Absolutely not! (Siemens S55)

Member Name: jimscreechy

Product:	Siemens S55
Date:	25/02/04 (170 review reads)
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Advantages: looks good

Disadvantages: bad key pad, disfunctional softwarfe, slow interface

Sorry but when it comes to functionality that is were devices are made and broken... for me anyway. This phone simply doesn't measure up. Yes, I will tell you why. The buttons are two slippery and difficult to locate. I have lost track of how many wrong numbers I have called and all I can say is thank god it's a company phone so I don't get the bill. You can imagine what a nightmare texting is then.

Secondly the software. Oh my god, where do I begin. It is absolute pants. unlike my nokia 8310 which as soon as it was connected to my pc immediately displayed the contents of the phone, this one requires the selecting of the read out function when ever a task is performed. What a pain. So if you do a read out, ok you see the text messages in you inbox. Ok you would think that you simply write a text then send it using the numbers it read five seconds ago? Oh no you have to then do a read out function again to look at the address book you just read out. It is immensely annoying. Not only that, but the readout process takes 20 seconds and sometimes thephone has to be disconnected then reconnected to work properly. Yes the phone has some nice features, if you can get to them after your fingers slide all over the touch pad, but for me it is going in back to the shop to be replaced by tried and tested technolgoy.

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