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When beauty fails to excite any longer...

Jan 9, 2007

Rating: 4 out of 10 (Mediocre)
Pros: Beauty, dazzling display, good sound
Cons: Hangs for no reason, fails to stay connected to network (even as it shows it does), T9 dict problems
Opinion:
I am a simple phone user, i.e. I merely call, receive calls and text. I don't even use the camera, only when I am REALLY bored. I don't use listen to music on my phone. I don't download anything... you get the picture. So when I was touted this phone about a month back, I thought hey, why not? Beauty and functionality. Not bad price tag too. So I bought... then a few days down the road, I discovered the hardness of the keys while texting. Oh well, never mind, can still bear with it. Then a few more days passed, and to my horror, I can only add one word on the T9 dictionary!!! Called up service centre, and was told sorry, you may bring it down for firmware update. Didn't bother, just bear with it. Then another week passed, and this time, it REALLY broke the camel's back. I tried sending SMS but kept giving me the message 'failed'. Oh well, never mind, maybe something wrong with the network with the Taiwan quake and all. Then I left it... and for some strange reasons, the phone stopped ringing, no SMS came but it shows it's alive and fine. SO I thought, what the heck, maybe the holiday season and no one is calling or texting... Then come 1 Jan 2007, New Year (unpleasant) surprise: switch off the phone for charging and switched it back... you've 151 missed calls, so-and-so tried calling you 79 times while you were not available, SMSs start coming in one after another... AAARRGGGHHHH!!!! I took the box, the charger and everything inside the package, walked to the nearest second-hand handphone shop, and sold it away. Thanks, but no thanks. All I want is really a peaceful Christmas and quiet New Year... is THAT too much to ask?