Ericsson T66 Review

Overall Rating

Small, light, looks cool, many good software features, fast battery charge.

Reception very weird and unreliable, throws you off the network sometimes, hands-free doesn't work, battery-life short, buttons stop working.

Bought my phone in September 2002 and was very satisfied with it for the first six months. After that it has been a true nightmare!!

First the keys stopped working but that's for dirt very easily gets under the keys. Because it's small the keys touch the plate directly, there's no plastic/rubber between that stops dirt from getting in. I took it in and they cleaned it telling me the reason free of charge.

Next it started showing "NO NETWORK" display and "SOS CALLS ONLY" display for long times. It would stay that way and come back on 2 hours later etc. Then it came to a point where it was out of network for 2 days whole so I took it in and they changed the antenna for free. Still under guarantee. Now three weeks later it's starting to display "NO NETWORK" again. It tends to throw me off the network sometimes, I was on the phone with an important customer the other day when the phone cut us off three times during the interview. So embarrassing!!!!

Recently they passed law in my country saying "no driving and talking on the cell-phone." The T66 handsfree has now stopped working properly and if the phone calls I need to pull over. What happens is that I can hear the other end fine but they don't hear me, only sometimes.

Battery started out living for 3-4 days without a problem but now I'm lucky if it lives 48 hours.

Members' Comments onOskarsson.'s Review

• kuwaiki. on 24th Jun 2003

  Totally agree with you. I bought the phone 10 months ago. For 3 months or so worked fine, then the keyboard started to fail, then the hands-free, the microphone, battery-life decreased, and sometimes its impossible to connect the charger. And two weeks ago the "no network" problem started. And thats a serious problem...

• corrinacyy on 24th Dec 2003

  I totally disagree with this statement. I've bought this model second hand from my friend around September year 2002 as well. The purpose my friend want to get rid of it because it's too small for her. Up to NOW, occasionally and very rarely the keypad will stop working, in fact i encounter this problem only 2 times!! Just take off the battery and put it back to recover the function. Well, my battery life still last about 3 to 4 days, if the battery life gets shorter it's all dependent on how the user charges it.