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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Calendar Events Missing Fortnightly Repeat Frequency

The Sony Ericsson P1i has a great Calendar feature that syncronises appointments and reminders with Outlook 2007, I use it as part of my day-to-day event management and it’s quite effective to have on me at all times. My grief with it is the lack of a fortnightly repeat frequency, it seems more and more workplaces [...]
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Installing i-nigma QR smart code Reader on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Encoded QR smart code

[/caption] QR codes (known as ‘Quick Response’ barcodes) are being used extensively in Australian mobile marketing campaigns to distribute mobile content downloads, promotional messages or links to mobile micro-sites. QR codes can now be decoded using the 3.2 mega-pixel camera on the Sony Ericsson P1i with a free third-party [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

P1i Theme Releases for 09/03

GlassFX Tree + GlassFX Grass
[/caption] My default theme for the Sony Ericsson P1i, the attention to detail is staggering. Urban Fashion

Urban Fashion by UIQ Technology

GlassFX Tree + GlassFX Grass by sw0rn

UIQ Black Build

UIQ Black Build by UIQ Technology

[/caption] UIQ Wave
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Wait for the Sony Ericsson X1 Continues

Sony Ericsson X1. Photo by LetsGoDigital Early August has already past us by and Sony Ericsson are yet to ease the anxiousnous of waiting for the immediate worldwide release of the new X1 model. I have checked the Sony Ericsson X1 product page on a weekly basis and the “X1 is coming soon.” message is still boldly [...]
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sony Ericsson P1i Rejected SMS floods Inbox Bug

I’ve known about this issue for some time affecting the Sony Ericsson P1i but never published the article. Sending a SMS from a pre-paid account with insufficient credit creates a error report loop that is very difficult to escape as new error report messages flood the Inbox. This SMS rejection flood bug affects the latest Australian [...]
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Installing themes on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Visitors have encountered problems installing custom themes on their Sony Ericsson P1i, I want to clear this up by explaining step-by-step what to do so we can move onto more exciting topics! Download your UIQ 3.1 theme As your Sony Ericsson P1i is built on the UIQ 3.1mobile platform is makes use of standard *.utz files for [...]
Friday, May 16, 2008

Uninstall an application from the Sony Ericsson P1i

conditioner3 asked… how can we delete unused applications installed on P1i? It turns out the Sony Ericsson P1i does have an uninstaller for removing software/applications you no longer require in your phone memory. The Uninstall feature can be accessed from: Open Main Menu Open Control Panel Open Other Open Uninstall Select the application you would like to uninstall from the list Press Uninstall Press [...]

Disable the call-screen suburb/area tower name

Antu28 asked… how to disable area selection in Sony Ericsson P1i model which comes in main screen below the Network Name? This one’s easy! Open Main Menu Open Control Panel Open Messaging Open Area Information Uncheck the fields Cell information and Area information Press Done I’m not sure why Sony Ericsson decided to place this function in Messaging on the Sony Ericsson P1i but [...]
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Flash Lite Coming to the Sony Ericsson P1i

Project Capuchin brings the ability to integrate Flash Lite technology into Java ME packages. In summary, a whole bag of fun is on the way for Sony Ericsson P1i and UIQ 3 users. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication today announced plans to release a new technology that, for the first time, bridges the Abobe® Flash Lite™ and [...]
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Connecting the Sony Ericsson P1i to a video projector over Wireless LAN

avreen asked whether this was possible on the existing Sony Ericsson FAQ page, I had to call upon Kwok from p1iblog to help take on this challenge. I don’t have access to a video projector so this is merely a concept, but we’re both confident this is very doable. Let me know how you get on. Download [...]