Sony Ericsson Unveils the M600

[prasad_den]

Sony Ericsson has announced its M600, which is an email tool and mobile phone rolled into one slim device featuring touch screen and handwriting recognition capabilities.

M600 is Sony Ericsson's second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone, and features new push email applications, remote synchronization and expandable memory. A range of push email applications are being developed in conjunction with partners including AlteXia, iAnywhere OneBridge, Intellisync, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Ericsson Mobile Office (EMO) (Try and Buy), etc.

Around 15mm thick - the M600 sports an ergonomic design, and features a large dual-function keyboard; 3-way jog dial; 2.6-inch QVGA screen capable of handling 262K colors; 80 MB onboard memory; and additional 64 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) which is an ultra-small recording media designed for compact mobile devices.

The M600 incorporates features such as video playback at 30 fps; online picture sharing; SMS, MMS, POP3 e-mail; media player with support for MP3, AAC, ACC+, E-AAC+ and m4a; OMA DRM phase 1; streaming audio/video; audio-out over system connector; 3D games and Java MIDP 2.0; 40 polyphonic ring tones; dual-mode UMTS 2100 MHz triple-band GPRS 900/1800/1900MHz; stereo Bluetooth support; infrared SIR; full HTML browser Opera 8 and RSS feeds.

Sony Ericsson maintains that the M600 makes for better multi-tasking, faster email handling, and high band-width multimedia downloads. It includes Adobe PDF viewer, McAfee and Pointsec encryption as part of Try & Buy packages, and the Certicom VPN client free-of-cost.

Jan W reby, corporate executive vice president and head - sales and marketing, Sony Ericsson, said, "Estimates show that there are approximately 650 million business email users around the globe, and the demand for true mobile email is growing rapidly. While there are some stand-alone email messaging devices available, many people will welcome fast and easy messaging tools integrated into their mobile phone."

Available in Granite Black and Crystal White colors, M600 is slated to start shipping in Q2 2006; and will be available in 4 hardware keyboard variants; QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY and Russian.

While M600i - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900/1800/1900MHz will be available in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas; M600c- Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900/1800/1900MHz will ship in Mainland China subject to the availability of 3G services.

[prasad_den]

Looks cool...ain't it??

[techno_funky]

thats one weird keypad there

[dIgItaL_BrAt]

looks damn cool!

[~Phenom~]

yeah keypad seems to be borrowed from calculators.

[coolendra]

nice cell yaar !!!!!!!!!!!

[mehulved]

I personally didn't like the look of the phone. Though its gr8 to know that its a symbian phone. Wonder what will it cost?

[infra_red_dude]

the keypad makes the phone looks ugly!

[Charan]

looks cool,

[pakkasir]

yeah, it looks cool but for the first time I feel that Sony Ericsson has taken inpiration from Nokia models. The keypad sucks bad time.

[prasad_den]

Looks good... Keypad is the only eyesore i think....But feature wise it seems to be great..
A Symbian series phone from Sony must raise expectations.. Wondering about the price though....!!!

[Nemesis]

All manufacturer's are trying to copy the Blackberry design after it became so popular. First the Motorola Q, then the Nokia E61 and not the SE M600. Out of the bunch, I like the Nokia E61 - it comes with WLAN, Security features, a better screen, etc.

[djmykey]

Yuck!! That keypad sucks man I wud love it if u wed put up an 3650 style keypad also it wud've looked more like and iPod

[Captain Crime]

The Keyboard sucks..................

[moshel]

the big screen is good but as u look down on the phone, the keypad is horrible as eveyone said looks like the keys are taken frm a very old jumbo calculator. btw this one doesnt have the stick like P900....and others?

[mobilegeek]

KeyPad Sucks .. that makes the phone ugly
..
Moreover .. its just another fake fone.

[aadipa]

Originally Posted by mobilegeek

Moreover .. its just another fake fone.

FAKE

Have a look...
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/si...p_new_m600.jsp

[tuxfan]

There are 2 of us eagerly waiting for this phone. I read about it first on GSMarena and since then have been waiting for it. But only 64MB card is a sort of a drawback! SE should give at least 512 MB with all its hign-end handsets now

[prasad_den]

Originally Posted by tuxfan

There are 2 of us eagerly waiting for this phone.

Who is the other one?

Originally Posted by tuxfan

But only 64MB card is a sort of a drawback! SE should give at least 512 MB with all its hign-end handsets now

I really agree. At least 512MB card is a must with all upper segment phones like this one.. When they can give one with W800i, they can surely give it here..

[readermaniax]

hey this fone looks very very kool...im waitin for the release fo this fone in indian

[tuxfan]

Originally Posted by prasad_den

Who is the other one?

Hope you are not getting too inquisitive. Remember I am married

The other one is my brother-in-law, a neurosurgeon.

[sanzay]

Really,COOL!!

[prasad_den]

Originally Posted by tuxfan

Hope you are not getting too inquisitive. Remember I am married

The other one is my brother-in-law, a neurosurgeon.

Oh.... I was thinking it must be someone in this forum......

[Keith Sebastian]

I will get this one in a weeks time. Apparently, black ones have not yet shipped. The best price I could get on this was QAR 1600 (INR 20,000) eventhough it's marked at QAR 1900 (up here in the mid-east bargaining is a rule and not an exception, and applies even to authorised SE showrooms, not just resellers). It's not selling well here due to lack of arabic language support (that's what a saleswoman told me) and no camera. M2 cards are expensive (QAR 350 for 512 Megs)

Will post opinions once I get this. Meanwhile, here's an excellent review -

http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/6865.html


And, some excellent videos from http://www.mobile-review.com

(Right click on link and "Save target/link as")

Video, comparison of size with other devices (4.67 Mb)
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/...deo/m600-1.wmv

Video, handset’s design (7.23 Mb)
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/...deo/m600-3.wmv

Video, working with keyboard, hand-written text sample (5.81 Mb)
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/...deo/m600-2.wmv

Video, hand-written text (1.04 Mb)
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/...deo/m600-5.wmv

Video, music playback (4.59 Mb)
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/...deo/m600-4.wmv

Cheers,
Keith

[suave_guy]

i hope that everyone knows that it does not have any camera...

ENjoy...