Sony Ericsson T230

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.