Sony Ericsson has announced the M608c phone and messaging device. This is a fully-specified mobile phone and email tool "built-in" a slim device featuring a touch screen and Chinese character handwriting recognition.

With a stylish, handy design M608c is a great combination of mobile phone and PDA based on new Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 and offers users great customization opportunities, as well as 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 phone and email connectivity in a device that easily fits in their pocket - at just 15mm thick, it is one of the slimmest devices of its kind available. The M608c is a 2.5G version of Sony Ericsson's recently announced global products, the M600 UMTS handset.

The ergonomic design of the M608c makes it easy to operate with one hand or two and gives versatile options on how to perform messaging tasks. For example, the combination of large dual function keyboard and touch screen handwriting input makes messaging input extremely easy. Reading emails 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 colors.

For such a slim device, the M608C has an impressive 80MB onboard memory for storing email 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 M608c is the first Sony Ericsson product to feature this new memory card.

The M608C is available in Granite Black and Crystal White and starts shipping during Q3 2006.
It is available in the following variant: M608C, GPRS 00/1800/1900MHz for Mainland China