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My new P900 - experiences
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Posted by: mwillems

[repost from sony-ericsson forum - I was told that was the wrong place]

I bought a P900 yesterday - here are my experiences and questions.

I have little time, so this is a bit rambling and is in purely random order - apologies:

Q: Can I get the camera etc to save stuff on the memory stick by default? My phone memory is almost full already and manual copying is tedious. Does anyone know??

BUGS: I have the Chinese/UK English version and it has annoying bugs. Set to English but still the folder name "UNFILED" only appears in Chinese! Set keyboard and jot to English but still it switches to Chinese all the time.

BUG? The keyboard locks, or does not lock, when you close the flip. Never able to predict when it will lock and when not.

Also the CD's come up in Chinese and you CAN switch to English but only if you know how "Select language" looks in Chinese (which I do not - I had to guess).

BIG ISSUE: I do not have Outlook but only Outlook express. I hate Outlook and use OpenOffice, not MS Office - but Sony/Ericsson do not supply a PIM. I have NO synching of anything except addresses now., Big issue, meaning my Palm will have to remain my PDA.

Menus are OK. Not as good as the Palm - some here said "users will find nothing lacking" but I cannot accept that: for a power user, this is fairly basic.

User Interface is wonky: takes forever to learn to do some simple things. But you get used to it. But please - Sony, read the standard computer User Interface (UI) books! A popup should always have an OK or Cancel, etc.

Still - it beats carrying two boxes. One is good!

More experiences later

Michael

Posted by: bcaslis

When in flip open mode, go to the top right menu and select a folder there. The files will be saved in that folder.

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Originally posted by mwillems
Q: Can I get the camera etc to save stuff on the memory stick by default? My phone memory is almost full already and manual copying is tedious. Does anyone know??

Posted by: mwillems

Fantastic. And it keeps that setting as well. Incredible how I missed that.