Ewan previews the new Sony Ericsson M600i

[slitchfield]

Ewan takes a closer look at the M600i and tries to work out Sony Ericsson's strategy in releasing this capable but occasionally confusing device. There's oodles of business power here and some (but not all) consumer features as well. What do you think?

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[Rafe]

There's a lot being offered in this phone in a small package. That's one of the thinnest smartphones available.

I think Sony Ericsson's strategy is an interesting one. Presuamably partly a result of net being able to produce as many devices to fill various niches. However the benefit is that it will also appeal to those who don't fall into the neat niches. After all who says a enterprise device should scrimp of music features, or imaging.

The absence of the camera is interesting. I wonder if Sony Ericsson will release a similar device but with a camera.

This should certainly give UIQ 3 some momentum.

[JimH]

It looks like a head to head between the Nokia E61 and M600 to me, the touch screen is an interesting addition on the M600, is that to entice Treo users?

I think the E61 just has the edge over the M600 as a Blackberry beater with its landscape oriented screen and WiFi, but it'll be very close.

No WIFI! Will certainly limit it's interest for many. WIFI on a phone is very useful for consumers (cafe, school and home usage) for corporate users many reasons. Once you use a GSM phone with both you will not go back. Other than no WIFI looks like great phone. Too bad the P990 is delayed.

[dgduris]

WHY?

The release says that the phone will ship with it!

[Ewan]

The P990 will ship with WiFi, its' the M600i taht lacks wireless networking.

[Bassey]

And did I read in the specs that it contains a 3-way click wheel rather than the previously standard 5-way? I hope this isn't going to be the new standard for SE. The 5-way click wheel was up there with the Psion 5 keyboard for an award for "Best use of engineering to increase useability in mobile devices". It made 90% of the P-Series functions possible with one-hand meaning you had BOTH a phone AND a full PDA.

[buster]

I think that Sony Ericsson are dropping the 5 way Jog Dial, as I'm pretty sure that the p990 also has a 3 way Jog Dial...

No EDGE Technology..Either..GPRS is slow

[JimH]

GPRS isn't much slower than EDGE, both are far slower than UMTS which this phone does have.

Considering this is a European frequency device, are there any places in Europe that have EDGE and no 3G? I can't think of any.