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 Siemens A60

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

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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Review of Siemens A60

What time did I send this?

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Basic functionality

...listed as unread. So they're not signalled on the main screen and you have to spot them in the message list. This has happened a couple of times and I haven't always spotted the other messages straightaway. Not good. I have dropped it on the floor once (what I do for the sake of reviews!, just kidding) and although the back fell off it hasn't affected it. So it's fairly robust. It cost my boyfriend about £35 and he also got a £5 phone credit by buying it from the Virgin Mobile website. The phone came with a charger (also small & light) and an ear piece and it's possible to buy accessories like a USB charger. So, it's cheap and cheerful. It has a nice colour display and is simple to use but it's missing a few useful things like showing times of calls made and messages sent and there is this bug with unread messages. But if you can live...

filmlover 03.01.2006 · 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

a great buy

Advantages: small, smart, ease of use, colour screen, wap
Disadvantages: none

...at just £80 this is the best phone I have ever had and has converted me to siemens for life. I previously used Nokia's because of their popular features and designs however this phone is equally packed full of great features and looks great. This compact phone is the perfect size to place in your pocket or handbag. It has a very clear colour picture screen which displays all the information you might need at first glance. In the top left hand corner is the reception guage, in top centre is the internet option set and in the top right corner is the battery symbol. On the bottom left hand side is the date with a hot key symbol underneath which can be set to any feature you wish (mine is set to "write a new message") and in the right corner is the time and menu symbol. The two buttons either side of the central top button select...

smbeeson 01.09.2004 · Read review
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The Energizer Battery Charger

Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: Takes a long time to charge batteries

...I had been intending to purchase a battery charger for quite a while. In fact I had even dropped hints to certain family members around Christmas time, but to no avail. I was recently reminded of this missing piece of equipment in my life when I rediscovered the PC lead to my digital camera. Remembering that a pair of standard batteries lasted for only about 30 photos in this camera I decided that it was certainly time to invest in a battery charger and some rechargeable batteries. I purchased an Energizer CHDCW8 ? 4 battery charger from Argos for just £9.99. This decision was based on several factors, the most important of which was the price and what I considered to be the best value for money. The design also played a part in my decision process, but in the end it was the price/value that were the strongest influencing factors...

micksheff 31.05.2007 · Read review
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Tosh!

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

...chatted with other Siemens owners, who, interestingly, have the same complaint, regardless of signal provider. What I need (& you can call me old fashioned here) is a cheap pay-as-you-go phone that makes phone calls & is easy + fast to use. Cheap it may be, but the A60 was no cheaper than my old Sagem & does the job a sight poorer. Oh yes - some of the buttons are not very positive either. I will return to Sagem when I next find an unguarded glass of juice..........

dellsaint 09.06.2004 · Read review
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