Initially I liked this phone, which was an extra birthday present from my husband and daughter.  The camera although low mega pixels takes quite good photos. The large display screen with choice of font sizes is useful as is the slide cover, which protects the keypad.  Some of the features are also quite good especially pressing one key to make the phone silent, which is very handy.

Before this phone I have always had Nokias because I found them to be the most user friendly however, I managed to work out all the menu’s quite quickly with the help of the manual but you do have to go through several more steps, press more keys, to achieve the same functions i.e. send a text or photo than you do on a Nokia.

The worst points about the phone are the poor battery life – sometimes it needed charging twice a day depending on phone use.  It takes a long time to charge as well.  The memory is almost non-existent – my daughter sent me two songs from her phone, which completely filled the memory, and then you cannot take any photos.  You have to buy a separate memory card and it is not apparent from the manual that this cannot be in excess of 2GB or it won’t work.  It also didn’t display photos sent from phones that are of a higher specification which isn’t helpful and despite trying both the Samsung and Tesco Mobile helplines there was no way around this.

Lastly, removing the back to change the sim card or battery was very difficult – neither my husband nor I could do it – only my daughter got the knack, which was rather embarrassing

All in all I have gone back to my Nokia!