I think this is a really good phone, given that is is also a PDA.
Battery Life is very good for a phone like this, calls are always clear, and the reception is also good.
I have had this phone a while, and would recommend it, if you can get one now.

Upgraded to the Sony Ericsson P800 from a Nokia 6100. Although this phone has been around for a while it is still very good. Most of the early glitches appear to have been sorted out by successive software modifications and my phone has only crashed once since I bought it.
The phone syncs effectively with outlook allowing me to keep my calendar and contacts on my phone at all times - which I have found to be one of the most useful functions on the phone.
Being able to surf the internet on the large screen is also a bonus - I can now use streetmap to find myself on the odd occasion I get lost!
As a phone it has good sound quality, but the reception fluctuates quite a bit - although still good it isn't as strong as the Nokia 6100.
All in all though a fantastic piece of gadgetry and I would thoroughly recommend it.

I love this Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone I've owned it since April '03 and I'm still waiting for a better phone to come along (the P900 is not a justifiable upgrade to me) for me to spend my money on. Now its been out for over a year now the ammount of software available is very broad and improving all the time unlike when I first purchased it. The 'real' ringtones as those annoying adverts now advertise are awesome and free once you've learned how to plunder your own CD collection (up to £1.50 per tone!) if you wish to argue this point, vinyl to tape played on a ghetto blaster... mp3 player annoying youth in a cleo/saxo blasting out music...

To summarise the features available on this phone justify the price and your purchasing one. Any short falls should be taken with the point of view that this was the first and still one of the best implimentations of PDA/phone.

I got my Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone in December and it stopped working in January. It took 5 weeks to be "repaired". They sent me a refurbished phone that has given me nothing but problems. The replacement phone has serious power problems and I routinely get strange error messages. It quit working last week. I contacted Sony Ericsson 5 days ago and have had no response from them. Wait until they get the bugs worked out before spending money on this lemon.

My new Sony Ericsson P800 has spent more time in transit and the service centre than it has with me:

1st time the mobile phone completely shuts down and would not switch back on, its taken to walthamstow service centre and it comes back some 7 days later with yet another fault.
That being the camera had a particle of fibre trapped on the inside over the camera lens that probably happened when the engineer accessed the mobile parts. Thus resulting in blurred pictures. By now I was losing faith in this particular unit, reluctantly I had to part with it again. Under the understanding that the phone would not be sent away and would be rectified at the service centre. This was all done through my telephone call to customer services, after a lot of debate with unkind customer services to whom I stressed the importance of being without the phone due to nearing time to leave UK for the visit abroad. I was assured the service centre, would be able to remove the particle obstructing the camera lens at the centre. As they had telephoned Walthamstow service centre and made the arrangements as per our telephone conversation.

2nd visit to the Walthamstow service centre as per arrangement, I am told it has to be sent back to the repairs contrary to as per arrangement. Reluctantly I had to yet again part with the phone, not knowing when or will I be able to take it abroad as the date of travel on the 12th March was nearing.

I receive the phone back in the nick of time, so I thought. This time on our journey to the airport, I discovered the phone actually came back worse than before. This time the Mic was damaged, although I could hear people they could not.
Since then it's completely packed up and sitting here collecting dust!

Only after 4 weeks, my Sony Ericsson P800 switched off and would not switch on again, it's been away 3 times for this fault totalling a period of 6 weeks.

I got my Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone over xmas, ive read up on it and i thought i knew everything about it- wanted one for ages. I keep finding new things out about it the more i use it and its great! Even people with messy handwriting can type text messages with ease-its text recongition i find is excellent, Im a very arty person so i use the jotter a lot to draw skethes and send them to my mates via email or SMS-i think its a very handy and all-round fun mobile phone/best friend! (Ok, im not that sad!)

The feature rich Sony Ericsson P800 delivers with a vibrant 4,096 color display which puts it up there with the likes of the popular Nokia 9200 Communicator series and the Handspring Treo.

As a PDA, it's got everything one would need to function efficiently at home, away, or even in the office. Sony Ericsson upped the ante with the inclusion of new and exciting extras like the CommuniCam and excellent games such as Men In Black 2: Alien and Stunt Car Extreme.

I got this Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone 7 months ago and sony ericsson had it for 4 of these months it was not working as soon as i got it, it switched on and off by its self and wasnt really all that fun it had no games and the internet took a lifetime to get working you also cant get uk sites on it until you download opera (takes AGES!!!!!) if this phone is for someone just for everyday use i would suggest a smaller and lighter handset! (BEWARE!!! IF YOU SEND ANY SONY ERICSSON TO SONYERICSSON DONT EXPECT TO GET IT BACK ANY TIME SOON)

The Sony Ericsson P800 definate buy if you need something to organise your life away from a pc and the functions are superb however the two i've had both crashed and a mystery to sony as they dont ever recolect having heard of this problem (funny my mates p800 did the same thing) Well worth the premium for this must have piece of equipment...

I really like the Sony Ericsson P800 phone but I have had to get a new sim card as mine was too old and wouldn't allow MMS etc.
My main problem is the microphone - it doesn't matter which hand you hold it in you're fingers (right hand) or hand (left hand) block it - when I first got it people were telling me they couldn't hear me and after searching for the microphone I realized what was happening.
It's a major design fault and you have to hold it like you're showing the screen to someone!
Otherwise it's great.

Considering the Sony Ericsson P800 is only a phone its great, But when your reading a review you want to here why so ill tell you , the pictures on my phone have been great and are perfect for collecting memorys you dont want to loose, for example i took many pictures on the london eye and the pictures showed up great,the phone itself stores an incredible amount of memory and allows you to stall loads of pics,i have bout 150 on mine!!.you can even by a seperate memory chip for the phone if you run out of memory. The only thing i can say is that it is imperitave that you do not drop it because the screen is incredibly liable to split of crack, which to be honest is a pain in the bum,because you cannot use the phones functions at all, its even hard to answer calls.
The phone is also developing a wide range of accesories such as
Laser pen,
Blue LED light,
Radio,
Bluetooth headsets,
Flash (light) for pictures in the dark,
the great thing about most sonyericsson phones is that they all have the same charge point on the bottom. which is where all of the accesories are normally fitted to operate. So say Sonyericsson brought out a knew phone charger for the T610, i'd say there would be a 90% chance it would work also on the p800.

the only difficulty i am having with the phone is the internet, its not that its slow or has insufficiant information on it its just for some reason i cannot download anything. This is not the case with all of the p800 because my friends dont seem to have trouble. im on 02 so mabye it has something to do with the service they have given me?? i'll find out! so overall thats the only problem together witht the price £430 or whaqtever it is now, But if you want something that can
Store pictures,
Mp3 files (real songs - including voice)
Internet options,
Good sounding polyphonic ringtones,
Short videos (YOU CANT RECORD yourself but are easily downloaded.) of the computer.
Great organisation skills with loads of memory, then this is the phone for you!!
Hope i have been of some help ,Matt

The Sony Ericsson P800 has absolutely the worst customer service I've ever received. Have had the phone for 6 months and it has not worked from day1 Have spent 20 hours on the phone with Sony and they finally told me 6 months later they would do nothing to fix the fact that I got a lemon. I spent $700 on a phone that doesn't work and Sony just said tough. NEVER BUY A SONY PRODUCT IF YOU WANT ANY SERVICE. THIS IS MY 3RD AND LAST SONY PHONE AS NONE HAVE ACTUALLY WORKED.

I have used the phone for 9 months now. Prob the longest phone i used (changed 10 phones last year).
It does live to its hype about its cool features...however there is ONE big omission from the phone that really makes it irritating and a negative on buyers decision :-

NO T9.

Yup, when your other hand is busy, expect to type every single letter while other phones goes thru the same text via t9 in a breeze. Inexcusable.

The blue tooth support is so-so, I tried nokia 89xx and the sony ericsson blue tooth works better there.

The voice recorder does not work on conversation. However most phones except Siemens lack the wonderful feature of doing so.

All other features of the phone, is GREAT!

I have had the fortune to try several phones recently and have to say the Sony Ericsson P800 is far and away the best. The screen is excellent, with good resolution and layout. The features on this phone are excellent for work and play - you get lots and lots of useful business functions eg schedulers and so on, but also fun stuff such as an MP3 player and integrated camera. Despite looking big, it is actually a light phonee (158g) and is lighter than a Nokia 7650. Battery life is excellent. Call quality is excellent, with clear speech.

I have had no problems connecting my phone with my PC (running Windows XP) - all works well with the supplied software and the USB connection.

I like how you can remove the flip if desired, making the phone entirely touch-screen. The games and ringtones are excellent too!

A lot of thought has clearly gone into designing this phone - from the supplied accessories (stereo headset, spare styli, case, desktop charger/cradle) and documentation to the features on the phone itself. This phone oozes class and style. I have recently used a Samsung S300, Siemens SL55 and Nokia 3650 and have to say this is a much better phone.

This phone represents the first successful blend of a phone, camera, mp3 player and PDA and I can't recommend it highly enough.

If you want a phone that's also a personnel Organizer, Plus have a lot more features than you need then this is the one, but if you run XP, good luck!

Internal arial, I often have people saying to me speak into the phone and its right by my face.
The phone feels like it's pouring radiation into my hand when i hold it.
Night mode on camera is awful.
The P800 has a knack of just switching itself off.
When i'm on the move i lose signal and it doesn't come back unless I switch the phone on and off.

I have had a lot of mobiles but never have I come across something so unbelievably fantastic! It's clean lines and bright colouring make it one of the most desirable mobiles on the market today. The large 4096 colour touch display is just as good if not better than that of any 65k colour phones. The P800 takes personalising your mobile to another level with the ability to create your own screensavers, wallpapers and colour theme. Software is available to turn the already brilliant digital camera into a camcorder. It has a memory stick port, which was brought to the collaberation by Sony, and gives you access to an unlimited amount of memory. You can view microsoft documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) on the P800 making it more like a pc than a phone! There is no end to the possibilities with this phone!

This phone is amazing. I was very unsure about buying one, so I read loads of reviews and made up my own mind. One main problem i had with the P800 was the larger than normal size and of course the price! But after visiting a local phone retailer, I was able to insert my existing sim card and try out the phone in the shop. I was pleasantly suprised by the size, not nearly as big as everyone makes out, although for socialites, I would recommend keeping a smaller (less expensive) phone solely for going out at night. Although, the excellent camera would make deciding to leave it at home a difficult decidsion to make!
The versaltility of this phone has to be it's best feature, the online shop for the P800 (located on Sony Ericsson Page) is great, yes you have to actually pay for some of the software and games but they mostly only cost £3-4 and are really good. As these downloads are solely for the P800 you have no problems with compatibility as you normally have with mobile gaming. The docking station you receive in the box is stylish and doesn't look out of place on your desk. The PC software provided allows you to back up and store all the settings on your phone in case the worst should happen. Most games are downloaded onto your PC and then you install it via the docking station onto the handset. The game or software icon remains on your PC so you can reinstall it as many times as you like allowing you to fully customise your handset. Yuo can send pictures, midi files etc from the PC directly to your phone and it doesn't take forever like you might expenct. To install a game yesterday, it took about 5 mins to download onto Pc which can be done while you are surfing and about 2 mins at the most to put it on the phone.
Initially I thought that actually writing on the touchscreen would be a novelty that would soon wear off but the more I use it the easier and quicker it is. Just read the operating manual before you try or you can get quite disheartened trying to write something. Once you get used to inputting letters numbers and symbols as they want you to it is fantastically quick and easy. (Tip- to delete a character draw a horizontal line to the left like back space) This advice would have saved me many frustrated minutes thinking that i'd bought a piece of crud.
I would highly recommend the P800 for anyone who has a PC and enjoys downloading and customising. If you don't forsee yourself using most of the features as the excel and word viewers then don't waster your money as there are other phones out there which don't cost as much and could probably suit you just as well.
If you can see your self giving the phone a chance and downloading the extras then the P800 is amazing. Oh yeah and the free solitaire game which is preloaded is so addictive it takes classic gaming to a whole mew level!

I hope this has been useful to any prospective buyer and in the end do what you want and make up your own mind.

In my opinion it is a very very unreliable phone