Those of you who read this blog routinely know that I’ve been determined to move my cell service from Verizon ever since the sales drones at my local Verizon Wireless store became too lazy to take my payments, instead requiring me to do the clerical work (entering the payment into their computer system at a terminal kiosk) for them. Well, I finally got the service transfered, and now have a tiny yet inexpensive new telephone, the Sony Ericsson T237.

Only problem is, gathering information on the phone outside of the sales stuff on the Sony Ericsson website is neigh-on impossible. The phone does cool stuff (multiple format ringtones, games, WAP browsing, etc., etc.), but figuring out how to get it to do that cool stuff ain’t easy.

Ok, ok, I understand that they want to sell ringtones and games, so saying that the polyphonic ringtones are standard MIDI files might cut into their sales, or that the phone accepts standard morphin games might again screw things up for the sales end…but gees, guys, let’s be honest here. Even when we buy a cheap phone, we still want to ring the bells and blow the whistles, you know?

I am slowly gathering information (most of it by raw trial and error, frankly); once I get enough of it together, I’ll post a detailed document here that hopefully future folks buying this telephone can use to make their lives a little easier.