Sony Ericsson S500
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- dotybizz
- Mw8
- 30 Sep 2007
The Sony Ericsson S500i is a very good mobile phone. I got mine about two months ago and it works fine, but there is one thing about it that i don't like is the material they used to make the key pad. Four buttons on mine cracked horizontally in half and more are continuing to crack. I wanna know how can I fix that.
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- abd
- PEn
- 30 Sep 2007
This phone has mass production faults. If you are going to get this phone then dont get the green because it's keys will crack again n again. SE says it happens due to some chemical reaction.
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- wolf
- prj
- 30 Sep 2007
I bought this phone one week ago and now i have mobile phone with two keypad cracked. phone is stil great and even if the keypad is cracked it is in use as it never anything happened.
Just phone is less beatufiful :(
I hope my warranty will stand for this.
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- ur mom
- jKr
- 30 Sep 2007
i think this phone is kool, but i dont like the color
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- JDS
- 02L
- 30 Sep 2007
So anyone know where you can buy a replacement keypad to replace yourself? My keypads have been sent in for warranty a couple of times, each time the keypad feels better and lasts 2-3 weeks longer than the last one did but then ultimately starts to crack. Phone is still great though, just not as beautiful, hope there are replacement pads at stores sometime soon b/c shipping times w/ warranty works is so inconvenient.
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- LRC
- j@u
- 30 Sep 2007
i was going to get this phone..but i didnt want to get the same phone as my cuzn.. and im glade i didn't get it..
SOME NEGATIVES:
-less than a month 9 buttons cracked
-small buttons in front are inconventient
-no flash
- altho speakers are kinda loud.. songs on the highest setting dont sound clean
THE POSITIVES:
+cool features (like the wallpaper changing day/night, the lights on the side)
+ design light, smooth slider, and pretty compact
... i say dont get this phone ...
and wait for an upgrade of this series (or something) .. as for me i am still waiting/searching for a phone with my criteria
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- Anonymous
- RbH
- 29 Sep 2007
my keypad also cracked, but i know that this is a problem with the first phones. the newest are all ok
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- WonderboyS500i
- ibn
- 29 Sep 2007
hi every1 i need help ... i live in malaysia and planning to buy tis phone but hearing keypad craking is it now the problem havent fix yet?
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- l3th4l
- MCA
- 29 Sep 2007
got 1, one mounth ago, no problems...
works great... outstanding look...
Made in Malaysia
bought from Romania
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- Anonymous
- jb8
- 29 Sep 2007
i got this phone a month ago and i text alot like alot about 3000 text a month and yet my key pad hasnt cracked yet.
i think i just were u buy the phone and were it gets ship from.
i hav a few friends who hav this phone too afor like way longer then me and yet there key pad hasnt cracked yet either
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- Nick
- Q{N
- 29 Sep 2007
Wow this phone and the w580 are so defective, i work at an electronics store but we sell a s#itload of phones and we sold a lot of the w580's when they hit our shores in canada.
now, a month later, i've had 8 returns/repairs of the w580 due to the keyboard cracking, one female teenage customer in particular that texts alot had her keys crack in less than twenty days.
thats pretty ridiculous :|
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- Richard
- 07p
- 28 Sep 2007
it works great.. my dad has it
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- Angela
- jLB
- 28 Sep 2007
Beware the keypad wil crack eventualy im stil waitin 4 mine 2 b returnd i used it twice gently an neva dropd it an keypad still cracked not a good phone even the sidelights drove me mad gonna sell it when i get it back
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- vief
- nBu
- 27 Sep 2007
OMFG!! i looooove this phone!!
it's awesome!! =D
so good looking and stuff gee.. =D
i truely want it, but my parents won't give it to me..
I told them a lot of options..
Like no presents and money on my birthday and stuff..
And i already give them the half of my money..
No they surely know how much I want it!!
It sooo adorable!!
And for all the people who are confirming about cracking keys..
One of my friends got the phone on her B-day..
In july.. The misterious green..
And still no sign of cracking keys..
it works perfectly!!
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- Anonymous
- xCu
- 27 Sep 2007
paid for this phone almost 3 weeks ago and im' still waiting on it, i'm told it's out of stock everywhere and suppliers are having a difficult time getting any. i think it's bull.
anyone else get this excuse?
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- Ady
- nET
- 27 Sep 2007
Just got my phone, after reading the comments about the keys cracking I was a bit worried. I can understand how can the crack mine are ali metal of some kind, or is this the newer version ????
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- dru
- kDE
- 27 Sep 2007
maybe it depends on where it was made?
and y isnt think released in canada yet :@?
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- Jinryuken
- PAW
- 26 Sep 2007
Bought this phone for my girl about a month ago and she never had any issues with it, may it be the keypad or the lights. She's really impressed with the phone and all of her friends envy it... of course the everchanging theme never ceases to amaze girls... haha...
i have used the phone for just a day and its pretty sturdy...
never been disappointed with SE... been using K800i for a year already and its really good and the camera is superb.
Waiting in vain for the W960i... x_x
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- elizabeth
- F4p
- 26 Sep 2007
my keypad has cracked three times! and each time they ensured that it was the new batch, im seriously starting to regret buying this phone, its barely a month old.
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- Falkor
- jG1
- 26 Sep 2007
I got the phone about 2 weeks ago, and read all the comments about the key pad cracking. Mine is showing no signs of the key pad cracking. I really think that it is a user flaw, plus the way the chemicles were mixed on the key pad. It is still a really good phone. Great!!!!!