Nokia 5140i

Advantages: Durable, easy to use, some good features
Disadvantages: Disappointing memory and screen size

...than exciting. The Nokia 5140i fits the bill as far as this goes. Being Nokia's sport model, it features a harder shell casing than most, making it one of the most durable phones around and quite possibly the most shock resistant. (Of course it still won't tale having a run a car over it… not that I've tested this!) It features several options designed for sports, such as a stopwatch, compass (which doesn't seem to work too brilliantly but that may ...
...lot better than my previous Nokia phones. Battery life not that great if you use the radio / camera / games a lot, but for nominal usage should last you a week. One of the things Nokia is famous for is user-friendliness. With a couple of extra buttons to press on top of the normal (there is now a select button in the middle of 4 cursor keys, and two small buttons above of these), the menu system has very slightly expanded functionality to cater for ... Read review

Advantages: small and simple
Disadvantages: where do i start

...player and FREE mobile... The Nokia 5140i was the phone I received with it and while it was advertised really well it doesn't live up to standards. It sounded like a great little phone, camera, video, sms, mms, and additional sporty features such as a compass, heart monitor, personal trainer, stopwatch and the like. It sounded amazing. Until I got the damn thing. Let's see where I begin with the problems ive encountered. Let's start with the fact ...
...additional equipment. I felt ripped off, not necessarily the phones fault per say but it did put me on a downer; so anybody bought into all the luxuries of this phone just bear in mind you don't actually get them unless you're willing to falk out for them. The ones that are accessible without additions are pointless to be honest. The fitness instructor is only any good if you enjoy something stating the obvious... you put in your stats and how long ... Read review

Advantages: Erm... the compass is pretty novel
Disadvantages: Difficult to use, the only features it has are pointless, manly

...switched off. Beautiful. This Nokia then, is just embarassingly manly. If you are, in fact, a man, then I suppose you might like the chunky blueness of it. It's covered in this weird rubber, which makes it water resistant and very durable but hardly nice looking no matter what your tastes are. For some reason the display is very 80s, and not even the cool side of 80s. Think Saved By The Bell opening credits and you've got the kind of decoration ...
...is my first and last Nokia phone. The buttons are hard to press. It's difficult to send text messages because the buttons are tiny and you have to press them quite hard to get them to react, and then you'll often get two buttons at once. The * and # buttons seem to be in slightly the wrong place so you have to press them in a certain way. The most stupid part about these buttons is that if you look at the phone horizontally from the side, you'll ... Read review

Advantages: Very robust, doesn't scratch easily, good torch
Disadvantages: No bluetooth, small screen difficult to read in bright light, lack of memory

I got this phone about 15 months ago, and it has been very useful and reliable. When I first got it, the keys seemed to require a lot of pressure to activate them, but it seems that this is less of a problem now. Whether it is that the phone has changed, or I have just become used to it, I'm not sure... Also, I found that it was very hard to take off the case to access the battery and sim card, but again, this has become easier over time. This phone ...
...been dropped on several occassions, but still functions fine. The case is cracked in a few places, but this is not really noticable because it is black. There is also a fairly bright LED at the top of it, which acts as a torch, and this has come in useful on several occassions, though it is only effective up to about 30cm away. There are rumours that these phones are waterproof, but I haven't had the confidence to test this - I would have thought ... Read review

Advantages: Robust
Disadvantages: many many things

I chose to get this phone as a free upgrade, and was really looking forward to a phone that did all sorts of useful things for when I went running. However... When I got it I was a tad disappointed. Mostly because I couldn't open the back to get the battery and sim card in. It took 2 of us about half an hour - this phone is defintely robust! The layout of the keyboard is not the best but you get used to having to push the 0 key harder than the ...
...would be easy with bigger fingers than me. The most annoying thing so far is that if you forget to lock the keypad, and you keep accidentally pressing the menu button, you end up sending the first picture in your images folder to the last person you sent a text to. I have accidentally sent about 70 multimedia messages which did not amuse me at all. I have now moved all my pictures to a new folder to avoid ever doing this again but you shouldn't have ... Read review