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I bought this phone for my son for his birthday in 09/06 it is now 01/07. Cingular is a service provider, and we have had nothing but trouble with this phone and that was shortly after getting it. It just does all kinds of crazy things like shuts off for now reason, looses sound, and to get the things to come back you have to turn the phone off. Also he doesn't keep a good signal on this phone at all. Then there are buttons on the side of the phone that get in the way and just by holding the phone you pushes then. This phone doesn't have a exit button you have to you what is called a back button, and if your a young kid there not going to know for sure what the back button is because it doesn't say back. I will say this is a phone you don't want to buy for a young child like I did. I may of gotten unlucky and bought a defective phone because other than the crazy stuff it does it is a nice looking phone and has some neat features. Like you can give you person stored in your phone a different't light flash which I mean when the phone rings or vibrates the keys light up and can give a different type of flash with every caller. You can also give every caller there own ring tone & you can photo I.D everyone if you want you just take their picture, and add it to their info then when they call their picture will show up on the caller I.D. You can also record music, and make you your own ring tones which my son does so you don't have to pay for ring tones because I have my son blocked from being able to download anything onto his phone. This phone also can take some nice pictures with it's camera. Other than the malfunctions of the phone this is a pretty cool phone but it could be a little more compact. I think I spent more than it was worth because of the problems we have had so I can only give this phone a 3 out of a 5 rating.Read full review
Yes, I would. I have found by using this phone for over a year that it has excellent reception and even in places that my other phones in the past has not. There is one courious problem with the phone and this is the reason why I give it a good rating and not excellent. It has a tendency to go blank screen after using it for about a year and some times longer. I have found this to be the problem of the flex cable and an easy fix, with the right tool and little bit of patience. We love the phone and have considered others but we are sold on the Sony Ericsson Z525a and I believe we will be just fine with it. Hope you like your's too.
I love the software options such as the timer, which I haven't seen in a cell phone in years. The alarms have the day sets for weekdays, several themes and background pictures for main screen and external. You can also use your bluetooth headset (helpful at work and driving), many audio profiles and flashing light displays changeable for each person in your phone book, as well as indiviual ringtones as well. Internet takes a little time to load, but also comes with a video and camera. Faceplates are interchangeable too. Just a great phone alltogether! The best phone I ever had :-)
This phone has lots of useful features like the bluetooth, a hunk of storage, decent camera, and very good sound and reception. The problems with it are durability and a tendancy to lock up like an old computer. A 2 foot drop wiped out the screen on mine, and once a week or so, it'll get into a fight with my bluetooth headset and completely freeze, then it restarts itself a couple minutes later. I've tried it with a different brand of bluetooth and had the same results. The phone's features always seem to work good, but it always seems to get confused/locked up/frozen when trying to make calls. Isn't that the primary function of a phone? Seems not these days... By the way, I've had two of these models, exact same issues with both, one resulting in a frustrated slam on a table that ended the life of the first one.Read full review
I love the size...it's not too big or too small. I love the customization features on it (pictures for the big display and the small display when the phone is closed, the lights, and covers, etc...) It's got a good speaker phone. It's got great phone profiles for ring volume/vibrating, lights, etc... I decided to buy it because I had a Razor that was really too bulky and uncomfortable to hold. The other feature I love about the Sony is that your address book has one line per person, not one line per phone number entry (like the Razor has). Also, you can set up a profile with your Bluetooth so that when you turn on the Bluetooth your phone automatically goes into whatever profile you've chosen it to be associated with. A very cool phone, I must say!!!