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A Good Mobile For Your Choice

Simpell XD100 och Simvalley Pico RX-80
Two of the test handsets with entirely different names, price tags and packaging proved to be the same handset. We managed to find only a slight difference – they come with different menu languages. Toshiba satellite a300 battery is delivered in English with German as an alternative while Simvalley have French menus by default and can switch to English. No Swedish menus in any of the phones in other words.

The buttons are unlike anything I’ve seen in the mobile world in the past. Just as Hyundai MB-108 form more reminiscent of the bank box than on the cell phone, but the tiny rubber buttons and the skin in thin toshiba satellite m200 battery makes Simpell / Simvalley are feeling low one step further. With its small display is the only dedicated buttons for the four operations that are missing to make mobile confusingly similar to a calculator of the simplest model.

The buttons are as I say small, but they respond quickly with a click and it’s easy to push in the right place. The screen is small and black and white, but it is quite graphic and can accommodate three lines of text with pretty good clarity and Sony vgp-bps12 battery. A faint blue backlighting makes the cell phone works in the dark and the simple screen technology has a positive quality – it is just as easy to read in bright sunlight and indoors. Below the screen are two soft keys.

By default, they lead to the menu and phone book, but you can choose which shortcuts you want from the home screen – such as SMS inbox, or alarm clock. Mobile phones do not have any memory of the phone book – everything is stored on the SIM card and Sony vgp-bps2 battery. The main menu shows an option per screen when scrolling. The icons for the menu options is quite difficult to interpret, so it would have been smarter to use a plain text menu and squeeze in more options per screen for better view.

The main menu contains messages, phonebook, call lists, settings and an alarm clock. Four-way controller works tolerably well, but the ok button is very imprecise and the gentle pressure of one of the four-way controller directions and Apple a1185 instead. Simpell / Simvalley has a built-English dictionary and automatically selects a T9-like mode when you enter text, but it is difficult to input words that are not in the dictionary and the phone is the easiest to use the Multitap.

Call The sound is not very strong, but the cell phone has good call lists and four profiles – standard, conference, outdoor and mute – where you can customize the ring tone and volume buttons. The mobile phone can not vibrate when it rings. The charger is connected to a standard miniUSB connector.