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Sony Ericsson Returns to T-Mobile With TM506, First HSDPA Phone
Posted by Kit Eaton at 10:18 PM on August 8, 2008
From September, T-Mobile customers will be able to get hold of Sony Ericsson's TM506 cellphone: which is also T-Mobile's first HSDPA handset. The two-megabyte flip-phone is a pretty standard tri-band GSM, with dual-band UMTS/HSDPA for 3G connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2-megapixel camera. Doesn't look like you can do video calling, but video messaging is enabled and it has aGPS on-board. It'll be available from September 3, for an as-yet-unknown price, in a green and black colour scheme. [BGR and IntoMobile]
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maevro
Posted 11:07 PM 8/8/08
Why would the phone have 850 and lack 900? I find that odd personally.
maevro
Rrrob
Posted 10:45 PM 8/8/08
haha 'two meg what' exactly!!
Rrrob
Hectorvex
Posted 10:28 PM 8/8/08
@Kim98: It only holds one picture. If you want to store more, you have to buy Sony's portable Blu-Ray picture viewer that plugs into the phone.
Hectorvex
Kim98
Posted 10:26 PM 8/8/08
"Two megabyte"? Huh? Two megabyte what?
Kim98
sototallycarl
Posted 11:33 PM 8/8/08
@maevro: I always found that weird too, but I also find it f*ing annoying that everyone can't agree on a set group of standards to adhere to, including bands!
sototallycarl
Stacky Botrus
Posted 12:52 AM 9/8/08
@maevro:
900 is not for this country. That is all there is to it. The world dosnt need to conform to a standard. You just need a quadband and that takes care of everyone. There also needs to be more bands to accomodate for the 4 billion people making calls. Not that I am telling the truth of anything, but you sounds stupid. No, I am only kidding seriously. But thanks. I already ate today.
Kim - two MB is MEGABYTES. It is a unit of measure for storage. Google it for a full explanation.
Stacky Botrus
LJKelley
Posted 2:43 AM 9/8/08
Hopefully this re-introduction of SonyEricsson means more than one handset and hopefully the future introduction of the Xperia X1.
Also of note, this is T-Mobile's first HSDPA device. For all you lucky bastards in Vegas and NYC.
LJKelley
seamonkey420
Posted 4:25 AM 9/8/08
@Stacky Botrus:
:P beat me to the punch.. btw, the usa sucks ass for having two, incompatible mobile standards. screw competition in that regard; i'd rather have a standardized system and coverage everywhere vs having tmobile coverage at home but only sprint at work etc.
but yay to SE being pals w/Tmobile again. now if they could only get the nice, highend models over here. getting sick of either importing or paying an arm and leg for my unlocked K850s and whatnots.. :)
just my usual .02
seamonkey420
Kim98
Posted 6:29 AM 9/8/08
@Stacky Botrus:
I didn't ask what MB is short of. I asked what the "two-megabyte" mentioned in the article refers to. I don't know of any 3G device with just 2MB of storage. That's ridiculously low. Even very low end devices tend to have tens of megabytes interal storage. Also while 2MB of heap memory is typical for devices of this category that's probably not what this refers to as the heap memory size is not commonly referenced outside of developer documentation as it doesn't really mean anything to end users. Also heap memory typically is also only meaningful in terms of how much is made available to the Java VM, which is the only application environment available for 3rd party apps in this type of device. That's not a number you would use in the declaration of a device like this.
So the question still stands: what the hell is the "two megabyte" mentioned here referring to!? Is it a typo and was it really meant to be "two megapixel"? But then again, the next sentence says that so that would be saying the same thing twice.
Kim98
DelmarSnipe
Posted 2:38 PM 12/8/08
2MB refers to the the resolution of the camera. There ARE other sites than this one that have information on this phone. It's called the internet, people, there's a lot of info out there.
DelmarSnipe