Ericsson R320s

I bought this nice looking phone in Nairobi-Kenya in July 2003 from a reputable phone dealer. By September 2003, two months later this phone just suddenly failed and completely could not power on. I took it to the dealer as it was still under six months warranty. It was repaired but three months later in December, problems of network failure cropped up frequently and the phone could not receive or transmit calls. Finally the phone completely failed. This phone is lying in my office draw dead. Any suggestions?

I bought this Ericsson R320 / R320s mobile phone after I read many reviews. Almost every one of them hardly found anything bad on the phone, so I thought I would solve a phone problem once for all. Oh, how wrong I was.

It is very rich with features, and it would take too much space to mention them all here. On the other hand, to use all these features you have to fight the menus, which are not particularly intuitive. For some reason (battery saving, maybe) every operation on the phone is slow, going through menus, adding numbers to the phonebook... Writing an SMS I find specifically annoying. It has T9 but it can't figure out that after a full stop comes capital letter. Typing is painfully slow and as your message gets longer it gets slower (I found myself waiting for 5 letters which I typed, to appear on the screen). The screen is nice with its blue light, but until that light goes off you hear a buzzing sound from the speaker. Sometimes, without any obvious reason the phone just freeze and you have to remove the battery and put it back on to reset it. Sometimes strange artefacts appear on the screen, and disappear after you open and close menus.

And finally a design is not something that will help you get girls attention; actually I almost convinced some people that I made the phone myself, because I didn't want to spend money on buying one.

This device is definitely not for everyone. The user must be emotional about Ericsson name to keep using it. It has IR, but what good is that without GPRS, EMS, MMS, decent software to sync it with your PC or PocketPC, longer ringing tones, logos... almost useless. It has two nice games, but target users don't care about such things. I can't loose the feeling that it came out on the market too soon, like somebody rushed it out of the factory without testing it.

The Ericsson R320 / R320s mobile phone offers a good diary, messenger and friend for a nominal price.

The Ericsson R320 is a great mobile phone in terms of features. Ericsson certainly needs to do something about its software or whatever it is that knocks it off.

Bought the Ericsson R320 mobile phone to upgrade from 2618s and have the advantage of infra-red with portable pc on the cheap. Only disadvantage - at the time - was that I had to take a contract with a particular network instead of using a pre-pay card ... but am now also able to call from abroad ... Only at one time since I have had it - about a year - have I had to remove the SIM card and re-insert it. Other than that no problem.

Use 3 320s. No problems after software upgrade. With IAT 10 extra antenna best reception of all mobiles (used Nokia Siemens Sony before)

The Ericsson R320 mobile phone is good. I have had my 320 for 2 years. the 320's original software - rubbish - but after my fone was repaired i have never had any problems. The reception is the best. The stand by time is pretty good (3 days).

Ehe Ericsson r320s is rubbish. I have had 4 units and all have had problems and been returned. I now have a Nokia thank God.

In two years this Ericsson R320s is my 4th mobile phone i had after Siemens S6, Motorola D 52o, Nokia 7110. All these phones were good in something but my R320s has all these good features in one.

I must learn, like at school, the phones features for some weeks and i like this very much. What i liked especially is it`s speed of connecting voice calls, mesages, WAP services.

So I get my dream phone (look at the good points) and I tryed to ignore the bad points. But after using it for a month (less than 1 hour call time) the phone went off and stayed off, of course in the worst situation possible, during hollidays when I was unreachable for friends and family. Got the phone fixed (not replaced!!! I was disappointed on this - it was not a cheap phone so I expected a replace), the operation took a month, and I returned to my old SH 888.