6th February 2006
It's been an open secret that Sony Ericsson had a lightweight UIQ smartphone coming up - and the Sony Ericsson M600i is it.
Running the UIQ 3 interface on top of the Symbian 9.1 operating system, the M600i is functionally very similar to the Sony Ericsson P990i. The large 2.6'' display on the M600i is touch-sensitive and has a 240x320 pixel resolution. Underneath that is a hybrid keyboard similar to the one found on the BlackBerry 7100 series.
The Sony Ericsson M600i is a 3G phone with tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900), expandable memory (using Memory Stick Micro cards), plus a full range of applications including the Opera web browser, an email client, and multimedia player. Plus the M600i comes with a jog-dial control in addition to the touchscreen, as does the larger P900 series.
It supports a variety of push email applications too, such as BlackBerry and Visto, and it comes with a range of different VPN clients in order to connect to a corporate network. It can also edit Microsoft Office document. These features give us a clue as to the most likely market for the M600i - business users. One key feature that the M600i doesn't have is a digital camera - it can't take stills photos, video clips, nor can it be used for video calling. This is great for many corporate customers, but it means that the M600i isn't as consumer orientated as some might have hoped for. Still, it looks like a very promising phone for business use. There's no WiFi either, but we firmly believe that 3G is more useful that WiFi in this type of device.
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