T-Mobile redoes the Sony Ericsson TM506 in Scarlet

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 21st 2009 at 3:59PM

The TM506 holds a special place in our hearts as one of T-Mobile's very first national-release 3G handsets (and the first with HSDPA), so why not keep the party going with a new color? Following Emerald and Amber, Scarlet becomes the third color available for Sony Ericsson's homely flip, offering the same 2 megapixel cam, TeleNav support, and stereo Bluetooth as its stablemates. Grab it now, if you dare, for $49.99 on contract.

Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: clamshell, ericsson, flip, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, t-mobile, tm506

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oakie @ Jan 21st 2009 7:45PM

yes, it was their first with HSDPA, but it wasnt nearly the first 3g handset for T-Mobile USA... or the second, or the third, but was the fourth. the Samsung T639, T819, and Nokia 6263 all preceded it.

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josh @ Jan 21st 2009 11:58PM

Does anyone now if this phone can be used to bluetooth tether to a laptop? I'm currently used an old nokia on gprs but it is fairly slow. I would like to have a faster connection, was eyeing this phone but have heard conflicting reports of how well it tethers with 3g networks.

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danska @ Jan 22nd 2009 6:30AM

Josh, Yes. If you get the right one. When it first came out, it fully supported tethering. They later released an update to end that. You have to manually get an update, it doesn't happen automatically so if you get one of the later ones, yes. It will work as you need it to.

Worse case, you get one and it has the software updates. Not a huge deal. Use davinciteam.com with a sony ericsson data cable and flash it to the previous firmware. Then you have tethering back!

Check out http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=462 for more info on this phone and what other stuff you can do. (Like enable data icons, flash menus etc... all hackable for free if you have the data cable.)

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