Sony Ericsson Vivaz U5i — Faulty Sony Ericsson Vivaz u5i handsets, bought from Vodacom SA

I rate the Sony Ericsson Vivaz U5I phone, below one star, in fact I give it a -10 star rating!

For the following reasons -
1) I owned two of them, & both units had problems from day one.
2) One unit's touch screen was sent in three times, on the third time they eventually replaced the lcd screen panel.
3) Both Audio Headsets were cheap & nasty, as they broke within 6 months o[censored]sing them, to top it off we were not granted a replacement.
4) One cannot find/purchase any original accessories for this model in ZA, especially the AV link cable that allows this unit to connect to an external monitor/screen.
5) Both unit's Data Transfer/Power Bay's pins did not make contact with the power supply cable, so one cannot charge it. This happened 6 months of owning them.
6) the Data Transfer/Power Bay Pin on one unit had come out completely from the connection port, from inside the phone, dislodging completely from the mother/circuit board.
7) When the units were sent in for the same problem area, Vodacom SA & Sony Ericsson discharged the one unit as B.E.R / BER (beyond economic repair) & refused to repair/replace it.
8) The other unit, they repaired the Data Transfer/Power Bay, despite them saying it was a brand new unit, but in fact I got my old faulty unit back, & the same unit would not charge the same night of receiving it back.
9) Now reading the reviews, I am reminded of things that happened on the phone, that we actually thought were a network problem, but in fact are OS & software related issues, so I can now confirm that the handset overall is a failure, except the Video, that we can only right home about.

Vodacom SA & Ericsson South Africa do not want to accept responsibility for a design error on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz u5i unit,
as the power bay is also the data transfer bay, & the pins within; are not robust or designed to handle daily in/out connecting of the power/data cable,
& we were offered the same make & model on one repair, & a down graded Nokia E51 model for the other BER unit, what a lovely replacement phone!!!
This was after I had put up a fuss of months & months of complaining.

So to anyone wanting to know if a Sony Ericsson Vivaz U5I phone is a smart buy, then this should be a good reason to avoid a purchase,
as for the service of both Sony Ericsson SA & Vodacom South Africa, my problem with both our handsets have been ongoing for 3 months now,
& they have had the units in their possession for this period of time, & all that they can offer is a completely inferior phone
& a replacement phone that is bound to break in the same place.