Sagem My X-5 Mobile Handset

...illusions on my feelings about Sagem – I’m less than impressed. Its nothing personal – I feel the same way about Marmite. Sagem make a wide variety of technological products – most telecommunications based, but the two things I’ve encountered bearing the Sagem logo – a mobile phone and some French traffic lights, both functioned with the same level of woeful inadequacy as to make me doubt the efficiency of Sagem. A couple of years ago I bought a ...
...tempt me to buy a Sagem mobile again. Last year however, I won a Sagem myX 5 in a bonus incentive at work. I can’t say I was exactly over the moon about this, in fact I never even took it out of the box, but I just never got round to selling it or giving it away either. Then, a few weeks ago, my regular mobile was in for repair, so I got the Sagem out to use as a backup. I wasn’t expecting much, but in the few years that have passed since my encounters ...

lwperkins 14.04.2003 · Read full review
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...mobileshop.com I plumped for the Sagem MyX5. Now in the past I think Sagem have been guilty of producing some real Lego phones, you know, tiny screens, basic features and a clunky feel in general. That’s just what I’ve heard, I have not actually experienced one, so don’t knock me please! Other phones I was considering were the 8310, the Philips 820e, the Nokia 7210 and the Panasonic GD87 (final two here too expensive as they are brand new this month ...
...For better or worse the Sagem myX5 is one of the new breed that is capable of playing real sounds to alert you of a text or call. On the Sagem here, basically anything that is a WAV, Midi or I melody format sound can be uploaded for use as a tone, and up to 70 can be stored. Alas, there’s no scope for composing your own as such, though with the right software I’m sure you could develop your own tones. You can of course download straight to your phone ...

alflavor 24.11.2002 · Read full review
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...can download games from the Sagem website. Ringtones arent so special in my opinion, there are alot of animal sounds such as cow, cat, dog and frog a few classical numbers and a few more strange sounds such as big ben chiming and a cockrel crowing however once again you can download more ringtones from internet sites. There are a few accesories also. A calcultor, convertor, alarm, timer, car kit and data collector for speed etc. The phone itself ...
...to retrieve text messages or phone certain people without having to use the main menu. The reception is very good and doesnt break up as far as im aware. Living in a city centre i think the sound quality is excellent too. The phone itself is also very small, neat and compact looking, it is very stylish and curvy, not too square or round looking, a good balance between the two. The battery talktime isnt very long however, that is a major fault if ...

johancav 31.08.2002 · Read full review
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...model dubbed the “my X-5D,” Sagem seems to have stepped in the right direction (in my book at least) because the phone sports a decent design and does well to prove that colour screens are here to stay. Yes, the phone comes with a pretty smooth 256-colour screen, which sports a resolution of 101 x 80 pixels and can display up to eight lines of text (just like the Sony Ericsson T68i). The Sagem my X-5D closely resembles the dimensions of a Nokia 8000 ...
...operator, you can use the Sagem as a modem via a standard GSM or a speedier GPRS connection. Strangely though, the phone does not ship with the Sagem My Pictures and Sounds application, which allows users to transfer image and sound files from your PC to the my X-5D. You can download this software for free at www.sagem.com. Built for fun Apart from the drawbacks stated earlier in this review, the phone performed like a charm and it was pleasantly ...

ani_muza 13.01.2003 (08.05.2003) · Read full review
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...a key ring! The Sagem is in a similar mould to the Nokia range. It's certainly ideal for those who have a habit of finding some unique way of destroying the antennae. Perhaps that's why Nokias have been so popular - no ariel to destroy. It looks like a typical Nokia in almost every respect and perhaps that's Sagem's first stroke of genius. Secondly, the screen is colour. It does not have the range of colours of some of the more expensive models ...
...text but after using the Sagem for the past month I've finally figured it out and my mind has since been changed. However, it can be awkward at times - particularly if you're using typical texting shorthand. It can actually be quicker to enter the entire word. Entering numbers is another awkward area, especially if it contains more than one digit. After entering each digit, you have to manually move the cursor right to force the phone out of predictive ...

Tickled_Pink 25.01.2003 (28.01.2003) · Read full review
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...until I stumbled across the Sagem MY-X5 anyway! It looked nice (in my opinion!), it had a colour screen and it was under £100. Woohoo! Finally, I’d found one! So, it was off to good old Google to do some background checks on the finer details of the phone (best ones found here à http://www.cellular.co.za/phones/sagem/2002/sagem_myx5_gprs.htm) = = = Why did I want a new mobile? = = = Well you know those first batch of mobile phones when they first ...
...= = Why choose a Sagem MYX5? = = = Well as previously mentioned, I was on a budget to buy a phone for under £100. Yet I still wanted snazzy features, e.g. colour screen. So, to conclude, I wanted a light phone, no aerial, good looking, possibility to change the front and back covers, decent ring tones, a game or two for extra boring train journeys up and down the country and a colour screen. All for under £100. The Sagem MYX5 fitted all of the ...

Sarah_Louise 09.09.2003 · Read full review
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...I may not buy a Sagem phone ever again but that doesn't mean the phone was bad. You see... Sagem at the time of the My X-5's initial release slated this phone as heavily personalisable with it's wallpapers and sounds. They even demonstrated In-fusio games functionality with it. And we were lured into their trap. You see, Sagem's Myx-5 cannot fulfil many (if any) of these promises, the In-fusio gaming being ommitted (criminally) and ringtone personalisation ...
...looking, "bread and butter" phone. Sagem does away with all the new techno crap and gives you what phones should need...In Colour. The Phonebook is easy to use and has room for hundreds of numbers, not that you'll ever need 400 odd entries. Texting is the standard affair, no nonsense texting, but if you are a T9 user (And why not, it's that much quicker to text) you'll scowl at your handset and maybe chuck it out the window if you're a psychopath ...

JSung 29.07.2004 · Read full review
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...Infact if it didn't have sagem written on it you would be forgiven for mistaking it as a nokia!. The Ringtones on the sagem are definately the phones major plus point. The ringtones are actually sampled sounds & they are suprisingly loud. Providing you have a PC you can take any sound file which is a midi or a wave file (or mp3 and countless others if you convert them) and use it in the phone as a ringtone. This is a much better than phones which ...
...about this phone is that sagem have used PC industry standard formats such as JPG, BMP, WAV, MID & GIF so virtually and picture or sound on your PC can be used in your phone!. The Phone supports GPRS, which is a faster internet connection on your mobile however there is currentlu no MMS support (aka full Picture Messaging) but sagem are working on this at present and are launching updates to upgrade existing MY-X5 models for free. These updates ...

RPalmer83 29.04.2003 · Read full review
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Advantages: The Motorola V980 is a good all-round phone with a number of interesting and handy features. The key display is clear and the buttons are sensibly sized which makes texting easier. It has polyphonic capabilities allowing you to download your favorite songs and assign them as you ring tones as well as store them and play them back through headphones or through the speaker function. The speaker function is also good when on calls, I have ...
...work very well and you constantly have to repeat what you said speaking louder where as the V980 seems to have solved that problem and I can happily sit it on my desk and talk to friends whilst using my computer or driving. The camera / video is also very good quality, there are better quality cameras (More pixels) out there but for casual use the picture and video quality is more than adequate. Disadvantages: The main disadvantages of this phone ...

Trillidan 06.07.2005 · Read full review
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...your Phone, from pictures on Sagem websites, to pictures of your car, wife, parrot, or favourite tipple. There are some wallpapers included however, more than enough to keep you amused for a couple of weeks. Screensavers are essentially the same as Wallpapers, but some of them move, and waste battery power. Also, when the phone light shuts down (when the keypad locks) you cannot see the screensaver, so it seems a pointless gimmick. Sounds - plenty ...
...for Vibrate mode (it will ring and vibrate at the same time), keypad beeps, and of course ringtones. These are Polyphonic HiFi ringtones, which are headturningly cheesy, and include some favourites like La Bamba, Cat, Dog and Carmen. I have however downloaded many more (the number you can hold depends on the length of each) and I have loads of memory left. I currently use 'The Muppets' as my ringtone. The ones found on the net are recordings from ...

ferrismrk 27.06.2003 · Read full review
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I've been using the myx-5 for about a year now and have been quite disappointed. I had previously used a Nokia handset, and the change made me realise just how important a decent user interface is. I chose this handset mainly because it was the cheapest model with a colour screen, but my experience with it has made me regret prioritising this over usability. Some of the most irritating design faults in my experience are : Hitting the button next ...
...returns you to the main phone screen and the message you were composing is lost completely. After sending a text message, the compose window is cleared, so that in order to send the same message to more than one person you must go through a tedious procedure of saving the message as a draft and then sending that draft to individual numbers. While you must hold down a button for a few seconds to turn the phone off, turning it on requires a single ...

cjerrells 17.08.2003 · Read full review
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I had a sagem 920 a few years ago and it was pap. A few of my friends and family had it as well and all they're ones broke as well so I decided to bin mine and buy a Nokia which I still mantain are the best phones around. I have had a total of 8 phones in my sort life span(14). And my Nokia 8310 has to have been the best of all time. I've had so many phones because I tend to gat bored with my phone every 3 months or I break it. I even destroyed my ...
...had my doubts about the Sagem myx-5 when I got one as a leaving present but I'm always willing to try something new. So I had fun setting up my new Sagem with it's very self explanitary menu's. I didn't need to read the instructions because it's very easy to navigate and has a decent laid out keypad unlike it's former counterparts. And as I started to text my friends my new number I was surprised to learn that you didn't have to keep your finger ...

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...go out and buy a Sagem MY-X5, looking at it i thought “0o0o0oo0o0 colour phone” but as i got home, plugged it in, waited 16 hours to charge i was a little dissappointed by what i had bought. The Sagem MY-X5 is packed full of features: - High-resolution 256 colour graphic display (101x80 pixels for a maximum of 8 lines) - Wap 1.2 browser - Enhanced Messaging (EMS: SMS with pictures and sound) - MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service - GPRS 4+1 or ...
...suba-diver or coyote (the new sagem mascott) with a 256 colour display, a laptop and the inbuilt infrared again you can have almost endless possibilities for backgrounds and screensavers. As with most phones the receiving, sending of both calls and text messages are pretty standard but one feature this phone does boast which i like is the speaker phone which allows you to sit back relax and talk through your phone without having to touch it, kind ...

Hellzone 27.11.2003 · Read full review
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I would have to say this is one of the best phones i have ever owned. size, shape and weight of the handset made the choice for me, and with it also having polyphonic ringtones, i thought this is the phone for me. After using the handset on T-Mobile (UK) for a couple of months, i have found that i'm having problems finding any accessories for the phone, mainly compatible ringtones and screensavers. Only because of a purchase of a datacable from ...
...my phone. One reason i can think of about this problem, is that this phone is not a widely excepted phone, not mainly network operators actually have this phone on their network. One other small problem about the phone is that in the manual it states that you can download games to the phone, and when i looked, it doesn't have that feature. If you dont have an MY-X5d, you cant download games. Battery life in this phone, is superb, i'm only having ...

r80sb 28.06.2003 · Read full review
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...you log on to the Sagem site you will hear one of the ringtones which is one of the best I have ever heard you can also download other ringtones, wallpaper and screensavers by buying a data cable which you can acquire from http://www.solware.co.uk for around £10 with free postage and packaging, you will also need 'Sagem my pictures and sounds v4.06 beta software' which you can download from the Sagem site. There is a few ringtone sites for the Myx-5 ...
...the only problem is some of the ringtones on the site have dead links and sometimes you can have problems downloading them but that happens with other ringtone sites as well. The phone itself is great , I have never had any problems with it and the colour screen is excellent. The only snag is when you put the screensaver on it goes on after about 60 seconds but by that time the back light is out so you can hardly see it apart from that it is well ...

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