Nice Phone, shame about the problems (Sony Ericsson S500i)

Member Name: Gtiracer

Product:	Sony Ericsson S500i
Date:	22/01/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks nice, good features and games, small, light

Disadvantages: Breaks far too often, keys crack

Chose this phone because it was the nicest looking free phone that came with a free Xbox deal from the carphone warehouse. When it arrived I thought wow - looks really nice, sleek design and nice colours used on the phone, overall was very impressed with what it look like

Functionality: Everything worked as it was supposed to for about 2 months, then the notorious keys cracked as i had read about, the speaker went every now and then meaning i couldn't hear anybody when i called them and would cut off my calls when i was in the middle of talking to people - not great.

Had the phone back and fourth between me and carphone warehouse about 4 times because i kept getting my phone back with the same problems happening over and over again before i got offered a different phone.

Got offered 3 seriously inferior phones that looked kak and turned them down, they then offered me another 3 phone which were slightly better but looked nothing anywhere near as good as my S500i

took one of the phones offered to me but still didn't compare to the s500i for looks, but at least it did everything it was supposed to


I know this is more of a rant at carphone warehouse but the phone and the service wasn't good, i should be able to use a product and not have to return it 3-4 times and have it still fail on me. Nice looking phone sony, just sort out the way it works please!

Summary: Not worth investing in - Im out!

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