The Sony Ericsson M600i is a fully-specified email tool and mobile phone rolled into an extremely stylish, slim device featuring a touch screen and handwriting recognition. As the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson portfolio, the M600i offers users great customization opportunities and the ability to buy personal productivity and other applications from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop. New push email applications, remote synchronization 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.
Sony Ericsson M600i Features
Slim and sleek 15mm profile in Granite Black or Crystal White colors
Integrated music player with MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, and m4a support
Features PowerPoint, Word and Excel editors plus Adobe PDF viewer
Opera 8.0 web browser with landscape full screen support and RSS news feeds support
Supports a range of push email services from AlteXia, iAnywhere OneBridge, Intellisync, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, RIM - BlackBerry Connect, Seven, and Visto
Bluetooth wireless technology for stereo hands-free connectivity and infrared port for synchronization
80 MB of internal memory and expansion slot for additional storage with Memory Stick Duo cards
Pros: Nice PDA feeling, elegant. Compact and light package. Powerfull if it would work.
Bugs:
1-Unexpected crashes on contacts and message management.
2-Contact images become corrupted upon contact edition. They look crappy afterwards.
3-Contact lookup fails for some contacts aleatory. An existing contact calls me and I see his/her number instead of his/her picture and name. Of course I cannot restrict or prioritize any call if the phone is unable to lookup the number from the contact information. Once that happen for a certain contact, I could delete it, recreate it etc, but his/her number will never be looked up from contacts list again. Only a full phone master reset will help with all data loss along and unfortunately for a while only.
4-After phone master reset the standard themes coming from factory software are lost forever and only the default theme and language remain. I can only recover them by downloading (on my phone expenses) via GPRS/3G - WAP from Sony Ericsson site.
5-The automatic keypad lock does not always work. Sometimes it locks after 15 seconds of inactivity.
6-Voice control data is not save on backups. So lost for ever every time a master reset happens. No worth the lost time to get it programmed as it is lost on the way.
7-Synchronization with Outlook Express results on Mobile Phone being entered as Home Phone and by times on Work Phone (Using the same address book it makes no sense, does it?)
8-Backup does not work when software failures start (normally after some hours of last full phone setup) and so I cannot save my data before a master reset has to be done. Next setup has to be done manually again. That is my current and annoying situation.
Customer service:
I cannot say so far, but let's point to a fact:
Many of those bugs were already mentioned during last summer and since then not fixed despite of last updates. Symbian software engineers seems not to find the way to make that software to work. Sony Ericsson should push Symbian to fix those problems.
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2. Posted by dossyfree
Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:28 am
I am a sony ericsson diehard, now I'm not so sure. After purchasing I noticed the battery capacity was not what it claimed. A couple of 10 minute calls and it was dead. Applications closed at random. The alarm function was eratic. On return to the supplier I was informed that many M600i handsets had battery problems in manufacture. I now have another of the same handset and it seems it can't pick up any signal at all.
A real shame as the phone itself is great and easy to use. Where does one go from here?
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3. Posted by julianb99
Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:03 pm
I have used several phones but over the last 3 years I have settled on the SE P900. It served me well and I decided to move the the M600. Bad move. The phone has very low battery life, and the signal strength is extremely poor. I realize that its a small phone and probably hasn't got the same antenna as the P900, but it refused to dial out as the signal died down completely. It may have a lot of other useful funcitonality, but it has to work flawlessly as a phone first and everytime. After having it for one day, I'm returning it. Might go in for the P990.
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