Sony Ericsson G900 review: Symbian smartphone (See all reviews)

The phonebook hasn’t seen many changes compared to older models but, nevertheless it’s quite good, and you can store details about almost anything to each contact. If the option isn’t there, you can just add the information in the contact’s note. The manufacture has really thought about everything.

Each particular contact can contain any number of various numbers, the first entered is set as the default number. Extra entries above those, which are available in the standard view, can be added via the menu. The general list displays details on particular numbers via horizontal scrolling and right here you’ll see extra information on the contact, like e-mail address company, job title etc.

One thing you should bear in mind is that search is only done by the first name, no matter in what manner is the phonebook arranged, so if you have chosen to see last names first the filtering will be done only according to them, which is quite inconvenient.

The Call log application is not one of the G900’s strengths, but still manages to do its job and can hold a total of up to 30 calls. Although the handset is not that great when it comes to network reception, we haven’t experienced any missed calls due to this.

The quality of the sound in the receiver is more than satisfactory. The voices are heard quite monotonous but loud enough to clearly understand your collocutor. The other person won’t have any troubles either, because the sound is pleasant and real.

The Messaging menu is as standard as you can expect. Both MMS and SMS text messages are supported by the Sony Ericsson G900. All incoming messages, except for e-mails, are stored in the Inbox folder.

The SMS composer allows you to add multiple recipients, insert simple images and sounds or use different font sizes. In a multimedia message you can add the standard files, such as graphics, video, images, music but also a hand-written sketch made with the help of the touchscreen.

The MMS size limit is at 100 kilobytes while the SMS message limit is about 1600 characters. Text can be entered via the keypad and the display. The second method offers a full QWERTY keyboard and handwriting recognition.

The Email client is built right into the Messaging application and using it is extremely easy, since the phone offers automatic settings for the most popular web mail servers. G900 also supports push emails, and can be set to automatically check for new emails each hour or whatever you set it to.

All the email settings are easy to adjust, you can set whether it should download entire messages or only headlines. There is also the ability to set how many messages the Inbox folder can hold at any one time and once this number is reached, downloading will be paused automatically.

There is also support for attachments, so Sony Ericsson G900can meet almost any requirement regarding the user emailing needs. Another handy option is that for all types of messages, including email, you can perform a search using fragments of text and a pop-up window displays the search results.