The T65 is a great looking phone, even if it will always play second fiddle to the T68i, it's bigger better equiped (more expensive...) brother. They were released at around about the same time, and whilst I would never tell someone who could afford the T68i to go for the T65, that is not because the T65 is a bad phone.
I changed to a T65 from a Siemens M35i, because I dropped that phone in a puddle which turned out to be rather fatal. The T65 was within my budget, and remarkably well equiped. It has four games which kept my interest relatively well... the best perhaps being the classic tetris. It is possible to submit your best scores via WAP to the Ericsson website, and to see how you compare to the rest of the world which is a funky if unnecessary feature. It has GPRS which if your contract supports, is a great feature for those of you who use WAP. The screen is large and clear, and allows easy surfing of WAP sites and navigation around the phones menus.
It has a built email software, so you can connect to the net, download your emails, and read and reply to them in your own time. This works for anyone with a POP3 compatable mail server... basically if you can check your email with Outlook Express or equivilant, you can check it on the phone. Voice dialing is availble if you want to use it.
It isn't the best phone for writing text messages. Whilst it is possible to string endless messages together, reaching lengths far above 160 characters, the delay between pressing a button and the character appearing is noticable right from the start. This is frustrating, and you can have finished pressing the relevent keys but the characters are still slowly appearing on screen. It is not a major problem, more an annoyance and one I believe the latest software versions correct. You can insert pictures and sounds into your messages, and change the font if sending to a compatable phone.
The biggest concern is about the build quality. The phone is made of two plastic covers around a middle piece. About a month after I brought the phone I began to notice that if you applied some pressure to the front and back of the phone, it was obvious there was some movement between the 2 covers. Apart from that, it has survived being dropped from heights up to 5ft (by accident) onto surfaces varying from concrete to carpet. And it is all still working.
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Update
Sorry I forgot to price it for you guys. I brought it from Virgin for £120, although I have a feeling it's not on sale for £100. If you are a student you get a further 10% discount. As I used to be a Virgin customer, I got them to unlock my phone for free. I think they charge £30 otherwise.
It is available free on a lot of contracts.
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A well written review, and i agree with a lot of what you've said about the phone. However, i really don't think the phone is very good at all. There are much, much better phones on the market. This is an oldish review, so it's really not that accurate anymore.
jamesdawson70 17.09.2003 19:40
It looks very good, and you put a lot of detial in well done
Bigbaz 06.07.2002 09:09
Build quality should be paramount in a phone like this..Baz
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Advantages: Efficient, good battery, numerous extras Disadvantages: bad signal, quite complicated to use, sim is difficult to remove and put in, not colour
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