Sony Ericsson T226 Cell Phone

Pros: Good sound; small and easy to carry; good menu system
Cons: Weird text input; the ring tones and such which come standard are rotten

Indeed, The Man (a.k.a., the folks at my office) -- with a little help from his ruthless agent (a.k.a., my wife) -- convinced me to get a cellular phone. I hate cellular phones with a blind passion, but it seems I missed one call too many from work. So, ...

Pros: Good reception, decent price, record your own ringtones
Cons: Combo keypad/action button horrible, few useful features

Sony Ericcson's T226 is the latest budget/entry level compact cell phone. I'm going to compare the T226 to it's cousin the T68i, which I've used before. My father's T68i, while loaded with features, still didn't sound as clear as my T226. Although ...

Pros: Great color screen, short charging time, excellent sounds
Cons: Too small, keyboard too small, buttons too small, phone doesn't reach mouth and ear.

First, I have been slightly dissatisfied with the wireless service, AT&T, I use with this phone. That being said, this review will focus on the little phone that I use on this unit. I have used the phone since January, 2004, but found myself ...

Pros: Size, reception, audio quality are EXCELLENT. Sure is blue!
Cons: It won't turn heads if that's what you care about. Sure is blue!

If you care about games, IM'ing your friends, or listening to Top 10 hits as ringtones, get another phone. If you care about having a TINY mobile with EXCELLENT reception and audio, you can't go wrong with this little guy. (Of course, all of this is ...

Pros: Sound quality, lightweight, color screen
Cons: poor imported picture quality, poor style compared to newer phones

I actually made $50 for taking this phone after service provider rebates. It's a great little phone. SOUNDS & RINGTONES - This has that polyphonic ringtone feature that you hear all the time nowadays. The tones aren't that great, but I bought a ...

Pros: Adequate reception, good entry level phone
Cons: Display grainy, small keypad for text messaging, poor vibrate function

This is a review of the T237 (basically the T226 design with a few feature updates including speakerphone, no separate category on Epinions for T237). If you are looking for a cheap phone for basic low volume calling (as landlineless using it on ...

Pros: Very functional!
Cons: Relatively slow as per data entry speed.

This phone was released around January of 2003. The T226 works under the networks GSM 850 / 1900. Measuring only 102mm x 43mm x 18 mm and having a weight of only 79 grams, this cell phone makes an interesting tool. This would definitely suit the taste of ...

Pros: VERIFIABLE upgraded features; ring tone record, 2nd ring speaker
Cons: Slime factor, weak battery, transferring contacts, ugly, won't sync, won't record phone conversations

I got a postcard in the mail from Ericsson which read "FREE phone for our valued customers", stating that soon I would receive a free UPGRADE to an Ericsson T226, so I immediately began checking out the feature set by downloading the manual from ...

Pros: Nice Screen, good reception, good features
Cons: Bad ringtones, Bad Camera Attachment, TINY!

I do like T226 i get good reception, a color screen, and an overall nice phone. I would have to say that the Camera attachment that comes with it is an absolute JOKE! and the ringtones that come with it are horrible, i mean your body is a wonderland who wants that as thier ringer!
Any way it is a good phone and it was free(for me at least).

Pros: Cheap, Color Screen
Cons: Poor signal performance, scratches easily.

The Sony Ericsson T226 is an average cell phone for the average cell user. It comes with a basic set of features and nothing else. The phone does sometimes have problems maintaining calls without disconnecting and the call quality can be on the low end without a very strong signal. I would only recommend this phone to somebody that is on a budget and doesn't use their phone very frequently.

Pros: Great Battery Life.
Cons: The Color Screen Is Not Very Vibrant, The Phone is Ugly.

I have owned this phone for about a year now, it is just a basic phone. The color screen is washed out and milky looking. The phone is ugly and the menus are hard to use. Don't buy this phone.

Pros: Long battery life, dowloadable ring tones, graphics, themes and games, color screen
Cons: No camera, not flip, small buttons (which could also be a pro)

The T226 is a very basic but reliable phone. it has all the features that an everyday user needs, phone book, text messages, ring tones, call list, and even some games. There is an optional camera attachment that I find bulky and just not with the cash. Phone also has some ring tones standard, but they're bad so I'd recommend dowloading new ones. Although polyphonic, their still good. Great phone!

Pros: It's small, lightweight and easy to carry. Good PDA funtions.
Cons: Slow, very slow. You need alot of paitience and a toothpick. Cingular's crappy service!

This phone runs on -.01 MHz processor. It is sloooooow. When I mean slow it's soo bad that when you click on a button you have to literally wait for about 3 seconds for the screen to respond. To make it ever worst, it's a Cingular phone. So you know that besides a slow phone, you get a very very unreliable Cingular signal. Not that you only get an unreliable signal and slow phone you also get crappy customer service. The phone gets frustrating at times because of it's retardedness, and also I've bought 4 headsets and the headset socket on the phone is just crap. I mean all the headsets I've bought, the phone still would make noise on the other end. I'd have to use a toothpick to hold the headset in place so the person on the other end can hear me well. Some times the toothpick scratches my skin, but that's Ok because now I can talk hands free. I know it's not my headset because I got 4 new ones and the problem still presists.

Pros: Light Weight, Sleek, Good standby and talk time, quick charging, convenient navigation
Cons: OK display, expensive accessories, small buttons, drops calls (or due to my carrier)

I got this one as a free upgrade to my T68i, so not a bad phone when you get it for free. One thing that I would specifically like to mention here is that somehow the dust particles got behind the screen and now they are there kind of permanently. I used this phone as my earlier phones, so there should be something wrong with its screen that allowed dust to enter. May be something with the piece that I have.

Pros: Improved reception
Cons: SLOOOOOW firmware, poor navigation, tiny/difficult buttons

While it's a drastic improvement over my old T68i (that was recalled by At&T several months ago), it's not a great phone. My main complaint: the firmware. This thing is SLOOOOOOW. It takes forever to start up, forever to navigate menus, forever to scroll numbers, etc. This slowness, combined with other annoyances (like a strange penchant for shutting itself off randomly about once a week), add up to a mediocre phone that the Sony-Ericcson team, once again, obviously spent little time testing.

Let's put it this way...it's still not quite heavy enough to throw through the store window.