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Sony Ericsson T68I Review

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  1. Ken •  March 2, 2003
    Rating: 5/5

    I live in LA and the reception here is fine. I have not had any problems whatsoever….

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. Shelly •  March 2, 2003
    Rating: 3/5

    Finally a review that talks about the reception. Sure this phone is great as far as features, but the reception IS pretty bad. Try going out of LA into some country and you will see. Hopefully it’s the GSM network and not the phone itself.

    Rating: 6 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Harvey •  March 3, 2003
    Rating: 4/5

    But it just looks so damn sweet…fits in my pocket too

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. KAren •  March 6, 2003
    Rating: 4/5

    I just bought this phone and it rocks

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Drift3r •  April 16, 2003
    Rating: 4.5/5

    Well I have this phone for a few months. Reception is very good (at least here in Portugal) and the sound is excellent (the very best of all the mobile phones I had to this day). Have drop to the ground it a few times and it still works fine. It’s fairly robust.

    The only bad thing (for me) is the sms writing. For those who are used to Nokia it’s a biiiig difference. It has T9 but somehow it just ain’t as intuitive as Nokia’s. Example if you are using T9 the dot is on key “#” if not .. the dot is on “1″ I use smiley’s a lot … on this phone … putting a smiley is a nightmare.

    Therefore I have to use my 7210 to send sms! It’s way easier :) But I’ll tell you this … It’s the first non Nokia phone I bought … I am not sorry! :) It’s really good.

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. Jim •  May 5, 2003
    Rating: 2.5/5

    And this phone doesn’t have it. The reception on this phone is markedly worse than any other I have used. Neat phone, great features, but lousey reception…avoid this one.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  7. •  May 6, 2003
    Rating: 5/5

    I was initially looking for a replacement for my ATT 3660, and finally I decided to go for the T68is. Its basically the same model, just made by ATT. I love the phone though, and the the picture capture capability since I use them in my journal via bluetooth. Although the picture quality isn’t great, it serves its purpose. Reception is great here Texas, as long as your outside though, and in a 1 story building, or on the top floors of a high rise. The GSM networks have those problems. Its not the phone but the network. Overall I LOVE THIS PHONE. Its a serious phone for serious users, not a nokia toy. Although, the new nokia phone with video capability has caught my eye. LOL (i’m hardly ever satisfied, techno’ wise.)

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. Sheerluck Holmes •  May 6, 2003
    Rating: 4/5

    The features on this phone are outstanding! Great screen, fully featured contact list, calendar is good if you synch it with Outlook (use the PC for input tho!) The battery life is incredible and Bluetooth is the icing on the cake…warning…once you try a bluetooth headset with voice dial, you’ll never go for a ‘manual dial’ phone again :)

    The con, and kind of a big con, is this phones reception. I live in Toronto, Ontario…a major Canadian City, serviced by Rogers AT&T network. There is a microcell tower less than 1 mile from my house and I don’t get any bars of reception there ! I have made repeated calls and finally spoke with a techie who knows the neighbourhood. He indicated that the reception problem was a combination of the phone and the service provider. 1) The phone has a poor antenna and has a tendency to ignore weak signals 2) Rogers AT&T is slowly expanding their ‘internal’ frequencies…the techie indicated that once the tower had this frequency updated, I would probably get a few bars of reception…

    Bottom line: I’ve been toying with whether or not to give this phone back….but it’s way too cool size and feature-wise and if the reception at my house kicks in, I’ll be in cellphone paradise !

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  9. Orion •  May 20, 2003
    Rating: 5/5

    Excellent phone…. once in a while reception problems but great otherwise!

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  10. vaa •  July 12, 2003
    Rating: 5/5

    xlnt pfone

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  11. Adam •  July 27, 2003
    Rating: 1.5/5

    The T68i has a lot of fantastic features, one reason i bought it was for the voice recording. I run a business and am often without pen and paper when i recieve calls. I wanted to be able to record customer details. It is more hassle than it’s worth. Recption is shocking, charging is intermitent, menu is so slow it’s painful, phone turns it self off on occasions and had a few error messages from idle like “mobile invalid”? If all the features worked would be a dream phone. Had one repaired, they replaced it after 4 months, 2 days latter new one won’t charge.

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  12. George •  August 1, 2003
    Rating: 1.5/5

    My wife and I have have terrible receprion with our T68i phones at our home and at our respective offices. I got the phones hoping for that promised “almost land line” sound quality. My old nokia 6160 ran circles around these current phones. We can’t wait till our terms are up and we can swich to Sprint.

    I noticed that afetr 6 months of heavy promotion AT&T has stopped offering the phones here in TX. No wonder!

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  13. Yu Lee •  August 9, 2003
    Rating: 2/5

    I live In LA and the signal strength is poor many places . Like in Holywood, one to two bars. Interstate 405 two bars. I have AT&T service. I’m not happy whit it.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  14. Kamran •  August 21, 2003
    Rating: 1/5

    I am on my 4th t68i. I bought the first one Dec. 2002 the two months later the voice command menu started choking. I had it replaced under warranty exchange. I stopped using the voice command but the new phone started crashing. Again, I had it replaced under warranty exchange. The new phone started dropping the bluetooth headset connection randomly and would crash at least once every other day. Once again, AT&T replaced it under warranty exchange. I just got the new phone and a new bluetooth headset. It works very unreliably. The RECEPTION ON THIS PHONE SUCKS, it drops calls left right and center. My wife’s free nokia rocks where I don’t even get a bar of reception and this is true for all of the four phones I have used. My recommendation: Stay away from it.

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  15. Luke C •  March 10, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    While I agree that my T68i is a good looking phone with great features, the main problem is that the phone reception is awful !!

    I have had 2 replaced under warranty as they seem to work fine for a few months then just fall over.

    I have spent a weekend without a phone last weekend and this is not really what i need.

    THe assistant in the phone shop (Brighton U.K.) told me she has 7 replaced with the same problem and Orange have withdrawn then in the U.K.

    The camera plug in device worked great as did email and other features, especially the organiser. unfortunatly the reception problems mean that is useless as a communication device.

    Cant wait untill my contract is up and i can change it to another model!

    Avoid at all costs – you have been warned

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  16. asd •  January 5, 2005
    Rating: 2.5/5

    adad

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  17. Aivar •  January 24, 2005
    Rating: 5/5

    In the year of 2005 (January) the T68i is still the best ever designed GSM-phone with mighty battery. To be exact: it has superb ability to take maximum from its mighty battery.

    I have had this phone since May 2002. The AVERAGE standby time is still more than 8 days. And the maximum standby time was 278 hours (11 days and 14 hours)!!! All this time my phone was constantly switched on and I carried it with myself everywhere. Though, I talked really a bit.

    Some people complain about reception. But I love my T68i because even in reception level 1-2 the speech is usually very clear and mild. I have been able to talk even when the reception level was briefly dropped to 0.

    I guess that people experience bad reception especially in GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. Those frequencies have smaller [narrower] coverage and not so good penetration (especially in buildings). Here in Estonia (Europe) the main GSM-frequency is 900 MHz.

    Now, when my phone is 2 years and 8 months old is still looks like a new. Only the text “Sony Ericsson” on the front panel is a bit vanished and the YES-key does not respond always.

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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