Kyocera 2235, heard of it yet??? you have now (Other Mobile Phones...)

Member Name: Rocawear

Product:	Other Mobile Phones...
Date:	17/03/03 (355 review reads)
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Advantages: 1000 # spaces, cool lighting, games

Disadvantages: pricey

The Kyocera 2235 mobile phone is new to the market and not yet seen in many places within the UK, however Kyocera mobile phones are popular in USA.

The 2235 is the one of the latest additions to Kyocera’s 2200 series. And is a nice, small and comfortable phone

With 200 name locations, and 5 locations within each name location, you can store up to 1000 numbers, anyone with that many phone numbers needs a secretary, not a mobile phone!!! No really you do.

The phone its self is about 3 ½ inches long, 1 ½ inches wide and less than 1cm thick, the only problem being the antenna, especially after having a Nokia 3210 for several years. The screen is about the same size as most standard Nokia phones, but the entire phone has a cool luminescent blue backlight whenever it is in use, which lights the screen and keypad for 10 seconds after use as well, making it a handy little torch on dark nights!!!!

The phone itself comes well equipped, as I said you can store up to 100 names, so already it beats most of its competitors on the market. So what else does it have??

Speed dialing – the speed dialing has 2 functions, firstly you can assign certain keypad numbers to certain phone numbers the same as any other phones speed dialing. But also the Kyocera has an automatic speed dial, from the regular screen if I press 2, it firstly brings up the assigned phone number, then by using the navigation pad, if I scroll right, it brings up all the phone numbers with names that start with A, B or C, so it is a speed dial and quick find function.
Voice dialing – the same as any voice dialing service provided by any other phone, assign a word to a phone number, say the word and the phone automatically calls the assigned number.
Settings – the phone has a vibrate alert, vibrate then ring alert and ring alert, but not many, and definitely not good ring tones built into the phone. But with the purchase of a data cable, whi
ch simply connects through the USB port on your PC, you can download new ring tones, for a price. The message alerts are also vibrating, quiet single/multiple beeps or loud single/multiple beeps.
You also have different display options; you can create your own banners, and use 1 of 3 screensavers loaded onto the phone, or download more through the data link connection.
Messaging – the messaging system is good, and one of the better functions of the phone. Firstly all you have to do is change the quick link button (up on the NAV pad) to ‘send new’ and it automatically starts you on your way to sending a message. Firstly it asks for the number, which you can search for, and you can send multiple people the same message at once; simply keep adding contacts to the list. Then you get into the composition part of the text. All Kyocera mobiles come equipped with T9 text entry, it works the same as the dictionary mode on Nokia phones, trying to find the word you are looking for, and if it brings up the wrong word first you simply click the 0 button to move to the next word that it identifies. Also there are more symbols that you can include in your texts, and for other Kyocera users there are also emoticons that you can send, which are the equivalent of 3 characters. Then you can send, store or choose a time at which to send the message out to the recipients.
Games - the phone comes with 4 'games', i say 'games' because one of them is a fortune teller!!!! kinda lame but kinda funny too, the other games are a treasure hunt type game, space invaders and blox, yeh they are fun for about 5 minutes, havent they heard of snake?????

As I have only had the phone for a couple of days I don’t know all the ins and outs of the phone, but so far I am pleased with my purchase, and hopefully will continue to be pleased with the phone as I discover more about it.

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