Sony Ericsson today announces the M600 phone and messaging device. This is a fully-specified email tool and mobile phone rolled into an extremely stylish, slim device featuring a touch screen and handwriting recognition. M600 is the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson portfolio offering users great customisation opportunities and the ability to buy personal productivity and other applications from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop. New push email applications, remote synchronisation and expandable memory give owners a UMTS phone and email connectivity in a device that easily fits in their pocket - at just 15mm thick, it is one of the slimmest business UMTS devices of its kind available.
"Estimates show that there are approximately 650 million business email users around the globe, and the demand for true mobile email is growing rapidly," says Jan Wareby, Corporate Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson. "While there are some standalone email messaging devices available, many people will welcome fast and easy messaging tools integrated into their mobile phone."
The software platform and user interface, make multitasking - for example browsing the Internet whilst making a voice call - a reality. M600 also takes full advantage of its UMTS capabilities with fast and easy email handling (even with large attachments) and high bandwidth multimedia downloads. Document handling offers and PowerPoint, Word and Excel editors and an Adobe PDF viewer.
The ergonomic design of the M600 makes it easy to operate with one hand or two and gives versatile options on how to perform messaging tasks. For example the large dual function keyboard makes for easy messaging input and is also the keypad for number buttons. Reading emails and viewing high quality video and graphics content is made easy with the 3-way Jog Dial and a 2.6" QVGA screen, capable of handling 262K-colors.
A range of standard and proprietary push email applications enabled for operator customisation are being developed in conjunction with a number of partners. These are:
- AlteXia
- Ericsson Mobile Office (EMO) (Try and Buy)
- iAnywhere OneBridge
- Intellisync
- Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
- RIM - BlackBerry Connect
- Seven
- Visto
- Standard Email - IMAP IDLE working on all standards compliant servers
These companies are developing a range of email solutions to enable access any time, anywhere to private or corporate email accounts.
With so many connectivity possibilities, Sony Ericsson has taken great care to ensure mobile security. McAfee, the powerful anti-virus & firewall software for cellular applications and Pointsec encryption are offered as Try & Buy packages and Certicom VPN client for secure access to corporate networks is offered free of charge.
For such a slim device the M600 has an impressive 80MB onboard memory for storing email attachments and multimedia content. An additional 64MB Memory Stick Micro (M2), which is a new ultra-small recording media designed for highly compact mobile devices, is provided in the box. The M600 is the first Sony Ericsson product to feature this new memory card.
The M600 is available in Granite Black and Crystal White and starts shipping during Q2 2006. The different regional variations of the M600 are:
- M600i - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz for Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas
- M600c - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz for Mainland China (Launch for mainland China dependent on availability of 3G services.)
M600 will be available in 4 hardware keyboard variants: QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY and Russian
Entertainment - Media Player (support for MP3, AAC, ACC+, E-AAC+ and m4a)
- OMA DRM phase 1
- Streaming Audio / Video
- Audio out over system connector
- 3D games, Java MIDP 2.0
- 40 Polyphonic ring tones
Connectivity - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, triple band GPRS 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz
- Symbian 9.1 and UIQ 3.0
- Stereo Bluetooth support
- Infrared SIR
- 80 MB internal user memory
- Expandable Memory Stick Micro (M2)
- Full HTML browser Opera 8
- RSS feeds
- Flight mode
- PC Tools & Software
- PC Synchronization
- USB 2.0 Mass storage, Full speed (12 Mbps)
- USB charging
- External antenna connector
- Stereo Portable Handsfree and USB cable in box
Business - VPN clients (For Free)
- Encryption (Try and Buy)
- Virus Protection / Firewall (Try and Buy)
- Onboard application shop
- Speakerphone
- PowerPoint, Word and Excel editors
- Adobe PDF viewer
.......The different regional variations of the M600 are:
- M600i - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz for Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas
- M600c - Dual Mode UMTS 2100 MHz, GPRS 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz for Mainland China (Launch for mainland China dependent on availability of 3G services.)......
Anybody else notice that the "two" regional variations are exactly the same?
A good phone. Don't know hwy SE did not go with 16Mil colors and a screen with more pixels (something like Nokia E60), but still this is one of my favorite phones now.
2. Posted by stargrl357
Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:57 pm
Maybe it's a language thing. I know the keypads in Asia have unique characters.
3. Posted by Erris
Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:52 pm
Could be, but why quote the identical frequencies as the 2 differences instead of saying they come in 2 languages?
4. Posted by mgoblue
Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:49 pm
Looks like a winner. I'm always a fan of Sony Ericsson interfaces. Their usability and customization blows the competition away. Watch out BlackBerry!
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