Forum > Sony Ericsson / Sony > Symbian phones > Sony Ericsson M600

On 2006-06-27 23:35:00, Jah wrote:
@SL33PYH34D

Try to uninstall the SE COM p orts
and then rescan for h/w changes

On 2006-06-27 23:48:24, hkanji wrote:
I'm astonished SE can release something like this in the hopes of competing with RIM. The battery life and latency alone have me thinking I should toss the M600i. It's no surprie that I heard (from an internal SE guy) that the sales are sluggish - they are well below forecast right now.

We can hope SE is reading this and plans to update the firmware to address these issues. But with slow sales, maybe they will abandon the product. Let's see how much effort they put into it before they arrive at a conclusion.

On 2006-06-28 00:22:32, Marc_SE wrote:

Quote:

On 2006-06-27 23:48:24, hkanji wrote: I'm astonished SE can release something like this in the hopes of competing with RIM. The battery life and latency alone have me thinking I should toss the M600i. It's no surprie that I heard (from an internal SE guy) that the sales are sluggish - they are well below forecast right now. We can hope SE is reading this and plans to update the firmware to address these issues. But with slow sales, maybe they will abandon the product. Let's see how much effort they put into it before they arrive at a conclusion.

Sales, as in retail sales of simfree handsets? It's only just come out!

If you mean by networks taking it up, then that may be different. It's uniquely placed *beneath* a potentially high-selling handset (P990i), it in itself the successor of the P910i. It may be that the networks see the P990i as the bigger seller and don't want to muddle consumer choice.

In any respect, the phones only been out for about 2 weeks, how many sales were projected?

On 2006-06-28 00:22:32, Marc_SE wrote:
Sales, as in retail sales of simfree handsets? It's only just come out!

If you mean by networks taking it up, then that may be different. It's uniquely placed *beneath* a potentially high-selling handset (P990i), it in itself the successor of the P910i. It may be that the networks see the P990i as the bigger seller and don't want to muddle consumer choice.

In any respect, the phones only been out for about 2 weeks, how many sales were projected?

On 2006-06-28 01:56:56, ajsfuxor wrote:
What the major competitors to the M600i? I only really know of SE phones.

Anyone?

On 2006-06-28 01:10:45, SL33PYH34D wrote:

Quote:

On 2006-06-28 00:22:32, Marc_SE wrote: Sales, as in retail sales of simfree handsets? It's only just come out! If you mean by networks taking it up, then that may be different. It's uniquely placed *beneath* a potentially high-selling handset (P990i), it in itself the successor of the P910i. It may be that the networks see the P990i as the bigger seller and don't want to muddle consumer choice. In any respect, the phones only been out for about 2 weeks, how many sales were projected?

Quite. It isn't even readily available in a number of countries yet either, and I suspect that most UK stock so far is imported.
If operators do take it I would imagine it would be targeted as a business only device anyway. The M600 was never going to be a top selling consumer phone.

On 2006-06-26 20:42:11, Jah wrote:
re: battery life

Well here is my data on battery usage after a 2.5 hrs charge via mains. This is the original battery which had 2 full charge/discharge cycles (used to 20/25%) and lots of short USB charges (which I don't use now).

Standby: 20 hours, with 3G coverage 85% of the time
BT : 11.5 hours (paired to BT headset and used for laptop sync)

Usage:

- 15 min calls
- 40 minutes web browsing
- 30 mins ebook reading
- 15 mins listening to AAC/MP3s
- 20 mins other activity (PIM etc)

Battery charge left : 35%

For comparison my Nokia 9500 (2G) would last nearly two days with above usage while my HTC Universal (3G) would not get through the day with the above usage.


_________________


[ This Message was edited by: Jah on 2006-06-26 19:45 ]