Trium Geo - WAP phone with problems. (Mitsubishi Geo)

Member Name: Prufrock

Product:	Mitsubishi Geo
Date:	19/09/00 (624 review reads)
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Advantages: WAP phone. 200 free weekend minutes a month to land lines and internet. Pay As You Go available. Cheap.

Disadvantages: The phone has many problems, and the network, (BTCellnet), can be too busy to allow you to make a call. Bad reception in many areas, too.

I bought my Trium Geo back in May, when BTCellnet were offering £50 cash back when you bought this phone. I got £10 of free credit with it, too, so the phone ended up costing me only £20. Also, it is a WAP, (wireless application protocol, AKA internet), phone. Where's the catch? I had to send my receipt to BTCellnet to get the cashback. My phone started off fine. Then it started to go downhill. It freezes, (the only way to get it to unfreeze is to take the battery out), it refuses to call numbers, (giving many excuses such as "network busy",etc). I have extremely poor reception in some places, too. In fact, some times I have no signal at all. Now you might think that I live in the Outer Hebrides, but this is not the case. I live in Suffolk, where signals should be strong. Also, you might think that I have not looked after my phone, yet this is not the case either. I have my phone in a proper Trium Geo case, (available from Tesco), and have always looked after it. There's no way of using my 12 month guarantee because BTCellnet has my receipt. So, I am stuck with this phone.

After all the negative points about this phone, I will tell you about the good points. It is cheap for a WAP phone, and you can get it on the Pay as You Go scheme. It is possible to break BTCellnet's codelock to use other mobile networks such as Orange, (thus making internet access cheaper). It comes with a vibrating battery as standard. Call charges are not bad on the Pay as You Go tariff. The biggest selling point, though, is the 200 free minutes of weekend calls to fixed land line numbers per month, (including internet access, which normally costs 10p a minute at all times). The WAP content is not brilliant, but it is better than no WAP content at all, and BTCellnet say that they are adding more content all the time.

So, there you have it. This phone is good for the BTCellnet package, and its WAP services, but the phone itself has a lot of problems. P
ersonally, I would not recommend this phone. However, if you can get a Nokia WAP phone using the BTCellnet package, I would recommend that highly.

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