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Summary: Fun gadgety phone
Review: This is my second phone, and I really enjoy it. It has a lot of cool functionality for a geek girl like me... you can synch up your Outlook calendar, use bluetooth to send pics and rings and such to other bluetooth phones, play games on it, etc. The screen is really big and colorful, and the navigation is fairly easy with the joystick. I really got it because of the joystick- it's something you just don't see on other phones. The games it comes with are kind of lame, but that's just me- all I want is Tetris. You can set it up so when someone calls, first it says their name (you prerecord this and associate it with their contact list entry) and shows their picture (same deal), then you can have a custome ring tone too... so it's nice, you don't even have to look at the phone to know who's calling.
It does occationally freeze up, my only gripe- but that's what happens when your phone is more of a PDA than a phone. Starting it up again is cake. I do wish it had a little more memory. Overall though, it's lots of fun. :)
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Summary: Poor Reception
Review: There is no doubt the phone is a nice looking phone, but the phone has such poor reception that I have to use my wife's v60 when it is an important call. I have returned the phone 4 times and I know that T-Mobiles service is good in my area (Portland-Seattle), because my V60 works just fine. Unless you live in a large flat city and do not talk while driving, I would strongly stay away from this phone.
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Summary: Everything except what you want.
Review: I continue to be impressed with the multitude of features this phone has. Everything from its chip memory to recording conversations to text, email, picture messages and so on and so forth. It does maybe one hundred things and not one of them it does well. The features I have used include pictures, contact management, emailing, and text. I have not had the opportunity to use the Bluetooth features. The camera takes grainy pics that look horrible even when there is enough ambient light. Perhaps on the surface of the sun there is enough light to take an adequate picture. Absolutely forget about taking pics indoors; even with the "night mode" turned on.
My primary complaint however is that it uses contactors on the bottom to attach the headset in lieu of the standard headphone plug. I prefer talking on a headset because the phone itself is too small to talk into and gets uncomfortable in a hurry holding it. I also appreciate having my hands free while on the phone especially while driving. These contactors often get dirty which mean they don't make contact and fail. This leaves you wiggling the wires yelling "Hello? Hello?" and blowing on the bottom of the phone like you would for your old 8-bit Nintendo system until you are fed up enough to simply pull it. I could easily solve this problem I suppose by buying a Bluetooth earpiece. Yes, all it would take is a $90 earpiece to fix a phone that cost me $99.
The same applies to a charger where the two copper strips are to make contact, it rarely does. You may think your phone is charging all night but has really sat idle. The view screen although nice and pretty to look at is useless in brightly lit areas. The screen simply isn't bright enough to read on a sunny day. The network isn't developed well enough in S Florida to handle the new, what's it called GMS network.
There certainly is a lot of sizzle to this steak. Primarily it is a cell phone. As a cell phone, its terrible. I expect this phone to be a terrible day planner. This phone will do anything you could ever want a cell phone to do as long as one of those things isn't talking to other people.
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Summary: T610
Review: I have been using my T610 for 6 months and I am very happy with the phone. My T610 replaced a 2 year old Motorola StarTAC with a different carrier. I love the size and style of this phone. It has a great microphone. People comment that they can hear me better with the T610 compared to the StarTAC.
The camera (with built in mirror for self portraits) is great for quick photos that can be quickly emailed or Bluetooth from the phone to a computer. This ability is fun for trips. I like to snap a photo and email it to family and friends. The photo quality is standard for camera phones (lackluster).
I can go about 3-4 days without a charge by turning the phone off at night (YMMV, I only use about 150 minutes a month). The reception has been no problem compared to my former carrier. But, it is odd how the signal bar can dip and rise in strength for no apparent reason.
The T610 is digital only, I miss having dual mode when traveling in the Midwest. My phone has frozen on me one time in the past 6 months, removing the battery took care of it. I was in 'T-zones' canceling a command when it froze. One strange thing about the phone, I wish that I didn't get a text message for missed calls and voice mails. The missed call and voicemail icons on the screen are enough. The Good:
Size, weight and style
One button instant camera control
Battery life and reception when compared to StarTAC
Bluetooth
Ring tones, games, T-zones
Strong aluminum body The Bad:
Screen scratches easily
No analog/digital dual band
Frequent text messages from the phone itself
Plastic front smudges
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Summary: AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Review: I purchased this phone thinking I was upgrading from the T68i and was sorely disappointed. Technically speaking the phone has
1) horrifically bad reception
2) bad voice quality on either end--it's hard to hear others because it picks up too much resonant noise
3) bad legibility on the screen...that's euphemistic...you can't see anything on the screen at all when you're outside
4) it freezes constantly I am not the tech wiz...I like to have a powerful phone that works well but may I assure you this isn't the one... it's getting returned.
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Summary: Bad Reception
Review: The reception on this phone, compared to the Samsung X105 is weak. My son has the X105 and I stood holding both at many lacations and his would showalmost all bars while mine, on many occasions would show 1 or none. Unfortunately, Samsung does not make a Bluetooth phone; with iSync on a Mac, Blue tooth is beautiully easy to sync your address book and calendar. I will dump the 610 as soon as Samsung make a Bluetooth
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!
Review: I bought this phone about a month ago and kind of liked it for a while. Then I noticed a lot of problems. The phone's camera is not good at all. I wanted to take a picture and had to use a lot of lights so the picture would look kind of good. When the picture is taken it looks pixelated. I mean you can see it in little squares. The pictures also take a lot of time to be taken. You press the capture button and then on the screen appears the message: "PLEASE WAIT" and if you move the phone during that time, the picture will come out as a blur. The reception of this phone is really bad too. The service can come and be full and then suddenly disappear. I tried to listen to a message but I didn't hear anything clearly. The keyboard is also kind of difficult to use. To enter the menu you have to press the joystick right in the middle or it will go to another page. The phone is really slow and can get frozen sometimes. When changing themes it takes about a minute.
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Summary: Wouldn't bother if I were you
Review: Having previously been a Nokia customer, I thought I would try something different. This is a nice looking phone - but it's could easily have been so much better. For a customer mainly interested in using it for phoning and text messaging, this phone has an unfriendly menu. It almost seems like it is trying to make it difficult for you. Several features such as editing a contact or writing a text message can only be done if the menus are accessed from a certain way - for example, I cannot select someone from the address book and then choose to write them a message!! Why should I have to write the message first or reply to a previous message? I have also found on several occasions, that when I try answering a call when the keypad is locked, it diverts it to the answering machine. In the end it costs me since I then have to phone the person back. For the times you occasionally forget to lock the phone, the WAP button (a feature I never use) is conveniently the only feature that starts with the press of a single button - so it goes online while in your pocket. The photo quality is very poor - it might as well not have a camera. I uploaded a photo onto the phone so that I could have a decent background. Even if you do like photos - you cannot store very many (about 20 or 30). Annoyingly Sony Ericcson decided not to let you delete some of the pictures that came with the phone to free up space for more photos. Oh it does have one good feature - the quality of the reception. Admittedly this is important in a phone, but I expect most phones nowadays have good reception. Roll on October when my contract expires ...
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Summary: Great Phone!
Review: I'm fascinated with the phone, it's better than I thought.. The camera quality is not so good, but it exists and that's fine for me :)
The battery is powerful! I've charged my phone 3 days ago and the battery indicator is near 35%! (And I use it ALL the time !) I've experienced some lockups but I've found in internet that it fixes with a firmware update, so if you have this problem, go to a sony ericsson service and ask for a firmware update..
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Summary: descent performance, cheap price and loads of features
Review: Although the phone didn't live up to my initial expectations, still I will rate this phone as 4 star. The phone is very sleek, very light, good resolution and very nice features.
One problem which I found is common with this phone is that it gets stuck in the middle if you try to open 2 applications very quickly. You have to be little patient with this phone. Also, the user interface is only 30% effective when compared to Nokia. But a bluetooth and triband phone with a camera option at this price is what you get if you can live with all these problems.
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