A few nokiggles (Nokia 5210)

Member Name: Dringostarr

Product:	Nokia 5210
Date:	29/07/03 (438 review reads)
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Advantages: Durable, Easy to use, Smart phone

Disadvantages: 2 characters per space?, Holds ten messages, expensive

I have owned 3 phones over the past 4 years and spent £10 to get them. The first an ancient Nokia brick was handed to me by my father, the 3210 was sold to me for a tenner and the most recent one, the Nokia 5210, was handed to me by a close friend.

Nice.

The phone is identical to my girlfriend's so I already knew what to expect... my incredible ability to break things has vanished now I have this super tough, indestuctable phone. Well they say that but the screen on the case is easily broken and a replacement case costs up to £20! Thank god a fake case from the market in a variety of colours (making up for the hideous orange) for a mere £7. Anyway known as the bouncing phone, the 5210 is a durable phone that features WAP capabilities, infra red options, a host of traditional games as well as the normal dialing features... But of course most of us use our mobiles for texting and phoneing... and this is where the problem lies.

Using the phone to talk is all well and good, it is comfortable due to its thick size and easy to use menu's make it fine. It is the texting where a problem comes in. You can save just a mere 10 messages which, considering this is a phone that is still selling for £100, isn't that smart. Also a problem both me and my girlfriend have discovered when texting is the fact that a space counts as 2 characters, does anyone else have this problem and can it be sorted out? Help would be greatly appreciated. The orange screen though does make it surprisingly easy on the eyes and nicely so.

Nevertheless as a durable top-of-the-range non-colour phone it is a nice addition... it doesn't have the frankly embarassing polophonic ringtones and it does the simple jobs brilliantly. Just the 2 character spacing brings down the score.

Dringo.

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