Sony Ericsson's TM506: T-Mobile AWS 3G support included

When Sony Ericsson's TM506 was leaked earlier this month, there was no mention made of the flip's support of AWS 3G. Thankfully (thankfully!), the official launch brings along confirmed support for the protocol. SE is linking up with T-Mobile USA once again, providing a stylishly small handset that sports a 2-megapixel camera, built-in A-GPS (TeleNav), stereo Bluetooth support, an M2 card slot, multimedia playback, outer / inner displays and 9.5-hours of GSM talk time (250-hours on standby). Curiously, no price is mentioned, but you can find out for yourself when this lands in stores early next month.

[last @ Aug 21st 2008 9:42AM]

last one :(

[Louis @ Aug 21st 2008 9:49AM]

This is by far the best looking SE flip to date.

[wako @ Aug 21st 2008 10:49AM]

ugh... maybe for SE, but compared to the rest of the other flip phone devices out there, it looks pretty generic and boring

[Daniel Bentley @ Aug 21st 2008 9:52AM]

tasty!

[Cesar Cardoso @ Aug 21st 2008 10:30AM]

It looks like a AWS-ized version of SE Z780, a solid phone BTW.

[Alex @ Aug 21st 2008 10:40AM]

Can i tether this to a laptop? I know all the sony phones make it easy, will tmobile restrict this?

[asurroca @ Aug 21st 2008 11:40AM]

Knowing how lax T-Mobile is with restrictions (or policing abuse), I'm going to assume not. Remember, they're the guys who for years left their $5 WAP browsing plan wide open for folks to abuse with a simple proxy. In a pinch, I've even tethered my laptop over their current EDGE network (obviously) using third-party software without a problem.

[Bankai @ Aug 21st 2008 1:02PM]

So does this mean that its possible for the xperia x1 to come out with the Tmobile 3g spectrum? Because when SE first announced the xperia one of the spectrums listed in the press release was the 1700Mhz/2100Mhz Tmobile 3g band, but after reading the white paper i noticed that it was no lnger listed.

[pheer6224 @ Aug 21st 2008 1:21PM]

I hope they keep the tethering easy, I need a way to get past the port blocking so I don't have to pay the 20something dollar charge on teh data plan for the G1.

[pyrotech @ Aug 21st 2008 1:45PM]

http://www.mobileburn.com/youtube_video.jsp?v=PhpaF80gZl4&title=Sony+Ericsson+TM506+3G+for+T-Mobile

[trunk @ Aug 21st 2008 2:16PM]

well the deal is, SE can pretty much put 1700 into any phone they please, with a lot of extra man hours of dev and testing.
There must be a business case to support it though.

[brandon @ Aug 21st 2008 6:06PM]

3g and gps from tmobile? Am I dreaming or is the day finally coming?

[orangecat @ Aug 21st 2008 8:29PM]

SE needs to start making CDMA versions for sprint.

[Yuri @ Aug 21st 2008 9:05PM]

I actually really like the look of the phone.

My Nokia doesn't pick up a signal where I live, while every other T-mobile phone I've used gets full signal, so I've been looking for a simple upgrade. I don't need a smartphone, and I don't want another RAZR. I've been debating whether or not to get the RAZR2, but with this on the way, I may just continue using my backup phone until it hits. The GPS seems really really appealing.... I travel a lot.

[Alex @ Aug 22nd 2008 12:46AM]

Get it Sept 3rd guys.

[etechshop @ Aug 22nd 2008 11:51AM]

I like this green....