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Reviewer: John Thompson - Sussex, UK
Date: 30th Jun 2009

The main problem with this phone is that the message alert sound is really quiet & the volume cannot be adjusted.

It could easily be fixed with a software upgrade. But Sony Ericsson can't be bothered to correct this. It turns out this is not actually a Sony Ericsson phone but actually an obsolete rebadged Sagem make. Probably why!

Also cuts off the last few letters of all your contacts on the SIM.

It drops the network connection for no reason, it comes back but annoying.

My advice is DON'T BUY THIS PHONE! Waste of money. Get something else.

I have had this less than 2 weeks & I am fed up with it already.

John.

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Reviewer: Kevin - Manchester, UK
Date: 29th Jun 2009

I have just got this phone for a week now, & it is perfect for what I need it for, connect with Bluetooth car kit, few text messages, loud enough to hear it ring, clear sound, long battery life.

It does everything my other phone, HTC Touch Pro, doesn't do, work properly!

After my big & bulky, heavy, slow & useless windows mobile phone it is great to have a phone that really works.

If I want to listen to music, I use an iPod.
If I want to take phots, I use a camera.
For satnav I use a TomTom.

W302 I use for phoning!

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Reviewer: Kevin - Liverpool, UK
Date: 22nd Jun 2009

This is my second Sony Ericsson, & to be honest it is a very good 1.
It has good sound, looks very nice & has a good 2MP camera.

But its does have its bad points aswell. You can only use the themes that comes with the phone & it does not have optical zoom on the pictures, only videos.

But over all it is a very good phone, especially for the music fans & I would recommend this to everyone.

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Reviewer: Jj - Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 7th Jun 2009

Best phone I ever had, the style is cool, its loud & I'll say its a good phone for its price buy it or you'll regret not buying it.

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Reviewer: Manda - UK
Date: 21st May 2009

This phone is a strange little thing.

If you're wanting just your basic phone that you can ring & text then if it's for you, but for the people like me who are more used to the more recent phones then I advise you stay away.

The phone has a lot of old fashioned features to it like missing smiley faces off on texts, & the display of the text message you are writing is the old style too.

It boasts a 2mega pixel camera but the image quality on the screen is nothing to boast about at all.

I have had this phone since January & I am now that fed up with it that I have recently upgraded to a W595 in the hope it will provide me with a better phone.

I have always been a fan of Sony Ericsson's since my first W810i which I loved & had for 2 & a half until it broke, & I'd have another if I could because I feel Sony have gone downhill a lot on the quality of their phones but I cannot bring myself to change as I love the applications & layout they offer.

I must admit I was a little worried when after turning the phone off getting access to my messages was impossible & I have to take the battery & SIM card out to regain access to them, but I must admit that after a while the phone did improve.

Also I have so far slated this phone it does have itself a lot of benefits also, the battery life is excellent, I spend the majority of the day on the phone with work & the battery lasted the day, which I have had problems finding a phone that can do that.

I have also found that this phone is highly sturdy, I must admit I have dropped it over 50 since having it & have had no problems caused by this so if you are a clumsy person I advise on buying the phone.

Its slim design makes it ideal to sit in your pocket & the casing is fantastic. The memory is excellent & can hold a lot of information but the phone doesn't hold many texts so you are constantly having to delete them.

Overall a cute little phone, & comes in a variety of colours, but the old style is representative of a phone you would pay £40 for. It truly depends on what you use your phone for as to if this phone is for you.

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Reviewer: Charlotte Gowers - Whistable, UK
Date: 24th Apr 2009

This was the first Sony Ericsson phone that I have bought & to be fair I think it was a really bad buy, within the first week of purchasing the mobile, it turned itself off & froze a lot too, this should not happen with brand new phones. It s on the network Orange & I feel that Orange are a very bad network to join with as they do nothing but cause stress for the consumer, I wanted to return the faulty goods & they said that I wouldn't be able to because of staff policy blah blah blah.

I have been an O2 customer for many years & wanted to unlock the phone from Orange back to O2 & I had to wait 3 months, it had now been 3 months & they have still told me I cannot do this, I am getting to the point where I am now selling the phone as I hate it & what it has caused me

DO NOT BUY IF LOOKING TO UNLOCK! All the unlocking market stools & shops have told me that they have no traces of this phone actually existing at all.

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Reviewer: Sara - UK
Date: 28th Mar 2009

Great phone, it is a perfect low budget phone, do not listen to false reviews. I would suggest go & grab it. It is the best phone I have had in this price range.

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Reviewer: Sujatha - Chennai, India
Date: 24th Mar 2009

W302 is a good looking device, but definitely doesn't have audible features like W200i which I was using before W302. It is not suitable for music lovers. My expectation was defeated by W302 as I changed my old mobile for audio only. Hence music lovers, don't go for it. Otherwise OK.

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Reviewer: Nikki - Rugeley, UK
Date: 21st Mar 2009

Wow wow wow.

I have had loads of phones in every style & make LOL I am a phone addict.

I brought this after getting rid of my Motorola U9 also a top phone I might add. I think this phone is fantastic has a sleek design solid in make with some great features
Boasting a 2 meg camera which is excellent & takes fantastic snaps. A large MP3 player with great features. Track ID great for capturing a song you like takes you straight to web were it gives you download options at the cheapest prices.

The keys are small but dominant I would say though that it is a more feminine than masculine phone so ideal for a female.

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Reviewer: Phill - London, UK
Date: 19th Mar 2009

Great phone, pity you can't use it with any of the Sony Ericsson software, OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE. That's right. You have to type every entry from your computer into the phone by hand. It is made by Sagem, & has a S1 Neptune chipset. DO NOT BUY!

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Reviewer: Ram - Tamil Nadu, India
Date: 22nd Feb 2009

Poor sound, no loudness, contacts can't be send via text messaging, new themes can't be used, slow when song is playing, slows down when we place animated image as background, message inbox capacity is less than 50 only, average battery life, white screen while changing the song using volume key (double pressing), no zoom option in picture viewer, slow menu operation, no indication in Bluetooth while recieving file (no vibrate or tones).

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Reviewer: John - Singapore
Date: 12th Feb 2009

I bought this phone after losing my W810i. It is a bad & messy phone to use & I could not recommend it to anyone. It is not a patch on the older iconic W810i.

It has loads of silly little quirks that after not very long become very very annoying. There are so many of these that I won't bother listing here. As of yesterday it won't charge the battery so I am forced to buy another (which won't be Sony Ericsson) probably a blessing.

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Reviewer: Carl - Sweden
Date: 5th Feb 2009

Surprised to see the W302 miss some standard features such as, adding a smiley to an SMS & add several phone numbers to one contact. All this is standard since several years, & is confirmed by Sony Ericsson's support

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Reviewer: Dave K - Ireland
Date: 1st Feb 2009

At first I thought this phone was great. Slim, stylish & fits perfectly in your pocket without leaving a bulge unlike some of the other larger phones. After a while though, you start to notice annoying little things that soon become intolerable.

The main thing is the predictive text, for some reason capital letters start appearing in the middle of sentences & the more popular words aren't always the first ones to appear in the suggested words.

Another is the horrible speaker quality. I had a w810i before this & it had a crisp & loud speaker. This phone will not be heard if you leave if face up on a couch, bed or your pocket.

The vibration for calls & messages is exactly the same which is annoying if you have it on silent.

Also if you are used to using Sony Ericsson menus by using numbers to navigate, then you will not be happy to find out that only the main menu numbers work & not the sub menus I.e. No more, Menu, Messages, Inbox to go straight to your messages. The same goes for pressing the left navigate button & the number 1 to instantly create a new message.

Also holding down the c or return button no longer brings you back to your main screen.

Not happy with this phone at all & currently in the process of swapping it or even selling it on.

If you are used to Sony Ericsson phones & their quirks I urge you to stay away from this!

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Reviewer: Deep - Delhi, India
Date: 27th Jan 2009

Well. Sony Ericsson W302 is a good buy. But you can get mobile phones better than it. The most attractive feature about this phone is its looks. It will attract many customers. As a music phone it has no loudness but with hand free it has good sound. Camera is about average but could have been better. Other features such as its games & Internet are fine, have no complaints against them.

Overall, it is worth its price & usable. But do not hurry in buying it. Sony could have made it a lot better.

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Reviewer: Rene - UK
Date: 16th Jan 2009

Sony Ericsson W302, Do not buy! Do not accept as a free gift! It is that bad. Too small you will end up pressing more than one key! Has a speaker phone but you will not get a clear voice off it! Has a contact list of your friends but their names will be chopped off! If you like this phone then get another one & it will be better! Do not buy. You have been warned!

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Reviewer: Beth - UK
Date: 13th Jan 2009

I absolutely LOVE this phone! It is sleek, elegant, & if you get a memory stick, you basically have an iPod, & a phone, all in one! Get this phone, I have not one bad word to say about it! Get it! Get it!

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Reviewer: Alan - South Africa
Date: 8th Jan 2009

This is my first Sony Ericsson Phone ever. My recent phones have been the Samsung D600 & D900i, which are very good phones, very tough acts to follow. I find the Sony Ericsson W302 user friendly & I enjoy browsing the Internet with it as it is more user friendly with better functionality when browsing than the Samsung phones. The camera is not as good as the D600 (2MP) & D900i (3MP) but it is not bad at all & takes decent pictures.

The speaker phone quality is not as good as the Samsung phones I had but it is acceptable. The sound quality without the earphones is not that load, but it is good with the earphones.

I only had the W302 for 4 days now but I am enjoying this phone more & more each day.

The battery has not been really put to the test as yet as the phone is still new but I think that it will be o.k.

Nice Phone!

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Reviewer: Sachin Nalawade - Belgaum, Indonesia
Date: 27th Dec 2008

Dear Friends, This new Sony Ericsson W302 is a fantastic mobile, it has all the features which we need in today's generation, but it has some negative points also I.e. Its Key Pad, it's too stiff & small & second one is its works very slow, no mega bass system or higher volume option.

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Reviewer: Gaurav Sharma - Delhi, India
Date: 25th Dec 2008

All is good but the problem is that the Speaker Option is not highlighted till the call is received. Rest is OK.

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Reviewer: Tom Walker - Hull, UK
Date: 22nd Dec 2008

So I broke my old Samsung D900 & needed a new phone I did not know where to start as there are so many options out there. I went into town & had a look around I had seen this phone on the Internet & thought it looks OK but the keys are too small.

Well yes they are small but they are so easy to use. Even though the keys aren't huge I have no trouble using them & could almost say their better keys than any of my previous phones.

The phone looks great & screen is a good usable size. Well worth the price you pay.

Only negative so far is to put memory card in you have to take off the back, but if that is the only negative I find with this phone then I am really not complaining.

Great buy well recommended, TOM.

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Reviewer: Prasanth - Bangalore, India
Date: 18th Dec 2008

This phone is looks good.

Drawbacks.
- Less Sound Quality but in hands free it is Good.
- Key are arranged in less Space. So Key pressing is difficult.

Advantages.
- The UI design for this phone is Superb.
- Camera Resolution is also good.
- & Finally It's Very Slim Phone in Sony Ericsson.

Phone looks very nice. The Games which are coming with this phone are interesting.

I think it's good Phone For Usability.

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Reviewer: Sanjay - India
Date: 11th Dec 2008

Sony Ericsson W302 is definitely a mobile that will grab your attention. The phone has all in it that will make it a complete mobile. There is the latest Walkman Software, 2 MP Camera (even iPhone has 2 MP), a slim outfit & reasonably good sound via loud speaker facility though it delivers some great sound via hands free.

The base reflex earphones could have been replaced by the noise cancellation ear buds, at least I wished I had them for this phone (my previous phone being W200i). The camera quality is quite good & the features & settings involving the camera are also good. The mobile has definitely been a very satisfactory one & it's not a bad choice from my side buying this phone.

After using W200i, I have dreamt of having another phone which could produce very god sound via the loud speakers but this phone has disappointed me. In fact, the slim build does not give that support to put in more support hardware for that loud sound. The slim built also seems to be shaky. So when you are inserting your charger or hands free, better hold the phone a little stiff so that you do not feel that the phone isn't shaking off. The keypad might also be a little bit new with the key size being very less (would definitely be better than W880). The size might be small the keys are very much stiff. So if you are someone who would like to SMS a lot, you might be irritated by it.

Finally, W302 is definitely a good pick with a little bit of compromise. The best economic mobile from Sony Ericsson definitely.

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Reviewer: Sudhakar - India
Date: 5th Dec 2008

W302, the design is fine & compact.

Regarding the features, all the usual stuffs are there, but the Walkman doesn't have the Mega Bass feature which is totally disappointing.

There is no support for installing new themes.



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