Sony t610 , release date ??

[gizlaroc]

Does anyone know when the new sony is out, the T610 ???



it has a talktime of 14 hours, and this is more important to me than any of the gadgets that they put on a phone

My GX-10 just doesnt cut it for battery, mind you my bill last month was £470 so I do use it a fair bit to be fair, so are there any other phones with superb batterey life that i should be looking at ???

[rct]

If you don't mind Nokia phones (I do :D) the Nokia 6310i has brilliant battery life (in real terms not manufacturers figures)... two weeks without charging is not uncommon

[gizlaroc]

I had a 6310i for a while and the battery is awesome but i had 2 screens replaced on it in 3 months and that was enough for me to give up on it.
The thing that ****** me off about Nokia is they told me I shouldnt keep it in my pocket as this is what was causing the screen to go faulty!!!!!

changed it from an 8210 that had 3 screens replaced too.

Then again my dad got one in his merc as part of the comms pack and his has been perfect.

[rct]

erm yes, well I don't think much of their QC either...

[gobblit]

the batteries wear loose after time just like the old 5110 bit of a pain in the back side

[Orbital]

Lo all,

The release of the T610 has been put back until mid July from what I can gather. It was due to be released about ......... now but for some reason this is now not the case.

It looks a very nice phone but for some reason they still use a STN screen, which is crud to try and read on a sunny day, would have been much better to use a TFT one like the Samsungs.

I'd also be very weary of the talk/standby times quoted by Sony Ericsson. The P800 that I had stated that a talk time of 13 hours and a standby of 400 hours should be the average. This turned out to be so wrong it was laughable. 20-30 minutes talk time a day and say a few pictures and you were lucky if you got two days out of it without re-charging. At first I thought I had a duff battery but speaking to people in various forums it seemed the norm. This was so much of a problem for me I ended up selling the phone.

The best thing to do, is wait a few weeks after the release date and then read through a few Sony Ericsson forums and see what the lay of the land is. If all isn't well battery wise it will soon come to light in the forum.

Cheers

Dave

[Gary D]

Originally posted by gizlaroc
Does anyone know when the new sony is out, the T610 ???

i saw one of these yesterday in the Vodafone shop in Birmingham. i have to say it looked very nice.


Gary

[gizlaroc]

Originally posted by Garyd
i saw one of these yesterday in the Vodafone shop in Birmingham. i have to say it looked very nice.


Gary

Really ??? !

was there a price on it ????

I am wondering what the upgrade price is, I ca get one from Germany for just under £300 offline so I am hoping it will be less than £150 as an upgrade, possibly less than £100, if I remeber te t68 was £430 offlie and around £160 as an upgrade when it came out.

[gizlaroc]

just seen it on the vodafone site

£249 payg

£129 on contract


not a bad price at all.

[Gary D]

there you go, you've answered your own question. thoght it looked like a really nice phone SE phones have really come on in recent years. just bought a spanky P800 - fantastic phone.



Gary

[ronancoll]

i have just ordered my t 610 this morning, it is arriving tomorrow
79 quid as an upgrade for an existing customer

[gizlaroc]

nice one


was that through vodafone ??

[matvib]

had my 610 since tuesday
and quite impressed with the battery life. given it quite a bit of use playing with the all the features, lots of file transfers etc, and knowing colour screens can eat up power, was suprised how slow it went down.
2 days it was still over half full, which i know doesnt sound much, but as i said it was being used loads.

[Orbital]

So the lesson I've learned here is:-

Don't take any notice of what the nice lady on the Sony Ericsson Customer Service line tells you, as she really hasn't got a clue when the company's mobile's are to be released

Cheers

Dave

[gizlaroc]

Originally posted by Orbital
So the lesson I've learned here is:-

Don't take any notice of what the nice lady on the Sony Ericsson Customer Service line tells you, as she really hasn't got a clue when the company's mobile's are to be released

Cheers

Dave

Haha

you not actually surprised at that are you ??