There are approximately 650 million business e-mail users around the globe, and the demand for true mobile e-mail is growing rapidly. While there are some standalone e-mail messaging devices available, many people will welcome fast and easy messaging tools integrated into their mobile phone.

Sony Ericsson has today officially announced the M600, a tasty phone and messaging device. The fully-specified M600 is an e-mail tool and mobile phone rolled into an extremely stylish, slim device featuring a touchscreen and handwriting recognition.

The M600 is the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0-enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson portfolio, allowing customisation opportunities and the ability to buy personal productivity and other applications from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop.

New push e-mail applications, remote synchronisation and expandable memory give you a UMTS phone and e-mail connectivity in a device that easily fits easily in your pocket - at just 15mm thick, it is one of the slimmest business UMTS devices of its kind available.

The software platform and user interface promise to make multitasking - for example browsing the Internet whilst making a voice call - a reality. The M600 also takes full advantage of its UMTS capabilities with fast and easy e-mail handling (even with large attachments) and high bandwidth multimedia downloads. Document handling offers and PowerPoint, Word and Excel editors and an Adobe PDF viewer.

The ergonomic design of the M600 should make it easy to operate with one hand or two and gives versatile options on how to perform messaging tasks. For example the large dual function keyboard makes for easy messaging input and is also the keypad for number buttons. Reading e-mails and viewing high quality video and graphics content is made easy with the 3-way Jog Dial and a 2.6-inch QVGA screen, capable of handling 262K colours.

With so many connectivity possibilities, Sony Ericsson has taken great care to ensure mobile security. McAfee, anti-virus & firewall software for cellular applications and Pointsec encryption are offered as Try & Buy packages and Certicom VPN client for secure access to corporate networks is offered free of charge.

For such a slim device the M600 has an impressive 80MB onboard memory for storing e-mail attachments and multimedia content. An additional 64MB Memory Stick Micro (M2), which is a new ultra-small recording media designed for highly compact mobile devices, is provided in the box. The M600 is the first Sony Ericsson product to feature this new memory card.

The M600 is available in Granite Black and Crystal White and starts shipping during Q2 2006. Pricing has yet to be announced.

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