After a week of using the M600 and being averagely happy with it I am returning it to Orange for the slightly more powerful and expensive M3100. The M3100 is almost an identical phone but it has the added benefit of

• a faster processor
• full QWERTY keyboard
• 3G capabilities
• improved battery life

I’m also hoping that the new phone will be able to run Skype, MSN Messenger and all the other useful mobile applications. Then when I get round to setting up Exchange at home for my emails I can setup the phone for the push email service where my emails are sent to both my phone and my computer. Cool huh?

Orange are sending out a jiffy bag for me to return this handset and then once they have confirmed receipt of the item I am able to start to order my new phone!

gadget · M3100 · M600 · MDA · mobile phone · Orange · skype · upgrade · V3

my new phone has arrived and as usual I have ignored the “please ensure you charge your phone for at least 16 hours” advice that the people at Orange always give.

So far it has worked really well. I have put all my contacts into Outlook 2003 and they are synced with the phone. I had a slight problem when the phone tried to call +4401372****** (my home number) and found that this wasn’t dialing. After a quick edit of the phone book to remove those number-breaking 0′s I now have a full set of contacts on my phone again.

I have also found out that the phone isn’t powerful enough to support Skype mobile which is a shame as I had planned to let my phone double as a WiFi Skype phone when im at home. Instead I shall just have to make do with the normal dialing of numbers and talking over GSM rathar than VoIP.

I could always try to get an M3100 instead which has the 400Mhz processor and see if that is any better than the M600 – but that depends on whether or not Orange are willing to do it as an upgrade phone.

I have 7 working days to try this out now and see whether or not I want to keep it

M600 · mobile phone · Orange · skype · Windows