Xelibri 8

The range of xelibri phones by Siemens were released more as fashion accessories than the top of the range, feature packed mobiles that we are used to. Some are aimed at both sexes but this is definitely a female only one! I was tempted by the Xelibri 8 as it looked so different to anything I had owned before, and I liked the fact that I could wear it around my neck keeping it close whilst hopefully getting the phone noticed too and some comments passed – I certainly got that! I can’t remember exactly what I paid for mine but after taking a quick look on ebay I have found that a new one can be obtained from Germany for around £50 including postage ...

It all depends on what you want the phone for? if you want to be seen and you want to be constantly inundated with people asking you what the thing around your neck is then this is the phone for you. If you want functionality? forget it! Admittedly, the voice recognition is the best I have witnessed on a phone, and you can train the phone to understand you (even a Brummie accent like mine), but if you are in a noisy environment there?s no chance. You then have to scroll through each number in turn to ring someone (unless they are in your phone book of course, but even that can be a bit cumbersome). If you want to save money/lose friends on texting then ...