nokia 5100- a nice friend for me! (Nokia 5100)

Member Name: gabbyevs

Product:	Nokia 5100
Date:	07/12/03 (378 review reads)
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Advantages: good colour screen, ringtones, battery time

Disadvantages: bit bulky

I have had my phone now since march. Yes I know too long or is it?
Usually I get a phone then within say 6 months get completely bored with it. Not this time!

I usually buy pay as you go phones you see for around 250 pounds, problem is I get bored then have to buy another one.
When I saw this phone that was coming out I thought wow that does look a groovy phone-stupid reason to base buying it I know so I had a look at the features and thought well this phone is actually very good

So then I looked at the price 250 pounds. Mmm I thought, do I really want to spend that amount again on a phone? So I had a look round and saw it on contract for 25 pounds on o2-this looks interesting I thought. It was 20 pounds a month for 500 free texts and 50 minutes anytime cross network phone calls.

I thought I might as well get this as I wouldn?t be spending as much on a new phone like on pay as you go and in a year I can also upgrade it, so I ordered it.

It arrived a few days later and I was quite impressed seeing as it was a bit bigger than my old phone which was a flip one. Now I seem to prefer the nokia models as my last one a Samsung had very basic colours on it and it didn?t vibrate when I bought a polyphonic ringtone- so once again was impressed with this and the colour screen

Features

This phone has quite a few features some I don?t actually use but I?ll list them anyway

Polyphonic ringtones
Picture messaging
Optional camera attachment
Colour screen
Torch
Thermometer
Tri-band option(use worldwide)
Games
Wap
Media messaging
Alarm clock
Calculator
Timer
Calorie counter
Stopwatch
Sound meter
Profiles
Gallery

As much as I don?t use most of these I do find the calculator handy and the torch when I?m looking for something in the dark (which is quit often!)

The gallery can hold quite a few ringtones which is good if you get bored
of one but want to use it at a later date

The battery lasts quite a long time as well compared to previous phones I have had.
Talk time around 3 hours and standby around 200

You can buy different coloured shells which are very vibrant and bright. I have the lime green one which I haven?t seen anyone else with yet so I feel quite individual

The polyphonic ringtones which come as standard aren?t bad but I prefer to buy my own which do still vibrate when they ring which doesn?t always happen with other phones

Thankfully I haven?t dropped my phone a lot but if u do it is protected by the shock proof shell

Its easy to type messages, I must say easier than previous phones and you also have the option of predictive text which I don?t use personally as I cant get the hang of it but the options there.
The phone also stores a lot of messages, I was up to 150 when my inbox said it was full so you also don?t need to delete messages all the time to make way for new ones

All in all this is probably the best phone I?ve had and I wont be changing it for a long time (my husband is very grateful!)

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