After months of anticipation and speculation about whether Sony Ericsson will gain a foothold against the N Series by Nokia, the answer is very probable. It has just unveiled its new smart messaging phone called the Sony Ericsson M600. So one may say what’s the big deal? Well for starters the M600 is an extremely sleek and compact UMTS messaging phone putting Secure e-mail and Internet at your fingertips.

Sony Ericsson M600 is the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson portfolio offering users great customization and the ability to buy personal productivity and other applications from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop. New push email applications, remote synchronization and expandable memory give owners a UMTS phone and email connectivity at just 15 mm thickness! Other standard features also include Media Player (MP3, AAC, and ACC+, E-AAC + m4a), StreamingAudio/VideoPowerPoint, Word and Excel editors, and Adobe PDF viewer IrDA, USB support, QVGA 2.6-inch 262k color touch screen display with handwriting recognition.

The ergonomic design of the M600 and The software platform and user interface, make multitasking a breeze. The Sony M600 has an remarkable 80MB onboard memory for storing email attachments and multimedia content. An additional 64MB Memory Stick is also available to suit ones needs. The Sony Ericsson M600 is presented in Granite Black and Crystal White and starts shipping during Q2 2006.www.sonyericsson.com.