Sony Ericsson S500i Slide Phone mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ Sleek, good looking & stylish. Easy to use & doesn't get lost in may bag as much as others have. Comfortable to use when texting & speaking. Clear when talking & speaker phone is clear. Was easy to set up & get started.

- Battery Life is really poor. Screen started pulling away from the casing a bit, but did pop back in, just felt a little flimsy. Buttons on top part of phone are a bit small. I have sometimes connected to the internet without wanting to when the phone was in my bag.

+ Design - it's something different, i love it!
Features - it has everything i need in a phone, music, camera etc.
Use - it's easy to use and set up to do exactly what i want

- Memory card - sony ericsson have a different type of memory card to other phones, so i couldn't use the one i previously had.

+ Love the phone, is easy to use

- Instructions weren't that clear as to where the switch on button was, found it eventually

+ Looks good, mp3 player is great. Overall impression A++

- I would recommend, the battery life is short though and removing the back panel is problematic.

+ The design of the phone is really nice, the phone itself is easy to use.

- The keypad can be a big annoying at times,

+ good sound quality easy to use my teenage daughter loves it

- The battery nees to be charged every single day

+ small and quite easy to use. Good sound (music) and looks stylish.

- battery life could be better.

+ Great compact design - very girly

- Material too thin, breaks easily

+ Very easy to use, excellent battery life, looks cool, synchronizes easily with PC.

- Internet button on face of phone means you can accidentally connect to internet when phone is in pocket. Inserting sim card can be fiddly.

+ Easy to use

- Internet browsing, even when phone is on lock, it can be activated, I have occasionaly found mine running for a few hours even though I have not physically activated it. So i'm being charged for Internet browsing, of which I didn't want to use at that time.

+ looks nice easy ish to use music sounds fantastic pleased all round

- navigation/ keypad ok but i do not like where you have to keep using the backward symble unless i not sussed out all it does yet

+ small, lightweight, easy to use, good camera.

- several keys have split in half within months of having it. NOT happy about that at all!

+ Attractive looking phone with some good features. Godd variety of ringtones that are completely different to most that you hear from other manufacturers and phones. Like the everchanging themes on the skin of the phone, that change dependent on the day and time and change every two weeks or so.

- The keys have cracked. I had had the phone just about a week and a half before the first key cracked. I now have 7 of the 12 keys with a crack straight down the middle!!!! Not sure if they will all go the same way but it is apparently a fault with the black phone only.

+ Nice to use and hold, nice smooth slide.

- Battery life is good for the first week, then battery can run down in 9-10 hours without evn useing the phone

+ looks great,can listen to music

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- Buttons on phone have broken after 2 months and it has gone in for repair

+ Love the look of the phone, have had no problems with cracking keypad.

- Battery life low.

+ Small and compact. Camera very good. Music is good.

- Switching on very poor.

+ I love this phone! It looks gorgeous, feels solid, is easy to use, and has great themes and ringtones. The 'Everchanging theme' is so much fun! My last 3 or 4 phones have all been flip-phones, so I wasn't sure how I'd get on with a slider, but it's fine. The camera/video are much better quality than previous phones I've had.

- I haven't found anything bad about the phone yet!

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- the keys have all broken

+ Looks smart. Nice & compact despite having all the features that you need.

- Difficult to get a case for.

+ I love it!!

- Can't seem to use the bluetooth, maybe its just me!!!

+ I bought this phone for my daughter and she does not dislike anything about this phone she loves
listening to music
different screen saver
different colours on the side of the phone
camera

- none

+ looks cool!

- The battery is not strong at all, quite dissapointing.

+ small, neat

- the keypad buttons have split on 3 of the button

+ Good design and i like the way the side lights up when you recive a call and when you open it.

- The battery does not last very long.

+ look good, small light and compact

- some of the buttons have split into two, sometimes turns itself off

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- Signal strength too weak
Buttons too small

+ looks good , easy to use, compact.

- camera not very clear.

+ I like everything about the phone, its easy do use and looks good, would totally recommend.

- There is no bad points that i have found on the phone as yet.

+ It is compact, simple to use, the navigation between the functions is easy to do and the colour is a conversation starter!

- The battery does not appear to last more than 48 hours before requiring recharge

+ Looks great and is used as a music player most often

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+ Looks good, ok memory, good pics and videos, compact

- slider design sometimes sticks

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- keypad buttons cracked easy, not had the phone long, battery life is very short, camera could be better

+ it just looks good

- battery life, memory card slot doest close properly, cant insure the phone after you've had it for about a week

+ good camera and video and easy to use

- no flash on the camera

+ easy to use, a doddle to set up

- no radio

+ Ease of use

- Battery cover is hard to remove

+ I love the way the background is changing all the time, its fun. Its a nice looking phone as well and very easy to use.

- Only bad point that I have found is that the battery has quite a short life.

+ everything other than the thing mentioned below is of good quality.

- it has got a low memory capacity, but this is easily sorted out with a memory card.

+ LOVE COLOUR

- FEELS A LITTLE PLASTIC

+ just a good smart phone

- have not got any

+ Gorgeous graphics, really pretty "girl phone" nice and easy to use. Takes good photos too.

- Key pad can be hard to see in some lights or for people with poor eyesight

+ this phone has a really sleek design and stands out from phones alredy released this year. It has some really interesting feautures such as an everchanging theme, great games and easy to use menue's. Over all its a great phone...and i havent seen anyone ells with on yet so its kind of unique!

- there arent any, this phone rocks :D

+ Colour and size network works well in our area

- Had to already go back to store to have it reset as keypad keeps freezing!

+ Looks good, easy to use

- Back lid only opens with knife blade! Camera broke within 3 weeks.

+ It looks good

- Phone shouls have been made as a walkman. Could have done with more internal memory.

+ easy to use, looks good, load,

- dosnt come with a memory card so dosnt have much storage

+ It is compitible with my TomTOm - I get texts read out!

- It has had to go away for repair - it drops calls. I would like different contacts to have different text alert sounds as I answer some 999 sms messages with it. I never know whether it is friends texting or and emergency.

+ Good looking phone, very good camara

- Keys are difficult to use at first. Zoom not possible in camara mode. Easily breakable! chips very easily and falls apart with ease!

+ Easy to use. Lightweight and compact. and looks great

- Battery life is not as good as previous phone. camera quality isn't great

+ Its pretty, easy to access music, i like the pop up events bit/shortcuts, quick with bluetooth - doesnt take long to receive or send items to other phones, video ringtones :),

- Its not very good at recieving text messages when they are sent, the battery life could be better, sound quality is awful, you cant lock applications, e.g. text messages etc. Cannot browse other phones files via bluetooth,

+ Lots of features and easy to use, although the select buttons are quite small and sometimes press the return button in error.

- Memory is quite poor and we needed to purchase a sperate memory card as none was included.

+ fantastic cool phone and good price, excellent memory

- everyone wants to use it

+ love the design. its just an alround good phone

- none so far!

+ The colour is nice and has a great theme of ever changing

- Key pad is flimsy and battery life isn't the same as my other W300i

+ Looks great. Brilliant ringtones.

- Nothing.

+ small compact and light weight with good desighn

- battery life and camera isnt the best and has no flash

+ The nature screensaver is amazing!

- The games are rubbish.

+ Very feminine, lovely looking phone

- I don't really know any bad points about this phoe, I just love it!

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- signal not great, screen bubbled and watermarked easy

+ pretty phone and the themes are nice

- battery life isnt good

+ It looks good

- It fell apart after 2 weeks

+ Looks Great

- No Radio

+ Good looking, features are good. Overall most pleased.

- Battery life not very long.

+ Pretty!

- Bit dull,nothing speical

+ easy to use, nice to look at, small enough to carry around, good sound quality

- no real bad points, however I have still yet to find out how to write symbols eg % in text messages

+ love the look. just like it over all

- just carnt send or recive picture mess

+ Slim and compact. Very easy to use. Good features in general.

- Buttons are quite small, I sometimes catch the wrong one although it is alright once you get used to it.

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- battery life very poor

+ small, easy to use with a lot of features

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+ colour

- it does things on its own(connects to internet/random dial numbers

+ its easy to use and i love the fone

- noun bit to low but thts not a big deal

+ the everchanging theme is really good and the lights at the side of the phone and the features that come with them.

- when i bought this phone it broke after 12 days, the buttons on the key pad craked in half and because it was 12 days i couldn't get my money back as sony ericsson said they can only allow the retailer to do exchanges but i did get an exchange so i just hope it dosen't happen again as im stuck with this phone as i cant get a refund.

+ Love that it's purple - but then I am a little sad about the whole loving purple thing! Easy to use with great themes and sounds.

- Battery seems to be gone in a flash and it has a nasty habit of pretending that I can only make emergency calls only to work perfectly when I try to call a non emergency number.

+ There is nothing bad about the phone. I am well pleased with it and would tell anybody to buy one.

- None

+ Lovely phone, good look, easy to use/understand, love the everchanging feature

- very slow to react, during a call the person at the other end is very quiet even when the volume is full

+ great phone, looks good easy to use and good quality camera if your in day light

- no flash on the camera, you cant save texts, or make new folders to do so and the keypad cracks within a month of using

+ Looks good and very easy to use and also small and compact aswell.

- The camera could be abit better.

+ It is easy to use, the battery life is pretty good, the phone looks nice, its fairly small, plays music ok.

- The button split in half on the first one I had, would be better if it beeped again if you haven't answered a text or a call because obviously if you didnt hear it the first time you don't no you have missed any until you look at your phone.

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- I have tried 3 times to install the software and each time it has crashed my computer

+ Everything about this phone is great easy to use, neat in size, and the choice of colour lovely

- The only bad point I have about this phone is how long the battery lasts.

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- Poor sound quality, poor battery life, poor coverage compared to other phones on this network

+ Love the design, and the features are all very good. Easy to use.

- Battery life doesn't last that long.

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- dont get a very good signel and the buttoms keep spilting in half