The Handset: The handset for this phone is very sleek - its about half a centimetre wide and holding it can take some getting used to if you have had an older model phone for a while as they are often wider. The key pad seems quite small at first but you quickly get used to it, I found on the first day that I kept pressing the wrong buttons but that soon stopped when I became accustomed to it. The design of the overall phone is attractive and makes a good unisex phone and being completly black it makes it look more hard wearing.
The Pros: The phone is beautiful it looks really good and as its a Nokia is incredibly easy to use - the layout is quite similar to many of their newer models. You cant fault the look of the phone at all allthough i should imagine the plastic could be quite easy to scratch if you werent careful with it. It doesnt have any unnecessary buttons along its side like some phones so you dont find yourself doing anything you shouldnt be! It comes with the usual nokia classic snake game and also suduko and some trail games. It has large access to the internet though it is not included in the contract and so I am yet to see how it works.
The Cons: Although this phone looks amazing it does have some hefty downsides; The battery life is awful even though a lot of the time i dont even use the features such as the camera which you would presume would make it run out. The speaker seems to be a bit tempremental which is a problem I have heard it quite common with this handset - sometimes it can be so quite to the point that you can barely hear what the person on the end of the phone is saying and it also clicks in and out of high and low volume without warning. It doesnt come with many backgrounds whihc is a shame as the ones that it does come with are quite ugly and nondescript. The camera which is 2mgp is not of very high quality and you would expect better from a new phone. The keypad can get a bit annoying and when sending messages it can be easy to send blank messages if you are not careful what ou are pressing.
The Contract: I got this phone on Vodafone and you get 500 minutes pm and 1000 texts for £35 though I know others who have got it on Orange with the same minutes and endless texts for the same price. Its not a bad contract and I dont seem to be using it up completly - I havnt been over my limit.
Overall performance: Overall the phone looks brilliant it has 1g of space which is large for a phone and will hold mp3's (though you can not buy any additional space for it) though the c.d which comes with it is quite confusing and I havnt managed to work out how to put any on the phone yet. It works fast and if all you want to do is ring and text its ok apart from the speaker problem. Its often the case that there is a bad batch of phones when making a new model and perhaps this is the case with mine. Its a good phone but the battery life and other problems let it down.
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Jan 24th, 2008
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