Customer Reviews

Sony Ericsson Equinox Phone, Lucid Blue (T-Mobile)

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Nice phone, but it advertises 10 hours talk time and 16 days stand-by battery life. I've had the phone for 48 hours, talked on it a total of three hours and have already had to recharge it twice. I'm looking into a battery replacement and hopefully that will solve the issue.

My previous phone was a Razor (Motorola). Its battery usually lasted for three days. This Equinox lasts 6 days. Impressive!
If you are looking for a regular phone (not a smart phone), this one is almost flawless except for the inconvenience of the built-in shortcut keys that cannot be changed (Someone has already written about this in his review). Other than than, I am very happy with this phone.

I have the sony ericsson equinox cell phone from T-mobile since March. for some reason the phone was rejecting my incoming calls, T-mobile sent me another sony ericsson equinox phone and it did the same thing no one at T-mobile knew what was going on with the phone.

I called sony, the magnet in the case that I had my cell phone in was rejecting all my calls.

Beware of the magnet on your case.

it's a cute phone, not worth $180.00

Like most phones, there are any number of design items that you will need the manual to figure out. One would think at this point in history, you could figure out all the phone functionality, but some of it is still quite obscure, for example changing ring tones for contacts.

However, there are three really annoying flaws in this phone.
1) The sound quality in my phone is just terrible - no mid-range at all, all bass, making all conversations sound garbled. I have had to borrow a phone to make calls, as the sound quality was just too poor to understand.
2) You can't hold down a number key to make a speed dial call. You have to press the key and then hit the send button. Very, very annoying.
3) In general, when you make a call, you must hit the send key. Once you hit the "enter" (the big key) you will start to go down a number of menus asking if you want to do all kinds of activities that you would not want to do 98% of the time. It doesn't give you a second chance to make a call, only send emails, voice messages, etc. You will need to hit the "exit" key any number of times to get back to a place where you can make a call.

I had this phone for about a year and I fell in love with it. It's simple so it doesn't have a bunch of apps and it's not so good for web-surfing, but if you're just looking for a nice phone that you can text and make phone calls on, then this might be for you. It has nice animations and you can personalize it a bit (the light effects are SWEET!). One of the things I liked most about it was that when texting someone, you can see the whole conversation. Here's an example if you don't know what I'm talking about.

You'd be able to see this:
Me- Hey what's up?
Friend- Nothing much...wanna go to a movie
Me- Sure what time?
Friend- ...how about 7?

Instead of just seeing this:
Friend- ...how about 7?

(sorry for the cheesy example)
I found this really useful especially if you're texting more than one person at a time. Also the speaker went pretty loud; I never had trouble hearing anyone and visversa. The camera and video are alright, nothing special, but what can you expect? The battery lasted forever, I could go a few days without charging it, but ofcourse that depends on how much you use the phone.
Overall I think this phone is awesome if you're just looking for a phone to text and call on. It's simple, cute, and easy to use. =) Hope this helped.

The look of this phone is great and I have received several compliments. But as other reviewers have mention the sound quality is terrible. During a phone call it sounds like the phone call has been dropped, but it hasn't. I think this is supposed to be a feature to reduce surrounding noise, but if there is any kind of pause you think you have dropped your call. Also sometimes it doesn't cut back in, in the right amount of time than you miss part of what the person is saying. I am constantly asking people to repeat themselves. The phone itself feels cheap. If you are prone to dropping your phone, than this one is not for you. I would not recommend this phone. I have had this phone for around 6 months and have had nothing but problems and am looking for another phone.

this phone was given to me by my cell phone insurance company as a "comparable" phone to my Motorola Zine. There is NOTHING comparable. the megapixels are only 3.2 as compared to 5 for the zine. the screen is much smaller. The phone is NOT intuitive. You can change the functionality of some of the keys but not all. There is no single button dialing with speed dial.
It does not come with a memory card as the zine did (and it takes a different size card than the zine). The battery life is abysmal.
I hate this phone. I canceled my phone insurance and I'm canceling my phone service due to this phone. I hate it.

So the Nokia 6263 I bought new at a T-mobile store went bad in one month, took it back got a second one exchanged, had to send THAT phone in 8 times in less than one year? We don't carry that Nokia anymore (LIE) I found out later, so I upgraded to a Nokia 7510, NICE phone, but it failed three times in less than one year, and once I sent it in, no water damage no outside damage, but I get my exchange 7510 and in one month its bad, they then say we don't have any 7510's so upgrade to Sony Ericson TM717 Blackface, well I have had it less than a MONTH and the Video feature went out, just stopped working, and here's an interesting thing, you know that "Preview" feature most ALL other phones have after you write a text message, its listed but GRAY lettered out, no preview on the units T-Mobile sells?

Have to wonder who trains their repair tech kids, because I have friends that have had the same phone for five or ten years, but every phone from T-mobile including this SonyErisonTM717 equinox has failed, NOW one must suspect they are buying up "Seconds" or cheaper models to sell like they are FULL FEATURE phones at T-Mobile on the hush hush..We use to call this Fraud in this country?

On that Nokia 7510 last repair where they sent me a bill for $109.00 dollars, I wrote them and said, show me the PROOF, they write back and say "We get a verbal report, nothing written down now, on every phone, my phone they said had hidden damage, and so I had to pay them NOT!

I sent them a certified return receipt and a Arbitration form certified and said "Bring it on KIDS" the rules of Evidence has NOT changed in California, YOU have no proof of what you stay was wrong with my phone, there's no water damage or outside damage like a bad drop, were supposed to TRUST you? YEAH, that will be the day"!

This kid BEN at the "Office of the President" calls me and talks like he's doing me a favor refunding me the MONEY they unlawfully charged me, the kid is an ego tripper and spends to much time out on the golf course.

I called him to provide me with a PROOF of PURCHASE, because the Nokia People require that in order to avoid what they call an out of warrenty phone fee of $58.00 dollars and t-mobile customer service can't provide you with a Proof of Purchase to give Nokia repair what they require for the phones they sell T-Mobile to sell us consumers. I'm writing the attorney general for this rip-off company trust me. BE careful of what Sony phone you get, because T-Mobile is a fraud model and NOT full featured from t-mobile that is a FACT!

I keep TWO phones because one is always going out. SOON when I have some extra time, I'm going to file a civil action on these bunch of crooks and liars selling fraud products as NEW when they know there seconds and NOT the full feature phones sold by Nonia or Sony, that's my working LEGAL theory folks.