Ericsson R600

  • Released 2001, Q4
    82g, 20mm thickness
    Feature phone
    No card slot
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    5 lines
  • NO
    No video recorder
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  • 650mAh
    Li-Ion

Ericsson R600 - Specs

Network Technology GSM
2G bands GSM 900 / 1800
GPRS Yes
EDGE No
Launch Announced 2001, Q4
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 105 x 45 x 20 mm (4.13 x 1.77 x 0.79 in)
Weight 82 g (2.89 oz)
SIM Mini-SIM
Display Type Grayscale graphic
Size
Resolution 5 lines
 LCD illuminates in 3 colours
Background pictures
Memory Card slot No
Phonebook 200
Call records 10 received, dialed and missed calls
Camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker No
Alert types Vibration; Downloadable monophonic ringtones, composer
3.5mm jack No
Comms WLAN No
Bluetooth No
GPS No
Radio No
USB
Features Sensors
Messaging SMS, EMS
Browser WAP 1.2.1
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Games 4 - Erix, Catcher, Pathy and Ripple
Java No
 SMS chat
Predictive text input
Organizer
Profiles
Battery   Removable Li-Ion (BST-20)
Stand-by 90 h - 150 h
Talk time 2 h - 4 h
Misc Colors 2 - Ice Blue, Luminous Champagne
SAR EU 0.89 W/kg (head)    

Ericsson R600 - User Reviews

  • The last phone before Sony Ericsson

  • 16 years and Ericsson still has not yet announced a phone.

  • After 12 years working perfect. I change 2 batteries and 1 original cover. It"s in a excellent condition!

  • my first phone on. I really love it

  • This is my first mobile phone on 2001 I love the keypad, very smooth I use it for around 5 years, no problem at all.

  • Best phone ever until I get Samsung Galaxy Note

  • best phone i have ever had, until my stepdad thrown it in the lake... lol

  • what the price for r.600 ?

  • The best phone I have ever had. I regret having sold it :( Impossible to find in second hand

  • I bought my R600 for 9 years ago, and it still works perfect. This must definitly be the best phone that has ever been made.

  • this is very loveable mobile phone. This is my 1st handphone. i love it very much. very miss this handphone, where to get it again??? need your information. :'(

  • This is my first phone, i brought it on 2001. I love the keypad :D

  • Best phone ever made! Thats all

  • I've had my R600 for 8 (eight) years with one battery replacement, but now it is time to move on to a new phone. I would say that 8 years of daily use and still working shows good quality.

  • i would say it was very good, strong and light phone with elegant design and colors

  • I am very pleased with the phone. I still have it and work with it. I am from Bulgaria Sofia

  • And for me it's my first phone. I miss this phone; it's breake now :P

  • My first Ericsson! loved it! since then i am using only Sony Ericsson phones! best phones ever!

  • i still have this phone,it works perfect,no problems,the keys are a little bit not to good because they are made of rubber but it's ok,overall it's a small wonderfull phone and the colour...it's super

  • I really like the look of this phone aswel as the specs. A phone worth buying I say.

  • I am still wondering if you could still get the keypads and change the front cover for this model. I am in Bangkok, Thailand

  • Where are you located? You can still get batteries here in Germany.

  • do you still have available battery (BST-20) for this unit? if not, is there any compatible battery pack and charger? i bought my unit CY 2004 i still want to use it.

  • Choosed this cell cause it was cheap. Cost about 140$ at that time. And I got what i paid for! Cheap and lousy, I say. Slippery and weak buttons, dull interface and bad battery life. Had it a couple of months til I bought a new one. Probably the worst phone I ever had. Ericsson made fine phones, but they could have skipped this little pieace of cheap technology!

  • It was my main phone from march 2003 till december 2005 and from 2005 it backs up my mpx220. Never ever had any problem with it, only changed its acc.

  • great telephone,wеll build,strong,just super

  • it was my first phone, buy in nov. 2003.AFTER ONLY 3month appear the sever injuryous soft problem .he forget the all numbers on the phone memory is enable to the function.ALL IN ALL he was an nice design,but the tecnical device is on crash!

  • I got this phone a few years ago and it worked well, but for a pair of software crashes :) It's 3 colour backlight was pretty cool, especially if you had set different colours for different people calling you. I also found the alarm clock very good. All in all a good phone, much better than the very popular nokia 3310 or 3410. Has better features.

  • It's nice phone. I love it. I used for one year before it was stolen. I will still buy ericsson product again. probably T230. cool!!!

  • hey ppl dont get ericsson fones get SONY ericsson its more modern and better (by the way if ur havin trouble decidin which sony ericsson to get get k700

  • R600 is a nice phone but it sucks as hell.Its giving me a hell of a problem right now.searching for network for over 10 hours and not finding it baterry runs out within a day.please tell me wat to do to reset the searching problem.

  • Bad Design, T68 is better, this phone is suck!

  • i need a large quantity of r600 at very good and competitive price. prices for other sony erricson needed, such as sony j5/j6, j70/j7 and z5

  • phone has sucky buttons... those dont work and battery runs out in 2 days.

  • Smooth design, full capability for an inexpensive handset ....

  • Good design!

  • this phone sucks bigtime. its worse fault is it loses its data i.e. all its internal phonebook and stored sms messages when it does a sudden reset (it doesn't really hang, it resets!). by the way, to avoid losing data when it resets, just stay cool and don't press the red (on/off) button. had the misfortune to buy this phone about a year ago. was lucky enough though to sell it to somebody else at half its original price after six months of hell. one feature this phone has over others are its xmas lights. first, bet somebody that this phone has them. second, access the lights test routine through its hidden menu (see samo's comments below). finally, sing a xmas tune to accompany the blinking lights. this is how I sold my phone. :)

  • It is a very nice phone but there isn't t9

  • what can i say?i was happy when i bought it but now i am not!battery atonomy sucks-3 days stand bye if i don;'t speack and if i don't play,6-7 ringtones,ugly games!and after all is MADE IN CHINA!!!! phone and battery!damn with chinese stuff i'll buy an panasonic gd75/siemens mt50.don't buy it peoples.it's pretty sucksRomania says hallo

  • Ericsson R600 is the best telephone !!!

  • the best gsm

  • it's very wonderful phone

  • it's suck. once it hangs, u will lost everthing that u already save on that fuckin phone. fuck r600.

  • Dear Sir/Madam, About SonyEricsson R600 Please Sent me Yours truly, Nava

  • gay phone, all manufacturers suck except nokia, only dicks have ericsons or siemens or alcatel or anything but nokia, GOD DESTROY THE BLASPHEMOUS ONES, ALL SHALL ROT IN HELL BUT NOKIA

  • Want to know if this phone is ringtone compatible. Is the any way to download some ringtones, picture massages, moble logos, etc.?

  • i can't find logo/sound editor software. i have cable. good 4 gprs.

  • i don't understand why have they made this phone, it's just a simple phone, with old features, othing interesting, if you are a boring person - buy it ;)

  • One of the best middle-range handsets ever produced!!!

  • great phone, but the buttons are quite though... and the melody composer sucks...

  • This forum is acting up. The combination is: RightArrow * LeftArrow LeftArrow * LeftArrow * If the software is old and the phone hangs insist on upgrade

  • Here's the combination to access a hidden menu with software version: >*

  • Careful if you're in Malaysia, battery very difficult to find as at posting date!

  • Good... small... and easy to use... but where Can I get more ringtones and wallpaper for it..( can U give Me) Thanks...

  • I do not like it!!!There are much better phones then this one!!!It's shutting down,bad,very bad!

  • My R600 acted weird to. All data got lost and stuff like that. I brought it back in and after a week ericsson gave me a brand new one. That's kinda cool but the buttons on the phone still suck big time :-(

  • This is exelent phone but composer is sucks.

  • Cool. This toy is perfect for me!!!

  • pile of shite really aint it

  • Fit to my hand and many functions to use, It's perfect for me now.

  • The WAP would not even let me Download porn, whats that all about ??

  • Could someone PLEASE send me a link to some sites where I can download logo's, screensavers and ringtones for my R600?? Thanks ^_^

  • GREAT! I need melody for it.

  • How to get a manual in English for this phone please? Thx.

  • Hi! I live in Phuket. I am going to but this phone R600 in the next few days, because I cannot bear with Nokia anymore. I think I should be a really nice one.

  • okay phone but t65 is alot better

  • sorry but it is a nice toy, but I called with Sony Ericson and they just where not planning on making any conection software for it linking it to the PC and with this desicion they decrade it to and nice girly toy. Apart of this it crashes a lot, to much and always on important moments. A to small batery so with a few calls it's empty... conclusion:::: DONT BUY THIS PHONE, I regret it every day since I bought it....

  • Hy! I am from Romania, and i bought my R600 from Italy in July 2002.I want to say I`m not very satisfied of my R600. First of all sometimes it blocks.I don`t know what it happens with it, I have to turn it off and then turn it on again.Second here it says that it have 4 games, I have only 3: Erix,Countrary and Path not what it says here: 4 - Erix, Catcher, Pathy and Ripple.It isn`t this the major problem. Another thing is that I can`t compose my own melodies(they don`t sound like it should,I can`t modify the tempo,the melodies are to fast)

  • please can you help me get a user manual of this phone in english language. i bought this ericsson r600 in italy. the manual is in italian language. my address is : jakisini hnana, via dei mille 40, (apt. 186) rome 00185. italy. thanks.

  • I would like to know more about R600 Phone. Where is the manufacture this phone. I'm in Sri Lanka, so how can I buy this phone online. How much it will cost, can I pay it throu my credit card and What is warranty for this. Chaminda

  • send me a picture with you're full accesories..ok????????

  • damn! this phone always hang...resets by itself,all messages lost and my wap settings too..who designed this? - i'm very disappointed *%#@

  • It's cool...but when i playback my melodies,its tempo seems fast.

  • i hate nokia

  • I bought it recently but it stand-by only 24 h, why?

  • it�s great! ! !

  • send me informaition about the r600

  • bad bad phone one day i bougt it then in a month its hank, all ringtones, picture & sms lost i hate ericson!!! especialy R600 a...rgh I dont want hear it or see it again cause I sold it few day ago

  • I sold my Nokia 8310 because I thought id try out this new Ericsson... that was on September 11th... today is September 16th and I sold it and bought a Nokia 8250.. I was gonna buy the 6510 but prefer the 8250,its the best phone ive ever used.. as for my opinion....you really wanna know..? ericsson are a good brand but they still have a bit to go to catch up on nokia!

  • i like have r600 cause its very smart

  • I love this phone. But I'm Japanese, I have a few chances to use it.

  • i got ana icon on my screen i dunno what it is..it is a white square between two black squares...it is not in the user guide....if you know about that plz e-mail me

  • bad bad bad battery

  • Can someone PLEASE be so kind to tell me what I should do to make my battery live longer? I put my light on green and automatic mode. I switched off the vibra. I always have good signal strength but it still doesnt last more than 3 days! What should I do? Please help me! Thank you VERY MUCH!

  • Not bad, nice design..easy and sleek to hold..better build quality than Nokia or Alcatel..Colour screens are attarctive but noticed that if u use the red or orange as ur main screen colour, some how the battery drains faster than if u use green. Colours must only be used for assigned phone numbers then the battery life is much longer. GPRS is fast & efficient. esato.com is a good website to download screensavers and background pictures.. Rindtones r many but does not sound as good because the speed is not right when it finally downloads onto phone. Another missing feature would be Viva voice and multiple simultaneous messaging as available on alcatel 511/512. Graphics quaility truely amazing. Overall good reception quality for an antennaeless design.

  • Hello....???!!! are u nuts??? please don't buy this phone.... u will regret it soon.... please just buy another handphone mode... or try 6510...i bet u won't regret it...

  • hello.i like this phone.is litlle and very easy to use.please if somebody know how i can choose red colour for display....please respond me !!!!

  • it is the best telephone i have evey got.. every thing is very good, vibration, sound, small size, low weight. but may be the battry is not so long life but for me 3 days are enough... i lake It

  • the worst phone ever

  • I love this phone, the batterylife is not to great but it lasts about 4 days for me which is conform the specifications. At first it only lasted 2 days or so, but after letting the battery run out completely and then recharging things got better. The sound is good, easy to use (I have always had an ericsson so the menu structure and pace is no problem for me) and does exactly what I bought it for... make and receive calls :) All in all a very nice phone, looks good, feels good, sounds good and not to pricey.

  • small,cute and easy

  • It is a very nice phone with many features, the life of the battery is not as long as itis mentioned in the manual and specs. It lasts only for 30 -40 hours at standby mode!!!. The key pad is out of rubber so a hard press is needed to operate them, possibly this will wear out the painted keypads in while. Ring tones functions are not as good as Nokia, e.g. there is no tempo adjustment and so they are not so real, they play too fast11

  • bad battery very low!!!

  • Super Ericsson

  • for message alert give more option and when the new massage not open it make the battery low

  • ...and it keeps shutting down by itself when the baterry is low (but not empty!)

  • good phone exept the battery. Is there any way to improve the stand-by time?

  • the battery performance doesnt like what gsm arena said, my ericsson R600 battery can stand by only 48 hour, why?

  • Oh, yes, I forgot to mention. The problem with the R600 is not the battery, but the phone itself. For example, the fuel consumption on a 5.0liter car is greater than a 1.5liter car, therefore, the theory is that the R600 consume alot of power. I know it for the fact that the Ericsson T32m uses the same battery but it last and last and last and last.

  • Hi, I just got the Ericsson R600. I have the phone but hate the battery life. I want to know if it can use a third party batteries. I know that the std battery is only 700mhz. I was thinking of using a higher mhz. Don't know if it will help to boost the performance of the phone.

  • I read that some people have problems with the battery. In the beginning I had the same problems,but I put "light" on "automatic" and not on "on." Before I had a standby time of about 1 day, now I have a standby time of 3 to 4 days. "on" means that the light of your mobile is on 24 hours a day. You can imagine that the battery won't last long then.

  • YES

  • I will buy R600 tomorrow!! -bandung- Indonesia

  • a bug infested phone. try writing an SMS with some usual characters, then insert one of the large pictures (weather), then go back to the beginning of message and insert an unusual character (like the one that follows the letter s). try to delete this character...

  • R600 is the coolest mobile in this world! It easy to use too...perfect mobile for teenagers!

  • I'm about to buy it in two weeks. And I wanna know that if r600 has datalink cable in box and software for sync data with computer.

  • well i think it's a very good phone we can call it a value for money, it has a lot of options and the size is small ..but the phonebook view style shloud be better that this i mean must be like how it is in nokia phones ..and i think there is a nother problem ..when you open a menu and a submenu too fast the phone goes to hang so you have too be slow when you use this phone..some other thing the battery is too weak it has a 700 amp. but it longs only one day in a very normal use..

  • i think its great on of the first realy good mobile phones from ericsson much better than nokia.

  • To RANHEIM (6310i)...ARE U NUTS..??!! i bet u dont have that 6310i..!! this phone is nothing compares to 6310i, e.g.no IrDA, Java Applications, Bluetooth and battery life (compares to 17 days..!! for 6310i). u full of crap...

  • hi...i fell inlove with this phone the moment i saw it...but i'm worried about it's stability ...the battery life i can live with :) but it hangs??? i need the type of phone that can send sms that is 100% reliable...is this the phone for me????

  • I got this phone when it launch and sold off on the third day. The phone hanged oftenly on the second day, battery time last me 1 day and the key buttons is like rubber which need to press hard. Great Design but the keypads really spoil the phone and hope the software that can improved as well as the battery performance.

  • I want to use it but i don't have money to buy it in my country, the price is so expensive for me, would you like to send it for me free, please!

  • The R600 has no T9, instead you find something like iText wich is not that goog working at all :-(

  • Everything is excellent, user friendly, except the battery life, hope that SonyEricsson will come out better battery for R600 soon.

  • If I can cancel buying Fisio 620, I will chose this phone for my wife. Better fitures and more eassy at the same price. (in Indonesia)

  • Hi to all Ericsson cellphones user, Just got the R600 for 2 wks & I do agreed the design is excellent, slighly smaller and it fits my palm just right. The feature wise its pretty cool. The moment i saw it I wanted it. I've got the ice blue colour. As for the price is reasonable. I was once a NOKIA user but after my experince using the Ericsson R520m, it was an excellent phone. The battery last longer. But I'm quite disappointing to find the battery for R600 only manage to last 2 days only. Can't SonyEricsson do something with the battery or perhaps come out with a long lasting battery for R600? R600 is much more value for money than the Nokia phone.

  • Well I own the phone for about 1 month now and I find the design to be excellent, slightly smaller and more curves than the 8850. Overall it's a very good phone, considering the price of around RM 700 (US$184.00). I've got the luminuous champagne and it's very cool (changes colour on different angle). Has 3 backlight colour (my favourite's the orange color), 250 memory, GPRS, eZiText Input (T9) (without dictionary!!), Chinese Input and 8 personal melodies. What more can you ask of for that sort of price? One thing though, the battery life has been quite disappointing only manage to last for 2 days max (only 1 day with WAP). If you're not the technology geek who don't mind not having infrared, bluetooth, dictionary, voice call etc... this phone is for you.

  • Oooo my god i can't believe such a class phone is for 175$!! Incredible. I would trade it for my 6310i ITS SO AMAZING!

  • Dear Sir, I am a R600 user and I satisfied with it. I would like to use my R600 as a modem to my PC. Is is possible? What do I need? For your information I already purchase the Cabel Data which is used by T39. Thank you.

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  • The R600 dosen't have T9. It got eZtext (or something) instead. Thank you!

  • Just got the R600 for 2 wks. Design is sleek & smooth.. fits my palm just right. Nice luminous champagne colour. A longer battery life would be nice! Only RM700 in Malaysia.

  • How good this HP compare to Fisio 620? Price is quite same.. the main point both have GPRS. What do u think?! Fisio 620 or R600?! Is there any of u from Jakarta know the cheaper GPRS Handphone? need your feedback!

  • i want price in thailand or import not pass include

  • I've got a Sony Ericsson R600 today after I lost my Sony J70 , it is quite good and have a reasonable price which is around HKD 1,300 (USD 200).

  • ok

  • I'm crazy about ericsson cellphones, and I think this R 600 is the second best after R310. I'm proud of using both cellphones. However, the songs that you compose will always go too fuckin' fast, and when you try to lengthen the tone, you don't have enough space.

  • i can't find any pc software sonyericsson r600 modem drivers syncronisator .....

  • very bad for standard battery!!!!!only 90-150 h stand by.To short hours.

  • very good

  • If anybody complains about bad standby time: Check your SW version ( *>*

  • bad battery performance! My R600 can only have a maximum around 40 hours stand by time, I wonder why :-(

  • I can't adjust the tempo of my melody.

  • the battere stand by time it's damn short

  • i don't know the r600 have a problem with the batteries life time is very shortly

  • i don't know the r600 have a problem with the batteries life time is very shortly

  • Why messages with EMS in R600 cannot be applicabled with nokia and T66 can ?What are the differences? My R600 only have three games ?

  • no wonder sony-ericsson is falling down, with cheap+dumb cellphones like this :( tipically nokia 8 series

  • It lacks IR, code memo, voice memo, voice dial. Backlighting isn't the electroluminescent we've grown to love; it uses multicolor LEDs. The display is rather small. The T65 is still a lot better and more expensive. The R600 is going to be really cheap.

  • is this phone have voice dial?

  • ericsson is a good performance mobile phone

  • ericsson is a good performance mobile phone

  • Is there an internetsite where I can buy this cheap (for use in Dutch GSM).

  • price list of new & old requested

  • is good ! what in Indonesia ready stok

  • Is Very Good,

  • This phone looks like a nokia sad very sad indeed

  • Some interesting stuffs for your reading. Kha

  • For a gift is the best.

  • Does this phone have a calculator?

  • This has got to be the best-looking new phone. I will certainly buy one when it comes out here. It seems to be the successor to the below-average calulator-less A3618. Nevermind the lack of IR, I'm not a gadget freak anyway...

  • Can u tell when this will be avaible in Europe ..Romania?

  • That phone cost 200 euro

  • nu zinot cia tikrai neblogas tel,bet ash tai dabar turiu A2618sc, o kuris geresnis mano ar tas A2628s???????????

  • well done ericsson!

  • Great.. absolutely great phone! Beautiful shape which ericsson never care before in their phones, cheaper than any other GPRS phones... makes this phone absolutely funtastic...!

  • This phone R600 is allready released in some european countries, and as europe are world-leaders at the gsm-market, you shouldn't have to wait for long to buy this excellent phone! and it's very cheap, �200

  • can someone tell me when this work of art will be avaleble in europe?

  • info: This phone has nothing to do with Sony, as it was developed before the Sony Ericsson mobile phones started.

  • Well, well, looks like Sony's doing wonders with the late Ericsson Mobile Division! Right on Sony!!! I like the Audi A2-like concept: U only stick the SIM/Ignition Key and turn it on! The rest is seen by Ericsson Personnel only!:))) Yet, some of us tend to have a technical hobby-urge and fuck-up the phone:)))) I only hope the new line won't have the same bugs all the other had!

  • Yes I do agree with you that this is a great phone, and I do know from own expercience that it is good, I tried it on a showroom at Ericsson. It is true that the R600 will be very cheap, about US 160-200 when it's released in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark in early December. I'm not sure when it will arrive in other countries than mentioned above, but what I'm sure of is that these countries allways gets all gsm-phones first.

  • E beton R600

  • Shit small, fuck sexy and what more do u want from a phone.

  • fantastic fone!! I want to know about the price. And when can I have this GREAT fone? Ericsson, WELL DONE! So long nokia....

  • i think that after those new handsets ericsson has taken the lead when it comes to makeing mobile phones .. i wonder what it will be when we see the first sony-ericsson handset ..

  • Hey "I wonder", Ericsson T68 was announced first. Compare it's specs to T65, T66 and R600 and you will see.

  • I am a great Siemens lover, but this is a nice telephone !

  • can�t believe there�s no infrared-port in the new ericsson phones (T65, T66, R600), there would not be the need for GPRS without it!e verything else about the new phones is great. If you don�t like these, go and get the color-blinding, flash-lighting toyradio from nokia which you can also use as a phone... 8310.

  • i wonder ! ppl here in the site said that ericsson r scalling down after the t65 ! now after t29 t39 t65 t66 and now R600 ..wow dont u think that who wrote that they r scalling down need an eyes glasses

  • ericsson is impressing us with another one ! well don

  • And i thought the phone looked like a nokia, just goes to show ppl did not like the original square designs of past ericsson phones and ericsson heard the masses.Bravo, the phone looks brilliant.

  • I agree. Now Ericsson is showing an extraordinary productivity. And the new phones look super! I have heard that the R600 will cost about 1500 swedish kronor. About 150 USD. Very good price for a phone with such specifications!

  • I can not belive Ericsson is doing so well. This phone is fantastic. I wonder the price..., when can I have it?