Siemens A50

Review of Siemens A50 mobile phone **The phone** The Siemens A50 is a basic model. It is a slim, deep blue phone with a fairly large screen and easy to see and use buttons. No fancy gizmo's or gadgets grace the A50's layout and no clamshell style opening for me to fumble with. The phone was retailing at around £40 on a Pay As You Go tariff when I purchased mine from Carphone Warehouse. I chose this phone some four years ago as a replacement for an all singing, all dancing model made by a rival manufacturer. The reason for selecting a basic phone was very simple (rather like me!), I got fed up with the fiddly number pad and complicated ...  Read the complete review

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My Mother's Sagem mobile phone, broke (never ever buy a Sagem? I wont go in to that one), so she needed a new phone and was on a budget. So the only phones that were around the price range she wanted were: Nokia 3310, Sagem (big no no!) and the Siemens. My mother, being slightly, how shall I put it? Not technology educated, left the decision up to me. So, I chose the Siemens, because out all the phones I?ve set up for people, I have never set up a Siemens before. When we got it home, I briefly looked at the phone and I had real difficulties just getting on to the menu, so I left it for the night. I looked at the phone, again and after glancing at ...  Read the complete review

I received the Siemens A50 in October last year as a present. Since that time i have had mixed experiences about the handset. All was going well until, after a few weeks the phone just stopped working without any known damage to the phone. Whilst this was only an isolated fault affecting my handset I still feel this needs to be included here. Since this situation was rectified I have had but minor problems with the phone. This phone is strong. It has withstood several drops onto concrete. The only damage was minor scratches to the case ? this is to be expected with any dropped phone. One niggling problem I have experienced is the speed of ...  Read the complete review

I've owned this phone for 7 days, purchased Brand New with T-Mobile Sim for £30 (a Buy It Now on Ebay). My first impression was its size, the A50 makes a 3210 look and feel like a brick. The battery is a little harder to fit than the other phones I have owned as it locks in place two ways. On start-up you get a short intro before being asked to confirm switch-on. Once up and running the display shows everything you need to know with info boxes to get to menu's. Signal strength on T-Mobile seems lower than my other phones have shown although connection has not been a problem. Battery life is not bad, however, my new battery will ...  Read the complete review