Relative to the high expectations I have for every other type of SONY hardware product, the phones kinda sucked. Of course, they aren't as bad as the garbage that Motorola dumps in the channel, but thats not really saying much.
Of the SONY products our family owns and loves to use... several types of headphones, surround sound tuner/integrated amplifier, cdrom, dvdrom, combo dvd/cd burner, several sets of headphones, an mp3 discman, a regular discman, 40 inch 1080p HDTV, PS/2 game system, three digital cameras over the years, each better than the last, a super-8 handycam, a digital-8 handycam, ... AND A BUSTED SONY ERICSON PHONE.. you get the idea.
I was completely flabbergasted that the damned phone broke. It might as well have not been a Sony. "Ericsson" might as well mean "..BUT NOT REALLY!!!". The design of the power connector was HIDEOUS. It required substantial force to insert, and, internally was supported only with surface mount solder connections, basically meaning it was inevitable that this piece of junk was going to fall apart.
I had a Nokia 5100 series that survived being thrown 20 feet into a sheet of drywall - the wall took a dent. The Nokia was eventually replaced due to obsolescence, with another phone I've been pleased with - a Kyocera Energi that I've had over three and a half years. When my wife had been thru several pieces of junk Motorola phones due to repeated firmware issues and bad quality control, I felt sure that we could end our problems by simply going with Sony. After all, its not like any of the phones I was using myself (CDMA/1xRTT), were available on her plan (TDMA/GSM)
I felt a fool for recommending the Sony/Ericsson to my wife so strongly based on only the SONY nameplate, only to have it fall apart so quickly. Granted, it didn't do anything insanely weird on screen like the Motorola it replaced, but it still just plain broke.. it turns out its very little like any other SONY product. "Ericsson" = "Junk". Looks like SONY knows it too!
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Relative to the high expectations I have for every other type of SONY hardware product, the phones kinda sucked. Of course, they aren't as bad as the garbage that Motorola dumps in the channel, but thats not really saying much.
Of the SONY products our family owns and loves to use... several types of headphones, surround sound tuner/integrated amplifier, cdrom, dvdrom, combo dvd/cd burner, several sets of headphones, an mp3 discman, a regular discman, 40 inch 1080p HDTV, PS/2 game system, three digital cameras over the years, each better than the last, a super-8 handycam, a digital-8 handycam, ... AND A BUSTED SONY ERICSON PHONE.. you get the idea.
I was completely flabbergasted that the damned phone broke. It might as well have not been a Sony. "Ericsson" might as well mean "..BUT NOT REALLY!!!". The design of the power connector was HIDEOUS. It required substantial force to insert, and, internally was supported only with surface mount solder connections, basically meaning it was inevitable that this piece of junk was going to fall apart.
I had a Nokia 5100 series that survived being thrown 20 feet into a sheet of drywall - the wall took a dent. The Nokia was eventually replaced due to obsolescence, with another phone I've been pleased with - a Kyocera Energi that I've had over three and a half years. When my wife had been thru several pieces of junk Motorola phones due to repeated firmware issues and bad quality control, I felt sure that we could end our problems by simply going with Sony. After all, its not like any of the phones I was using myself (CDMA/1xRTT), were available on her plan (TDMA/GSM)
I felt a fool for recommending the Sony/Ericsson to my wife so strongly based on only the SONY nameplate, only to have it fall apart so quickly. Granted, it didn't do anything insanely weird on screen like the Motorola it replaced, but it still just plain broke.. it turns out its very little like any other SONY product. "Ericsson" = "Junk". Looks like SONY knows it too!