The Phone is a Nightmare (Sharp GX-10)

Member Name: tashaalli

Product:	Sharp GX-10
Date:	09/12/02 (4270 review reads)
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Advantages: Taking pictures of yourself pulling faces - keep still though., Showing it off to your mates, 14 day money back guarantee

Disadvantages: Can't hear it ring, Vodafone Live Service is Appalling, SMS texts hang about in outer space

I bought the GX10 two weeks ago and took it back to the shop today after 2 weeks of frustration.

I have a dated panasonic in my loft which has been reliable for almost 6 years, and I am looking forward to getting it back down after my experiences with the GX10.

Digital Camera
Admittedly, taking pictures was great fun, although there's no way you could capture anyone other than in a blur unless they stood statuesque still, but that's okay I guess. The renaming of photos, storing of photos, assigning photos to your phonebook to allow their picture to appear when a friend calls is all good. Unfortunately, despite multiple attemps to send a MMS to my partner (who has the same phone), they never go through. Therefore i'm exposing a vodafone service that has failed to work for the last 14 days - great.

SMS Texts
I found the predictive text fantastic, my aged Panasonic didn't have that. But, there's an annoying button which I just couldn't help pressing by accident when composing text, which crashed my message. Once I realised I had come out of the composing, I then couldn't go back - the message had gone for good. Now you may say, don't worry, I just won't press that button, but it is so easy to do and the loss is hard to bear, it just happening once to you would send you barmy.

Receiving SMS Texts
Now imagine a message is sent to you between 8am and 9am and the message signal is flashing on your phone so you know that it's there. You go into SMS and you just can't retrieve the text message. All day, all afternoon, all evening at various times I tried to get that text, the phone kept flashing the symbol at me. I was in Tesco, food shopping at 12 midnight and I get a message received tone. Lo and behold there is the 8am text, just arrived.

THIS HAPPENED AT LEAST 4 TIMES, texts just didn't get through to me for hours despite the fact that the phone was aware the
re was a text there.

Ringtones
I'm in a real quandry over this, I just couldn't hear my phone ringing. My old phone, I could hear upstairs when it was in my kitchen downstairs. I could hear my old phone ringing under the table in my bag at work, but not the GX10. I work in a warehouse environment and it's quite noisy, I have no pockets in my work uniform and I can't leave it out on the desk as I am loathe to drop a heavy item on it whilst working. For men, it's easier, they almost always have pockets and could use vibrate, women don't.

When I went to take the phone back, the vodafone assistant said she can't hear hers either! She said sometimes she misses calls - GREAT!

I've slept through my GX10 alarm going off twice, announcing three phonecalls and one text message the other day. This was while the phone was right next to the bed! She said that polyphonic ringtones are not really suitable for alarms. Hello!! The only options for setting the alarm are polyphonic options.

In conclusion, the phone is fun, but first and formost it needs to be a phone, not a plaything. I'm off to buy a keyring size digital camera and an old brick of a phone so I get the best of both worlds.

Anyway, the phone is gone now thank god. At least David Beckham can get away with not answering Victoria's calls and messages. "Sorry sweetie, I just didn't hear it / haven't received your text".

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