Bye, it has been great for the most part but now I am off to annother part of the world to make my f...
Bye, it has been great for the most part but now I am off to annother part of the world to make my fortune.
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Some strange whim took me to the O2 shop to get a new phone, my old Siemens MC60 was perfectly serviceable but to be honest was a complete bugger to use. I decided that I was only going to pay 50 quid but instead spent £79-99 on this one as a Pay as you go upgrade, and I got a tenner for my old phone and 10 quid's worth of credit too...... so in effect it cost me £59-99.
1. Taking and Making Calls
This is what a phone does and it does it well. The Speaker is clear and audible, and does not induce a need to shout as I have experienced with some phones. The Phone book is easy to navigate and basically it does the job of a phone very well.
2. Phone Book
The phone book is easy to use and navigate as previously mentioned. If you store the number
to the phone rather than the SIM card then you can add photos, addresses, e-mail addresses and other things to each entry. You can also assign a voice dial to it; I can't see the point in that.
My only complaint is that the method it uses for searching for an individual name is not as intuitive as other phones.
3. Messages
You have your usual SMS and MMS services. The predictive text is exceptional but it does take a little while to get used to. Once you get used to it is fine. Anyone who can't work out predictive text is not using enough of their brain.
4. Camera
What phone would not be complete without a camera it is an essential item for making and taking phone calls. It is a fine thing with 3 quality settings High (640 x 480 pixels), medium (320 x 240) and MMS (160 x 120). I appreciate how there is no low setting. The camera is dead simple to use.
It can also take videos with sounds ideal for capturing the incoherent rants of tramps. You can dick around with the settings but remember that it is memory hungry if you do this a lot.
5. Memory
It has 3Mb of memory which can store around about 700 MMS pictures, and 90ish High quality pictures, so it is adequate for the job.
6. Extras
Connection to mobile internet services (WAP) or Porno on the go as I call it. O2 links you directly to the BBC's news service when you go there so that is fantastic.
It has a simple calculator which is one of the easiest to use I have experienced on a phone.
The Calendar lets you set up events if you are into personal organisation which I am not. The alarm clock does exactly what it says on the tin, and there is a voice dialing option which I have not figures out yet.
So the Extras are perfectly adequate.
7. Bluetooth
An essential item for all you gadget heads out there. So far I have connected my phone via Bluetooth to my girlfriends Nokia with a little bit of bother and to a good friend's Motorola RAZR in the pub last night which was a lot easier. Sending stuff via Bluetooth can be a bit of a pain.
It also can be connected to Bluetooth headsets which are easy as pie to set up. Computers on the other hand ned a suitable Bluetooth adaptor. I have been advised that you need the drivers specific to the phone. These drivers are a bugger to find on the internet so if you want to do this then get a Bluetooth adaptor from Motorola as it comes with the drivers you need.
8. Games and Applications
My phone came with a Multimedia album which is for those that like to organise things. the Games Rebels which is an acceptable space shoot em up thins, and something called safe which is for securing personal information.
These all run on Java so there are plenty of games out there for you to download.
9. Settings
All the stuff you need to personalise your phone is here, be it wallpapers, ring tones etc. The menus are pretty self explanatory and it is easy to use.
10. Battery Life
The battery life is OK with mine needing a charge every couple of days, and the charge time is pretty dam fast with it going from empty to full charged in a couple of hours.
11. Keypad
The keypad is responsive and has buttons that are big enough to touch with my big chunky fingers.
12. Size and Weight
Both are comfortable for me and it fits in my shirt pocket nicely, without bulging as it is less than 11mm thick. What more could I want.
Overall it is a pretty good phone, I got comfortable with using its features within a couple of days, and for 80 quid it is a sleek and stylish phone that a lot of people have confused for the more expensive Motorola L7 SLVR. Compared to my Siemens MC60 it is fantastic although die hard Nokia users will have some problems with it. Me I will always go for German engineering over Scandinavian uniformity any day, despite my Nordic ancestry, and Motorola being American.
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Advantages: Games, some good buttons, signal reception Disadvantages: Battery, the whole I-Mode thing, Not MP3, Hardly Customisable, Keypad, Only available on O2 PAYG
liz1102 19.11.2006 ·
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