Motorola C115- cheap and cheerful!! (Motorola C115)

Member Name: nicki_221987

Product:	Motorola C115
Date:	25/10/06 (223 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, lightweight, small and stylish!

Disadvantages: no up to date extra features such as camera and bluetooth!

I brought this phone for £10 when it was on offer in TJ Hughes. Normally it can be found for around £20 new, or on ebay for around £10. plus postage costs.


Currently I am using this phone with an O2 sim card, but it was brought on T-Mobile and I did not have to unlock the phone to use it with my O2 sim card! I am not sure if this is true of all networks but to my knowledge the phone is unlocked when brought so will except any sim card.


When brought new the phone comes with:
· Phone
· Battery
· Charger
· Manual


According to the Motorola website the details of the phone are as follows:

Key Features
· Attract attention with an edgy, pocketable design
· Communicate consistently with superior battery life offering a minimum of 400 minutes** talk-time and 340** hours of standby time
· Compact size - 3.97 x 1.88 x 0.86 inches /101 x 48 x 22 mm and 2.82 ounces / 80 grams
· Play the day away with 3 pre-loaded games including Spring Ball, Small Bee, Chess, or Soccer (Actual game titles depend on region and operator)
· Create your own ring tones with Motorola's I-Melody ring tone composer
· Stay connected with friends and family via SMS messaging with iTAP predictive text
· Personalize your mobile by choosing from a variety of screensavers
· Calculator
· Other features include alarm clock, currency converter and stop watch
· No need to save pennies - the Motorola C115 is priced extremely affordable



My own personal experience of the phone has been pretty good. I have had the phone now for about 8 months and at most only have to charge it overnight every couple of days. When I first brought the phone I could go for about a week without charging it. I do not excessively call people from my phone (I mainly use it to text people) so if the phone is used a lot to call people it may need charging more often.


The only faults I have found with this phone is that mine has now taken to turning itself off every so often when I am writing a message. This is not too much of a problem as it turns back on fine after, however it can be quite annoying when you are writing a long message as it does not save the message when it turns itself off. This fault could just be due to the age and use of the phone and to my knowledge has not happened to other peoples as a couple of friends have one.


I have found this phone very simple to use with its 10 main menu features:

On recent calls you can find out details about calls you have made and received such as cost and times. It also lists the last 20 received calls and the last 10 dialled calls.

On ring styles you can change your ring tone and the sort of alert you get (vibrate or ring or both). You can also make your own ring tones on my tones. The only minor fault I find with this phone is that you cannot download ring tones and the choice of tones already on the phone is not that great.

On games you can play football. This is the only game on the phone so if it's not your thing then like me the game menu is not used very much. However the game does have several levels where you try to score goals and could be enjoyed by the younger audience and football lovers.

On Mymenu you can change the way your phone is and personalise it more to the way you wish to work it.

On messages you can write messages of course and you can also find your voicemail here. You can write draft messages and save them for later, and if you are in a rush you may find a ready-made quick note such as: 'call you later' so you do not have to write the whole message yourself. The messages you send are saved in your outbox so you can look back at them. The only problem I have with this phone in the messages sense is that the phone can only store 10 messages so that when you have received 10 you need to delete some so that you have room for new ones.

On the phonebook you can find numbers of contacts you have stored. I have not had any problems with is so far as there seems to be plenty of room in your phone book for contacts. I currently have 76 contacts in my phone book and there seems to be space for several more. Also saved on the phonebook are the numbers to ring for voicemail, Bolt Ons, Directories, customer services, balance and top up credit. This can be very useful when wanting to know how much credit you have and you don't have to remember any numbers to ring!

On More you can find the extras on the phone such as calculator, which can be very useful when out shopping etc, a place to store the exchange rate, a stop watch, screen saver, service dial and fixed dial.

On settings you can basically set the phone to how you want it. Here you can change time and date settings, your security, and your phone status.

Another menu that can be found is the alarm clock, which I find very useful in getting me up in the mornings. This can be set to ring at different levels and vibrate. You can store up to 5 alarms and can give them names such as get up, meeting in 5 etc. this can be useful in helping you to remember where you need to be if like me you are forgetful!

The last menu on my phone is the O2 menu; this on others I would presume would be the network that you are on and has numbers to contact them.


The Durability and robustness of this phone I have found very good! I have dropped this phone many times and have not seen any sign of this with the phone or on the surface of the phone! You wouldn't know from using the phone that it has flewn across my room several times! lol

I have never had a problem so far with reception on this phone and have always had at least 2 bars. The only time I have had no signal is when I was on a dig this summer in the middle of nowhere! I am pretty sure that nearly everyone had no signal so I am fairly happy that once or twice I got 1 bar lol!


Overall I have found this phone very easy to use, if like me you are not a big fan of reading instructions then this phone is for you! I just stared using the phone without bothering with the instructions and was fine in using it and working out all the settings. The phone is lightweight, small enough to fit in a pocket and looks nice.


If you just want a basic phone then this is for you. Although it doesn't have all the up to date features such as blue tooth and camera if you just need a phone for calling and texting then I would highly recommend this to you. The price is very reasonable for the size and looks and I personally have not found a phone that is cheaper than this and looks as good as this!


I hope you find this useful when choosing your new phone!

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