Siemens C60

I bought my Siemens C60 as it was the cheapest on the market at the time, compared to all other colour screen mobile phones. I have about 60 pictures and 60 ringtones saved on the phone. I've had it since Decemeber 2003. Micro-phone a bit hard to hear callers, unless you hold it at right angle.Can assign pictures to callers when they ring. Can send mms and text messages. I wish it had a built in camera save paying extra for a clip on camera. I'm normally a Nokia fan, and miss some of the Nokia features. Like finding a phone number fast in your phone book, instead of having to go through every name to find it. Has extra features like Alarm clock, calculator and stop watch. Also a couple of games I never play. But over all for price its a pretty good phone.

At first glance the Siemens C60 looks like a good, reasonably priced mobile phone. Similar in size to the NOKIA 3315 it boasts a full colour display, polyphonic ring tones and interchangeable CLIPIT covers (sold separately). The menu is quite easy to navigate around and it also has the option of adding a Siemens camera to it (MMS is supported as is WAP).

There are a few frustrating features on it though. For individuals with big fingers, the keypad with small buttons is difficult to use. The central control key (or menu navigation key) is very frustrating. You can't feel it click and I've found myself continually pressing the down arrow on the key repeatedly without any success. I have pretty small fingers so someone with larger ones will probably end up throwing it at the wall before getting used to it. The plastic face of the leather pouch is already worn on the menu key's down arrow after 2 weeks.This appears to be a design fault rather than a faulty phone. The CALL key is also diabolically close to the menu key and if you're not careful you can call someone when trying to scroll through your menu.

The colour display looked great in the shop before I bought it. If you intend to wear your mobile on your hip though, a leather case and sunlight will virtually render the display useless. I've played with all the contrast and darkness features and still in daylight, in a leather case, it's almost impossible to make out more than shadows on the display.

The native polyphonic ringtones that come with the phone are quite ordinary though I haven't downloaded any others.

The Earpiece takes a bit of time to get used to and if you don't have it in exactly the right place against your ear, you may not be able to hear the caller. I've also had callers become very faint and difficult to hear though this may be that the phone doesn't drop calls when the transceiver signal weakens, it appears to hang on.

I've also found most callers have a very "bassy" tone to them. All in all, not the best phone I've had.