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Ancient by phone standards, but I still use it!

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4 Feb 23rd, 2009 

7 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Small, robust, easy to use, nice screen, Microsoft Smartphone suprisingly good !

Disadvantages:
Quite dated, but still a smartphone .

Recommendable Yes:

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Durability & Robustness

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RossUK1

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It seems there are many people out there who are always looking for a new phone, you might even have several 'old' ones lying around in your own home! The truth is I've had this one for nearly 3 years and it still works for me.

It was over £300 when it came out, £100 when I brought it and god knows how cheap now. It has a nice large screen which is very easy to see and plays videos well. The buttons feel good and are well placed, if a tad cramped. It has a camera, but its not good enough to be any use to me to be honest. Its nice and compact even by today's standards, a good pocket size. Microsoft Smartphone 2003 is dated but includes lots of features and is very easy to use. You can plug it into your PC via USB and fill it with pictures music and games, videos and software, and has a headphone socket and a speaker to listen to it all. It even includes Solitaire which is good to waste away a few hours (too many)!

It has a micro SD slot for a few extra Gigs capacity and its built in memory lets you run all of the programs fast, and if things slow down there is a task manager to get rid of any memory hogs just like in Windows.

I have pretty simple requirements when it comes to mobile phones. If I can speak to people and its easy to use, any other features are a bonus. Sure I'd like an iPhone, but until this one breaks I am happy to use it, and it allows me to save money for other things.

Good for those that don't want a phone that does everything, but does what it can do well! 

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hughesmonger 23.02.2009 18:32

Great review. ^_^

maya12 23.02.2009 14:26

good one

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