Short review of using P1i for 1 week after flashing to chinese support :

1) the phone do feel a bit slow compare to english firmware. Its only very minimal. Not significant at all.

2) handwriting of chinese is just awesome. Eventhough u write in tradition chinese it still recognise and display it in simplified character. (the phone only support simplified chinese).

3) didnt try out pinyin and stroke... handwriting is more than enough.

4) there is a function to call My words not sure what is it maybe for us to add in new words ?

5) SMS function come with bold, large/small size font and smiley, but it make no different as the recipient cant see the different (maybe the recipient need to be P1i as well)

6) handwriting of english is slow, on screen keyboard is much more faster. The qwerty keyboard... arrr.....still need some time to get more time to practice.

7) battery life : normal usage sms, bluetooth, call.. will last u about 2 days. To improve battery life try to switch off bluetooth, 3G and wlan and close all program that are still running in the background if u dont use it (especially 3D Golf)

8) business card scanner: its basically a black and white scanner c/w OCR, can scan chinese as well. This function works find, most of the time u still need to edit the info after scan. A scan copy of the business card will appear in you phone book. The is really useful.

9) this phone is using the newer version of UIQ 3, therefore most of the old UIQ 3 games dont support.

Overall this phone is superb, no regret buying it. high quality build, elegant design.

still rather confused...so with english firmware, i can read chinese but not write?? not even with pinyin?
kinda troublesome thinking about getting a chinese firmware update.....

you are rite... touch screen is the main reason..
but another is wat 'fx_53_xt' said battery life

Yes, with english firmware u can read chinese but not write. With chinese firmware u can read/write both english and chinese.

i think we have to wait its firmware to be more stable...
would it hang???

So u guys prefer AP or the Ori set???
The diff is huge leh....

haha.. mostly i'll will say Ori.. .coz LCD and touchscreen also cos around RM500 liao... haha...
you like lo... anything goes wrong in ur AP set then you cry...
cos you know la.. AP warranty doesn't cover all...

ya, i read in one of those handphone magazines lately...some guy's phone jogdial (not sure which, but had jogdial) was faulty but when went back to the AP company, they check and claim that it is user-inflicted, so no waranty... obviously AP company trying to push away the responsilibility, i mean how can u tell if the jogdial is faulty bcos of manufacturing or user damage??

So far I on the phone 24 hrs a day and it did not hang or auto restart. Should be quite stable.

Better opt for original as the Touchscreen LCD doesnt come cheap

yes better Ori...
Touch screen i remember some one did mention around RM200 and LCD around RM250~300...

still waiting for my budget... haha...
or wait wait wait... playing the waiting game until better phone come out.... hmmm
but i have to buy anotehr phone 1st...

This post has been edited by michael9413: Sep 24 2007, 01:11 PM

wait for the w960i..then see what happens to the price of this one

Yeah, you have a point there b'coz the LCD and touchscreen thingy is costly to replace and sometimes if we happen to buy a problematic set, then die. If for ordinary cheapo models, AP sets are fine since they can be repaired easily by any shops. Honestly, the price for P1i is less stable than P990i, within a few months, the price has dropped to so much. I guess it will be only RM1000 plus when W960i hits the market. That's the one I'm waiting for.

Wanted to buy P1i initially but they keypad is too hard to use, I'm not used to it so I give up, better go for some old school keypads instead which will be more user friendly.

imho the R6E30 is stable enough. just some very minor bug need to be sorted out

don make me heart broken.
i wasn't really rational when i purchased the phone and if the price drop drastically i'll suicide.

LOL, opinions like that are what makes the p1i price drop certain after w960i is released

ermm...can i have ur phone then??

Well, buy whenever you're ready.

The current firmware is dead stable. No hangs at all during my 1 week of usage! And I don't restart my phone at all.

I also didn't install Swiss Manager, yet. Yet it's still rock stable!

guys
any comments on videos played on this phone?

thans for your comment..
get one when i really want it... coz still buying something for my gf...

What is latest firmware version ?

no complain for the video playing on this device judged by the video encoded by M3. it's my lil portable jukebox to some extent

latest is R6E30 which is released roughly a month ago

looking forward to getting a p1i soon..
jus wondering if the touch screen is finger sensitive... as in the touchscreen can be operated by fingers instead of stylus without hassle. any comments? (comparing with HTC TOUCH which is finger friendly on the screen)

and i cant seem to find any D-pad on the p1i. does this means dat all the navigation must be done on the touchscreen? does it performs well ?

lastly, text input!!. how many types of text input is available? eg. qwerty? summore?

thanx in advance guys.. hope to join this club soon!