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 "looks much better with the pale blue cover!" 2003-12-12
By whoopwopwhip (Scotland)
Postives-

small & light
functional (organizer function is useful for reminding for important appointments)
connectivity (although ive never used anything apart from Infrared between the phone and laptops)
Quality of speaker (easily adjusted volume)
Ease of use due to joystick
Looks (ok its an older phone but still looks good)
Battery Life (around 2 weeks on average standby with intermittent use)
Games - are actually quite decent I thought
Phone books ability to store more than mobile number
Tough - dropped it several times, also managed somehow to displace a button out of place in my pocket (due to keys in pocket but quality of phone) half twisted key simply clicked back into place and works fine
Intelligent T3 predictive text - actually works
Large memory - 1mb I think
Negatives-

lack of ringtones-look on the net for free ringtones, difficult to find and few in number+quality
lack of sms alert options - either silent or a beep
sms can get a little funny of me, refuses to scroll down to a certain letter
colour screen - outdated looking compared to new phones but doesnt make a huge difference

Overall a high quality phone but dont be paying too much as its "outdated" (minus polyphonic ringtones and a sharper colour screen its outdated otherwise its only outdated cause its been out for so long)

 "T68i what a phone" 2003-11-03
By Mr. Daniel J. Histed (England)
When looking to upgrade from my Nokia 3310, I wanted to get the most up-to-date model I could afford. The T68i was my choice, and it was quite a good one.

GOOD POINTS:
1) Looks Fantastic
2) Extremely Light
3) Easy to navigate menu with 5-way joystick
4) Full colour screen
5) Can have great accessories attatched, including MP3 player, FM/AM radio and digital camera
6) Has bluetooth/infra-red capabilities

BAD POINTS:
1) Ringtones are monophonic, not polyphonic as stated
2) Camera produces blurry pictures
3) Quite difficult to navigate if you've had a standard Nokia
4) Unimaginative games
5) Difficult to find places to get free ringtones

 "T68i" 2003-10-26
By Stephen Banks
Before I had the Sony Ericsson T68i, I was stuck with my old Nokia 3310. A few weeks ago, I got bored of it, and bought this phone. I love it! It's the best phone I've ever had. It's quite well built and very light, so much so I nearly dropped my 3310 when I picked it up again because it was so heavy!
The colour screen is clear, even in sunlight, and you can fiddle around with the contrast and backlight settings. The keypad is blue when illuminated and looks very cool indeed.
There are a few things wrong with it though. One is the fact that the joystick takes a lot of getting used to and that the software is very slow on my phone. The menus take far too long to load up.
Bluetooth is a really good thing for Sony Ericsson to include, although the phone does lack a camera. You can buy the communicam for 50 quid here at amazon, but on the Orange site, it's more like 100.

 "Could be better?" 2003-03-05
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When looking to upgrade from my Nokia 3310, I wanted to get the most up-to-date model I could afford. The T68i was my choice, and it was quite a good one.

GOOD POINTS:
1) Looks Fantastic
2) Extremely Light
3) Easy to navigate menu with 5-way joystick
4) Full colour screen
5) Can have great accessories attatched, including MP3 player, FM/AM radio and digital camera
6) Has bluetooth/infra-red capabilities

BAD POINTS:
1) Ringtones are monophonic, not polyphonic as stated
2) Camera produces blurry pictures
3) Quite difficult to navigate if you've had a standard Nokia
4) Unimaginative games
5) Difficult to find places to get free ringtones

All in all, this is one of the best and most up to date phones on the market today, for a very affordable price, however could be improved. If you've got the money try the Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650, Nokia 7210 or Panasonic GD87. Alternativly, wait for one of the new "3G" phones, but they could cost a little more (around £500)

 "Brilliant" 2002-11-28
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This phis the greatest of all time, it has all the features, polyphonic ringtones gprs, colour screen, games, optional camera and many many more all for this great price. You can personalise your friends number so when they call a special picture pops up. It can vibrate aswell. A great deal, a steal at this price.


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Size Dimensions 101 x 44 x 17 mm
Weight 82 g
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 128 x 160 pixels, 1.8 inches, 28 x 35 mm
- Wallpapers, screensavers
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
Customization Composer, download, order now
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls

- 28 MB shared memory
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD Yes
Bluetooth Yes
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes
Features Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML(NetFront)
Games MinigolfBT, QuadraPop + downloadable, order now

Camera 1.3 MP, 1280 x 1024 pixels, video(QCIF)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- T9
- Image viewer
- Picture editor
- Organiser
- Voice memo
- Exchangeable Style-Up covers
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 750 mAh (BST-36)
Stand-by Up to 360 h
Talk time Up to 6 h
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 "Brilliant" 2007-08-19
By David D. Williams (North Wales)
I've owned a sharp gx30 for the last 3 years, and never had a problem with it until the end when the battery failed on me. However it started to look a little dodgy so I decided to go for a new phone.

I fancied this one straight away (in black) but a few of the reviews put me off. In the end I decided to go for it, and am so glad that I did! I don't find it fiddly or annoying. The memory is brilliant, the battery life is brilliant, the camera is brilliant, the lay-out is perfect and all the controls are easy to use. I can't think of a better phone to follow my gx30!

 "Marmite phone (but I love it!)" 2007-03-29
By C. D'AGORNE (Bristol and Devon, UK)
I read a lot of reviews of this phone on the internet before I bought it, and it came off slightly worse than the similar w810i, which is about a quid cheaper each month. However, the w810i is not a 3G phone, and, as far as I could ascertain, does not have a standard headphone adapter socket, meaning that only the Sony Ericsson headphones provided could be used. When trying out the w810i in the shop, in comparison to the w850, the keypad seemed basic, and did not deliver as much feedback (in the form of a positive 'click' sensation) when the keys were pressed.



The main criticisms levelled at the w850i seem to be directed at the main keypad, which was considered to be too stiff. I agree that this is a slight fault with the phone, but it is something you very rapidly get used to, as with any quirk on a new phone. The battery life was criticised in a previous review, but I have found it to be similar to the excellent battery life of my previous phone (W750i). I would suggest that music can be played through the headphones for around 8-12 hours at a reasonable volume on a single charge. This is more than adequate, an similar to many mp3 players on the market. Another criticism of this phone was that the keypad was too close to the main body of the phone; this has simply not been a problem with my w850i, although I can see that if an unusually fat thumb was used, this might be the case. The 2mp camera is not as good as in either my previous phone, the W750i, or in the W810i, but is still a reasonable camera for outdoor shots and static indoor shots. However, it is not something that would produce good shots in, for example, a club. If you are considering buying this phone for the camera, don't, period.



However, the real benefit of this phone is the music software. The phone comes bundled with a 1gb card, which is fine if you have 10-15 albums you want to listen to, but I have purchased a 4gb card (at present an 8gb card is £100 at play.com). This will enable me to store my entire music collection (in mp3 format). The software on the phone is beautiful, offering a similar 'browse by...' function to the iPod. You can browse by artist, album, track, and create and play 'playlists'. The software is quick and good quality, and sound quality with the bundled headphones is superb. The headphone lead comprises a bit which plugs into the phone, which has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack at the end; the second part of the headphones plugs into this jack and has 3 different types of rubber earpiece; the best being 'earplug' style, blocking out much ambient noise. The 3.5mm connector means that you can play music direct to external speakers, with the appropriate connector (available for most devices for about £2-5). In this manner, I can connect my phone to my hi-fi and it plays the same quality sound as if I was streaming the music from my PC.



The music software for the PC isn't quite as impressive, relying, as it does, on a USB 1.1 connection (which means songs take about 15 seconds each to load to the phone on the maximum 192kbps setting). However, all you have to do is select the music you want on the phone in the program, then select 'transfer to phone'. The transfer process can continue unsupervised, so, much as this slow connection is annoying, it shouldn't be a problem if you can just leave the music to upload and come back 30 mins later (for approx 1gb transfer). The software does, however, intuitively recognise track name, artist and album, which are then displayed on the phone. It did this without any help from myself.



This phone is good-looking and smooth to use the intuitive user interface, I'm glad I bought it instead of the w810i, as the music software and feel of the phone is superior, and I feel that the phone will still feel modern a year and a half from now when my contract runs out. I strongly recommend the w850i to anyone who wants a phone for the purpose of playing music.

 "Looks good, but will quickly annoy" 2007-03-05
By Mr. Ross Paul Robinson (UK)
Its easy to be seduced by this phone as it looks attractive and promises a lot (phone, picture messages, video messages, quality camera, walkman, and various others). However I have been severely disappointed with it and was close to throwing it in the Thames earlier today. Lets first discuss the basics.



1. Call quality: worse than my previous phone but manageable.

2. Texting: more cumbersome than my previous phone e.g. trying to write the common word 'will' always present the word 'wilk' as a first option! Additionally the phone is weighted so that the centre of gravity is above the index finger, the result is the phone is constantly falling away from you, this ergonomic fault drives me nuts.

3. Camera: 2 mega pixels sounds impressive but unless your subject is dead or asleep the image will blur, a photo of someone walking past will look artistically blurred, someone dancing will look like the camera was dipped in Vaseline.

4. Walkman. Music quality is ok, user interface is a bit slow to navigate. If your anything other than a casual music listener (and if you are your not going to go to the effort to put music on this phone) you will be better of buying an iPod. The software that is provided to transfer music is slow and unintuitive, for example there is no obvious way of searching for music on the PC the phone is connected to.

5. The software for calendar is rubbish, you can not view your calendar events in a list. As another owner said the only indicator that an event is on a day is the fact that the date is in bold, which is not clear.

6. The battery dies quick. This is simply a feature of having a big bright colour screen, but I will learn from my experience in the future and get something with a simpler screen.

7. The phone is bulky, it looks great in a shop but rubbish as a great big lump in your pocket.



Others: These are features that may be due to a faulty handset or user error, so may be isolated to my handset:



Software jams a lot. Seven times so far (in two months), this means the battery has to come out and the phone restarted.

When the front panel is slide upwards often the caller can only hear what your saying intermittently, this is a common problem with phones with moving (especially sliding) parts.

The software for connecting the phone for file share does not appear to work, the phone is simply not recognized when the USB cable is inserted. This may be because the software is not intuitive and I am not using it properly or it may be a fault, either way it is not fit for purpose.

It may well be because the service is not set up correctly but despite having an expensive contract I have not been able to send picture messages.



Summary:

Every feature the phone has it delivers in sub-par performance. The phone build is poor, the voice quality average, the software poor, the camera, not usable in a social way, the Walkman will annoy you. The W850i promises a lot but you'll wish you bought a simple phone, iPod Nano and a digital camera, those will actually work. Don't be seduced.

 "OLi" 2007-03-04
By OLi (Plymouth, UK)
[...] I can say its quite possibly one of the best phones on the market today! Easily.

The 2megapixel camera is good, and it doesn't have zoom or autofocus, but it does have a fill light/flash. pics are always good - though they can be a little blurry in low light - as you'd espect.

the walkman feature is great but it is easy, especially as a klutz type bloke, to hit the orange walkman button in the middle of the d pad sometimes. you get used to this and i haven't done anything so clumsy since a week after i got this phone. and i'm a clumsy klutz of a bloke.

the menus are easy to navigate - but i'm used to sony ericsson phones having had a k700 before this. anyone who says nokia are better is out of touch. sony ericsson is the way forward...

the 1gb card you get with the phone is great! i've got several albums and hundreds of tunes and i downloaded a load of games (about 30 on at the mo) and still got over a third of the memory left. upgradable cheaply and easily on amazon or ebay!

nice and sturdy design means dropping it and drop kicking it down the street doesn't destroy it within two months of getting your nice shiny new phone.

easily connects to your pc. some pcs i find i can just plug it in and drag and drop stuff on or off the phone. but only two pcs that i used have i had to install software. available from sony ericcson site or on cd with your new phone.

basically - thsi phone is FANTASTIC! you will not be disappointed if you want it as a walkman mp3 player, camera phone, to fill with games (think lime and wire) or a standard call and text phone. it is simply brilliant and hopefully as SE get better at slide phones they will get slimmer. but as it is

5 STARS. A+. 10/10. EXCELLENT/OUTSTANDING!

 "Review of The Phone, Not The Network" 2007-02-14
By Richtourist (London UK)
I have a Sony Ericson w850i. Mine is not on Vodafone, it's on another network and they have been fine, so I won't mention them. The phone, however, I can not recommend.



The Good:

The camera seems to be very good quality, and the functions useful and accessible.

The screen is quite big, and certainly clear.

It has a torch, which is much more useful than you might think.

The buttons on the keypad are positive.



The Bad:

The buttons on the navigate pad are awkward, and you often catch the MP3 button.

The Menu systems are inconsistent, misleading, and clumsily arranged. For example, when you've finished a call its all too easy to open the browser, because the 'End Call' button becomes the 'Browser' button just as you go to press it. This may seem a small thing, but it is this lack of skill by the designers that is repeated all over the phone, and leads to repeated minor annoyance.

Example: When unlocking the keypad, sometimes it requires two buttons pressed, but in one mode it only requires one. A small thing? Yes, but that second button has just turned into the browser button, so every now and then you will accidentally open the browser. Also, the two buttons used to unlock are the easiest to press when the phone is in your pocket, and mine has twice tried to videocall my home when it should have been locked in my pocket. You can set it to lock when you shut the phone, but it still unlocks if you push the buttons!

Example: Delete is never available when you want it.

Example: The Help (called 'Info') states the obvious most of the time, and is not there at other times.

Example: When you use a file command like 'Add' it looks like it is going to apply to the selected item, but it applies to the whole list without warning.

Example: This one is really annoying... Usually you either start with the object (say a file) and apply the function (say delete), or the other way around. But this phone does it different ways for different things, which doesn't make for ease of use.

Example: There are two buttons for starting the browser, plus a menu option and a short cut. The browser leads to soft porn mags mostly. I don't care how 'naughty' Melissa is, if I wanted porn I would chose it myself, thank you.

Useless Things: You can do all sorts of useless things, like compose tinny music, make a photo look like it is a painting, or make a picture appear for a second while the phone starts, but you cant do something useful like set how long the screen stays on for. Nor can you set it to stay on until you want if off. So if you pause to compose a text, you will for ever have to press a button and wait while it shows you the time (why?) before the screen comes back.

Short Cuts. You can set short cuts and put them on the spare buttons (the ones that aren't set to Browser). This would be good, but the phone resets them if you turn it off. So it is almost useless.

The Mp3 Player. It sounds fine. It looks good. But it isn't consistent about using Tag3 information. I'm not sure but it might down load info about albums or something. It mixes tracks from albums sometimes when it thinks it knows better than you. So if your mate's band has a track called 'Tick' you may find it now belongs to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (my mate should take that as a compliment, though) I really can't believe that it did that, and haven't been able to work out why it did.

If you try to view the current playlist it will continuously cover it with the current track info, so you spend most of your time making it go back to what you actually want. This sort of problem is all over the phone.

The software that comes with the phone is appauling. firstly I can't remove its icon from my desk top. But worse than that it knows what I want better than I do! And worst of all it seemed to fail to complete a USB transfer which left the phone continuously resetting. I spoke to customer services who told me to send it back to them. But managed to fix it by connecting it to a computer without the software, as a standard mass storage device, and resetting it manualy.

There is no proper way to edit the phone book, either. The phone likes Outlook by Microsoft, and I even let them talk, but soon changed my mind. However, you can back the file up to the mem card and edit it with Notepad in XP by USB.

The calendar function is useless. A day with an engagement is shown in bold, but bold isn't really different to normal so you can't tell.

You have to use a special cable. For everything. I thought this would be ok before I bought the phone, But It Is Not Ok.

Sometimes (if picked from a 'recent list') when you text, you can't tell which number you are sending to. So if someone has more than one number..



there is more ( the profiles are badly done, and the icons aren't explained or deferentiated well, and ...) but I'm too tired to go on.



PUT IT THIS WAY: I haven't bothered to set it up for email because I don't think it will be worth it. I am tied in to a contract, but if I can ditch the phone I will.





The Ugly:

There is nothing ugly about this phone. It looks really good all round.


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 "Tri-band or Quad-band??" 2009-01-07
By R. Harris (Wales, UK)
I require a quadband phone in order to take travelling with me and so having purchased the Sony Ericsson W810i on the basis that it has been advertised as a quadband phone I have been disapointed to discover that it is in actual fact a triband phone. I only discovered this as I read the Orange instruction manual once I had purchased the product, despite on the amazon website, along with many others, it having been described as a quadband phone.

I therefore rang up Sony Ericsson in order to ask them exactly what it is, as on their website while it is not listed as either a quadband or triband phone it does say that it works on GSM 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 thereby implying that it is a quadband phone. Only for them to tell me that it is not quite a quadband phone but more than a triband phone!?!?

I am therefore still left none the wiser to which frequencies it may or may not work on. I have been informed however that it will work in all the countries I plan to visit but I am still left a little aprehensive and feel as though I have been misled.

Although I am in no doubt that the phone itself is a good phone, if you are purchasing it like I was in order to take travelling then I would find out first if it will work where you wish to go.

 "Best phone I've ever owned, so far" 2008-03-31
By Darren Waring (Reading, UK)
After owning this handset for nearly 2 years now, I'm struggling to find any better phone on the market to replace it.



I have been prompted to write the review after a previous reviewer complained of hiss on the music he played; this is simply not the case and the previous reviewer has a dud phone which he should return. The Walkman sound is superb, as with all Walkman phones, the sound is of a very high standard and crystal clear. The speaker on the back of the phone is also fine for playing music in your hotel room for example where some familiar music can make all the difference when in far-flung parts of the world.



This phone has never frozen or required a reboot, the 2MP camera is of a very high quality and I regularly use it as my only camera when travelling light. In a recent rip to the Alps I took photos of everything from landscapes to macro shots of flowers and butterflies and all were top notch, if I do say so myself. The light/flash is incredibly useful and besides providing light for photos, has got me down many a dark trail in the black of night, I was amazed to find that the light is very bright and lasts for hours without too much of a drain on the battery.



A major failing for me is common to a lot of colour screen phones. There is no visible 'missed-call' notification unless you illuminate the screen, and it also lacks security. I'd like to be able to lock the whole phone with a pin code, not just lock the keypad, to stop access to the phone apart from me. This is the only reason this phone gets 4 stars and not 5.



On the whole, especially since this phone can be obtained very cheaply now, I'd highly recommend this mobile.

 "one MASSIVE flaw!" 2007-10-16
By i wrote this (Bucks)
Great as a phone, good as a camera, terrible as a Walkman.

My W810i gives off a loud hissing noise as soon as I play as song. You should always expect some hiss from a music player, but this is dreadful. Worst of all, the hiss is at a consistent volume so when you play a song at it's lowest volume setting the hiss is louder then the music. It also makes distortion noises between tracks. Seriously, my 80's Matsui tape player sounded better then this does. I googled the problem and there are plenty of other people out there who have it so this is a phone to avoid. Also the lowest volume setting is quite loud compared with other players I've used. It's a shame because the phone itself is great, easy to use and nice looking. But only buy it if you never plan to use the Walkman feature!

 "Great Phone!" 2007-09-24
By E. Chung (United Kingdom)
I bought the w810i recently and knew it would be a great phone. Sony Ericsson are great for their batteries as they seem to last for ages.



The w810i standby time is said to be about 16 days - ofcourse this wouldn't happen as Im sure you will make calls, send texts etc. So really I would say on average you will need to charge it up every 5-7 days.



The talktime is an amazing 8 hours from fully charged, ideal for businessmen who use their phones a lot.

The torch is really powerful and will easily light up a room when pitch black. Handy if you should every need light.



Has all the usual stuff like bluetooth, music player, camera, video, etc.



Brilliant phone and would recommend to anyone. However, Im not keeping it as I have just ordered the w880i as it looks great and is really thin.



I will leave a review for the w880i when I receive it so have a read if your interested!


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 "House Brick" 2003-05-20
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With all the small and nifty phones on the market you wouldn't really want to be seen with this!! It's more like a housebrick than a phone. Large and clumsy. I'd recommend a smaller one!!


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 "Simply the best" 2009-12-06
By mentalasanything (U.K.)
I have had my W810i for 4 years, I think. However, I have a better scale to use. I have had it through 3 upgrades. I took advantage of Dial-a-phone's free gifts, and new phone. While owning the W810i, have received a 16Gb Ipod touch, and an Xbox. The phones I have received were a RAZR, and a C905. Before I received the C905, I tried out a blackberry pearl, Nokia N97 and an LG Arena.



THe RAZR felt cheap and plasticky.



Smartphones - nothing can touch the ipod touch for gadget-funtionality. However I don't like the iphone's shape for a phone. The blackberry Pearl's tracker ball feels gritty, and the menu is naff. I tried it as I thought I needed it for e-mails, but most phones can do e-mails if you set them up properly; the only difference with a blackberry is that you are kind of permanently online, for no extra cost. Its not that big an advantage over just manually accessing.



The N97's screen is stiff and clunky compared to the ipod touch. Likewise for the LG Arena - and it has a naff cube-type home window which would be a lot better but its too restricted in what applications you can place on it.



The C905 is the best of the lot (again Sony Ericsson), but I had to send it back for repair twice after 4 months of owning it. During that time I used my fall-back - the W810i, and although I have had the C905 back for a couple of months, I have been content with the W810i. I call him Willy now.



Incidentally the other phones were in trial periods (the Arena in a significantly extended one due to the good-nature of Dial-a-phone), or - in the case of the RAZR, were given away.





Today I went looking to see if I could still buy it, as - although there are no problems with my current one, I want to be ready. Its easy to set up short-cuts on the middle button: I have mine set up to text, toggle bluetooth, addressbook, and calculator. The light is a great gadget - really handy. A customer of mine changed his smartphone to this just on the basis of needing a small torch frequently. And the camera is still adequate for day-to-day - buy a proper camera if you want anything better. I also don't like slides, clams, etc. I just press a button and talk. If you want a phone which has just enough gadgetry, but being simple, robust, good-looking - this is it. I seriously believe it should have a lifetime achievement award. The music's fine: easy to access, but I have to admit that after I got the ipod touch, if I'm going on a trip when I would be spending any length of time with an earpiece or headset, nothing - absolutely nothing - touches the ipod touch. I call her "Touchy".



No - I have always come back to the W810i. Every pocket needs a good Willy.

 "great phone but not without its drawbacks" 2007-11-26
By Jasper
i bought this phone when it was on offer and love it! its easy to pick up and use, the camera's good, although with no flash (compensated by a light you can turn on and off) the walkman is good on par with an ipod or mp3 player for quality, although the side buttons can be knocked and change the song (even when key lock is on) its a two edged sword, as it allows quick access to your songs when you want them, but sometimes when you dont.



the earphones are a bit wierd and tend to pull on one ear or the other, either that or fall out, but they're brilliant quality and have a great sound excluder so people dont hear what your listening to, unless you turn it right up to max all this and an inbuilt radio reciever, makes up for the earlier faults.



the phone is great, and only has a few niggley problems which are easily looked over, but can annoy you sometimes. still if you want an mp3 player and a phone. buy this!!!

 "one MASSIVE flaw!" 2007-10-16
By i wrote this (Bucks)
Great as a phone, good as a camera, terrible as a Walkman.

My W810i gives off a loud hissing noise as soon as I play as song. You should always expect some hiss from a music player, but this is dreadful. Worst of all, the hiss is at a consistent volume so when you play a song at it's lowest volume setting the hiss is louder then the music. It also makes distortion noises between tracks. Seriously, my 80's Matsui tape player sounded better then this does. I googled the problem and there are plenty of other people out there who have it so this is a phone to avoid. Also the lowest volume setting is quite loud compared with other players I've used. It's a shame because the phone itself is great, easy to use and nice looking. But only buy it if you never plan to use the Walkman feature!

 "Great Phone!" 2007-09-24
By E. Chung (United Kingdom)
I bought the w810i recently and knew it would be a great phone. Sony Ericsson are great for their batteries as they seem to last for ages.



The w810i standby time is said to be about 16 days - ofcourse this wouldn't happen as Im sure you will make calls, send texts etc. So really I would say on average you will need to charge it up every 5-7 days.



The talktime is an amazing 8 hours from fully charged, ideal for businessmen who use their phones a lot.

The torch is really powerful and will easily light up a room when pitch black. Handy if you should every need light.



Has all the usual stuff like bluetooth, music player, camera, video, etc.



Brilliant phone and would recommend to anyone. However, Im not keeping it as I have just ordered the w880i as it looks great and is really thin.



I will leave a review for the w880i when I receive it so have a read if your interested!

 "No good for music" 2007-07-16
By Mr H
It's a nice phone and camera, but not a very good MP3 player.



The playback suffers from hiss and distortion, which is most noticable on the headphones during quiet parts of a song and at low volume. This is surprising for a phone branded as a 'Walkman'.



I suggest you type 'W810i distortion' or 'W810i hiss' into Google and read the many complaints before buying this phone.


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 "works for a year" 2007-12-06
By Robat Gethin Davies
This phone worked fine for a year but then started playing up and the middle button stopped working.

 "Best phone i have ever had" 2007-01-25
By Mr. Thomas L. Francome (London, UK)
well. [..] i am the kind of person who would break a mobile... in a stupid way.. like playing kackie sack ect.. but this phone is tougher than a brick wall. its got a good camera.. good sound quality, but i suggest a 1gb memory stick (i got mine for 30 quid from costco) but this is a quality phone that i highly suggest if you do not have the money for a newer virsion.

 "works for four months" 2006-06-04
By Smeg (shetland)
I got this phone pretty much when it came out. Yeah it was great for a while and you could store a wee bit of music on it. Fast forward four months and i can only work the middle toggle button with a very sharp knife. DO NOT BUTY THIS PHONE. The newer w810i is fantastic and the phone this should have been. Dont buy the walkman version either it has the same problem.


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 "Ryland" 2009-03-08
By Ryland
A fantastic little phone at a respectfull price. Would recommend to any one at this price. You do not know you have it in your pocket, but it is full of technology which helps you make it personal.

 "W880i" 2009-01-15
By M. Tuttle (Bromsgrove, UK)
Awesome little phone! Been through an N95 and a G900 and come back to this again.


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 "top noch" 2003-05-30
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i brought one of these phones and they are excellent they have all the features u need and the prices amazon offers are just great!!

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the sony ericson y200

is a superb phone with excelent features because it has monophonic ringtones and picture texts.
Even though i only has blue screen with black and white menu's it still has alot of fun features such as screen savers and back grounds and some very fun games that will make those boring hours traveling more fun.
it has an excelent stand by time which means you dont have to worry about the battery going low after a short period of time.
the design is geogeus and very sexi so for those of you who likes to have style for a good price of just under £80 this is the phone for you.
You can use it abroad which most people these days want to have.

i give this phone the ratting of 8/10


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 "5 Stars +++++++++++" 2008-08-12
By Ben (Avon, UK)
Most people I meet who have this mobile all agree that this is probably the best mobile Sony-Ericsson have ever made.

It is robust and very reliable. The unit is packed full of useful features and the menu is easy to use. Excellent battery life and better reception pick-up than on other similar models.


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 "It's 'Okay'" 2008-01-14
By N. Ball
The interface is easy, the design is good... except for the button on the side which turns the camera on. I have around 20 pictures on my phone of the inside of my pocket/bag where the button is so sensitive it activates the camera at inappropriate times.

Also had to send it in for repair twice because it failed to charge. On both occasions O2 wiped all data off my phone, which was inconvenient.

 "Mobile Paradise" 2007-09-22
By Juwel (Yorkshire, England)
I have never been totally pleased with my phones before, but this is fabulous. Some ringtones are a little cheesy, but the camera is good quality, the contacts are easy to access and the text messaging is just perfect for me! What else do you need in a phone? NB: I found it had quite small memory storage, but I save all my messages.

 "Customisable Flipper" 2006-12-15
By V Brown (London, UK)
Before buying the Z520i I was unsure about this phone due to the previous review only giving it 3 stars - but I haven't looked back since the day I bought my Z520i! Not only do Sony-Ericsson make fantastic phones but this flip-phone can be customised in every possible way, covers, lights ringtones etc.



Great value for money and much better than other flip-phones around at the moment!

 "ok" 2006-07-12
By sami16 (suffolk, england)
this phone has everything i need and want and more; bluetooth, infrared, video, camera and an mp3 player. this is certainly an upgrade\from my old phone a nokia 6610i but the quality of the pictures is worse. also there isn't enough space to store more than 50 pics, 2 videos and 3 mp3s at the same time. i am constantly having to delete videos to make room for more space. there is also no way to turn off the sound of the camera and every time you finish a call or send a text your balance pops up and makes a noise which you also can't turn off which is really offputting. other than this its a good phone but if u need space then don't bother with it. nevertheless for its price it is very good.


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