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4 Dec 23rd, 2003 

10 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Lightweight, cheap

Disadvantages:
Dated, lacking modern features

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

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ludhelm

ludhelm

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Member since:24.06.2003

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Working for a branch of Siemens, I get to play with all the different phones, including some that are never released in Britain. The C55 along with the SL55 (the review for which can be found here - http://www.ciao.co.uk/Siemens_SL55__Review_5368709) are the phones that I mainly use, and for good reasons.

The C55, is a fully functional little phone, with many of the more advanced features such as polyphonic ringtones and GPRS WAP, all for a small price, looking at a few sites on the web, I've noticed you can get one of these beauties for as little as £60.

The phone comes with two reasonably good games (Galaxy Hero and Prince of Persia) and it is possible to download more through Java technology.

It also comes with 30 polyphonic ringtones (although for some reason 5 of these are of the noises that different animals make - just incase you ever wanted to be notified of a call by the sound of a duck quacking!?!), and even has an inbuilt sound recorder, that can be used to create ringtones, say of a song from the radio.

It has all the standard organiser functions, such as calender and alarm clock, a calculator and currency convertor, aloing with an advanced voice command, where not only can you use voice commands to dial people from your phone book, but you can also use it to open text messages, change profiles etc.

The only gripe I have with this little phone is that use of the soft keys keep changing, for example, on one function the right softkey is select, but then is on the left in other functions.

In conclusion, this is a great little phone if your are looking for something a little more advanced than the ordinary phone, but if you want
all the mod cons, such as a colour screen (although it does have a funky blue glow) and camera, you had better look elsewhere
 

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Comments about this review »

confusion 24.12.2003 14:50

Good review - not too techy!

Pictoria 23.12.2003 21:06

Sounds a nice phone to have.. Is this one available on Pay as You Go option? Lynn-Marie

herby30 23.12.2003 20:47

I would like to have heard a little more about it, if you edit please leave a note in my guestbook, take care Heather:)

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