I originally bought this phone because all of my friends had the latest nokia and it was beginning to get tiresome wondering which phone was mine down the pub. When I say bought, I should really say chose it as part of my monthly contract package, so I'm afraid I can't make any comments on price.
The Siemens C45 comes with two different fascias, silver and blue. The silver looks cool for about two weeks but easily becomes scratched so take care not to keep it in a pocket with your car keys! After that I switched to the Blue cover, which is wearing well and looks neat.
The size of the phone is compact and lightweight so it can fit into very small pockets and won't stretch your jacket out of shape, but I have often had a quick panic after being unable to feel it about my person (normally after a couple of drinks I must admit!). It's size can make the buttons rather fiddly, infact my girlfriend at the time returned her Siemens C45 (much to my relief as they looked identical) as she said she couldn't operate the buttons. I've got rather stubby fingers myself though, and I've learnt to cope quickly enough, so I wouldn't let that put you off, but again, sobriety will help with using the controls.
The MP3 player is superb, coming with a 32mb memory card which can fit around 70 minutes worth of music without too much distortion. The mp3 player doubles up as the handsfree kit and it's quite nice having two ear pieces for conversations in noisy places. The only drawback for the MP3 player is that it really drains the battery time, so be aware that if you want to actually use your phone it will make sense to take a personal stereo along with you. But it's nice to have music available for emergencies, such as when it's suddenly announced that the train is going to be another 30 minutes late!
The C45 has WAP capability, but this is of limited use, but it is WAP generally that fails to impress me, the phone handles the connection fine, except under tunnels, which is only to be expected.
For a seasoned nokia user like me, the main drawback is the rather poor games on the phone, again useful for those (un)expected delays. Siemen's don't have any rights to snake but provide the annoying 'Balloon Shooter', the strangely addictive 'Stack Attack' and BattleMail, which is great fun in practice mode but allows battles with a friend across the mobile network (providing you can actually find someone else who has a Siemens C45!).
My battery talktime has diminished rather drastically in the space of a year which hasn't happened to me on previous phones, but this may well be par for the course.
All in all, the Siemens C45 is a nice package phone, great MP3 player, some reasonable games, a small diary, facility to make short notes and WAP facility. It can also store 20 text messages, compared to the Nokia's 10, so if you tend to be sentimental over the occasional message but still want to retain functionality then this may be the pro that swings it for you!
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Advantages: Siemens, Small, No ariel, WAP, Battery life, Customizable, easy to use menu Disadvantages: Does not have GPRS but is not in the price range
matty4donna 15.06.2002 (23.07.2002)
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Advantages: Sturdy and Robust - I have dropped it multiple times and it has stayed intact Disadvantages: Controls are very confusing - the buttons mean different things at each menu
bee-ell 16.02.2004 (16.02.2004)
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