Sony Ericsson W600i Phone (Cingular) Review

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So this is what it looks like and for those of you who don't know it actually like swivels open and sliding open. So this thing is out to the side and then you've got the phone and the digits and all that and I got mine from Cingulair but it's AT&T up now obviously. At first I really liked this phone because it's really big step up from the last phone that I've had and because it has camera on it you can put your music on it listen to your MP3 files and yet take video or pictures all of that good stuff. And so I thought it was a really good deal. But then I realized that it doesn't really work all that well and I've had it for a while and I actually have to send in three times to get it replaced because the first time it wouldn't charge up or if it would it would take like two or three days to get to 80 .. And it wouldn't charge anymore than that. And it would lose its charge by the end of the day. And I don't make a whole lot of phone calls. Especially that I was not I might make one phone call for five minutes and that would pretty much wipe it out. So that was really frustrating that I have to leave it plugged in for you know over the weekend and have it be dead by Monday evening. So that was the first problem then the second phone they sent me whenever I would go to scroll through the menus like scroll for this page right here it would take like three or four seconds to load each one and sometimes longer. Like I couldn't just go up and click on the next and I have to sit there and wait. Or if I was looking for someone's address or someone's phone number in the address book it would take a really long time to get through the list. So that was really frustrating. And then I got another one click I called sometime back in then they sent me a new one and that one also had a charging problem. So I think they're signing the (inaudible) 2:10 there something but this problem and I got this one. There's been no problem with this one so far but it just felt frustrating to have to work to keep working with the same phone. I mean it works okay just that it breaks easily I guess. One thing I can say is that it's pretty tough I haven't dropped it a lot but just getting bumped around and seems to do okay. Another thing I don't like about it is that it's really bulky so I pretty much always have to carry a purse. You can't just slip it in my pocket. It's way too big for that. So that's really frustrating and then its always you got something in my hand. It comes with listen to the radio on it and so it comes with an adaptor for that purpose. I can't seem to find my pair but it also comes with a set of headphones that is hooked up to the adaptor which are right here. So they come with this style of phones. And there's two of them except that I broke that one so they give me one for that but that was my own fault nothing on the phone with that. So let's see what else I can tell you about this phone. The video on it is not actually I mean it works but it's not the greatest. It's kind of fuzzy and the same thing with pictures unless it's really bright daylight outside. The pictures were all really fuzzy and you can't even really tell what's going on with them at all. Here's the one I'm telling you. This is the antenna that gets the radio and then the headphones are just gonna plug into here like this. I mean you can listen to it or you can just plug and listen to the phone and then once you do that you can listen to the radio on with using the speaker phone. So and the radio comes in pretty clearly if you've got even signal on your other radio it should work on here. I don't use that too much though. Let's see what else. Oh you can transfer files via bluetooth so that's really easy to do either and I my friend sent me music from their phone onto my phone and used out as a ring tone or from my computer to my phone from my phone to my computer. It's really easy to do. And any file that you can transfer onto here can be used as your ring tone so I know a lot of phones that you can't put like a song from the CD if you put on the earphone it won't work as a ring tone for whatever reason. Even if it does work with MP3 but this one I've hadn't any problem on ringing tones. I change it all the time to different song or just whatever you feel like pairing my phone ring to. I got want a song on (inaudible )5:05 it usually is. And the feature that I use on this the most would probably be the alarm. It's now 1 o'clock in the morning and it comes with a few ring tones on it so I pick the most annoying one to wake me up in the morning. Or else I use the timer quite often while I'm doing laundry so I know when to go and get what I'm doing is done. But yeah that's all that I have to say about this phone. Oh sometimes it's really easy to accidentally call someone like all that has to happen is you push the same button right here twice and name your calling. And once I've done that quite often actually. So there is another lock button but it seems to just get in the was and its really easy 'coz the lock button is just on the side right here and so that locks it but its really easy when it's in my backpack to just unlock it so and then it gets moved around at all and end up calling someone. There's tons of other options that you could go with and I'm actually looking to getting a new one eventually so yeah not a positive review on this phone.