Firstly, the m600i does not have EDGE - net would be too slow.
If you're going to be somewhere around your home PC, you can instead get any Nokia phone with Symbian, & install a gateway application, to let you access the net thru your PC's broadband (using bluetooth to connect to PC). The Nokia 7710 would be awesome if you can find it.
UIQ3 simply is a variant of symbian - focussed towards business use. Note that you lose a very slight bit of compatibility with the vast library of symbian apps if you're on a UIQ-based phone....
And what kind of software is available? Literally the entire range of software available for the PC!
I'm very happy with my phone, its convenient & easy to use, plus powerful - using it as a mobile PC, & then sync it with my PC whenever i get home.
Most symbian software is usually commercial (just like any other OS...) - and there's a very deep rooted eco-system around getting these for 'free' (with apps & cracks & keygens, etc....). FTPs, IRC channels, torrents, underground mobile warez sites..... (probably you could even have someone setup a temporary ftp server to get the files over the net 😉 )
I have a Nokia 3230. Most of the SW on the dvds are compatible with any symbian phone. Tested on Nokia 7710, 6681, Sony-Ericsson P900 (the SE phone is a UIQ so yes it works).
Here's a review of 7710:
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...&cat_id=614
(the review is old, so its price would have definitely fallen a lot - the last i heard of it was in June 2006 when it cost 17k....)
If you're going to be somewhere around your home PC, you can instead get any Nokia phone with Symbian, & install a gateway application, to let you access the net thru your PC's broadband (using bluetooth to connect to PC). The Nokia 7710 would be awesome if you can find it.
UIQ3 simply is a variant of symbian - focussed towards business use. Note that you lose a very slight bit of compatibility with the vast library of symbian apps if you're on a UIQ-based phone....
And what kind of software is available? Literally the entire range of software available for the PC!
I'm very happy with my phone, its convenient & easy to use, plus powerful - using it as a mobile PC, & then sync it with my PC whenever i get home.
Most symbian software is usually commercial (just like any other OS...) - and there's a very deep rooted eco-system around getting these for 'free' (with apps & cracks & keygens, etc....). FTPs, IRC channels, torrents, underground mobile warez sites..... (probably you could even have someone setup a temporary ftp server to get the files over the net 😉 )
I have a Nokia 3230. Most of the SW on the dvds are compatible with any symbian phone. Tested on Nokia 7710, 6681, Sony-Ericsson P900 (the SE phone is a UIQ so yes it works).
Here's a review of 7710:
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...&cat_id=614
(the review is old, so its price would have definitely fallen a lot - the last i heard of it was in June 2006 when it cost 17k....)