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Summary: Great looking, not the features
Review: **December 27 2003**Once I had laid eyes on this phone, I was set to buy it. I admit it is sort of a woman's phone because of it's small size and color, but I am going to change the face plate. But I love small phones, especially the flip phones. I purchased this one from Cingular for $130 because I lost my other phone and I had already signed a new contract. The minute I took this phone home,I was quite disappointed by it's features. For one the phonebook is ridiculously horrible. The only things I can store is a person's name and only 1 phone number for them. With my old phone, the Motorola V60i, I was able to store their name, cell, house, work, and main number in addition to their email. So you can imagine how disappointed I was with my new phonebook. I am also saddened by the fact that I can't download ringtones onto my phone, instead I must compose them onto my phone which takes time. But this is a great sounding phone and the color screen is great! I can admit that the buttons are extremely small although it hardly bothers me except if I start playing a game on it. The phone's other features are quite great though, the MMS messaging, the email, chat and text messaging. Overall, I would give this phone a 6.5 out of 10 **Tuesday August 10th 2004 UPDATE REVIEW** By now I've mastered the inner functions to this phone and must say that it has a handful of options not immediately open to the eye. One must get to know this phone quit well in order to actually use it to the fullest extent. Although now I would rate this phone at about an 8/10, I still would prefer a different phone. A disappointment here is the lack of speakerphone, and a larger variety of games and modern song ringtones. I must say nonetheless that the size is great and compact and is a modestly good phone for those not willing to spend the big dollars on full scale camera phones.
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Summary: its ok
Review: 1. long lasting battery (you don't have to recharge it as frequentyly as some of the flip phones)
2. The screen color is not as great as what I was looking at online
3. Its kind of smaller than I thought it was
4. Nice ringtones
5. I would perfer Verizon, but Cingular has rollover minutes, and if Verizon had rollover, I would definitly get Verizon over Cingular. But Cingular is still an okay, phone company.
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Summary: BEWARE OF BUYING THIS PHONE FROM AMAZON WITH CINGULAR.
Review: BEWARE OF BUYING THIS PHONE FROM AMAZON WITH CINGULAR.
I tried buying this phone from amazon.com with amazon.com as the seller. I finished the checkout process and then in 5 mins, I got an email from amazon.com saying, "Your order has been cancelled because cingular needed some additional information, which we cannot provide." A ridiculous reason, to put it mildly. Couldn't they have asked me for that information? I later tried for a customer service phone #, but couldn't find one. All I found was an email address and I emailed them and got a reply (after 2 days) saying that they cannot do anything!!!
Later I bought another Cingular phone at Letstalk.com and during the checkout process, they asked me a lot of questions ("additional information" according to Amazon.com) and I got the phone without any hassles. I even ported my old phone number.
Such a ridiculous service could be expected of Amazon.com only. I don't understand why they sell cellphones when they don't know how to do it!!!
If anyone wants to contact me, send me an email at rphanikanth@yahoo.com
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Summary: Great phone and you can UNLOCK
Review: Great little phone and dont forget to unlock it if you want to use other carriers SIM cards. Check it out (unlockcellular.com)
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Summary: DISCUSTING
Review: HORRIBLE SCREEN AND ATTACHABLE CAMERA, NO GREAT FEATURES AND ITS NOT INTUITIVE, THE ONE GOOD THING IS THAT ITS WITH CINGULAR AND THEIR GREAT COVERAGE
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Summary: T226 and Cingular a bum deal for me
Review: I agree with Grant, but this happened to my husband in Texas. Cingular sold him the T226 with his plan, but the phone has never worked properly. They gave him a second phone but it didn't work either, and the tech said that those phones were phased out for that reason (?). But Cingular isn't interested in helping him upgrade without having to buy a new phone for $150! Every call he has made has been diverted to billing, or to someone's voice mail, so it's become obvious that they know this is a problem but don't care about helping--they are just waiting for everyone to quit trying to get help and buy another, better, $$ phone. We've been happy with them but after this are going to go to Sprint or some other service. I guess he will just keep getting a new phone every week from them--maybe they will get so sick of seeing him someone will take pity and slip him a decent phone. What a disappointment.
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Summary: Unreliable phone
Review: I have had many problems with this phone and with Cingular service. Sometimes, when my friends call, they do not get my voice mail, they do not get ringing- they get dead air (or sometimes one of those evil prerecorded messages like Message GL 23 blah).
As for the phone itself, it developed this problem of the sound going out. The person I was talking to could hear me, but I had complete silence from them. Then if I tapped the phone or made a noise, the sound would come back (so obviously, this was not just me having the volume down too low). The reception is also terrible in my area of Central Florida with this phone.
I got a different phone (Nokia 3595) and it has worked a lot better so far. Much better reception in my area, none of those sound problems.
Overall, I was very disappointed with this Ericsson phone. I had the T60d before and it always worked really well, but the T226 just is not very good.
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Summary: Ericsson T226 poor sound and reception
Review: I previously had a samsung, while living in the same location which had far better sound and reception than does the ericsson.
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Summary: good, compact phone
Review: I've had my T226 phone for a couple weeks so far and I have had nothing to complain about. Reception in Fresno and LA has been very good. The phone is very light and compact, it easily fits in my pants pocket. Checking the weather forecast and sports scores is quite easy, an unexpected bonus. The only downside that I have observed is that in bright sunlight the color screen can be difficult to read. This phone is being used with Cingular Wireless.
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Summary: Umm....
Review: I've had this Ericsson for a while now. I would say 10 months perhaps.... I have dropped it SOOO many times, I can't count anymore. The phone is crap after about 2 months. I couldn't afford a new phone, so I was stuck with this one. The buttons are very hard to handle. NOTE: If you like to text message, this phone isn't for you. My phone has nail marks on the buttons now from me trying to text message. The menu button it RETARDED!! There's only one way to get to the menu and it's through this little tiny blue button that's smaller than a grain of rice nearly!! The battery goes out in like a day if you talk on it for more than 2 hours. The battery will also occasionally like fiz and jig around a lot to where you can't even turn off the phone! You have to take out your jigging battery! The voice recorder only lets you record for a minute, which isn't a complaint, but just a statement.
Also, this is very important, if you don't hold the button down for 20 seconds to turn on your phone, it only shows you how much battery you have, then shuts off!! SUCH FAULTY DESIGN!!
In the long run, I wouldn't reccomend this phone to ANYBODY!! I finally have saved enough money to buy an unlocked LG L1400 Camera Phone. I guarrantee that the LG works just fine. My friends has had it for over a year, and it works beautifully!
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