Siemens MT50 Review

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Siemens MT50
3.9 stars
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milan.'s Review of Siemens MT50

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Reception
    4 stars
  • Features
    3.5 stars
  • Style
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Cheap!
Java
GPRS
Looks good, blue backlight rocks
Effective PC connect through data cable


Bad Points

Needs some hacking to enable Java over cable,
Manual is rubish,
The touch of the buttons could be softer ;-)
SAR value is a little higher, around 0.9,
The menu is not always well made.


General Comments

This Siemens MT50 is a great phone for your money with Java and GPRS support. It needs a bit of hacking to make the phone accept midlets through cable, but eventually it does and it works fine using Siemens Data Exchange. Also the old (and great) S35 explorer works as it should, unbelievable, eg. it doesn't work with the C45. These two softwares are enough to manage all the features (which i needed so far). Negative point is that in the menu sometimes the most commonly used item is at the bottom. Overall, i'm really satisfied with this phone, i bought it to develop mobile java apps. What i like in this phone is that it lacks many features which i don't need at all (and as a result, it makes the phone so cheap;), eg. voice recording and dialing. it also lack basic features like calculator, but since you have Java, you can install whatever you want. And have exactly the applications you really need. The manual itself is a rubish, i don't like it, it writes about almost everything, but never in depth. For example it never tells, that the phone has a total of 228kb memory for user data, and ca. 180K is available for midlets in the begining.

I switched from m35i and the navigation is a nightmare after the swap of the keys, but i'll get used to it soon ;-)

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  • milan. on 4th Jan 2003

    Just a note to my review: I was wrong, c45 can be managed using the mentioned c35/s35 explorer software.