Sony Ericsson T610

Despite its physical beauty, my love affair with this phone ended quickly. The software seems almost willfully frustrating, with nothing where you expect it to be and few options to customise (good example - if look up a name in your phone book, you can't directly text to that number!) The joystick control is used to bring the phone out of sleep mode, but moving it activates shortcuts (such as WAP) when you didn't want to.

Sony have improved on most of these annoyances with their later phones, so my advice to AVOID applies only to the T610 model.

For the usual price, Sony Ericsson T610 is a good phone with some nice features, but the camera isn't that good. You can barely make something out because of the quality, and it's not even VGA. Nonetheless, it's a good valued phone. You might have difficulties with the joystick after a couple of months of using it.

I found that the Sony Ericsson T610 was a very good phone, however I had problems with mine before and had to get it replaced. It wasn't a big deal, my sound just gave up. Overall, if your not fussed about features, then this is an ideal phone for you.

The Sony Ericsson T610 is a good, average mobile phone with a nice design. It hasn't gone wrong once yet. The only thing was that reception wasn't brilliant, but it was good enough. I'm sticking to Sony Ericsson's because of this phone, so I like it a lot, but it's getting old now, so it is time for an upgrade.

Maybe it's time that I bought a new mobile phone! I've had the Sony Ericsson T610 since November 2004, and for the last 5 months i.e. out of warranty, I have been unable to send picture messages, access WAP or use some of the other connectivity features. This is despite fairly constant re-programming. In its time this phone was a definite market leader, and I suppose I still keep it as my personal phone out of a sense of having got used to it, and after all it makes and receives phone calls and texts so what the heck. Mind you, I don't really need it to do much more than that anyway, which is another reason not to spend money on a replacement, and the fact that I have the use of another company provided phone anyway.

It's a shame that Sony Ericsson do not cater more for the bluetooth users, as the replacement phone for this model doesn't have bluetooth capabilities!

The Sony Ericsson T610 is a great mobile phone that has almost everything, and it is also easy to find downloadable content - for example pictures, ringtones, and themes etc...

Overall it's a nice phone.

The Sony Ericsson T610 is a good value, easy to use mobile phone, but it does have the occasional fault.

When you first turn the Sony Ericsson T610 mobile phone on, you can't get to the messaging section for about ten seconds. If you press the buttons loads of times, it remembers every move, so when it wakes up it will go through each of those presses first!! Once on though, it is fine, and the menu is good. However, if you have gone down too far and want to scroll up again using the joystick, it can be very fiddly, and will select the thing you don't want. In bright sunlight you can't see the screen unless you shade it a bit first.

The design is good, and the shell is tough. I have dropped it a few times, and nothing has broken, it is just a bit scratched.

It is pretty easy to use. The screen is strong. The reception is generally good, and it has a lot of features too.

I went through a period when the phone kept doing crazy things like cutting me off before calling, and in the middle of calls, and other odd things.

I recommend Orange.

This is a great phone if you need to update your old phone. Has nearly everything you need for a low price.

I struggle to find anything to recommend this phone. It hasn't suffered from any SIM card troubles, as other users have reported, but I would echo everything else negative that they have already said. It is poor design personified.