http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Sony Ericsson M600i shipping in UK http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jun 16th 2006 1:05PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/
It's about a third of the thickness of most other PDAs!]]>Jun 16th 2006 1:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jun 16th 2006 1:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jun 16th 2006 1:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/
Long to short: Phone will work on Cingular, but UMTS won't. Phone will also work on T-Mobile, and someday it could work on their UMTS if they do it right (which they probably won't).]]>Jun 16th 2006 1:50PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jun 16th 2006 2:37PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/It looks very nice (almost IPod like) but the software isn't as user friendly as the Treo's.
Absence of a D-pad makes life harder as one has to use the jog thingy on the side which after a while hurts the thumbs.
Syncing with the computer was a total disaster. It took me the better part of 5 hours when the Palm software or MS Activesync installs immediatley. After 5 hours I found that I had to completely uninstall the Palm software then reinstall the Symbian's which never happened before (I have Palm and MS Activesynce working at the same time, well I had anyway).
Even after installing the software it took another 2 hours of hard labour to let the phone connect with the computer, after that for no reason the phone connected but wouldn't sync. I got fed up and transfered my files from the Treo to the M600 by bluetooth.
Softwarewise, as I said before, it's not easy to use. Absence of soft buttons means one can't launch favourite software easily and has to use the pen (which is inconviniently situated on the left and makes right-hand users' life harder) or the pesky jog dial/thingy/thumb killer.
On the other hand the keyboard was fun to use with the middle keys living a split personality life as qwerty and number pad. You can assign speed dialing to the number pad but can't launch applications Treo style.(Does Palm have a patent that prevents other companies from launching apps via the thumb-board? Then why doesn't anyone except Palm have that wonderful idea!)
An idea that was missing from the previous UIQ models is the ability to switch off all or some of the applications. Now we can and we can do it from anywhere in the GUI. Just press the menu on screen button and chose the last option at the buttom where you'll get a list of all the running apps. Choose close all or select which app. you need to close. Simple, much simpler than the Microsoft option which forces you in submenus or the Palm which...well they don't even support multi tasking anyway.
Oh and noooooooooo Wi-Fi....no comment.
All in all the M600 is fun to carry around not to use and can't beat the Treo for ease of use.
I think I just put more than 2 cents worth of ideas.]]>Jun 16th 2006 3:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/
Picked one up on in Crystal (ipod) white on EBAY for $429 plus 39.95 shipping direct from HK. Took only a day! (Expansys is riping us all off by the way)

Anyways, the phone is everything I was hoping for...after waiting so long since the first Engadget post introducing the phone to me. QWERTY learning curve was exponential and now I type as fast as ever. Its working well on T-mobile and the GPRS is doing well enough (wish I had UMITS or at least EDGE though).

Its true that the Symbian OS laggs on the phone a little, but no more than my SDA. The one gripe that I have is the lack of applications currently abailable. I am still looking for the killer app. There is no BlackBerry connect as of yet. And I can't seem to get Google Talk to connect to the IM+ app that includes Google as an option.

The web browser works extremely well, especially with the touch screen. And the video/audio playback is great. You still have to deal with yet another proprietary memory stick format, but right now its scalable to 2gb....great for some music via bluetooth headphones. ]]>Jun 16th 2006 4:44PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/
www.computeruniverse.net has the m600 at 405E (incl.VAT), so you'll probably get it at 350E+shipping which is about 550$, i think.

you're welcome.]]>Jun 16th 2006 6:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/
Neal Saferstein]]>Jun 16th 2006 11:44PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jun 18th 2006 4:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/And the tiny keyboard is not just a problme for text input but the basic phone number keypad is hard to use.
Otherwise, its a dream - but I havent tried the MP3 player and music transfer software yet.
Now Ive decided to stick with it, i need all the accesories that might have come as standard eg sync cradle, screen protector and car charger. ]]>Jul 28th 2006 9:06AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Nov 16th 2006 1:14PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/16/sony-ericsson-m600i-shipping-in-uk/Jan 4th 2007 12:06PM