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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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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Review of Toshiba Equium A60-155

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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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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Review of Toshiba Satellite Pro A60

Certainly not Lap-Tosh

Advantages: Light, Good brand, Cheap
Disadvantages: Dire battery life, Overheating

...~~~~ Overview ~~~~ This Toshiba Equium A60 Laptop is actually my girlfriends, but as she does with mine, I often use it to check my e-mails and up to a few months ago do my university work on it (finished now!!). The Laptop is around 2 years old now but still runs perfectly. The specification as you might expect is not the most impressive, but for a middle aged laptop it?s not bad at all (see full spec below). ~~~~ Pros ~~~~ The Laptop is light and of a reasonable size, making it very portable and ideal for on the move working. It will comfortably fit into any standard laptop case/bag with plenty of room to spare for cables, mouse etc. Toshiba is a leading brand in the computer industry, especially with Laptop and portable computers, with many of their systems such as hard drives and CD/DVD Rom drivers used in other branded...

kirkby100 23.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Equium A60-191

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 Siemens A60

Does the job, not truly portable

Advantages: screen size, optical drive, TV out
Disadvantages: battery life, over heating tendency

...I have no problems with my Equium A60, which is almost two years old now, but the short battery life, about 1.5 hrs maximum, means it isn't really useful as a laptop for long periods. If used on your lap, it also has a tendency to over heat, which shuts it down without warning and was quite scary the first time. I don't know how common a problem this is with modern laptops, though, and a tray or other hard surface eliminates that problem. This model doesn't come with built in Wi-fi, which is, for me, not that big a deal since it does come with PCMCIA slot and 3 x USB2, so could have wi-fi fairly simply. Does have a Matshita DVD multi drive (CD, DVD +/- RW / DVD-RAM) which works quite well but is a bit fussy about brands of media, and comes with sonic record now installed, though it requires an upgrade to burn to DVD...

bsquiggle 16.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Equium A60-199

A nice little bargain !

Advantages: Easily picked up cheaply
Disadvantages: Can suffer from overheating

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donley 14.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Equium A60-155

Toshiba Equium pentium Laptop

Advantages: Great laptop for the price comes with all the mod cons you will need
Disadvantages: Comes with a 15.4'' screen,

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chrislemarinel 17.07.2008 · Read review
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