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22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I NEVER write reviews, but...., 12 Feb 2006
I recieved this phone for free as part of Vodafone's student contract deals last year during the start of the major push towards Vodafone's 3G 'Live' services. I thought it looked quite smart and stylish and had a 1.3 Megapixel camera, nice big colour screen and all that jazz...and as there was an extremely limited choice of phones I opted for this one. Now, being a student I have several main priorities for my moby. 1) Quick texting 2) Clear phone calls [and audible in bars/clubs!] 3) OK camera/video recording for capturing those 'special' (and by that I obviously mean 'drunken') moments 4) Must look OK and take the occasional beating/dropping. My phone however barely accomplishes any of the above. Text messaging is horrible! Predictive texting becomes extremely annoying after a while. I'm used to having a 1-key shortcut to take me to a blank text from the main menu. No, not on this phone, you constantly need to choose between MMS and SMS, and why MMS is first in the menu is beyond me! The dictionary has lots of words missing, and for some reason words such as I'll have started becoming H'll. Very annoying. When you add a word it also insists on the added word starting with an upper case letter. The list is endless... Phone calls also seem to be exremely quiet unless you get your ear in exactly the right position. The internet browser button always seems to get accidentally pressed in my pocket due to it's poor positioning on the side [which luckily is free on contract, I'm not sure about PAYT however...]. Also due to the continual required pusing of the joystick 'down' position to scroll through menus, phone book entries and texts including predictive text options and the lack of an alternative it now only works 50% of the time. This is the same on all of my friend's phones of similar model so is something you WILL have to live with. The charger also seems to refuse to charge the phone occasionally. Oh, and you may think it looks good at first, but you soon begin to think of it as a shiny black brick! You could obtain exactly the same shape yourself by taking a rectangular block of wood and eounding off the edges on the sides slightly with some sandpaper! Also, the 3G seems slightly over-rated at the minute. The phone is FAR too quiet to watch clips of TV on without headphones!! It does have a few good points in fairness. The battery life is quite good (As long as you switch the 3G network off) and the camera is OK for taking party pictures and the odd video of friends doing stupid things. There are better 1.3 Megapixel cameras out there by far, but for cheesy snaps it does the job. PC sync is also relatively easy as far as most phones go. It also seems to be happy to be dropped occasionally without showing too much damage. I had to give up my Nokia 6130i for this phone and would swap it back in an instant given the opportunity!! I am being quite harsh here admittedly and it is an OK phone, but it is becoming more and more unreliable as the months go past and there are better phones out there for a similar price (*cough* Nokia 6130i *cough*)
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