Savvy Style

Advantages: Very high spec, good looks, low tax and insurance, air-con standard
Disadvantages: The name, service intervals

...I've had my Proton Savvy for 3 months now and have completed 3,000 miles in it. Before buying it I looked at the competition - Ford Ka, Kia Picanto, Skoda Fabia and Renault Clio but decided on the Savvy for it's spec for money. The car cost me £6995 plus £300 for Metallic 'Steal Grey' and £125 for a boot spoiler, and for that I got alloys, air-con, ABS, power steering, fogs, CD player, remote locking with alarm and electric front windows all included in the price. The warranty was pretty good too - 60,000 miles or 3 years. One thing that annoys me a little - the Savvy is based around the Renault Clio - it has a 1.2 Clio engine and gearbox (apparently Proton couldn't fit their "Campro" engine in this one, and to be honest I don't think they've made a mistake). However, the service intervals are once a year or every 9,000 miles...

jacobsdad1979 24.03.2006 (13.05.2006) · Read review
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An Offer From a Gentleman

Advantages: Great characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of anything

...An Offer from a Gentleman is the third book in Julia Quinn's historical romance series The Bridgertons. The series is set in the early 1800s and is about the eight Bridgerton siblings. Each books focuses on a different sibling and their love story. This book focuses on Benedict, the second oldest Bridgerton sibling and Sophie Beckett, the illegitimate daughter of an earl. The plot to this book is not an original one, it's basically Cinderella re-written. After Sophie's father dies her stepmother begrudgingly keeps Sophie in her household in order to have the extra money that her late husband promised if she looked after his daughter. Sophie's step-mother hates her and uses her as an unpaid servant. When Sophie is twenty the other servants help her sneak out to a masquerade ball that's being hosted by the Bridgerton family. It is...

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Sensible Savvy

Advantages: Cheap. Good handy size. Not bad features.
Disadvantages: none

...I got this little Philips Savvy for my daughter about four months ago. She’d been pestering the life out of me for ages, and for the sake of peace and quiet, I eventually gave in. My niece got a special offer through her Student’s Union at University, which meant the phone only cost us £29, including a call card for £20 worth of free calls. I opted for the pre-paid method of payment, as otherwise we would have ended up with huge bills. With the pre-paid, she pays for the cards herself, which makes her that bit more cautious in her usage. We had great fun working out all the settings together. The first thing we did was to look at the different tones you can set for your ring tone and your number dialling tone. The range of tunes for the ring tone is fairly good, with a choice of about 20 tones, but she was...

flooda 18.02.2001 · Read review
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Street Savvy

Advantages: Small and easy to use
Disadvantages: Fiddly keys and small screen

...of the year to hunt for phones, as every man and his dog seemed to have got there first. The cheapest phones on any pay as you go scheme cost around £40 and they were all gone! I eventually found the last cheap display model in town in “mobile phones direct” I chose myself a Phillips Savvy phone with a nice blue cover with £5 off for shop soiling of course. Is it a good phone? Well I’ve been using it for a week and I’ve had no problems with it, it’s light (143 grams) it’s small enough (129 x 48 x 24 mm) to fit into the phone pocket on my coat (otherwise I’d be carrying pens around in it). I know it’s aimed at teenager but it was cheap!! It runs off a power cell which has 130 - 250 hours and call time of 2-4 hours, the power cell can be swapped for normal batteries, 4xAAA’s. I did...

DiazX 24.01.2001 (24.10.2001) · Read review
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Meagre Offerings...?

Advantages: Goes along at a cracking pace with excellent side characters
Disadvantages: Involnurability and losing it's detective inclination

..., and the most powerful vampire locally, is wetting his pants, you would think our heroine would struggle more to make her point (no pun intended...). It was always acknowledged that she was magically powerful, being able to raise many zombies in one night, but now it seems to be bordering on the ludicrous, particularly tapping into skills that by rights, she really shouldn't have, whilst noting that she hasn't got a clue as to how she's doing it... You and the reader both love! And for her to be politically savvy and powerful enough to outmaneuvere the council, all within what seems one meeting seems a little far fetched. They're meant to be centuries old for goodness sake! Anyway, contrary to the tone that my review has taken so far, I did enjoy the book. I thought it a shame that Anita as a necromancer did not raise a single zombie...

Sa1sysoo 29.03.2007 · Read review
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Savvy not for me

Advantages: see text
Disadvantages: see text

...I bought this phone a couple of months ago, in the misguided belief that it was better than my trusty Nokia 5146, which I have had over 2 years. So money in hand I dived into Dixons, not a sensible choice from what I have read, but anyway I handed over the princely sum of £29.99 and walked away with my new Philips Savvy on the orange pay as you go tariff. Once home I ripped open the box to see a levely metallic blue phone, about 5 inches in length and just short of 2 inches wide. The ariel is fixed and protrudes about 1 inch above the phone. The keypad has the usual numbers/text buttons and hash and star key. There are also 5 other buttons, a menu button, 'c' button, green button with a telephone on it, a red button and the navigation key. The buttons are similar in size to the Nokia 5110, one of the reasons I bought the phone, as...

LICARUS 20.03.2001 · Read review
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I'll give you an Offer You can't Refuse with this book!

Advantages: Great read with good characters! :)
Disadvantages: None for me.

... Jill Mansell: An Offer you Can?t refuse Introduction I bought this book a while back from the book club which I use. I started reading Jill Mansell books a while ago when I read two of her books, Millie?s Fling and Miranda?s Big Mistake, both of which I fell in love with, and although not the type of books I ?couldn?t put down?, they were great reads and lasted me a good week or so to finish, meaning I wasn?t sitting up until 4am trying to finish the books! So when I saw she had many other books, I decided to buy her two newest: An offer you can?t refuse and Rumour Has it, this book was the first one I have read of the two, and the other is still sitting on the book shelf waiting to be read. I read the book over the last week, and quite enjoyed it, though not my favourite book I have ever read, it was...

stephbond89 30.11.2009 · Read review
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Simply savvy.

Advantages: light and cheap
Disadvantages: biocalender

...), and of course silent. Now we come to my most and least favourite functions on the phone; the vibrate ring alert and the biocalender 'game'. An alternative to the traditional ringer is the vibrate function, which is perfect for discreet occasions such as the cinema, but is probably used by people who secretly get a kick from the phone vibrating against your leg, like me. Next, the biocalender. This utterly useless function is described as a 'horoscope game', but is just a pathetic excuse to say they have more functions on their phone. the idea behind the 'game' is that you enter your birthdate and today's date, and it predicts your chance, love, energy and success ratings for that day. I used it about 3 times when I first got the phone, I doubt I will again. Well, there you go, the philips savvy. If you want a cheap, light...

veryhairymonkey 03.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Philips Savvy C12

Sexxy Savvy

Advantages: Small, cheap
Disadvantages: Small screen

...For my birthday, my parents bought me a Savvy on the Orange 'Pay as you go' scheme. I thought to myself, where's my Nokia??? But after a month, I am beginning to change my mind. Use-The Savvy is very easy to use, once you get used to it. The navigation is simple, phoning people is easy, and texting is quite fun to do. Unfortunately, teh keys are rather small, so all you fat fingered people out there, choose a different phone. Also the Savvy is quite small. It fits nicely into someone's jean pockets, but the aereal does tend to stick into you. But, the aereal is there to improve connection, and it does. Extras-On the phone, you will find no games, a stopwatch, a clock, alarm and few other bits. These can all be quite useful. Also, if you choose to ,you can set your own pin for the phone, and a pin2. The pin2 can be...

danmania 25.02.2001 · Read review
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Philips Savvy cheap and Cheerful or Nasty

Advantages: cheap, clock, calculator
Disadvantages: difficult to use menu's, difficult to erase text messages

...I recently bought an Orange Philips Savvy mobile phone to replace my aging Motorolla MR30 which was begining to have battery problems - not recharging properly and also switching off at random. I bougt it for £29.99 (as a Pay As You Go Phone) and replaced the sim-card with the one from my MR30, although I had to cut the centre of the sim-card out as the MR30 uses a full-size sim-card and the Philips Savvy uses a small size. Although the Savvy has a number of good points it definately shows its budget price. The menu is more dificult to go through, and when displaying text messages only a few words are visible at a time, also to delete text messages then the whole message has to be read before deleting - this can be time consuming. (In the MR30, deleting can be obtained by pressing the o.k. button then delete). Only 90 numbers can be...

gander 19.02.2001 · Read review
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