Sony Ericsson S500i - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Sony Ericsson S500i is a very basic slider phone and you'll be buying it almost mainly for its unique themes and fancy lighting at the sides.

Pros: Compact design; unique themes with fancy lighting effects; hot-swappable Memory Stick Micro card slot.

Cons: Buttons are tiny; very basic feature set.

Review summary: - Supposedly women have mood swings. Who would have thought it hey? Well if women can have mood swings, then so can your phone and that's the idea behind Sony Ericsson's new handset the Sony Ericsson S500i.

Pros: Pretty, 2 megapixel camera, camera software, music software, easy to use

Cons: Light mood feature is just a gimmick

Verdict: Simple, but nicely packaged

Review summary: Despite the polyphony being 72-tone, the handset does not provide a breakthrough in sounding of mp3 tunes as compared to other Sony Ericsson branded phones. The loudspeaker is average volume-wise and has a great deal of basses in its sounding, so the call

Review summary: Lots of reports of cracking keys. I don't know if this has been fixed. Feature-wise, the Sony Ericsson S500i is very average. No 3G, questionable keypad durability, no FM radio and a hard-to-remove back cover. It does look pretty though, when its side-lig

Pros: Battery life

Cons: Keypad, Back cover

Pros: The Sony Ericsson S500i is a beautifully designed handset with a slew of multimedia features that include a 2-megapixel camera plus a music player. Performance was great, as well.

Cons: The Sony Ericsson S500i has a rather fragile keypad, plus it's on the expensive side.

Verdict: The Sony Ericsson S500i is a stylish phone with a lot of sex appeal plus a decent feature set, but its high price and iffy controls make it less than desirable.