So I fancied a change of phone, my motorola was beginning to look a little dated (although I loved it to bits - Timeport 250, lovely, but I digress) so off I popped to my local Carphone Warehouse. I wanted a colour screen and polyphonic ringtones (so easily pleased) and all the other fiddly bits I didn't really care about. I also didn't want a Nokia cos it's Finnish and ... well I've been to Finland and who wants to support that particular economy??!
For £129.99 (wow, I managed to premember the price!) I got the gorgeous GD67.
At first I was impressed at how light it was (81g), then I liked the way it felt in my hand and it fitted just perfectly in the top pocket of my fave denim jacket, my old phone stuck out a bit.(Dimensions:109 x 45 x 20 mm)
Then after reading the booklet (yeah I know, I'm a saddo) I started to get excited. You can record two ringtones! I read some of the previous opinions and one of them said that the recorded ringtones are too quiet, but I disagree, if I'm out somewhere where I need a loud ringtone in order to hear my phone I usually don't bother and switch to the handy vibrate function. I have had such fun recording various things from a snippet of my favourite song to my next door neighbour's irritating yappy dog. Hours of pleasure can be had from recording a phone ringing and yourself shouting "Answer the damn phone" and then sitting on a train and asking your mates to call you. Laugh? I peed myself at the faces in the carriage.
I thought at first that the transparent back cover, where you can cut out a picture and customise your phone was a bit of a gimmick, but this too can be great fun. At present I have a rather sexy eminem pic adorning my phone (and the chorus to Lose Yourself as a ringtone), this is so much better than having some Nokia Bod tell you what you can put on your phone! or having to spend money downloading ringtones.
I personally wasn't at all interested in whether there were games (there are, 2 of them - no idea what they're like, I haven't used them) nor did I give a crap whether it had WAP (it does, never used that either). But the sound is better than my old phone (people can hear me better too). It works in places that my old phone never used to (tricky bit just after Macclesfield on the train to London from Manchester), so far it's saved around 70 texts (my old phone held max 20) and the vibrate function is strong enough to go through several layers of clothing and a heavy coat(my old phone couldn't do that!). It has a very useful power off/on function which saves batteries by allowing you to say when the phone should switch itself off and then on again. This means that after 3 days of owning the phone I have only needed to charge it up once,(compared to once a day with my old phone - what can I say I'm a heavy user!)
Sadly the texting process with this phone is pretty frustrating sometimes a text requires much flitting between the T9 predictive text thingy and the old fashioned ABC texting. Also, I'm finding the joystick thingy rather fiddly and I'm often mistakenly doing stuff I don't mean to but I think that's a practice thing rather than a problem with the phone itself.
All in all, I LOVE IT
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Advantages: Small and light, clear colour screen, value for money but still ground-breaking Disadvantages: Not many 'add-ons' available, WAP browser is slow
mattwood 01.01.2003 ·
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