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After months of anticipation and speculation about whether Sony Ericsson will gain a foothold against the N Series by Nokia, the answer is very probable. It has just unveiled its new smart messaging phone called the Sony Ericsson M600. So one may say what’s the big deal? Well for starters the M600 is an extremely sleek and compact UMTS messaging phone putting Secure e-mail and Internet at your fingertips.

Sony Ericsson M600 is the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson portfolio offering users great customization 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 at just 15 mm thickness! Other standard features also include Media Player (MP3, AAC, and ACC+, E-AAC + m4a), StreamingAudio/VideoPowerPoint, Word and Excel editors, and Adobe PDF viewer IrDA, USB support, QVGA 2.6-inch 262k color touch screen display with handwriting recognition.

The ergonomic design of the M600 and The software platform and user interface, make multitasking a breeze. The Sony M600 has an remarkable 80MB onboard memory for storing email attachments and multimedia content. An additional 64MB Memory Stick is also available to suit ones needs. The Sony Ericsson M600 is presented in Granite Black and Crystal White and starts shipping during Q2 2006.www.sonyericsson.com.

Sony Ericsson M600 Specs Include:

Imaging & Messaging

• QVGA 2.6’’ display
• 262K colours TFT
• Video playback 30 fps
• Online picture sharing
• SMS, MMS, POP3 e-mail
• Push e-mail
• Dual function keyboard
• Typing corrections and word completion
• Handwriting Recognition
• Touch screen

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 & buy apps)
• Virus Protection/Firewall ( try & buy apps)
• Onboard application shop
• Speakerphone
• PowerPoint, Word and Excel editors
• Adobe PDF viewer

The M600 is available in:

• Granite Black
• Crystal White

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