Sony Ericsson V630i Candy Bar 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs


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Score: 8.3/10

119 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

This Mobile Phone scored high on ease of use. It has no outstanding negative points. “Very small and light” marion, ashford kent View all 119 real customer reviews

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Real customer reviews

119 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
87% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (119)
Battery life7.2
Design8.3
Ease of use8.6
Features8.3
Value for money (at time of purchase)10.0
Overall rating8.3
 

*not all purchasers provided a score or review

Score 3.0/10

Richard, Oxford

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Battery life is terrible, buttons too small and close together.

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100 of 100 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Apr 2007

Score 10.0/10

marion, ashford kent

+ very small and light

- battery doesnt last very long

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47 of 47 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Aug 2007

Score 9.0/10

robert, newbury

+ looks great, plays most of my music. It had been dropped more than once and still looks good and has only a couple of small scratches. Well worth it and the speakers are great if a little quiet. I also like the changeable memory card.

- the disk to phone software took more than one try to install.
the phone doesnt play all of my mucic files of the computer, very annoyin.

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41 of 41 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Aug 2007

Score 8.0/10

connor, Ramsgate

+ easy to navigate through. easy for downloads

- keypad a bit small & the navigation stick is a bit tricky to use if your fingers are not small

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30 of 30 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Aug 2007

Score 7.0/10

Alan, Chelmsford

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The camera sometimes doesn't work - its been erratic

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28 of 28 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jul 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ sound / looks / memory capacity

- battery life

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26 of 26 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Jul 2007

Score 10.0/10

Emily, Cheshire

+ good looking, easy to use, quick, good features

- very small buttons

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24 of 24 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Aug 2007

Score 9.0/10

Gwion, Penygroes

+ the sound

- th keypad is small

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24 of 24 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Jul 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ MP3 player supports M3U playlists.

- Bad camera, even worse case design -- chunky.

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15 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Aug 2007

Score 10.0/10

Linda, Argyll

+ Fab phone - bought for my son's christmas and he has so much enjoyment from it because of all the features it has ie video, camera, speakers, downloading music from his CD's, good memory capacity, itunes etc. Would and could definitely recommend this phone to anyone.

- Have not found any yet!

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

sharon, porthmadog

+ excellent phone

- haven`t found any bad points yet

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Text facility is easy to use

- Memory is very limited.

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to use,has most of the functions for my personal needs and has a good quality visual screen for photos and videos.

- Having owned a flip phone previously I do find it a hastle to have to lock the key pad when its in my bag or pocket.

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

John, Stevenage

+ All the features I need, Good battery life, Good sound quality, Plenty of accessories available.

- looks a little dated

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Bluetooth availability and software,
memory storage,
amount of games available to try

- Camera zoom was limited and only available in certain modes,

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

John, Dartford

+ The pictures make the functions easy to understand.The screen layout stands out with all the different colours. Sound quality of the music from such little speakers, is excellent.

- Reviewer left no comment

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Nov 2007

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ toolbar and shortcuts are great.
good sound quality.
save to sim/ phone settings

- no light.
bad memory card.
bad battery life.
doesn't have a wire to connect to other devices such as ipods etc.
goes to standby too quickly

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Cindy, Dorset

+ It's a lovely looking phone...lovely keys...lovely screen size...Camera pictures are not too bad quality,once put through onto a PC...

- Battery life doesn't seem to great...so far,have had to charge phone every night...

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

david, dunfermline, fife, scotland

+ good looking

- poor memory

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2007

Score 6.0/10

craig, stornoway

+ bluetooth is fast at sending and recieving

- no infared

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

Ray, Burntwood

+ Easy to use, good battery life,sound quality & memory

- small keypad.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Dec 2007

Score 9.0/10

duncan , stornoway

+ everything apart from the weak stereo

- stereos not strong enough

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Dec 2007

Score 9.0/10

Mark, Wimborne

+ Easy to navigate and use straight from the box

- Standard memory card not generous

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

Kathryn, Bristol

+ The price

- none

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Music player

- the battery runs out quick

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Michelle , Maidenhead, Berkshire

+ By far the best mobile that I have ever had!!

- The mains charger has been replaced once as the "pin" is very fragile and this is apparently a known problem. Also the cover on the USB cable "port" has been tricky to open at times and no longer fits in properly. Otherwise first class!!

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Daz, Alton

+ it does everything i want a phone to do. listen to the excellent mp3 player, watch tv or connect to the internet when ever i want to

- although the battery does last a long time i have had phones where the battery last longer, then again i am always using my sony ericsson

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Mike , St Helens

+ Nice stylish and copact phone. Good music player and ability to enlarge storage memory.

- Personally don't have any.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ small, stylish and easy to use.

- Buttons are quite small and sometimes its possible to hit the wrong one when texting.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Nov 2007

Score 6.0/10

pippa, wales

+ The phone is aesthetically pleasing,

- The battery life is awful, and it turns itself off x

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Oct 2007

Score 8.0/10

Peter , Kings Lynn

+ It is full of all the things a phone needs to be full of in this technological times. It does all of them well.

- The instructions for the phone are vague and unspecific. The buttons are too close together which means that you are always having to start a function twice.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Overall, its an extremely good phone for its price, in the past I have always ended up spending a lot more for inferior devices at the time.

- occasionally the phone freezes whilst scanning the memory, but eventually sorts itself out.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Dec 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ the best thing about the product is the music player, also the simple easy way the menu is set out

- The battery life is poor

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Jan 2008

Score 8.0/10

Jonathan, Aylesbury

+ works well as a phone, which is the reason I bought it.

- time lag between pushing in text letter and it registering on the phone. Plus free games significantly less good than those on my work phone, which is a Motorola razor.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Jan 2008

Score 2.0/10

DIANNE, KELTY

+ NONE

- KEYS ARE TO SENSITIVE TO TEXT, RARELY GOT A SIGNAL, DON'T GET TEXT , CALLS OR MISSED CALLS UNTIL NEXT DAY, CAN'T DOWNLOAD RINGTUNES, HAVE BOUGH 5.00 TEXT PACK AND ONLY GOT 30 MESSAGES INSTEAD OF 70 (EACH TIME I PHONE TO COMPLAIN A GET CHARGED 0.25. MP3 PLAYER CUTS MUSIC SHORT WHEN PLAYING. I COULD PROBABLY GO ON BUT I'M GETTING BORED NOW!!!!!!! MY OLD SONY ERICSSON WAS GREAT-MY NEW PHONE IS RUBBISH!!!!!!

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jan 2008

Score 6.0/10

michael, kidderminster , “43 year old male”

+ does what i want in a phone just about

- feels and looks cheap. functions freeze now and again

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Jan 2008

Score 9.0/10

chloe , King's Lynn

+ its got a good memory and and small and compact, good camara and video rechordings. easy to ring and text.

- it need to be bettter looking, and more varity of colours. camara could have better zoom.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Jan 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ light, good camera with effects , bluetooth, music storage, face warp

- battery runs out quickly, cant zoom when actually taking a picure, screen gets easily scratched

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Jan 2008

Score 3.0/10

Josh, Paignton

+ Good sound and decent camera

- Battery doesnt last long

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Jan 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Nice standard phone - free speakers are really very good. Not the best looking phone but all works ok. Good phone for kids i think.

- the phone is light and plasticy - but looks ok.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Feb 2008

Score 10.0/10

carl , witcham

+ good around phone

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Feb 2008

Score 4.0/10

Charlotte, Addlestone

+ Long life battery

- No flash, picture bad quality
Looks cheap, too light in weight
When dropped back fall off to easily

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purchased 19 Aug 2007

Score 10.0/10

Andrea, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire

+ Its looks good, cameras brilliant, its a good size phone, and listening to music on its brill, especially the speakers!

- Batterys life, but saying that it charges in half an hour!

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purchased 29 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

jackie, gosport

+ i bought this phone for my daughter for xmas and these are her points about the phone. good to listen to your music. looks cool and really good memory and camrea is ok too it just about the best phone i have had for my money loved the speakers.

- the battery life is not that good.

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purchased 10 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

june, Lye, Stourbridge

+ The phone is very easy to use.

- There is nothing i have found that is wrong with the phone.

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purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 4.0/10

antony , thatcham

+ the meory card

- the phone keeps turning it self of so you have to tune it back on

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purchased 15 Dec 2007

Score 9.0/10

Sarah, Merthyr Tydfil

+ Looks good.
Camera/Video
music

- Battery life

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purchased 19 Dec 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Storage card is excellent. Have bought a 2Gig card and have put a couple of DVD's on it (to everyone's amazement) and still have lots of space for music.

- No bad points really, quite happy with it. Overall a nice phone.

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purchased 06 Dec 2007

Score 9.0/10

lee, norwich

+ great phone,does exactly as it said on the advert,battery life good ,easy to use.

- cant say ive found any

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purchased 19 Dec 2007

Score 6.0/10

Jane , Chessington

+ Quality camera. Quality music.Looks good.

- Battery life!

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purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

CHRISTOPHER, CWMBRAN

+ size is very good , easy to use, great with music, looks smart, a good brand sony Ericsson, well known
it must be a great mobile phone i first purchesd a black v630i my wife was that Impressed i got her the white v630i for her birthday
I only like sony erricsson phones no other phone will do

- The only 2 bad points with it is theirs NO FM radio and no Inferred

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purchased 14 Jan 2008

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Product Features

3G Yes
Touchscreen No
Type Candy Bar
Camera Resolution in MegaPixels 2
Band Tri
EDGE No
WiFi No
Screen Resolution (pixels) 176x220
Bluetooth Yes
XHTML Browser Yes
WAP Yes
FM Tuner No
SatNav No
MP3 ATRAC Playback Yes
Operating System Proprietary OS
SAR (W per kg in 10g) 1.25
Memory Card Slot Yes
Camera Yes
Weight (g) 91
Talk Time (hours) 7
Standby Time (hours) 350
USB Port Yes
Dimensions (mm) 102x46x17
Video Recorder Yes
Java Yes
Games Yes
Mobile TV No
Instant Messaging Yes
HTML Browser Yes
Colour Black
Networks Vodafone
Release Date 8 Oct 2006

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Manufacturer's Description

Stylish, slim and intuitive, this phone is as good to use as it is to look at: direct keys, 5-way navigation key and a big screen – it’s easy!