Ericsson T66

The voice is very nice. Then I found many problems with battery, my

Ericsson T66 goes dead when I for any length of time on it.

I've brought my T66 mobile phone in August 2002 and I had the same problems with the keypad especially the off/no pad. In February 2003 I've bing it back to theshop to use my gurantee. The Dealer send it back to the ericcson company and after four weeks ericsson sends back a complete new phone with different imei and since them it works perfect. The only worst thing in my eyes is the stand-by time...I LOVE MY T66!!!

My Ericsson T66 is 12 months old, well used and still looks as new. Never had any problems so no need to replace. This is without doubt one of the best phones I have ever had and I include the nokia 8850 which cost me a fortune in repairs.

Kepad stops working after a month, fixed by CPW stops working again after 6 weeks even after being carried around in a plastic case.

The problem is DUST getting under the keys - means you cant't reall carry it around in your pocket which defeats the purpose of having a small phone. The reception is also very poor - Doesn't work in my house. Also quite often get a SOS Calls only and No Network - everyone elses (bigger) phones work. Sometimes the screen blanks out for no reason and I have to power up again.

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.

very bad phone

I only bought this because it looked so smart, I've mostly had Nokia's. First T66 I got kept cutting out, losing signal. I got billed for lots of 10 second calls. Took it back to Carphone Warehouse and they supplied another with no quibble. Since when I've had NO problems. Signal is OK, sound quality is OK. WAP seems a bit slow but hey, this is an extra small, light package. I love it.

More time was spent making the T66 the world's smallest phone and not on functionality or reliability.

The games aren't bad though.

I have to say I was drawn to this Ericsson T66 phone because of its size and tri-band compatability.

But only after a short space of time did the nightmare begin.

The keys have a habit of not working, and if you are like me, keeping the phone in your pocket only increases the problem.

The reason for this is, because of it's small size the keys are operated directly against the circuit board of the phone.

This works thus...when you press the keys you infact press down a small metal pad which bridges two copper connectors on the circuit board.

The problem is dust gets between the pad and circuit board stoping the connection. This means, as those who have the phone can verify, you have to press really hard for the keys to work.

As the keys are so close together this causes major problems.

I have to strip and clean my phone every month, which is a real pain. So i'm now looking at the P800. I know it's a lot larger, but hey, NO KEYS lol.

The Ericsson T66 is the worst phone i ever had. it's terrrible one!!!!!!!!!! first, keypads don't react always and sometimes i have to press keypads very strong if i want them to react! also button for volume in left side of the phone is broken so i can't do anything with it! and the worst thing is RECEPTION because often i don't have any signal on my phone and it's very annoying!!!!!!!! DON'T BUY IT!!!!!