Sony Ericsson's TM506: T-Mobile AWS 3G support included

When Sony Ericsson's TM506 was leaked earlier this month, there was no mention made of the flip's support of AWS 3G. Thankfully (thankfully!), the official launch brings along confirmed support for the protocol. SE is linking up with T-Mobile USA once again, providing a stylishly small handset that sports a 2-megapixel camera, built-in A-GPS (TeleNav), stereo Bluetooth support, an M2 card slot, multimedia playback, outer / inner displays and 9.5-hours of GSM talk time (250-hours on standby). Curiously, no price is mentioned, but you can find out for yourself when this lands in stores early next month.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2008 10:28AM]

We have both versions of the TM506. A few live photos in our launch story from last night, video coming later today.
http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=5144

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2008 11:52AM]

Michael,

I have a few questions since you're probably using a final production model: 1) How's the GPS? Does it hold a solid signal? 2) Can you install any java app you want on this phone, or has TMobile forced you to only use apps sold through TZones? 3) What's the default browser? Netfront?

Thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2008 5:44PM]

Stylishly Small? What kind of crack are you smoking? Shaving a tenth of an inch off of the AT&T version doesn't make this phone exactly svelte. Unless you were being sarcastic, which seems unlikely in this case.