.

The gameboy emulator is OK but control is very hard without keys.

The main thing I like about the P800 over the 92xx is the GPRS, first real usable web access. Also you can just keep opening apps and the phone handles it very well, the 92xx would get to many memory problems if 2 or 3 things were open.

The P800 is not perfect in some ways its a step sidways but in others a step up. I would not go back to the Communicator series unless they put a faster P800 with more memory inside a nokia case.

The P800 is not a replacement for a 9210/9290.

No Word editor!
No Table Editor!
No Converter from txt to MS Word, Excel etc.
(Strange enough as word/table had been standard on Symbian Epoc R5 from the beginning.

If you do not need these i wonder why you ever used a 9210.
Maybe you get a P800 and a Psion Revo (Diamond Mako), a Sharp Zaurus ??700 with keyboard or a sub-notebook with bluetooth.

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Then theres FAX, could come in software form on the P800.
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P800 doesn't support fax transmission, software could not be produced.

The only way I can think of is Fax-2-Email, but then you will need a .tif viewer to see the image 😃

I've only just recently got a 9210i, and have been using a P800 over 2 months, I must say the 9210i is handy for office type work, writing documents and more of a proper PDA...but it's hugely underpowered when compared with the P800.

I'd say the P800 is a good stepping stone from the 9210, but don't expect it to be the all singing all dancin' PDA which the 9210 does so well.

But it's great for other things that the 9210 isn't so good at, Games, MP3....more of a multimedia phone than the 9210. 😊

😉 How bout owning both??? both are cool actually...
u should keep your 9210i as u havent played much with it yet...

unlike myself, i've been playing with it since 2001... it's about time for migration... hehehe... but still, i keep my 9210 for sentimental value...

I had a Nokia 9110 followed by the 9210, which I still (just) own. The main drawback for me was lack of Tri-band - I actually bought a Motorola Timeport some time ago (cheap on Ebay, otherwise I'd have bought a T68...) as a 'weekend phone' and one for use in the US.

Since buying my P800 3 weeks ago I've not touched my 9210. Granted the P800 does not have MS Word compatibility, but there's jText (freeware), so you can write notes that can be pulled over to a PC. Granted the on-screen keyboard is substantially slower than writing on a Nokia, and I haven't got to grips with the handwriting recognition, although admittedly have not really tried in earnest.

I made the decision yesterday to sell my 9210 as I've not needed to use it. I'm on Orange, so ported my fax number (from O2) over to their fax answer service, which gets around the no fax problem. (For those that don't know, Orange stores the faxes like a voicemail - you dial in and input a number where you want your held faxes forwarded to. For me that wil be my PC. As I only receive 1-2 faxes a month this is adequate.

Bottom line is this:

If you get a lot of faxes, don't travel to the US and do a lot of writing on the Communicator, keep it. If you use the Internet quite a lot, want a faster, smaller device with a built in camera, bluetooth, MP3, Movies (better than the 9210) and better games then the P800 wins.

I've always hailed the 9210 as the best phone on the market, but I am now a convert to SE until Nokia actually deliver a communicator that actually has everything on that it should. (I still never understood why it was not tri-band).

Hope this helps!

Hi all,

Are u really sure about this no Fax,
It's difficult for me to think that such an advance phone could not get with a Soft,
What I can really complain is that there few applications out there
No office Soft, (No fax!) Soft, No Camcorder Soft, No Map Soft,
No soft and site for audio, video stream over the Internet supporting all formats,
I wonder why it should be so difficult to convert this Soft from other Symbian Phones
Otherwise the SE P800 is a cool product, (It could be redefine PortableMediaPCPhone)
😃 😊 😃 :bday: 😮lympic: 😛opcorn: :halfrobot:

Thanks

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Re no fax: Don't know whether it is or is not technically possible to receive faxes on the P800 with the right software, but with Orange you have the capability to store faxes along with voicemail then re-route to wherever you are. If you don't receive many faxes it'd be OK. But this does leave you without a send facility - AT THE MOMENT. Are there any SE gurus out there that can confirm/deny that the P800 could physically send/receive faxes with the right software? Are there any hardware issues?

Re Camcorder software: Rumour has it (according to this and other forums) that there will be a Camcorder functions, as SE have released the API for the camera.

Re no map software: As the P800 has GPRS I'd use one of the many map websites out there, such as Maporama.com, Mapquest.com or Streetmap.co.uk. I did email TomTom who said that they don't have plans to release Citymaps on the P800, but maybe they'll do it if they get enough interest.

Re no office software: The viewer will read MS Word, Excel and PDF. I just use jText to write flat text files if I need a word processor on the move. Again, this forum mentions that an office product is in development. As the P800 is a much faster beast than the 9210 (and I speak from experience here!) I'm sure that there will be an app available soon that will be better than the one on the 9210.

Re streaming video. Well, it's not 3G, but there is a video product out there that does allow streaming on the P800, although it's a proprietary format. Surely a codec for WMA wouldn't be that hard to develop? And that could stream over GPRS?

Give it a few months and I'm sure that there will be a lot of killer apps for the P800.

It technically isn't possible for the P800 to receive faxes, the internal modem doesn't support this sort of data transmission.