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Pre-purchase questions (T68i) |
SE-Fans
Joined: Apr 18, 2003
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Hello everyone. I know this is the old phone, but this is what I can afford.
I am currently a student hunting for a cellphone. There are only three Bluetooth enabled cellphone in my country. They are the Nokia 7650 and 3650, both are quite bulky. Another one will be SE T68i.
In the past month, I have done some extensive research for this phone. Which is why I found this site. Let's go straight to my questions.
I have heard plenty of complains with this phone :-
1. Weaker RF compare to the Nokia's
While the Nokia is still having 1 or 2 bar of signal, T68i has no signal.
2. Occassionally phone hang (especially while calling or texting).
These two are my primary concern of this phone. I can accept the sluggish software, but definitely not these two points. Anyone would like to comment on these two points? Perhaps it was the problem in the past only?
I really don't want to waste my hard-earn cash for getting a bad phone. It costs kinda expensive here as well, still at the level of US$260 after conversion.
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ShaneMcFarland
Joined: Apr 22, 2003
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From: Detroit, MI (blech!) USA
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Where are you located, by the way?
1) yes the signal is not as good when I went from my Nokia 8290 (piece of crap, broke all the time) to the T68i. But its not horrible. Its a *little* worse. But its not a dealbreaker for me, and I don't know about the coverage in your area but I'm in the US and the coverage here pretty much sucks.
2) I text more than anyone I know (in the US, that is). On the order of dozens a day, I guess. The only problems I have encountered (besides the sluggish software being behind my typing) is a weird problem where it would bring up the screen to type without clearing the previous screen first. But I'm sure this is an isolated thing and it only happened to me 3 times (had the phone about a year now)
I would either get the 3650 or T68i. Its all up to what type of phone you want. I would not consider either of these 'problems' to be a dealbreaker for the T68i. If you want a smaller phone go with the T68i....almost every week I find some new hidden feature that shows the time the programmers put in to make the menu system probably the most intuiitive I have ever seen. Good luck!
edit: by the way this is all with firmware R2A014...which anyone on here can tell you is practically archaic. I get to get it upgraded with I travel to Europe this summer...but I'll have my P800 tomorrow anyway!
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riz360
Joined: Feb 25, 2003
Posts: 13
From: England
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umm advice on buying any SE fone.....
DONT!
you will probably end up regreting every buying it...like I ahve done
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gearbox
Joined: Mar 28, 2003
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From: narre warren north
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About ur two concerns, i havent experience them with my unit, been using this for 4 months and stil liking, although d color quality cud be better but i can deal wid that! Size and features are my main concerns in getting a phn. :-D
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ppcrockar
Joined: Mar 04, 2002
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From: Sweden
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Buy it! You will not regret it. It's a great phone. I have never had any problems with my T68. With the cuurent software I have (R5C) my T68 hasn't crashed a single time since I upgraded to it in November last year. The stability is very very good, and I'm a heavy user, I use bluetooth a lot as well.
With the current price of the T68 it can't be beaten. A truly great phone with excellent features and very good battery performance. |
gearbox
Joined: Mar 28, 2003
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From: narre warren north
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btw, my fw is r7a had it upgraded last month.
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SE-Fans
Joined: Apr 18, 2003
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Hello all, thanks so much for the inputs. |
gaix
Joined: Apr 02, 2003
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If Bluetooth is important to you, i would suggest you go for the T68i as i have known users who find that Nokia's bluetooth implementation does not quite meet existing standards....
I'm using the 68i myself.... well... there are areas that i would appreciate an improvement but on the whole, it's a good phone.
Make the decision and go for it!
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SE-Fans
Joined: Apr 18, 2003
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After reading this, I think I will wait and save my money for T610. Just too much design problem with this phone.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=f574e9679daa4b6ca6f9381ba68e84ce&threadid=131696 |
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Posted: 2003-05-01 20:28
