I bought this sim-free mobile phone (Samsung E1080i) a few weeks ago. It was slightly cheaper at that time with free delivery from Amazon UK. It’s now for sale on Amazon for a bit more then I paid, but in my opinion it’s still well worth it. When I say a bit more money, it’s literally a pound or two more. Reviews for this phone are mostly good. That is if the person buying the phone is aware that they are not buying the latest iPhone and knows what to expect. A basic mobile phone.This phone is for someone who just wants a mobile phone to make calls and send texts, someone like me!. It doesn’t have all the up to date features of today’s more expensive phones like a camera, Internet access, music player etc. But it does have little things that can come in handy like an alarm, memo pad, countdown timer and a stopwatch. It also has a “torch light”, and I thought it would be a real L.E.D torch located at the top of the phone, just like some of the Nokia’s used to have, but the torch on the Samsung E1080i is just the display screen turned completely white, which isn’t much better then just pressing a button to make the screen light up normally.
One feature that I do love about this phone is its “Fake Call” option. You can easily set the phone on a timer to give you a fake call . The timer ranges from 5 seconds to 3 minutes. Once you set the timer to your preferred duration all you then need to do is press the activate button, then after 5 seconds, or whatever amount of time you choose, I use 30 seconds, the phone will ring and show a call coming in from “Anonymous”. So many customer reviews tend to highlight this option as one of the phones best features.
This is a great feature for getting you out of a difficult situation or annoying conversation. As well as many other uses for the fake call, I also think this feature would be excellent if your someone who sells items face to face. You could set the fake call to ring while someones viewing an item your selling, and pretend it’s another person calling you that’s interested in buying the item there looking at..It would help close a sale no doubt.
The screen resolution is a bit dull, and the ring tones, text alert tones are minimal, but what more can you expect from a phone in such a low price range. Battery life is also very good, actually it has the best battery life I have ever come across in a mobile phone. It really does last for weeks at a time. Other then the screen resolution and tones, this phone is an excellent choice for the price and you would have to look very hard to find another phone in the same price bracket that can compete with it. The Samsung E1080i is a great phone for the price.
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