genie.co.uk

Or are they? Well it seems to be a personal matter of choice as to whether www.genie.co.uk promises you everything it's made out to be. But with its many varied services such as its free SMS text messages, interest zones, updated news stories along with your own personalised calendar and chat room who could disagree that Genie is one of the more reputable UK sites today? In general this site jam-packs almost everything a web page could offer you ...
...information aimed at all kinds of different interests and ages. Although this site is mainly aimed at WAP or Genie mobile users and is based hugely on advertising for Genie mobile services it also has a lot more to offer for the general user. This person may not necessarily use Genie services or own a WAP mobile phone like myself and would just like to use this site for there own personal use as a source of interest and information which this site ...

sienna501 23.07.2001 · Read full review
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...my trusted yahoo account. Genie.co.uk is not just about free SMS-there are WAP services and and a multitude of other chatrooms, competitions,the Genie shop and links to other offers. Ive never really used any of the other services which genie offer, but have had a quick browse in the Shop. You can buy a variety of pay monthly packages, and chose from a range of different phones. With all Genie packages and SIM cards, you get unlimited free texts ...
...that one evening, and ive never had any other problems with the site. Overall, if you have a mobile, and want to send loads of messages, genie.co.uk is your best bet-the messages are sent immediately, the messaging service is unlimited, and the site is quick and easy to navigate. ...

fairydust 17.04.2001 · Read full review
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...up for the service with genie.co.uk - edit your profile to stop receiving these emails". I was 100% sure that I hadn't giving them my details, but I decided to check my profile anyway - and yes, the boxes were still selected - Genie knew that I didn't want them to give out my details, and they knew that I didn't want them to contact me either, but they ignored that, and went ahead anyway. I was still getting these emails, and I noticed that if you ...
..."this is an automated reply from an unmanned inbox" then I had an idea. Now the email address in my profile is that very same unmanned email address - every single email that get sent out just goes to that address and then another message goes out and back to the same address saying it was an unmanned inbox - and this will carry on and build up with all the emails that they try to send to me - eventually it will crash their server, or just clog up ...

owenberg 18.12.2001 · Read full review
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Genie.co.uk is a very interesting website. It offers many services and offers access to lots of information. I signed up to genie as I got a free CD with a mobile phone I bought. I soon found there were many critical problems with the quality and consistency of the website. I will address these later; first I will briefly highlight the plus points of the site. ADVANTAGES Genie is suited for a wide range of Internet users. It regularly advertises ...
...website is very well presented making it relatively easy to find what you are looking for. Genie offers email accounts and also the sending of free text messages with an address book for mobile phone numbers (more on this later). Genie is modern and with the times, offering mobile phone updates on a number of popular categories (sport, music, news etc . . .). I may be wrong but I am sure there is also chat facilities within genie. The website is ...

Eddie45 01.08.2001 (24.06.2002) · Read full review
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Genie were one of the first websites (if not the first) to offer free sms messaging from the internet, and email to sms. They've fairly recently re-vamped the site and added some more services- which, in my opinion makes them one of the best sites on the net for intergrated messaging. The horrible username@sms.genie.co.uk address has been replaced with the one username@genie.co.uk address. This means you can get all your e-mail both as webmail, using ...
...to your mobile. Although thier sms messages do seem to float around in cyberspace for up to 15 minute before you get them (believe me, you used to be talking about hours- this is a big improvement), they do seem to be improving on this everyday. However, enough of me going on, here's a summary of their key services; -ALERTS I subscribe to their music alerts- these come very infrequently (10 one day to a whole week with none). When I do get them, ...

father_jack 10.07.2001 · Read full review
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Its fun its free- its pure Genie! Welcome to Genie! Genie is one of the most useful, but also the most frustrating, websites around. I have been a faithful Genie user for a couple of years now. My e-mail address is with them, I constantly use their WAP service on my mobile. I've even ordered a mobile phone from them in the past. So why did I choose Genie? Initially I was made aware of this website by a friend, as most recommendations these days ...
...before, it was about time I got up to date with the times, therefore Genie was my choice. Powered by BT Cellnet, and as a BT Cellnet customer I decided to give it a go. The first noticeable thing was the ease of registration. Very, very straightforward and easy to complete. Upon completing this an SMS message was sent to my mobile to confirm my registration and password. Very impressive so far. To back this up my first e-mail was sent to my account. ...

paulc20001 22.09.2001 · Read full review
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According to other users, genie.co.uk was apparently once a very poor site. Pages slow to load, messages slow to send, a sluggish design. I cannot fairly comment on any of these claims as I have used Genie only since its recent redesign which seems to have largely appeased its irate users. Looking at it from my perspective, though, it seems hard to believe this site could ever have had such problems. To sum up the site in three words like the poorest ...
...(two) centre (three). At least, that is what it markets itself as, and on the basis of "over one million subscribers" it seems to be succeeding. Its reputation as the first free online text messaging service has surely also had something to do with that. Although there are a whole new breed of Genie-u-likes cropping up on the net as SMS messaging booms, Genie still has that hold over the net-savvies who derive distinct pleasure from recounting how ...

ronniec 19.03.2001 · Read full review
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Genie.co.uk is a free text messaging service from british telecom. Not only do you get unlimited free text messaging, email, internet access and much more from them. From the title of my opinion you may have guessed that i dont really like them, but there are some good points to genie and i should tell you these to make it a fair opinion. The free text messaging service is very good with most of the messages that i send on it getting recieved. You ...
...the message. My tip for you is to not sign up to genie.co.uk unless you are going to buy a mobile from them unless they will never give up with phoning you until you do. If you just want a good text messaging service give mtnsms.com a try. ...

leggb 13.07.2001 · Read full review
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This is a rather frustrating and irritating service due to all the problems at occur on it. The initial purpose of Genie, methinks, was to act as a PC-SMS messenger service, like Breathe and Lycos, the ability to send text messages from your PC to someone’s phone for free. It uses your mobile number so if the other user replies it will go bck to your phone. However, the main problem has been its sickening unreliability. You never know when ...
...its instant, less than a second after you click “Submit” it appears on the other person’s phone. However, at other times it doesn’t. I txt my friend to say his idol, Chris Lambert will be on So Graham Norton in 5 mins. The message arrives two days later, Sunday morning. There are many cases of this my friends have had. A daft delay like that defies the point of “instant” messaging. A way to combat this is to send ...

TheBlueComet 05.05.2001 · Read full review
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Not so bad! I ordered a Genie sim card off peak 50 from their website to take advantage of their 50 off peak calls free each day and their free unlimited text messages!! I ordered it back at the end of February and there was a problem with the delivery "It got stuck in their service" and didn't receive my order for another 2 weeks. The network BT Genie, which runs on the same network as BT Cellnet, has been very reliable I have never lost a signal ...
...Free text messages?? I have not had my phone bill in yet but I have had 3 friends that have the same sim card as me and they have to pay an SMS (MO) CHARGE, what's this for I thought it was free, mind you it is not that much about a couple of quid or so but they advertise it as free. The good thing about the service is that you can check your usage via usage report on My Genie mobile at any time during the month and at end of the month you get your ...

rs2k 20.03.2001 · Read full review
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...as many of you know, genie.co.uk is no more! it is now officially O2.co.uk but the good thing is that previous members can go on using the site as normal! Or you can choose to register with 02. There are no conditions for signing up so you don't need to be using O2's mobile network which is really good. When you sign up you get the following benefits: (1)600 FREE Text messages a month to ANY UK mobile on ANY netowrk. (2)Text alerts for jokes, ...
...(3)A free internet e-mail address E.g. your.name@O2.co.uk (4)Use of a range of WAP and Mobile services from the site. For people on contract on the O2 network (formerly Genie and BT Cellnet), there is a nifty little facility whereby you can check your phone bill online. Just enter your mobile phone number and away you go! I personally use it for the 600 text messages I can send per month absolutely free! The service is pretty fast and messages ...

Fiz_whiz 19.06.2002 (21.06.2002) · Read full review
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The last gleams of the day were dissipated already in the silver plated sky of Newcastle. Like each evening, therefore, I gave up without regret my books and my courses to join, the moment of a few minutes, the fascinating world of the Internet, hoping to find with the liking of my night adventures some good sites to put itself under the tooth. For a few weeks already, my eyes had been often attracted by a colored banner of green and white, ...
...a site to the name seducer: Genie! Not very inclined with clicking on advertising banners (there is enough on our national channels), I went my path, without denying that I like the provocative character of this site and itsimpetuous tone. Because the Internet makes the things well, always during this same evening, my various cyber-stroll lead me on Ciao.fr (the same web site, but in French, of course!), and once again, my eyes are attracted ...

ravanelli34 24.05.2001 · Read full review
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Why would anyone want to pay 10p (or 12p once you've added tax!) to send a message when you can do it for free on this brillant site?! You only have to register once and its free, afetr this all you have to do is log in to the site everytime you want to send a message and its FREE!! This site used to be quite poor, slow to load and messages took hours if not days to arrive - not now. It is a very fast site, allowing the screens to appear very quickly. ...
...excellent range of services available once you've logged in. It has a large range of information available on the site: - weather reports - sport - travel - tv pages for the whole country - e-mail service which is very effective and allows you to set it so that it lets you know when you have new mail (through a text message). I recommend this serice (its definetly better than hotmail!). - links to other useful sites, such as amazon.co.uk - competitons ...

emmahancock99 09.05.2001 · Read full review
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Genie's Text Messaging Service delivers messages typed on your computer keyboard to any UK digital mobile phone. You can also personalise your own calendar or choose from a variety of information sources and have timely alerts delivered to your mobile phone keeping you in touch with family, entertainment and news events. And if you use your Genie email address you can receive email messages at any time in any place over your mobile phone. Once you've ...
...start to send free text messages to people from the web site. You can set up an address book of friends and families mobile phone numbers to save you having to type them in every time you want to send them a message. You are allowed to type up to 140 characters into the message box and there is no limit to the amount of messages you can send unlike some of the other online SMS web sites. I've used the service quite a lot now and the messages i've ...

webreaper 21.03.2001 · Read full review
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I have to say, Genie is one of the best mobile phone networks around! About two months ago, I bought the Nokia 3310 on the Off-peak tariff, through their website. Since then, nearly all my friends have been jealous of my unlimited free text messages, and the 50 free off-peak minutes are great for late night conversations! Not only do they also provide excellent coverage (I hardly ever get less than full signal!) their range of phones, although small, ...
...is anyone else out there who is sick of running out of credit when you need to send that last text message, I recommend Genie. It's only £20 a month, and the phone is free, and if you're anything like me, you would spend £20 on phone vouchers in one or two weeks anyway! Go for it! ...

pyrosim2001 29.03.2001 · Read full review
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