Siemens C65

I bought this phone just before Christmas last year from the Carphone Warehouse. It cost me £80, with £15 credit on Virgin Mobile. I was looking for a good value little WAP camera phone - nothing special - to replace my old obsolete Siemens A50. GOOD POINTS: What I found was a real gem for the price. An excellent design - which is both stylish and funtional, with really nice colours, are the most striking features you get as a first impression. It's compact, lightweight, and has good ergonomics. The phone is very easy to navigate around with - you select by clicking one of the two option buttons by the screen, and move around using the ...

It seems that these days mobile phones are becoming more and more complicated. Rather like computers, in fact. My first phone in 2001 was a Sagem MC920. It had a monochrome screen, no predictive text messaging, no games, no Internet and the internal memory was 100 spaces for storing phone numbers and nothing else. My most recent acquisition has Bluetooth, a built-in video camera, a large colour screen, fast mobile Internet, games which put the BBC Master my mother bought in 1987 to shame, and about three types of messaging. With these improvements, however, come their own problems. Just as my mother’s old BBC Master was a very simple machine which never went ...