A nice (and usually free) basic phone
Written: Feb 23 '05
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Pros: Very good reception and battery life
Cons: No color screen
The Bottom Line: A superb phone for someone on a budget or who does not need the "above basic" cell phone features.
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| hairymon's Full Review: Samsung SGH-R225 |
My old Sony Ericsson T300 recently had problems and T-Mobile offered to give me this phone as a replacement.
It does not have all of the features of my old phone, but then again, I hardly used those features, so this was OK with me and better than having to buy a new phone. For example, it is not a camera-phone. But I almost never used the camera function of my old phone, and when I did I was disappointed with the pictures and the mechanism for transferring them to a PC (it was one of the early camera phones, I know they're much better now). It also is dual-band, not tri-band, meaning it cannot be used in as many foreign countries (though it still can be used in the majority of them). But I rarely go to foreign countries, so that's OK too.
For someone looking for a basic phone with a few niceties and not looking to spend too much on a phone (I think both T-Mobile and Cingular offer it free to new subscribers and I've seen used ones sell for as little as $15-20 on eBay), it is excellent. I get excellent reception from it. The battery life has been good too. There is a good variety of ringtones (and you can download more). There is AIM capability (if you get the special R225M model....again I do not use this though so that doesn't matter). You can do basic Web functions if that is part of your mobile account; and finally, you have some games, calendar/scheduling, and call timers.
One thing about the phone that will probably be a turnoff to many or make them think it is "obsolete" is the lack of a full color screen. The screen is a nice blue screen with black letters (which lets you see it in the dark without any trouble), an improvement over most "monochrome" phones. It still looks very nice, but it also means you cannot download most of the screensavers or wallpaper that T-Mobile provides for most of their other phones (I believe this is the only phone left that T-Mobile directly offers with a non-color screen).
A final thing I do like that is lacking in newer phones is that there is an option to have something that sounds like a telephone ring for your ringtone. I have noticed in a lot of very recent phones that all of the ringtone options are some sort of musical number or sound effect.
All in all, I think this is a great phone if you are looking for a cell phone for basic uses and don't want to do anything "fancy" with it.
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Recommended for: Adventurous Technophiles - Tough and Durable
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