Page 2 - Preface; Purpose of this document
White Paper M600 2 February 2006 This document is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, without any warranty*. Improvements and changes to this text necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by S...
Page 3 - Sony Ericsson Developer World
White Paper M600 3 February 2006 Sony Ericsson Developer World On www.SonyEricsson.com/developer , developers will find documentation and tools such as phone White Papers, Developers Guidelines for different technologies, SDKs and relevant APIs. The web site also contains discussion forums monitored...
Page 5 - Contents
White Paper M600 5 February 2006 Contents Sony Ericsson Developer World ................................................................................ 3 Product comparison ................................................................................................... 9 Introduction ..............
Page 9 - Product comparison
White Paper M600 9 February 2006 Product comparison The Sony Ericsson M600 and P990 smartphones have important differences in both hardware and soft-ware. M600 is aimed at the messaging market and has had the camera, video conferencing, WLAN and FM radio P990 functionality removed.
Page 10 - Introduction
White Paper M600 10 February 2006 Introduction M600 • M600 is built on the same platform as P990 and is supplied with a lot of the same software. • M600 is targeted at people who require specific, easy to use functionality at affordable prices. • M600 users can receive, handle and send emails conven...
Page 11 - Images
Page 12 - Hardware
White Paper M600 12 February 2006 Hardware Added to M600 Removed compared to P990 One handed use M600 can be easily operated with one hand. Memory Stick Micro™ M2™ New Memory Stick. Dual function keyboard Allow the user to switch between numerical and alphabetic modes. Appearance M600 has a modern s...
Page 13 - Software; Comparison table
White Paper M600 13 February 2006 Software Removed compared to P990 Comparison table FM Radio P990 has an RDS FM radio with a clock radio function and recording capabilities. Video telephony P990 has dual cameras; a 2 megapixel camera on the back of the phone and a video call camera on the front of ...
Page 15 - User interface
White Paper M600 15 February 2006 User interface Industrial design M600 is a thin and sleek UMTS smartphone. The look is highly contemporary. The main focus in M600 is efficient communication and messaging. The large bright touch screen (2.55" QVGA TFT, 262 k colours), the virtual keyboard with ...
Page 16 - Miscellaneous
White Paper M600 16 February 2006 Internal memory The total memory is 128 MB RAM. Memory Stick Micro™ M2™ M600 is supplied with a 64 MB card and has enhanced Memory Stick Micro™ M2™ support of up to 8 GB. Miscellaneous Accessories M600 supports a large range of accessories, please see the white pape...
Page 17 - Related information
White Paper M600 17 February 2006 Related information Documents P990 User Guide P990 White Paper M600 User Guide M600 White Paper Links www.SonyEricsson.com www.SonyEricsson.com/support www.SonyEricsson.com/developer www.ericsson.com/mobilityworld www.bluetooth.com Trademarks and acknowledgement BLU...
Page 19 - Product overview
White Paper M600 19 February 2006 Product overview M600 is a compact smartphone, with an innovative design. M600’s main focus is messaging, offering Push email functionality and high speed, full screen access for browsing. M600 uses multitasking to allow you to perform several actions at once, such ...
Page 20 - Key functions and features
White Paper M600 20 February 2006 Key functions and features Function or Feature M600 support Page Operating system Symbian OS TM V9.1 Platform, including OMA DRM and platform security. 60 MMI UIQ 3.0. 61 Size 107 x 15 x 54 mm 65 Weight 112 g with battery 65 Screen 2.6" Large QVGA (240 x 320 pix...
Page 22 - Controls and operation
White Paper M600 22 February 2006 Controls and operation M600 overview The Activity menu automatically appears on the screen once the phone has started. The Activity menu gives rapid access to the phones commonly used features. See “Activity menu” on page 23 for more details. Flight mode GSM or Blue...
Page 23 - Models
White Paper M600 23 February 2006 Enhanced text prediction You can use Enhanced text prediction when input-ting in all three methods: dual function keyboard, Virtual keyboard and Handwriting recognition. The primary word or next word prediction suggestion is presented where you are writing; addition...
Page 25 - Technologies in detail
White Paper M600 25 February 2006 Technologies in detail This chapter offers a detailed description of the technologies available in this product.
Page 26 - Phone applications; Business telephony
White Paper M600 26 February 2006 Phone applications The following call features have been added to M600: • In call menu: M600 has a dynamic in call menu that changes to help the user perform actions quickly and simply. • Accept Calls: users can specify which calls to accept and which calls to rejec...
Page 27 - PIM applications; Contacts; Calendar
White Paper M600 27 February 2006 Configuring the phone for the company The person responsible for the corporate commu-nication services defines how the phone shall be configured. This may be the company's IT man-ager, the operator or a service provider. They define what feature commands shall be di...
Page 28 - Tasks
White Paper M600 28 February 2006 Calendar entries are displayed in local time, but all appointments and reminders are saved in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). If the user moves to a different time zone the calendar updates the appointments and reminders automatically. Meet-ing requests can be sen...
Page 29 - Calculator
White Paper M600 29 February 2006 Calculator Calculator has the features of a standard desk cal-culator, and is always available from the application launcher. Stopwatch Stopwatch can be instantly started and stopped to measure an exact duration of time. The stopwatch continues to run when a call is...
Page 30 - Messaging; Email
White Paper M600 30 February 2006 Messaging Email M600 supports the following standards: Most of the standards above are supported by Internet Service Providers and many corporate environments. M600 is supplied with an Internet wizard which helps users to configure an account. OTA (Over The Air) con...
Page 31 - Push email; Unified mailbox
White Paper M600 31 February 2006 email from the PC is transferred in to the corre-sponding 'synchronized email account' inbox on M600. Messages and replies written using this account on M600 are transferred and sent via the PC. Web based email can, of course, be accessed using the M600 browser. Ema...
Page 32 - Area Information; Quickoffice
White Paper M600 32 February 2006 melodies, pictures and animations and format-ted text. EMS message can be sent as concate-nated messages. • MMS messages may include combinations of video clips, animation, pictures, sound and text. The following tasks can be performed from an MMS; smart uploads and...
Page 34 - Picture Gallery; Entertainment/multimedia; Media player
White Paper M600 34 February 2006 • Follow links to other pages in the document. • Follow URLs if you have the web browser installed. • Read files protected with a user password. The 'wrap' view displays the document so that as much text as possible is visible on the screen. Images and line drawings...
Page 36 - Media formats
White Paper M600 36 February 2006 Media formats Audio formats Format Description AAC-LC Advanced Audio Coding. AAC is the latest audio coding standard, defined in the MPEG-2 standard and is used for high-quality audio compression. AAC provides higher quality than MP3 at the same bit rate, or for the...
Page 38 - PlayNow
White Paper M600 38 February 2006 Picture Editor formats PlayNow TM PlayNow™ is a unique direct-link quality music download application. PlayNow users can connect to a live list of top music hits, videos, games and pictures. Content can be previewed before pur-chasing. The content available from Pla...
Page 39 - Games; Browser
White Paper M600 39 February 2006 Games Gaming on the M600 is greatly improved due to the new 3D Hardware accelerator. Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005 Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005 simulates the experience of being the unseated golf champion. This game is one of the best games of golf available on a mobile. P...
Page 40 - Browser security
White Paper M600 40 February 2006 • Built-in pop-up blocking. Browser security M600 supports the TLS/SSL to provide a secure encrypted link between the browser and the web site. This method is commonly used for secure transactions on the web. An icon in the display indicates when a secure connection...
Page 41 - RSS feeds; Connectivity
White Paper M600 41 February 2006 RSS feeds RSS provides a way for web sites to distribute their content outside of a web browser. A news web site might have an RSS feed which contains breaking stories, while a magazine web site may provide an RSS feed with excerpts of their latest articles. An RSS ...
Page 43 - BluetoothTM wireless technology
White Paper M600 43 February 2006 Bluetooth™ wireless technology M600 features built-in Bluetooth™ 2.0 wireless technology. Its Bluetooth power class 2, +4 dBm radio link, operates in the globally available 2.4 GHz radio frequency band, ensuring fast and secure communications up to a range of 10 met...
Page 44 - IrDA
White Paper M600 44 February 2006 File browsing By using the client role of the File Transfer Profile, the phone enables the user to access file systems of other devices, that support the server role of the same profile. After pairing the phone with the other device, the user can connect to the othe...
Page 45 - USB
White Paper M600 45 February 2006 USB M600 is USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) compliant. The bus is 12 Mbps and supports 63 devices. The idea of the USB is to allow easy connection of mobile phone to PC. USB is designed to be “com-pletely Plug and Play”, meaning that devices will be correctly detecte...
Page 47 - Data storage; User storage
White Paper M600 47 February 2006 Data storage M600 is divided into two parts: • A GSM phone part, having flash memory. This is very similar to a conventional mobile phone. • An 'Organizer' part running Symbian OS and having a large amount of flash and RAM mem-ory plus a Memory Stick™ slot and the a...
Page 48 - Action at master reset; Synchronisation and data transfer
White Paper M600 48 February 2006 Action at master reset Master Reset restores the phone to its purchase state, all user data is deleted. When a Master Reset is initiated the user can select to keep all user-installed applications. Data can be restored as follows: If the user has previously backed u...
Page 49 - SyncML – an open standard for synchronization
White Paper M600 49 February 2006 SyncML – an open standard for synchronization SyncML background Leading the way in providing remote synchronization capability, Sony Ericsson realizes that interoperability of remote synchronization is of utmost importance if mobile data usage is to become as widesp...
Page 50 - Remote synchronization; Local synchronization
White Paper M600 50 February 2006 Remote synchronization Remote synchronization takes place over the air using HTTP and is the ideal way to keep the M600 up to date. 3G enables a fast connection to the network - the synchronization can be started in seconds. Synchronization services will be offered ...
Page 52 - Sony Ericsson PC suite
White Paper M600 52 February 2006 be used for sending. Typical applications are to beam an appointment to other people, or to receive a new background image. To perform a 'Send as' beam operation using infrared, the two devices are lined up and the sender initiates the transfer. To beam over Bluetoo...
Page 53 - DRM
White Paper M600 53 February 2006 DRM Digital Rights Management, DRM, is a technology that enables secure distribution, promotion, and sale of digital media. Examples of such content include music, personal images, wallpapers and screen savers with themes from films, ringtones from musical artists, ...
Page 54 - Personalization; Background and application shortcuts
White Paper M600 54 February 2006 OMA DRM Forward Lock/Combined Delivery protected content on a Memory Stick™ cannot be used in another device other than the device it was saved on. Only Separate Delivery packages can be used on another device, after obtaining access keys to use the content on the n...
Page 55 - Picture phone book
White Paper M600 55 February 2006 Picture phone book The user may store a picture of each contact in the Contacts application. When an incoming call is received with CLI matching that contact, the contact's picture will be displayed together with the other information. The contact's picture is also ...
Page 56 - Sony Ericsson phone configurator; Locks; Keylock
White Paper M600 56 February 2006 • ISP Settings (Bearer information, username, password). • Bookmark (name and URL). • SyncML DS settings. • MMS Settings. The following parameters may be remotely configured according to WAP Forum specifications: • WAP Account • ISP Settings Further OTA configuratio...
Page 57 - SIM card lock
White Paper M600 57 February 2006 SIM card lock The SIM card lock can be set to ‘off’ or ‘at power on’. If the SIM card lock is set to ‘off’ the SIM can be used by any user without the SIM owner’s consent. If the SIM card lock is set to ‘at power on’, everytime the M600 is switched on the user will ...
Page 58 - Positioning
White Paper M600 58 February 2006 General operational considerations Mechanisms defined to support service continuity between different radio systems or radio access modes should effectively cope with a number of coverage scenarios: • Limited coverage in a “sea” of coverage pro-vided by another radi...
Page 59 - GPRS
White Paper M600 59 February 2006 Positioning methods are already used to support location-based information services such as © YellowPages, restaurant guides, traffic information, directions and friend finder applications. Typically SMS or voice has been used as delivery mechanisms. Java™ and MMS w...
Page 60 - Symbian OS operating system
White Paper M600 60 February 2006 Symbian OS operating system Symbian OS is the open operating system licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers. It is designed for the specific requirements of advanced 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. Symbian OS combines the power of an integrated app...
Page 61 - JavaTM
White Paper M600 61 February 2006 ecommerce. An application can access other directories marked as open but cannot access another application’s private directory. • Additional platform security includes; full encryption and certificate management, secure protocols (HTTPS, SSL and TLS) and WIM framew...
Page 63 - M600 consumer package
White Paper M600 63 February 2006 M600 consumer package The exact contents of the M600 package depend on the localization. The basic contents are as follows: • M600 with stylus. • Battery. • Travel charger. • USB cable. • Stereo headset. • Memory Stick Micro™ M2™. • User documentation package. • Son...
Page 65 - Technical specifications; General technical data
White Paper M600 65 February 2006 Technical specifications General technical data USB Cable DCU-60 Imageware Executive Case IEC-20 Stylus Pack ISP-XX Concepts Quick Install BT Car Kit HCB-300 Product name M600 System Tri-band GSM Release 99 recommendations. GSM 900 (CTR 19 and CTR 20)GSM 1800 (CTR 3...
Page 66 - Screen
White Paper M600 66 February 2006 Screen Performance and technical characteristics Colours Granite Black and Chrystal White Battery 900 mAh Display type TFT Display size QVGA Pixel size 240 x 320 Colour resolution 262 k Screen surface Touch-sensitive Illumination Variable intensity backlight Dimensi...
Page 67 - Current consumption, talk and standby times
White Paper M600 67 February 2006 Current consumption, talk and standby times USSD technical data Transmitter Spurious emission < -36 dBm up to 1 GHz < -30 dBm over 1 GHz (according to GSM spec) < - 30 dBm (according to GSM spec.) < - 30 dBm (according to GSM spec.) < -36 dBm up to 1 ...
Page 68 - GPRS technical data
White Paper M600 68 February 2006 GPRS technical data Dimension Support Compatible GPRS and SMG specifications Release 99 according to ETSI specification. Data rates Multislot class 10 supported (4+2) CS-1, CS-2, CS-3, CS-4 9,050 bps, 13,400 bps, 15,600 bps, 21,400 bps supported (network-dependent)....
Page 69 - Keypad
White Paper M600 69 February 2006 GPRS maximum data rates (Kpbs) HSCSD maximum Data Rates (Kpbs) Keypad • 26 keyswitches. • Jog Dial, 3-way: up, down and inwards. • Browser button to switch to integrated browser. • On/Off button. • Back button to switch back a view. SIM GPRS aware, as well as non-GP...
Page 70 - Input
White Paper M600 70 February 2006 Input Third party application support M600 Dual function keyboard natural handwriting over the whole screen on-screen keyboard Zi-Corp eZiText word completion fuzzy text Next word completion EMO Sony Ericssons’ generic push email application Supplied on the Memory S...
Page 72 - Pictures
White Paper M600 72 February 2006 Pictures Image decoders Image encoders Formats JPEG, BMP, GIF (including animated), PNG, MBM, WBMP, SVG-tiny Sharing via IR, Bluetooth™ wireless technology, MMS, Email, PC file transfer, Memory Stick Micro™ M2™, USB Decoder Details Size Colour depth File format GIF ...
Page 73 - Short message service
White Paper M600 73 February 2006 Short message service Feature Support in M600 SMS Centre Number It is possible to pre-record the SMS Centre Number. Pictures It is possible to insert a picture or an icon into the text message. EMS compliant mobile handsets will be able to see the picture correctly....
Page 74 - Enhanced message service
White Paper M600 74 February 2006 Enhanced message service save the message in the Inbox Yes forward the message Yes know the remaining capacity storage Yes Supported ways for replying to a received SMS: via SMS Yes via phone call (set up a call to the number contained in the message body) Yes via U...
Page 75 - Multimedia message service
White Paper M600 75 February 2006 Multimedia message service Insert objects It is possible to add pictures, animations and sounds to an EMS message. Text formatting • Centred, left and right aligned text. • Small, normal and large font size. • Bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough style. Sounds...
Page 78 - SIM AT services supported
White Paper M600 78 February 2006 SIM AT services supported Service Mode Support CALL CONTROL BY SIM Yes DATA DOWNLOAD TO SIM Cell BroadcastSMS YesYes DISPLAY TEXT Text of up to 240 characters (120 UCS2 coded). Yes bit 1: 0 = normal priority Yes 1 = high priority Yes bit 8: 0 = clear message after a...
Page 81 - User interaction with SIM AT
White Paper M600 81 February 2006 User interaction with SIM AT Display text Text of up to 240 characters (120 UCS coded) is supported. Text clearing times are 5-20 seconds and a 60 sec-ond timeout limit for the user to clear the text. ‘Key’ responses: • ‘Long Back’ – Proactive session terminated by ...
Page 82 - Integrated browser technical data
White Paper M600 82 February 2006 Set up call If the ME is on a call when the command ‘Set up Call’, ‘putting all other calls on hold' is sent, the user will see the text 'Setting up a call current call will be held'. If ‘OK’ is pressed the current call will be put on hold and the new call set up. I...
Page 83 - Terminology and abbreviations
White Paper M600 83 February 2006 Terminology and abbreviations 3GPP™ 3rd Generation Partnership Project. AAC Advanced Audio Codec. ALS Alternate Line Service. A system that allows a user to have more than one line allocated to a single SIM subscription. AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate. A variable rate spee...
Page 90 - Trademarks and acknowledgements
White Paper M600 90 February 2006 Trademarks and acknowledgements Apple and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. The Bluetooth™ word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Sony Ericsson is under license. The IrDA Feature Trademark is owned by the Infra...
Page 91 - Index
White Paper M600 91 February 2006 Index C Consumption, talk and standby times ................ 67 E Enhanced message service (EMS) ..................... 74 G General technical data ........................................ 65 GPRS .................................................................. 68 ...