Sagemcom MC920 Cell Phone
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Sagem MC920
Pros
price, signal, battery life, loud rings
Cons
cheap feel, slow text entry, crazy menus
Recommended it?
Yes
This was one of the cheapest pre-pay Vodafone phones (40 GBP), but was strangely locked to use only the supplied SIM card so I lost all my credits on my old one. I have subsequently found a hidden menu that lets you disable this "feature" but by then I'd told everyone the new number. O well..
The UK Vodafone version of the phone is more silver and space-age (ie better) looking than the one pictured. It is very light and compact.
A phone of this size for 40 pounds is unparalleled.
It holds a signal very well (this really annoys people with those 400 quid thumbnail-sized phones). The non-talk charge has lasted me up to a week, but it has the annoying tendency to say it's totally charged until the last day when bars start going down every few hours.
The hands-free mode is very loud- it provides a new dimension to annoying people on the bus/train and can be quite useful too. Although, the person on the other end tends to accuse you of being in a bathroom (due to feedback from the speaker to the mic presumably).
More fuel to annoy the public: out of the 40 rings supplied, only 3 could be considered "normal"- the others are absolutely off the wall (this seems to be a Sagem trademark). The even better thing is, they're polyphonic! Some of the tunes start off mono (they go REALLY LOUD by the way, loud enough to distort the speaker) with a really stupid tune and then an even stupider harmony line comes along. It reminds me of one of those terrible doorbells that c***s had 15 years ago. After the looks of contempt I was getting for using these rings, I decided to set it to "brrrp brrrp... brrrp brrrp" (at least nobody else uses it).
The ring vibrator is alright but I have missed it a few times with it in my back pocket whilst riding a bicycle (!). Maybe I need better suspension.
You can't change the rings / program them, as far as I know. Let the Nokia owners keep their viruses.. :-)
I sat down too hard on it a while back (back pockets don't mix well with miniaturised electronics) and the plastic screen cracked. If it gets too battered I'll just get another one- it only costs as much as a few top-up cards after all.
The only real downside I can think of is the menu system- it's a bit nutty (that Sagem thing again) and counter-intuitive but I'm used to it now. Typing in text messages is a pain as you have to hold the button down for it to scroll through A-B-C-a-b-c-2 and it takes about half a second between letters. I'd rather hammer away at it like you can do on the Nokias.
This all makes it feel a bit cheap, but then, it is cheap. I'm too scared of dropping my phone down the toilet or worse so I wouldn't feel happy with a 300 quid Nathan Barley phone that I have to take out insurance on.
No IR port either, whatever that means.. I think it supports data but my network doesn't so I can't comment on that.
Top value for money gives this phone a 5 rating.
The UK Vodafone version of the phone is more silver and space-age (ie better) looking than the one pictured. It is very light and compact.
A phone of this size for 40 pounds is unparalleled.
It holds a signal very well (this really annoys people with those 400 quid thumbnail-sized phones). The non-talk charge has lasted me up to a week, but it has the annoying tendency to say it's totally charged until the last day when bars start going down every few hours.
The hands-free mode is very loud- it provides a new dimension to annoying people on the bus/train and can be quite useful too. Although, the person on the other end tends to accuse you of being in a bathroom (due to feedback from the speaker to the mic presumably).
More fuel to annoy the public: out of the 40 rings supplied, only 3 could be considered "normal"- the others are absolutely off the wall (this seems to be a Sagem trademark). The even better thing is, they're polyphonic! Some of the tunes start off mono (they go REALLY LOUD by the way, loud enough to distort the speaker) with a really stupid tune and then an even stupider harmony line comes along. It reminds me of one of those terrible doorbells that c***s had 15 years ago. After the looks of contempt I was getting for using these rings, I decided to set it to "brrrp brrrp... brrrp brrrp" (at least nobody else uses it).
The ring vibrator is alright but I have missed it a few times with it in my back pocket whilst riding a bicycle (!). Maybe I need better suspension.
You can't change the rings / program them, as far as I know. Let the Nokia owners keep their viruses.. :-)
I sat down too hard on it a while back (back pockets don't mix well with miniaturised electronics) and the plastic screen cracked. If it gets too battered I'll just get another one- it only costs as much as a few top-up cards after all.
The only real downside I can think of is the menu system- it's a bit nutty (that Sagem thing again) and counter-intuitive but I'm used to it now. Typing in text messages is a pain as you have to hold the button down for it to scroll through A-B-C-a-b-c-2 and it takes about half a second between letters. I'd rather hammer away at it like you can do on the Nokias.
This all makes it feel a bit cheap, but then, it is cheap. I'm too scared of dropping my phone down the toilet or worse so I wouldn't feel happy with a 300 quid Nathan Barley phone that I have to take out insurance on.
No IR port either, whatever that means.. I think it supports data but my network doesn't so I can't comment on that.
Top value for money gives this phone a 5 rating.
