 So
why did you buy that mobile phone? You wanted your own personal
mobile media entertainment and office micro managing PC
synchronisation, goals as they happen, news flash alerts, with
dancing, frog ringing, vibrating all hot live on demand action?
Or were you looking for a phone to call people?
The problem is you can't just buy a phone to call somebody can you.
It has to look cool and do stuff, right? Wrong!
The very latest razor sharp phone can do everything (the next
version has 3 blades!), however without exception everyone who I
have met has told me, it looks great, but I have no idea how it
works.. and I can understand how to make it work! So why is
everybody buying it?
We have got ourselves into a cycle that is about to burst, and it's
going to make a big bang in the mobile world. First it was analogue,
then digital, then we added SMS, the pictures, then MP3 plus email,
a diary now video downloads, live video.. why? Okay it's fun for
like a day or 2, but then you stop sending pictures and video, to
see the football you watch the television.
What next then?
Only one place left to go, a phone that is a phone! The new 'simple'
from Vodafone is a good start, but the next big wave is going to be
for people like me. I have an MP3 player, computer, TV, navigator,
DVB box and I don't want a poor version of them built into my mobile
phone. I want a phone that looks as good as the razor but without
the rubbish. Make it simple, an easy to use menu is easy to make, if
you remove the games, video options and all the nonsense. The
battery would last forever it you removed all the rubbish it has to
power.
The next big mobile will be small, stylish, cool, easy to use, long
battery life, discrete ring options, simple SMS text messaging, USB
to plug into your PC to edit and backup you SIM card and maybe type
a message normally.So what's my current phone?
The Motorola C115 is a phone, but not like any ordinary phone. If
you are looking for the very latest in phone gadget then you will
hate it.
If however, like me, you want a phone that you can call people on,
then this is the mobile phone for you. Motorola have done a great
job with the look. The large round window and shape makes this look
like a phone people would like, it feels nice to hold and the keys
are easy to press. The menu is simple and you need little
instruction to get going with it.
Some very nice features like the volume on the ring, you can switch
up and down like you TV or radio, just one control takes you from
nothing, to vibrate, to a ring and louder ring options. No need to
choose the type of environment or tone to goto quiet mode, very
simple. If you have been in the cinema when the reminder is on the
screen to switch off your mobile phone and been annoyed when 50
mobiles make a noise as they are switched off to silent, then this
is the phone for you. Why would you make a phone that makes a racket
when switched off or to silent, you don't want a noise, that's why
you are switching it off!.
Calling people is easy, it has a simple phone book option, and you
can send text messages without having to know the secret code to
missiles.
A few improvements could be made, the phone has no 'sent items' for
the SMS, just an 'Out Box' however this is for items that have been
sent rather than ones that are on the way out like every PC in the
world. I can't understand how to stop sending SMS in all capitals
and can't find the manual now. Accessories are cheep as they use
standard fittings.
A big bonus is you can't use any stupid blue teeth with it, so when
walking down the street or driving in your car people wont point and
ask their friends why you such a prat with what looks like a bright
silver 1960's hearing aid on.
In all the Motorola C115 is a good phone, very cheep to buy (£20),
the battery lasts longer than it takes me to find the charger and
it's the first phone I have found in a year that I didn't bin in 2
weeks and go back to my old phone while I was looking for a new one.
Review by - Rev. Deans of Hunstanton
Published - 29/08/2005
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