Sony Ericsson Z1010 Review

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Sony Ericsson Z1010
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DS's Review of Sony Ericsson Z1010

1st Aug 2004

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Time Phone Owned
    Between 1 - 4 Weeks
  • Battery Life
    1 stars
  • Reception
    4 stars
  • Reviewers Network
    Etisalat
  • Screen Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    3 stars
  • Style
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Perfect quality screen (even viewable outside)
Nice clamshell
Good User Interface


Bad Points

Average battery life
Few bugs here and there


General Comments

The user interface of the SE Z1010 is nothing new: you find the very same with K500i and other latest Sony Ericsson phones.
It is a quite good UI, but some bugs still need to be ironed out - for instance, you might loose connection with the network, and the only way to get it back is to reboot your phone!
Nevertheless, it is a reliable device, with good features, great sound quality (better using Bluetooth than directly from the phone) and nice form-factor.
The screen is one of the best I had to see: crisp colors even under a bright sun.
The Z1010 is fast and easy to use: you almost never need to read the User's Guide: a welcomed on-line help is there to assist you with most functionalities.
Setting up the phone was no problem and using it was easy enough.
Even using the videocall for the first time (and setting up the phone to do so) was easy and was immediately a great fun and rewarding experience!
The keypad is easy to use, even with big fingers!, and the navigations keys are some of the best I ever had to use.
One thing is don't like from this UI is the 'Contact Search'... because there is none!
Why Sony Ericsson cannot provide a proper Contact search. Here, you can only type the first letter of the contact name you're looking for and scroll down until you find it.
Pretty bad, when you have over 500 contacts like I do!
Bluetooth connects like a breeze... except when - I couldn't yet understand why - it gets stuck and you need to restart your phone!
The main downside of this otherwise great device is the battery life: you need to recharge it everyday, and even more often than that if you use exenstively the videophone functionalities.

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  • foggy Rank: Lance Corporal on 13th Sep 2004

    Very useful review, especially on battery life, as I've just been approached by Orange and asked to trial either this handset or the LGU 8150 on their new 3G service.

    It's criminal that phone manufacturers are bringing phones to market that have this sort of appalling battery life - my girlfriend is with Three, she had an NEC e606 with such an appalling battery life (about 18 hours) that the phone came with a second battery as standard!!!

    Worse still, the manufacturers claim far greater battery life - Sony claim "up to" 295 HOURS for the Z1010!!!

    (See this link for this claim!!! http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=gb&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10048 )