Calls Menu

There's nothing really exciting here. It has everything every phone has. The call list displays the contact name or phone number. After some time on the contact name, the date and time of call is shown. You can delete specific calls from the list, or clear the whole list easily. If you are familiar with network pricing you can configure the pricing to see how much each call costs.

Fun and Games Menu

This is the most exciting part of the phone. The T68i has customizable themes. You can pick and choose any web safe color, background pictures, desktop pictures, and menu bar pictures. Unfortunately the T68i doesn't have a built-in theme editor. But you can create themes on a computer and transfer them to the T68i via data cable, infrared, or Bluetooth (Sold separately).

As for pictures, you can set 101 x 80 px backgrounds pictures to the phone. Additionally, you can add 93 x 62 px pictures to the contacts. The contact picture will pop up every time the person calls you. All pictures are gif files that use a special 256 color safe palette. One thing we would have liked to see is the ability to change the desktop picture (Picture behind the icon menu). The only way to change it is by changing it in a theme.

The Draw Picture tool lets you create backgrounds on the T68i, It's completely useless. Besides drawing lines, there really isn't anything great you can do, as you probably would except on a phone. You can't even edit existing pictures that are uploaded to the phone. It would have been better if Sony Ericsson had taken out the program and left extra memory for storing pictures.

The Composer, unlike Draw Picture, is fairly good at letting you create tunes. Along with creating tunes, you can add actions to go with the music, such as vibrating, backlit on/off, or increasing/decreasing volumes. If there's a major drawback, it's that this phone is monophonic. You would expect a phone like the T68i to have all the bells and whistles attached to it. Unfortunately, it only comes with bells.

Lastly, the games. There has been much hostility because Sony Ericsson has taken the T68's Tetris out of the T68i. Erix is probably the best out of the bunch and the most action packed. The rest are puzzle, or card games.

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