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Revision as of 13:31, 25 June 2005

My T610 Phone

As I blogged here, I bought my Sony Ericsson T610 mobile phone on eBay in the spring of 2004 in anticipation of an extended working vacation in France. The phone is unlocked (explanation here) which means that I can put SIM cards from many different mobile providers into it and thus have a "local mobile phone" in many different countries.

Right now I'm using the T610 on the Rogers Wireless network here in Prince Edward Island. Although improving, Rogers' coverage is still not as complete as Aliant Mobility's, especially in rural areas. But in urban Charlottetown the coverage is fine, and I'm finding that the tolerance of a GSM phone to low signal strength is much better than with Aliant's CDMA phones.

The T610 is a tiny phone, which is very attractive to me: it fits comfortably in my pocket, and because it has no external antenna there's nothing to poke at me. It's also a very functional phone; I've used it to:

  • Check my email using the built-in IMAP client
  • Take photos (example)
  • Record sounds (examples)
  • Sync with my iMac using the built-in Bluetooth

I even use it to make the occasional phone call.

The only downside I've found to the phone so far is that its "joystick," a five-position toggle switch that's central to the user interface, has trouble distinguishing "up" from "in" (pressing the joystick in is like "pressing enter" on a PC). I've become used to this, however, and it's not as great a problem as I originally anticipated.