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Advantages: pretty, unique, girly, photo phone book, mp3 player Disadvantages: a little slow, only 1 game, almost impossible to see the screen outside in daylight
Advantages: Small, clear display, it's a slider Disadvantages: Bad battery life, flimsy back cover, crashes frequently.
I got an EL71 last December when I changed my mobile contract and my phone. I must admit that the EL71 looked quite attractive and I was tempted by the fact that you could upgrade the phone memory to 2Gb by the insertion of a MicroSD card so I decided to go with it.
The phone itself is a nice concept. Siemens are trying to get back into the mobile market and this collaboration with BenQ has so much potential to rival Nokia and Sony Ericsson. The question is does it pull it off?
In a word? No.
As I've said, it looks nice enough. Decked out in a sexy silver brushed metal effect it's quite attractive front on, but at the back it's just black plastic. Even then this undertstated effect is quite nice so you can have the phone and not worry about it being ugl. It's also a slide phone which means that the keypad drops down when ...
Advantages: Mobile Phone & MP3 Player in One Disadvantages: Crappy Sound Quality and The Whole Thing Broke After 2 Months
and repaired.
So I waited 2 weeks before I got a phonec all from Argos saying I could come and collect it.
Supposedly BenQSiemens has went into liquidation so they couldn't get any parts etc to fix it, and so Argos tried to fob me off - saying that there was nothing they could do - I'd just have to take my broken hanset and go home.
Now here's a top tip for anyone in a similar position - Trading standards says that you are entitled to a full refund from the place you bought the faulty item - as long as it's under six months since you bought the item - never be fobbed off by stores telling you to contact the manufacturer.
What I Did Next - - - - -
Well I took my refund and went back to using my 3.5 year old Nokia 1100, and yes, I'm being laughed at daily by freinds and folk and at work - but it works and that's great ...
Polkadot-pig 28.03.2007
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