Sony Ericsson Txt or ck13i review

Sony Ericsson Txt Cost me 6050 Rs Or equal to 121 US $ with a discount in a Sony Ericsson show room in Chennai, this is one of the last of the Sony’s non touch phones. Being, not a huge fan of touch phones and looking for a budget phone, I needed no excuse to by this phone. The various complaints of phone getting stuck up, did stop me to think. But, due to lack of key pad based budget phones, I came back to this option.

Things that I have read on the net before buying Sony Ericsson Txt…

1)    Absence of 3g connectivity.

2)    Phone battery charge hold is not that good.

3)    Key pad keys are very small.

4)    There is no option to mute the shutter sound of camera.

5)    Phone gets stuck frequently.

6)    Picture quality is not that great.

7)    Provision of unnecessary options. ( like “friends”, Apps like “You tube”, picasa” )

What I observed in Sony Ericsson Txt

1)    Camera sound can be muted by switching the phone to silent mode.

2)    Wi-Fi option though present drains the battery very fast, other than that the battery last’s better than expected.

3)    Key pad typing takes a while adjusting to but after some time it’s not that bigger deal.

4)    Phone gets stuck when movie is watched in it and games  are pushed little too much. 

5)    Camera picture quality is good for this price. But, the picture is still better when seen in computer.

6)    Speaker sound is really good and since the mobile display is very bright the battery life increases if darker picture is used as wall paper.

Problems I Felt, other than what i read

1)    The display is very bright even after the brightness is reduced to the least.

2)    Opening the phones back cover is sometimes a challenge.

3)    No short cut options to access the running application from the outside 

On the whole a good buy, if you can get over all the challenges it posses. If you are a person who wants to buy a product and enjoy it stay clear of Sony Ericsson Txt, last of its kind from the Sony Ericsson collection.  

Complaint to sony ericsson service center provided a good result after they updated the mobile software the phone speed is reasonably well and some options that were not working well started responding. After updating i can play some games by adjusting the game screen size. The software can also be updated through the Sony web page, the only problem is you need a data cable and its not provided with this Model   

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilephones/downloads/subject/updateservice/txt?cc=gb&lc=en 

SOLUTION TO SONY ERICSSON Cedar or J108i SOUND PROBLEM

                                 I have been using Cedar for 3 months and had problems, with it's speaker from the day one. Since, the phone was never loud enough. I thought the phone does not have a good speaker. Still worse after three months the ring tone became very low. I had to keep it in vibe mode and keep it close, just to know if someone is giving me a call. But, I discovered that there is no fault with the  phone. Just a small change done to it made its speaker very loud.
                              All I did was to open the  back cover of the phone and removed the small cloth covering the mouth of the speaker of the phone. The cloth was blocking the sound and when it starts accumulating dirt the sound reduces gradually. Also the mouth of the speaker is very small and the sound gets easily blocked even with this small cloth. I am not sure why Sony Ericsson made the speaker so bad. But, removing the cloth really helps.
                      One warning if the cloth is removed dirt and water can enter inside the phone easily. It’s either sound quality or safety option with Cedar. But, with this phone, I had to choose sound quality. Once I removed the cloth and experienced the high volume I couldn't close it any more.  Getting a decent cover for Cedar phone might help in protecting it, after the cloth is removed. Hope this information helps. I have been using the Phone without the back cover for 5 months didnt experience any problems till now.

For friend having trouble opening the back cover of Cedar check this link its not that great it might be help full: http://tntravelfuninfo.blogspot.com/2012/01/removing-back-cover-of-sony-ericsson.html