I had been an avid fan of Nokia, used 6270 (which my wife is using currently and is a brilliant phone), used 3310, 3315, switched to Motosilver, Samsung C100 and landed with 6270 with which I thought my search is over for a decent phone. But God was not kind to me and my wife lost her phone, with just couple of day to Valentine What a loving husband could do? GIFT you dear dear phone to your dearer dearer wife, with a smile on lips (which got sufficiently rewarded for the deed hee hee hee...)
SHTThen I got 5500 sports model, not for anything else but for camera clarity, fir-to-hand (to which 6270 failed a bit), promise of staying in one piece even after it fall umpteenth time, FM, MP3, and much more...SHTWell what to say?... it does have all the features mentioned, and the sound quality is good too, but network catching ability is poor, it can heat pretty fast, however net browsing is very easy with this model. the top rubber keypad started coming out within a month (I am yet to visit my Nokia dealer for that).
SHTWhat I miss a lot is soft buttons, in 6270 it was just a touch of finger to do any magic, which takes a hard sometimes to the extent of pain in this phone (however it saves some goofy moments by not givving missed calls to those I don’t want to call in some situations...), but mostly it hurts.SHTSH*TThe one button swap between music, sport and phone mode is cool, but the swap button is so hard to press that its much easier to goto menu and select files to play.
I don’t want to say anything about sport mode, since I have not used it till date and promise is kept to keep it away from me (I LLLOVE my sleep)SHTthis phone is indeed strong since I tried marble, matt, mosaic, brick, tar road, sand, wet floor and coir boards till now but it hasn’t cracked/cried yet... (I have an inbuilt efficient system of loosing my phone from my pocket/grip/lap/bike/seat/table etc etc)SHTSHTThere is a knob/screw to keep the back cover on, which is irritating. though the ’c’ button which is for deleting (all SE fans know that) is very handy.SHTI ride my bike and listen to FM often, but with this phone the lead to phone and lead to ear-pieces are two different (I am sure for some superior reason, which I have not deciphered yet) but its very very inconvenient and insultingly bad.
(Especially with helmate...)SHTThe memory is good, and the phone does not hang at any moment. it can store names and any given details you want to put (including shoe size if one wish to add).SHTThe phone has cool voice system, which calls out the name of caller between the ringer, but dont’ try Indian names with it, or alter the spelling twistingly to listen to correct name. e.g. Paul is pronunced correctly but ’Abbas’ would sound something like ’ABAISE’.SHTIt has a tapping control which can control music file swap, message reader in a mechanical voice (useless with hinglish or SMS vocab).SHTSHTsome more feedback would follow in my updations...SHTtill then happy clickingSH*T