My Siemens A60... A Bargain

Advantages: Value for money, colour screen, easy to use
Disadvantages: The cancel button

...I recently purchased my siemens A60 at the link. It was £60 on the orange network and included 5 texts free per day for a year. If you buy the text saver deal on other phones it costs £20 a year, so to get it free made the phone even more value for money. Setting up my phone was relatively easy, with easy to follow instructions in the booklet. I did try to set it up online on the orange site but had problems as it kept restarting. When I rang the orange company to activate it the operator asked me about 10 questions and told me what to do with my phone to activate it as well as text saver. His instructions were clear and concise and soon I had my phone in working order. My A60 is black (covers are not yet available in the UK), with a colour display of 101 x 80 pixel, which is actually fairly big for a mobile. It can be used...

lilkat 23.02.2004 · Read review
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Canon Power Shot A60 - a very user-friendly digital camera

Advantages: Ease of use, quality, versatility, robust construction, good instructions, good value
Disadvantages: Quite heavy on batteries

...I have owned this digital camera for two years now and it has been a real 'friend'. Absolutely no operating problems and very neat and convenient to carry around without being too small. I am a big guy with large hands and find the current obsession with smaller and smaller products quite frustrating, (hence I have a rather larger than average mobile and I will not buy anything with tiny keys). The Canon A60 is ideal for me as it has the feel of a good solid product and has just enough options on it - settings for a variety of lighting conditions and manual and automatic options. You can take a short video on it too. It is, of course, compatible with computers. It takes solid memory cards, for which I use a Packard Bell card reader with the computer. The only shortcoming of this camera is that it is fairly heavy on batteries (four...

Farlington2000 14.11.2009 · Read review
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Toshiba Satellite Pro A60

Advantages: Sturdy design Nice Blue colour Get a lot for your money
Disadvantages: Overheating/crashing problems experienced Memory upgrade was necessary Required a lot of tweaking to get 'right'

...The Toshiba Satellite Pro A60 laptop is ideal for entry level home users, and possibly students who have some time on their hands to sort stuff out. I wouldn't say it was suitable for the lower end of the business market, as Toshiba seem to be targeting with this product. I could be wrong however, maybe I was just unlucky! I have had mine for 8 months now, after previous satellite old faithful, which I had owned for about 7 years, gave up the ghost in the middle of a project, and I needed a cheap laptop quickly. I was impressed by the blue design which veers away from the boring black/grey you're used to seeing on the budget end notebooks. For the budget it was a toss up between this or a Dell, and in the end I decided to go for the Tosh which wasn't the bottom end of the scale like the Dell was for the same money. Due to...

scottergirdham 13.08.2007 · Read review
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Siemens A60 - My phone for 2 years...

Advantages: A well built, reliable, cheap phone with a reasonable set of features
Disadvantages: Quite an embarrassment to be seen with.

...I've had this phone for two years. It was my first phone, and apart from an old Nokia I use sometimes, it's my only phone. I'm obviously very happy with it. My parents bought me it as an entry level phone for about £50-£60.00 with Orange Pay as you go. Good points Sturdy phone. I've had it for two years and dropped it so many times. It's survived everything. It even survived a swim in the bath - it kept worryingly overheating for over a week afterwards, and I thought it would not last. It did though. Battery life remains excellent. Over 2 years since I got it, it's still on its original battery, and still holds a charge for about 3-4 days (with little use) or about 2 days of heavy use (I'm approximating!). Reception is great, the phone usually has full signal strength. On a trip to Wales where most other phones couldn...

Pendulum 28.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Eqium A60 Laptop

Advantages: * Fast and nippy,nice look and feel,good software package,excellent support from Toshiba!
Disadvantages: * The battery life is poor and the base of the laptop gets extremely hot!

...I enjoyed this phone as it works well and has lots of funcionality. My best phone yet! I have never used a phone which offered such a good price to features ration ever and I am glad thta I purchased this phone for the tiny price of £60, wh9ich in my mind was a complete bargain in reality to how much you could pay for a phone these days. In conclusion, an excellent phone with all of the features you would ever need, 1.3 megapixel camera, great TFT screen, excellent music and mp3 player, lous speakers, lots of cool 3d games to play on! If you want a cheap phone at a reasonable price, then go and get this phone, it will not let you down at all. Superb vaue phone!...

smithy06qpr 14.11.2007 (19.04.2008) · Read review
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Canon PowerShot A60

Advantages: Amount Of Features
Disadvantages: Shortage Of Batteries

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Murray123 14.04.2004 · Read review
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Stay Mobile

Advantages: Easy to use, colour screen, good battery life.
Disadvantages: freezes sometimes, prehistoric in relation to other phones, lack of up to date features

...to the phone itself. Features: If you like to own the most up to date technology, and you want a modern phone with camera and video features, then the Siemens A60 is not for you. However, if you want a cheap phone that does the job, i.e. you can make phone calls and send texts, then this phone could be a good choice for those on a limited budget. Polyphonic ring tones and vibration alert are impressive features; however, it does not possess a ring tone composer like some mobile phones. It features a clock, an alarm clock, and a calculator, and its large capacity is able to store 100 plus text messages in the inbox, and even more on top of that in the handy message archive. The phonebook is able to store 100 names and numbers, which I feel is sufficient for personal use, unless you are very popular! However, if this phone was to...

JulianRobertConnor 13.07.2005 · Read review
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A PHONE SHOULD BE A PHONE

Advantages: Just a basic phone
Disadvantages: None

...Does anyone remember when mobile phones were just phones and not games consoles, camera and video camera's, well I do as I still have one lol. Tis the Siemens A60 which I am going to tell you about now. I only just came into mobile technology a couple of months ago and didn't want a complicated phone as I was just wanting it for emergency purposes. So I went onto Ebay with and a friend advised me on this one so I put a bid in and got it for £15. When it arrived it was practically brand new and still had box and instruction manual etc. and was linked up to Virgin Mobile. Which by the way I find are great value and cheap. There was £5 credit with the phone which was enough to get me started I guess. The phone is black in colour, the phone has around 6 hours talktime and around 250 hours of standby which means you don't have to...

BigBadBaz 06.11.2005 · Read review
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Used to hate it... it grew on me.

Advantages: Good looking, has Wi-Fi, Infrared, DVD burner and... thats it really...
Disadvantages: Heavy, underperforms, short battery life, runs hot, speakers sound like pie dishes.

...have to consider what features consumers would like such as WiFi, Bluetooth, HD displays and indeed a good sound system. The majority of laptops are plagued with tinny speakers and this brings me nicely onto the Toshiba A60 Equium notebook computer. As you may have guessed, the speakers are tinny and the sound quality is just far from satisfactory - Booming speakers do not fit inside laptop housing. The Toshiba A60 usually runs pretty hot, depending on the applications running. After half an hour or harsh internet surfing or using processor heavy applications the CPU fan speeds up to produce a ghastly whirring noise. Toshiba provides software to allow you to control the cooling level and CPU level - or something - to help the user choose between higher performance or longer battery life, the latter of which gives a cooler running...

RhysJamesIT 27.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Equium A60-181

Tosh!

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Cheap feel, reception, ease of use, wait times

...I bought my A60 about 6 months ago to replace the EXELLENT Sagem phone that I had ironically dropped in orange juice. My Sagem was loud when I needed it to be, robust, had a great (B&W) screen with a natty analogue appearance clock dial. VERY useful for "@ a glance" timechecks & a great volume adjuster for its loudspeaker & I could get a signal from the inside of a nuclear fallout shelter. (Well - maybe I'm exaggerating a little there) By contrast, the A60 has a pathetic volume for both the "loud"speaker & the ringtones, is poorly constructed, as amply demonstrated by all the creaking that it makes in my hand & by the way that the screen cover is delaminating, plus the unit has a poor resolution colour screen. There are some infuriating wait times between screen changes & as for signal - well that's it's worst "feature". I have...

dellsaint 09.06.2004 · Read review
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