A cool looking phone with low practicality (O2 Cocoon)

Member Name: jwallis55

Product:	O2 Cocoon
Date:	28/07/09 (7 review reads)
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Advantages: Design

Disadvantages: Didn't receive texts

When I first got this phone, I loved it. My friends were amazed by the rolling display and the radio was a good function to have. The battery life was good as well. It does look really stylish: completely white, smooth, like a pebble with a blue light up display on the outside, that tells you the time and also when someone calls or texts you, who it is. Open up the phone and it is a large screen, with a black numberpad with white lettering: a really lovely design.

However, after about a year, I started to not receive messages from friends and my battery life started to decrease rapidly. You can't use the phone when charging as the charger is shaped so as not to allow the phone to be flipped open which is irritating. The odd charger also means that you can't use emergency chargers which are so useful in a sticky situation, as I found myself in when I was at Glastonbury.

Although the design is great and the phone looks really cool, in a practical sense it is fairly useless and I have decided to change phones as I keep missing texts from friends or receiving them very late, which is of course a problem! Maybe it's just the network, ie O2, but I do receive all my texts now I've changed phones. I don't think you can get this phone on any other networks either, as it is an O2 phone.

Summary: Cool design, poor technology

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