I recieved my Siemens C45 pay as you go mobile in October 2002 let me tell you all about it.

APPEARANCE
It is silver in colour and it fits snugly in the palm of my hand, the back pushes up quite easily to access the battery and sim card, it is extremely light weight. I love the size and weight of it as it easily fits in my pocket or handbag without taking up too much space.

MESSAGES
You can send text messages at a cost of 10p (o2) per message, the message can be 160 characters long, you can write messages the normal way or as I have found extremely useful you can also write them in T9 which means you press the number that has the letter on it and the phone sorts out the word you are looking for if it does not come up with the word you are looking for you just press the star button and that changes the word you keep pressing it until you have the word you want. This is probably the best bit about the phone as I am a text addict and send loads of texts as it is much cheaper than a phone call and it gets the message across just as good. You can store 10 messages between your inbox and your outbox and when the memory is full you will see a flashing envelope on the main screen. You can also send predefinrd text messages which are messages that are stored in the phone already such as "How are you" and "Please call" there are a total of 8 predefined messages to choose from. You can also send picture messages which are stored in the phone but as far as I know you can only send them to certain phones that are picture message compatible, these picture messages can also have a sound added but you can only send sound and picture messages to other Siemens C45 phones.

OTHER FEATURES
You can access the internet as this is a WAP enabled handset,I tend to access the internet quite frequently as you can go onto sites that give you free logo`s, screensavers and ringtones.
There are 3 games built into the phone, Battlemail which is a fighting game, Stack attack where you have to stack the boxes to get rid of them and Balloon shooter where you have to shoot all the balloons that float across the screen, these were very handy for times when I was bored but I dont use themmuch now as all of my spare time is given to Ciao now.
There are lots of other features like Alarm clock which you can choose the time and what days you want the alarm to go off,I use this for waking me up to get the kids to school on time. A diary for storing information such as meetings or appointments which can also have the alarm function so that you wont forget, there is a birthday section to store all the birthdays that also has the alarm function enabled so that you will never miss another birthday. You can set the date and time so that it shows on the main screen at all times.
There are 20 built in tones to choose from and another 4 empty ones for you to add your own favourites, but unfortunately you cant compose them on this phone you need to have them sent to you by sms. You can also get a screensaver which needs to be sent by sms.

CONCLUSION
This is a great little phone with lots of useful functions and at the time of purchase it was approximately £100 but as you all know the prices fall so it will most definately be a lot cheaper now.The battery only takes about 2 hours to be fully charged and it can last about 3 days on standby before needing charged again, I would recommend that the battery be left until it is nearly empty before fully charging it as this prolongs the life of the battery.