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.
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
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.
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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