Ericsson T68

Why don't they make the Ericsson T68 any more ? It is a simple 3-band phone with a simple and elegant menu which just works. Not like a NOKIA. After 4 years battery lasts 40 hours; reception is one bar less than a new Nokia.

I have had 7 phones in the last 2 years but this is by far the best(better than Nokia 6235 or Sanyo 7400) I would gladly buy this phone again but is not available on my network in NZ! Nokia's are expensive, harder to use and generally over rated buy a Sony Ericsson!!!

The Ericsson T68 is quite a good phone. It has many features that you can use to stay conected.

The only problem is that in some instances the signal goes dead.

I have owned my Sony Ericsson T68 for over two years, taken it to India, U.S.A. and even had it fall into a river. Still it works perfectly. What a phone. I do want to change but cannot find anything better in terms of the above positive points!

The Sony Ericsson T68 mobile phones bad points overweigh the good ones.

The phone is slow, the T9 is the most annoying thing ever invented, and the screw on face is a bad idea, seeing as you cant take it off without a tool kit.

iv had my phone for about 5 months, and found the charger frequently playing up and not charging. this is particularly annoying, if the battery dies during a phone call, as the charger sometimes works but more times than not, doesnt.

I heard that ericsson were replacing faulty chargers for the T68, but im not sure what the current situation is.

Do not buy this phone! the Ericsson T68 mobile phone has been the worst I have ever owned. It has lost connection to the network twice and had to go for repair, the screen has gone twice, it is too fiddly to use, the joystick is far too sensitive and you get frustrated trying to access the menus. Do yourself a favour, give it a wide berth, buy a reliable Nokia like i am about to do!

Had my Sony Ericsson T68 well over a year now and I'm pretty happy with it. I've had no real problems, and would probably consider another Sony Ericsson.

Ability to sychronise with Outlook was for me the main feature after being able to make and receive calls. Diary works great. Contacts also good EXCEPT that postal addresses aren't downloaded so I still have to carry an address book.

Synchronisation software/process a bit flaky, but does usually work.

Email does work, but the device is not really suited to it (too small, very difficult to type, no attachments, etc.).

I have several times used the inbuilt modem to connect my laptop to the internet (via the IR port). Although it's only 28K, it actually worked really well both for connecting to our mail server at work, and even for web browsing (patience needed but everything works eventually).

It is slow to use at times and particularly when starting up, but this seems to be partly due to the number of undeleted messages in the inbox, so it is probably related to memory getting tight. Clearing the inbox helps.

Notes on scoring:

Features: more than I need. Marked down for not synchronising postal addresses with Outlook.

Reception: surely more related to the network? (Orange).

Style: Doesn't bother me much. You should probably ignore this.

Value for money: Mostly a result of it being a free upgrade from Orange. Haven't included that in the overall rating.

The Sony Ericsson T68 Mobile phone is wickid but the composer isent.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait until my contract for this Ericsson T68 Mobile phone expires, so I can buy a new phone

At the time of writing, I have been persevering with my T68 for 15 months. Unfortunately, from the second week onwards, I could not wait to get rid of it.

This phone is painfully slow, frustrating and down right unpleasant to use. It is so slow that you can sometimes count the seconds between pressing a key and getting a response. Keying in text messages is a particularly arduous process and it is quite easy to get several words ahead of the phone - you have to wait for it to catch up as the characters plop onto the screen one-by-one.

The software is also unintuitive places with some commonly used functions are buried deep in the menu system, many clicks out of reach. This is a T68 and not an 'i' but even with recent firmware, the phone is very frustrating to use.

Build quality is also bad - the case squeeks, the volume slider on the side dropped off and the keys have a poor and unresponsive feel.

My advice when selecting a phone is to try a few properly first, don't just rely on hype or reviews.

Sony/Ericsson should have spend more time getting the fundamentals working well, rather than adding frivolous and gimmicky features. This is not a good phone. Avoid.