No keypad? You'll never date again... (Xelibri 8)

Member Name: ~Lou~Lou~

Product:	Xelibri 8
Date:	20/08/04 (470 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks good, Radio

Disadvantages: Texting... yuk!, No numbered keypad, Voice recognition - no good in noisy environment.

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 buy this phone now. You will be so hacked off with scrolling through each and every letter that you will never be bothered to respond to anyone.

Another thing which I did not anticipate when buying this phone (and subsequently flogging it on eBay) is that if you phone up a number which requires you to press button 1 for this and button 2 for that, you can?t do it! The whole time I used this phone I couldn?t phone Orange and find out my inclusive minutes because I was required to press ?1? and I didn?t have a 1.

Aside from that, it was nice to have the radio and all the admiring glances but once the person chatted you up and gave you their number you had to scroll through each and every number to enter it or stand there shouting numbers at your phone and invariably shouting ?clear? every other number because it thought you said ?five? instead of ?seven? ? they do sound alike? honest, at least in the ears of the Xelibri 8.

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