Software Bundle 

Included with the phone is a suite of Sony/Ericsson and 3rd party application software intended to make dealing with the phone on your PC, a simpler process.  

When connected via USB in "Phone Mode" or bluetooth, the Syncronize function allows you to sync your phone with either Outlook or Outlook Express's Address book. It doesnt seem to support anything else, nor was the documentation very clear on this. Still, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express, you can easily manage contacts outside the phone and transfer them periodically back and forth to keep everything straight.

There are some simple applications included with the phone, to make dealing with the phone fairly simple for the “newbie” =).

Sony Image Editor is a simple editing application. It features a handy bounding box, so you can crop pictures to properly fit the phones 128x160 screen.

MMS Studio is another fairly simple application, allowing you to construct MMS picture and audio messages on the PC, and upload them to the phone. This is handy if you're not comfy typing out longwinded diatribes on cell phones.

 Disc2Phone is an application for ripping your audio CD's to mp3

Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition is also included. When you're in “File Mode” with the phone connected, the application auto starts, and grabs copies of all new picture and video content on the phone. While a bit redundant, and a tad annoying to someone like me who prefers to handle his own media, it's a nice touch and allows easy and simple management capabilities.

The Mobile Networking Wizard, allows you to create “virtual

 
Now that we've covered Sony's rather complete software bundle, let's take a look at the actual phone and it's applications.