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“After having the Sony Ericsson T230 for 2 months I had...”

★★★☆☆

written by jameswoodworth on 20/06/2005

After having the Sony Ericsson T230 for 2 months I had to get rid of it because of the constant menu freezing. The battery life only lasted me 3 days and not very much talk time. Although it does look good and it has a very good price tag.

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“It's a cool phone. I've had it for 2 months and it's...”

★★★★★

written by brhymer on 02/05/2005

It's a cool phone. I've had it for 2 months and it's quite good considering it's features and it's price. Get one cos it's a phone worth buying. But camera resolution is poor.

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“The Sony Ericsson T230 is very flawed, firstly the...”

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written by OnyaSonya on 16/03/2005

The Sony Ericsson T230 is very flawed, firstly the phone freezes constantly. In the middle of phone calls, playing games, writing messages it will freeze and the only way to unfreeze it is by taking out the battery. I took it in to be repaired, after a software upgrade it is still freezing.
Seccondly is the screen quality, the display is very grainy, also too much lighting makes it very hard to see writing on the screen.
Another Flaw is the predective text, it is some what complicated. When a word is added that is not in the dictionary, it shows up in the letter list every time the first letter is pressed. And after a while the lists become massive. The ability to enter in numbers is also limited to scrolling through the list to get each number, as there is no numerical mode.
I have also had my speaker replaced 5 times in 8 months, this is NOT because of rough treatment either. Sony Ericsson has also refused to replace the phone for a new one, even though my phone has been repaired a ridiculous number of times.

All over I found this phone to be riddled with problems, it might look like a good buy, but it's NOT.

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“The Sony Ericsson T230 is a great phone for everyuser....”

★★★★★

written by b3nji on 06/11/2004

The Sony Ericsson T230 is a great phone for everyuser. It's stylish and it packed with features. The colour screen is great but screen could have been a little bigger but its quite huge.
For the price the phone is great - got mine new for $139 and is great. Battery life is great have had it last for a week and hcarging the phone has been quicker than all my friends phone.

This is a great phone.

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“I have been using this phone for some months now and I...”

★★★★★

written by kmrashid on 06/10/2004

I have been using this phone for some months now and I like it a lot. It is slim, light weight, coloured, GPRS, MMS and what not in so less a price. It has almost all functions required in a mobile phone. Great buy at this price.

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“Sony Ericsson T230 - I have had this mobile phone for...”

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written by radiodj on 15/08/2004

Sony Ericsson T230 - I have had this mobile phone for a few months. Battery durability is about 2 days, it often loses reception. It has a very slow menu. When I was buying it, it was "best by" for this money. Now I don't think like that.

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“The Sony Ericsson T230 is the coolest design I've ever...”

★★★★★

written by awais yaqub on 10/08/2004

The Sony Ericsson T230 is the coolest design I've ever seen in this price range, really impressed by the features everything you can imagin but no infrared. If you wanna show off your mobile let them play V-RALLY2 with vibration on .
Polyphonics manageing phonebook etc are really nice, you will explore new things day by day what can you do with this cheap mobile.
But some problem with LCD cover dust can easily get in like my friend's T230.

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“The Sony Ericsson T230 has great screen quality and...”

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written by sarahgoben on 24/07/2004

The Sony Ericsson T230 has great screen quality and good size too. The T230 is slimline and light weight. I prefer having a seperate attachment camera which helps the phone to stay lighter. It came with two preinstalled games and if you vist www.sonyericsson.com you can get 4 more games, plus wallpaper, ringtones etc. If you're a business person this phone would be great as it allows you read your e-mails on the spot. The menus are very easy to naviagte too.
Although a phone is essentially for talking to people with I like a phone with good games. The T230 has V-rally which you can use a little 'joystick' type thing just below the screen. I found when manovering around corners on v-rally that I sometimes pressed the 'NO' button. This then put up a screen saying "Do you want to quit?" which interrups the game. Other than that I found the phone great to use.

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“Sony Ericsson T230 Review: I tend to get bored with...”

★★★★★

written by ExeterDave on 22/07/2004

Sony Ericsson T230 Review: I tend to get bored with phones quite quickly, and often end up replacing my pre-pay handset three, maybe four times a year. This used to cost me a fortune, because the re-sale value of phones £150-250 isn't that great, & you can guarantee that within three months most models have been superceded, so you end up getting a pittance for second-user phones.

So, for the last year, I've kept a strict budget - NEVER spend more than £100 on a phone! Even now the T230 is £99.99 in the O2 shops around the country but shop around & you can do far better than that! Without the camera Phones4U will flog you the basic phone for £49.99/£79.99 with. Woolies, The Link, Currys & no doubt a few others give you the whole package (camera n' all) for £59.99.

So for under sixty quid you get a feature-packed, slimline handset with a 4096-colour LCD screen which displays 6 lines of text - great if you're chatting out in WAP-land - and reasonable quality photographs and animations. I guess I'd draw comparisons with the Siemens MC60, & the new Motorola, which offers similar features (except the camera is built-in) for about £79.99. The Siemens (like most of their handsets) lacks the style of the T230 - Sony seem to take pride in both the ergonomics & the visual impact without sacrificing features. It oozes quality compared to those two, and the Motorola in particular suffers from a piddly-little screen & a keypad small enough that only a four-year-old can operate it!

The camera's adequate - I take pix for web publishing in my work, & I use the T230 for test shots, then go back & use a top-range digital camera if the project warrants it.

In summary - at £60 you really can't go wrong with this phone - it's streets ahead of anything at a comparable price, and while I've seen a few moans about the camera not being integrated, I quite like the fact it's detachable. So unless you take loads & loads of photographs, I'd recommend this phone to absolutely anyone.

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“I know that I have put features in the good and bad...”

★★★★☆

written by PhilHarris68 on 22/07/2004

I know that I have put features in the good and bad points but that's because that the T230 has a fair number of features that can be added in the form of attachments (cameras, infrared adapters, Bluetooth) but in this day and age a camera and infrared should be built in. As with all the Sony/Sony Ericssons that I have had (Sony Z7, Sony Ericsson T300, Sony Ericsson P900) it's very, very easy to use and to navigate around the menus all you pretty much have to do is push a number on your keypad and you're at your desired location. The games (V-Rrally, Wallbreaker, Alien Scum etc) are fabulous and great fun to play. The 4096 colour screen is really good for games, WAP browsing, MMS messaging. I just wish it had all the add on features built in cause if it did, I wouldn't have paid out for a P900 but there you are. The phone in a nutshell, easy to use, easy to use, good colour screen great price of £50 from phones 4 u Leicester. Great games. Battery life is only 3 days though :-( Looks very cool though. It came with the camera attachment in the box. I'd recommend it to anybody looking for a phone but who has a limited budget.

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“I have had my Sony Ericson T230 mobile phone for about...”

★★★★☆

written by preciouskdg on 30/06/2004

I have had my Sony Ericson T230 mobile phone for about six months now. It was on special offer in Woolworths for £59.99 which was half price to their usual charge! I thought ' Bargain!!' and bought it!!

I have had a look at a few websites and the price which seems pretty standard is £90.00.

The phone comes with the usual charger, battery, a necklace attachment for carrying the phone and a camera attachment! There is a quick start guide and a full manual. They are very clear and easy to read.

The phone is around one and a half inches wide and four inches long. It is a tiny three quarter of an inch deep. The phone itself is very light, weighing in at about 99g. The standard casing for the phone is silver with a navy blue trim. It is quite smart but unfortunately looks a bit plasticky and does scratch very easily. As their is no case accompaniment, it is succeptible to wear and tear.

The first thing you have to do when you get the phone is charge it up, as with any new phone. The charger is comparatively smaller than usual chargers I have had. The only problem i have with it is the way it attaches to the phone. There are two plastic clips which do clip in to the phone quite easily but when it comes to removing them, I really did think they were going to snap off!! Not the best when you yank your phone when in a hurry! Which I usually am!

The phone was charged up within four hours and I began to familiarise myself with the new keypad. I was used to a Motorola so the Sony was a bit different.

The screen is colour and has polyphonic ringtones capability. The phone is Dual Band and GSM 900.
You have the usual Yes and No, Answer and End buttons plus a joystick style button with arrows. The menu is easy to navigate with the Phonebook, Messages, Call Records, Pictures and Sounds, Settings, Web, Organiser and Games.

Phonebook

For each contact you enter, you can attach a personal ringtone and even a photo, using the camera attachment.

For each contact you get the option of a home, work, mobile number and email address. They are all kept under one name rather than having the same person in your phonebook several times.

Messages

You can standard text, MMS text, email or chat. All of the services are easy to use. The email server has to be set up before use but this is very easy with the instruction manual! There is a predictive text facility but it is quite tricky to get the hang of at first! Or it was for me!.

Pictures and Sounds

You can use the stored pictures and sounds or create your own. The phone has a built in recorder so you can take notes or simply send a greeting to someone . You can also take photos quite easily and save those too.

The ring tones are quite standard although there are a couple that I love. Moonstar and Ice cream. These are really funky! You can also compose your own if you know what you are doing. The notes guide is also in the instruction manual.

Organiser

You can use the events manager, timer, stopwatch, calculator and alarm clock. Again quite simple.

Games

The games are called Deep Abyss, a mini platform game, Five Stones, which is a game similar to Four in a Row but with Five! and V Rally 2, a car racing game, originally an Atari game!

The Communicam is ok but attaching it is tricky It has the same type of clips as the charger and I am so scraed of snapping the pegs. The pictures are reasonably clear although I have seen a lot better. You can save the pics as wallpaper, standby screensaver or to attach to contact numbers. It is quite good fun. The camera is reasonably dinky with a slide down front to protect the lens

there is wap on the phone too but I can never get a good enough signal to go on the wap network.

The standby time is about 300 hours apparently with talktime of up to 12 hours.

Im a bit unsure about this phone. I can not make up my mind whether I like it or not. It is very light and small but I hate having it all scratched. It is easy enough to use once you get used to it. It is growing on me!! If you go into Woolworths they usually have one on the demo stand to have a look at. The dummy models do actually weigh about the same as the real thing too so believe it, they are light!!

I suppose a phone is a personal thing and everyone is diferent. Just have a go and see for yourself.

I hope this is helpful and thank you for reading!
Kerry xx

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“I've had my Sony Ericsson T230 for about 6 months now,...”

★★★★☆

written by mike9 on 26/06/2004

I've had my Sony Ericsson T230 for about 6 months now, the phone is good. But if you want it to be a toy this isn't really the phone for you. The screen colour is good, internets good, the battery's awesome. I had it on standby for 2 and it was still going. Bad thing about this phone is that you can't change covers and the cover scratches easy. I have dropped it twice and it's fine apart from that it is badly scratched at the top. The sound's not that loud but the voice recorder is good, you can record songs and make them ringtones. Over all the phones good is you want a small colour screen.

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“Ok the good points of the Sony Ericsson T230 mobile...”

★★★☆☆

written by wevil on 01/06/2004

Ok the good points of the Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone are - it has a nice design, a colour screen, the camera is good and it also has excelent menus.

The bad points are that it has NO JAVA GAMES, MAN THAT IS UNCOOL!

I would sugest this phone to anyone that doesnt need to play java games.

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“Overall owning this Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone...”

★★★★☆

written by Sean Ericsson on 21/04/2004

Overall owning this Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone has been great practicaly, just the screen im concerned about on sony ericsson phones now!, but overall its an exicting phone, great polyphonic ringtones, never get bored of them lol, Games are great Ive got 9 games downloaded on the phone and they aint boring, games include: V-rally2, Minigolf, Ace of Spades, Alien Scum, Black Deal, Deep Abyss, Erix, Five Stones, Egg Atack (Sony Ericsson usually adds more games to download over christmas holidays)

Games on the phone are made by "MORPHIN":). Morphin games of the sony ericsson website are free to downoload so are ringtones

But Sony ericsson, IMPROVE THE SCREEN, as mine is filling up with dust, kind of in layers

ive owned 1 nokia 3310 and it was a huge boring phone, then i owned 3 alcatels before this sony ericsson T230 the models were: OT 311, OT 525, OT 332. the screen in the 311 got dust in it aswell, what made me think different of alcatel. But when buying the alcatel 525, no DUST! at all!, which was excelent. Then when I brought the 332, the features were pathetic, the polyphonic ringtons were soft and boring and there was one game!!!!!!!!!!, and The phone couldnt download more, and it came with a poor reslution screen with only 256 colours.

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“Having had a Nokia and Alcatel phone previously where...”

★☆☆☆☆

written by fionabil on 17/02/2004

Having had a Nokia and Alcatel phone previously where nothing happened, I am already looking around for new mobile phone to replace this Sony Ericsson T230 less than one month after purchasing the phone.

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“This Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone is a gem.It...”

★★★★★

written by spsjpr on 08/02/2004

This Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone is a gem.It consists of all features except a camera,bluetooth and infrared.But its striking looks make up for all that.Furthermore,it is inexpensive.I would surely recommend this splendid piece to everyone.The pictures taken by the camera(attachment) are also not bad.Games are up to the mark with the new Vrally.

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“I am a Nokia user before but I tried Sony Ericsson...”

★★★★☆

written by Snookiewaldz on 21/01/2004

I am a Nokia user before but I tried Sony Ericsson this time for a change. The Sony Ericsson T230 mobile phone is small but packed with many useful features not found in other phones of similar size. The screen color is more richer compared to other old Sony Ericsson phones. Messaging is a breeze, lots of options and add-ins to choose from, you can attached pictures and sounds. You can even send an email message directly from your phone if you have set an account!
I just don't like inputing characters especially with SMS. Characters are very slow to respond from my key presses. Characters are small too. Sony Ericsson, why you did not preset the text into bold format instead? Keypads are a bit tough to press.
Overall this phone is desirable to own, you just have to buy the seperate MCA-30 camera to make it complete.

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