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| Ericsson T20s |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 |
| Announced | 2000 |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 101 X 54 X 28 Mm |
| Weight | 128 G |
| Display |
| Type | Monochrome Graphic |
| Size | 101 X 33 Pixels, 3 X 12 Chars |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Monophonic |
| Amount | 20 |
| Customization | Composer |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | 99 |
| Call Records | 10 Received, Dialed And Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | No |
| | - Sms Templates |
| Data |
| Gprs | No |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | No |
| Usb | |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms |
| Browser | Wap |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Games | 4 - Tetris, Erix, E-maze, Ballpop |
| Colors | 4 - Blue Whirl, Lime Twist, Silver Weave, Beige Harmony |
| Languages | 24 |
| Camera | No |
| | - Swatch Internet Time
- Voice Dial
- Voice Answer
- Calculator
- Stopwatch
- Start-up Shut-down Shows
- Profiles
- Active Flip |
| Battery |
| | Standard Battery |
| Stand-by | 200 H |
| Talk Time | 10 H |
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Ericsson - T20sEricsson T20s
Advantages Small, good battery life
Disadvantages Clumsy phonebook, unintuitive SMS, poor WAP browsing
Okay, I'm going to disagree with many of the views here but this is my first Ericsson and undoubtedly my last.
Good points first. The phone is small and sits comfortably in the palm of your hand. That's the main reason I bought it. The battery life is excellent, I'm very impressed with the life of the battery considering the size of the phone.
Now the bad points! I've had a brief flirtation with a Sony J5 (which I palmed off on the wife) and have had several Nokia's and it has to be said that Nokia is still king of the mobile market in my opinion. I bought the Ericsson because I wanted something different, every man and his dog owns a Nokia! What a mistake. :(
Firstly, text messaging. I find it extremely hard work writing SMS's out on the T20s. There's no predictive text input whatsoever although to be fair, I always disabled this on the Nokia's. The keys aren't intuitive at all. If I wanted to put the number '3' in a text message with a Nokia I know I have to press the '3' key four times. The Ericsson requires numerous presses to get the same result OR you have to keep hold of the '3' key for a second or so and the number appears. Okay, some people will get used to that I guess but I prefer the Nokia way.
Punctuation is a major hassle on the Ericsson. With two or three presses of one key on the Nokia you can get a comma or a full stop. Not so with the Ericsson. 5 presses for comma and 6 for full-stop. I've just had to check to remember how many presses for each! That's not to mention all the other different punctuation marks you may use that are on the same key. Also, if you select 'Send new message' I find that once you've composed the message you wish to send you have the option of either typing in the number you wish to send to or selecting it from the phonebook. Now if there was some phonebook search option it might help but no, you have to wade t hrough a possible 200 numbers either from A-Z or Z-A!
Another BIG drawback is that there is no 'message received' option like there is on most other mobiles. I now have no idea whether the SMS I have sent has actually appeared on the intended recipients mobile screen.
Talking of screen, it's waaaaay too small, especially for WAP access! Okay, I got spoiled with a Nokia 7110's big screen for WAP sometime prior to this one but this really is the pits for surfing WAP sites. Having said that, the included games seem to work quite well on this screen though I'm not really into playing mobile phone games! :(
I also find the phonebook a nightmare to use! Try entering a new number and it asks what location (1-200) you want to save it to. Great, except it defaults to location number 1 which is the preset answering machine quick dial key. After entering lots of numbers in the phonebook you forget what number entry you are up to so have to guess at an empty location. No doubt my phone book will have many little holes in the 100 - 150 range because I'm having to guess a vacant slot for new numbers nowadays. Okay, I could probably sort this out by viewing and rearranging entries into a better numerical order but it would be far easier if the phone didn't use slot 1 by default. Incidentally, the 200 locations is split 50% on phone memory and 50% on SIM memory (thereabouts). Due to a wrong keypress I now have two copies of every single number to wade through. At least with the 7110 I selected either phone or SIM memory making life easier, the Ericsson combines both and confuses matters.
The ringtones provided can only be described as average and you can't bung a new logo on the screen as easily as you can with the Nokia's (if you can do it at all ?).
All in all I cannot recommend this mobile phone to anybody. It's just too awkward to use if you want to use things like WAP and/or SMS. If you want a plain vanilla mobile phone then it may be okay but I would look to the Nokia 3310 or similar if that were the case.
Advantages Excellent battery life, Voice control, Customisable profiles
Disadvantages Anttenna, Colours
I have owned a pre-pay T20s for about 5 months now. I use it for personal use and for work and have had no problems at all.
The battery life is fantastic. Being a Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) battery it can be charged nd topped up as and when you like without decreasing the capacity of the battery. Many other handsets still come supplied with older Nickle Metal Hydroxide (Ni-MH) batteries which can only be charged when completely flat or will degenerate. I use my phone on average for about 1-1.5 hours per day in conversation and it is never switched off. I only put the phone on charge every 3-5 days depending on how much I have used it.
Another feature I have found to be useful with the T20 is its voice control. I do a lot of driving so therfore use the phone while driving with a hands-free. I admit I dont use voice commands when out and about on foot, but when alone in the car the phone rings while negotiating a busy intersection, the call can be accepted or denied at user set voice command. You can also store up to 10 voice labels with number to use for outgoing calls.
The Ericsson T20 can be customised in about as many ways as possible. About the only method it lacks is changable facias but that is only asthetics, The T20 has 6 "Profiles" which can be edited to suit you. I have different profiles for the phone to function is for exapmle when out, at home, in the car, at work or for if i dont want to be distured but need to see if people have tried to call or send a text message.
Another useful facility is being able to assign different ring tones to different numbers. Again on my phone I have one ring tone for friends numbers, another ring tone for work numbers etc... This has proved very useful for me to distinguish between personal and work calls and is so much cheaper than a contract phone with 2 lines set up on it.
Still on the subject of ring tones, there are 10 built in with another 4 that can be edited by typi ng the notes in on the keypad or downloading from a computer with the correct data cable. If you have a data cable you can also download animations to play on your phone when you switch it on. Ring tones cannot be exchanged by SMS but there are many sites on the net with the notes you need to enter for ring tones and 100% free.
The T20 also comes with a built in WAP browser. I have used the a couple of times to check email and get F1 Grand Prix results but not in the last couple of months. On the Orange network, WAP access is charged at 10p/min and is a very slow and limited resource. Compared to unmetered net access on a PC at home or at work which more and more people have now, unless something special happens with WAP or the new GPRS takes off, I believe demand for it will dwindle.
Ericsson have done a good job with the asthetics and ergonomics of the T20. Looking at it face on, it is similar in size to the popular T28 but is deeper and more rounded. This means it fits nicely in the hand and will be less likely to suffer the same fate as one Ericsson T28 I saw not so long ago. It snapped in half!!! However I can think of many colour schemes which the T20 would look good in and unfortunatly, Ericsson havent produced this phone in any of them. At the end of the day though, it is just that. A phone.
The active flip is a nice touch and appears to be attatched to the main body of the phone fairly securely. Although I have no doubt that a heavy knock of it being bent further than intended will result in its detatchment from the phone.
Appart from the colours availiable, the only other main gripe I have about this phone is its very pronounced anttenna. With more and more phones being released with internal anttenas, it does unfortunatly make the T20 a little dated. If there is one thing I've learnt from this phone, it is not to sit down with it in your back pocket!
Otherwise i have found it to be a great phone that has se rved me well and I have no intention to part with it for a very long time. Very highly reccommended indeed!!! |
| Common misspellings on this brand: ericdsson , er8icsson , ericsson , ericssojn |
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