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Score: 7.6/10

105 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

+ This mobile phone scores high on battery life. - It scores poorly on features. “This phone looks good,it is small and lightweight, easy to use.” liam, neath, west glamorgan View all 105 real customer reviews

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105 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
72% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (102)
Battery life7.7
Design7.4
Ease of use7.8
Features6.6
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.4
Overall rating7.6
Basic text and chat user (26)
Style and looks come first (2)
Music and entertainment lover (1)
Other (73)
 

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Score 8.0/10

liam, neath, west glamorgan

+ This phone looks good,it is small and lightweight, easy to use.

- The bad points are no expandable memory and poor sound quality.

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101 of 107 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Aug 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The details specified MP3 player which the phone has, however this is not much use when the phone holds only 3 songs and has no capability of taking a memory card. I bought the phone for my 12yr old nephew with the MP3 function being the sole reason for buying this particular handset. The phone was therefore useless for the purpose bought and a total waste of money.

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89 of 94 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ This mobile is so easy to use my kids know the functions better than me. My 2 year old keeps making calls. I love the fact that its is small and slim. It has good features and is self explanatory. This little mobile is definitely a bargain.

- The camera does not take very good pictures and ha some kind of delay.

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60 of 61 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Sep 2008

Score 2.0/10

Mark, LONDON

+ Reviewer left no comment

- I can't hear properly, Very LOW in sound quality

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50 of 53 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ its got a good battery life and it is easy to work.

- its got quite a small screen.

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47 of 48 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Aug 2008

Score 6.0/10

jan, maidstone , “i'm very private”

+ looks good, & cheap

- It looks chep too, very slow in navigating away & too basic

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38 of 39 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Sep 2008

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “u”

+ Nice looking phone. Very small and compact

- The buttons on the phone need to be pressed quite hard in order for it to move into action.

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38 of 41 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ VERY EASY TO USE AND FITS NICELY IN THE HAND

- TAKEING PHOTOS IT MAKES THE PICTURE LOOK BLURRY, I TOOK A PHOTO OF MY CAT AND IT MADE HIM LOOK LIKE HE HAD FOUR EARS

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34 of 37 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Nov 2008

Score 7.0/10

ady, eastkilbride

+ great all round phone

- the speaker for phone calls is very quiet and i strugle to hear people talk but the music speaker at back is loud over all id give phone 6/10 but for value 10/10

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24 of 24 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Law, Swanley, Kent , “Man after quality”

+ I bought it for my son, and he loves every bit of it. I love it too!

- Reviewer left no comment

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28 of 34 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Ease of use

- Can't get the volume loud enough to hear alot of the time

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24 of 26 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “IN 4 WORDS??????????????? RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!”

+ It has loads of features that you would expect to pay at least twice the price to get.

- The camera pic. quality is poor for 1.3 megapixels and you have to be careful that you don't start to write messages using predictive text as all the choices for text are on one button i,e, all lower case, upper and lower case and predictive are all lumped together which can be quite frustating at times. As this phone is quite fragile it should also come with a choice of cases, even though this would obviously increase the price.

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19 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to use.

- Nothing for now.

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13 of 14 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Sep 2008

Score 7.0/10

Ephrem, London , “Simplicity”

+ Its lightweight and good screen layout make it very simple to use.

- The central scrollpad is terribly fiddley and could hev been much better made.

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12 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Dec 2008

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ looks very good

- not enough memory and no SD card slot

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13 of 14 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ A GOOD MULTIFUNCTIONAL MOBILE PHONE AT A REASONABLE PRICE

- Reviewer left no comment

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15 of 18 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Nice radio with clear features and great sound

- None so far!

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13 of 14 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ compact&light

- Cnnot get a signal with Virgin mobile {but that is not the fault of the phone} in my area!

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12 of 13 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ small, easy to use, large screen

- nothing

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Dec 2008

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- no extra memory slot

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ The phone is very compact and easy to use

- Camera is not very good at all, poor picture quality

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Dec 2008

Score 7.0/10

Karen , Glasgow , “Bought for teenage son”

+ Good value basic phone.

- Can't put much in the agenda function - very basic indeed.

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Dec 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ price very good, ease of use

- screen too small

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

ron, stratford on avon

+ Good compact phone, easy to use, good battery life

- Speaker volume not very good

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

stockport, Sheila Wintringham , “retired teacher”

+ Fantastic music tone

- very small letters on keypad

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Feb 2009

Score 9.0/10

Pauline, Reading

+ I actually bought this phone for my son, he really likes it and says it's very easy to use. He hasn't told me about anything he dislikes about it, so overall it is good value for money

- Battery life.

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Dec 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap, but there are much better at this price.

- Looks awful, four way switch horrible to use.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ good all round product with the the exception of back- lit key colour -- see below

- Blue back - lit keys not easy to see for texting as numbers and letters are so small. Perhaps a different colour may help

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Mar 2009

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ keep the good work up

- Reviewer left no comment

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

danny, cleckheaton , “Style and looks come first”

+ easy to use, simple, stylish, great battery life.

- keypad isnt smooth and makes lots of noise when texting. also you have to push fairly hard.

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Easy to use, good navigation, can hear calls clearly. nice design

- Battery life could be better

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Apr 2009

Score 8.0/10

Tom, Telford , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ like the games on it and its easy to use, works well AS A PHONE!

- Quite short battery life and if you don't lock the keypad it calls people

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

mandy, Blandford , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Very easy to use, buttons easy to press, easy to navigate round menu and clear instructions. Excellent spare phone, I almost considered using it full time as its so easy.

- Not such a good signal strength on my normal network, sound not very loud when calls are connected

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Apr 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Great value phone. All the functinality of a more expensive Sony.

- Although it has Bluetooth, it doesn't work with my laptop.

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Feb 2009

Score 9.0/10

Keith, Horley , “Other”

+ Very compact easy to use and easy to carry in my pocket.

- None that I can think of

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Reviewer left no comment

- no video recording and not enough memory for music

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

John, Swanage , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Compact design

- Navigation hit and miss

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 May 2009

Score 8.0/10

Jacob, Amersham , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ It looks expensive
The camera has a good zoom in function
Its easy to use

- The sound quality is bad

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Mar 2009

Score 8.0/10

Martin, Glasgow , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Easy to use

- Product would be excellant if the camera was a better quality.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Jun 2009

nsiala, manchester , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ goods sounds quality

- non MP3

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Feb 2009

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Cheap

- Lack of features

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Apr 2009

Marian , Orpington

+ Love the phone, good value

- Very annoyed to discover that the phone is locked !
I purchased this item, it is not rented, and therefore as my own property it is wrong to lock its facilities to a certain network.
On that basis I would not advise anyone to purchase a phone from Tesco.

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purchased 28 Jul 2009

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The phone buttons are too samll to use. As people get older their fingers are not so nimble. Why not make a bigger keypad that is easy to read and touch.

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purchased 02 Oct 2009

Score 7.0/10

Chris, Bristol , “Other”

+ This an emergency phone for my disabled wife when she is out. It does what it says on the tin

- None noticed

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Apr 2009

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- very poor signal strength often only emergency calls only

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purchased 29 Aug 2009

Score 9.0/10

Eimear, Anglesey

+ Great little phone for the price, games and camera included, not much memory but can't have everything for under £30!

- Lack of memory

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purchased 14 Sep 2009

Score 10.0/10

Lizzie, Newbury

+ Simple, easy to use and does the job!

- None, just a nice simple basic phone, if thats what you want thats what you get!!

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purchased 12 Sep 2009

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap and simple to use.

- Poor sound quality and lack of features, but you get what you pay for.

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purchased 10 Sep 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ it was cheap

- memory, lack off

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 May 2009

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ It's light and cheap

- Screen is small, memory capacity is low

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0 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Jul 2009

Score 9.0/10

Alan, Shrewsbury , “Basic text and chat user” More like this »

+ Blue tooth

- reading the small letters on the keys

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0 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jul 2009

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Product Features

3G No
Touchscreen No
Type Candy Bar
Band Dual
EDGE No
WiFi No
Camera Resolution in MegaPixels 1.3
Screen Resolution (pixels) 128x160
Bluetooth Yes
XHTML Browser Yes
WAP Yes
FM Tuner Yes
Email Functionality No
SatNav No
MP3 ATRAC Playback Yes
Operating System Proprietary OS
Memory Card Slot No
Weight (g) 82
Talk Time (hours) 7
Standby Time (hours) 312
HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) No
USB Port No
Video Recorder Yes
Instant Messaging No
Built-in Camera Yes
Dimensions (mm) 100x45x13
Java Yes
SAR (W per kg in 10g) 0.96
Games Yes
HTML Browser No
Phone book capacity (names) 300
Colour Multi
Networks T-Mobile
Networks Orange
Networks O2

Also known as: Sony Ericsson T280i, Orange Sony Ericsson T280i, T-Mobile Sony Ericsson T280i, Sony Ericsson T280i.

Mobile Phone Buyers Guide  

Manufacturer's Description

Snap and share
Take pictures with the 1.3 megapixel camera and share them in an instant using picture messaging (MMS). Or connect via Bluetooth™ technology: no cables needed.

Work and play
The T280 means business, and it is capable of bringing you some good old fun too. Tune in to the FM radio and listen at your leisure. Or try a Java game.

A personal ringtone
Display your taste in music – every time a call comes in. With the T280,you can let an MP3 file be your personal ringtone.


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