Philips Savvy Review

Overall Rating

Totally Indestructible!
The most easy to use phone (well anything really) in the world!
Loud ring tones (can be a bad thing because a bit embarrassing sometimes) you can hear it anywhere even in a loud room or in town etc.
Great value for money even when new just £39.99 in Woolies I remember. Now you can get them for less than a tenner on eBay.
Great just to keep in the car or take to beach etc. (or out in the boat as my auntie did with hers until the battery packed up).
Hard to loose and even if you do it doesn't really matter.
Unlikely to get stolen - they must be a bit mad if they did.
Great unique ringtones - Old MacDonald Had A Farm - great if you have kids! My little cousin thought it was great when I had my SAVVY.
Quite good quality ringtones considering they're only monophonics!
Oh and last but certainly not least it is excellent for texting on with its big buttons and space on the "1" key where it should be not like these annoying Samsungs & Sony Ericssons with it on the "0".
Oh and one more, although it is quite large and slightly heavy you can still fit it in your pocket and carry it without it pulling your trousers down too much.

Big - what do you expect for a phone this age, this price and this indestructible.
Limited Features by today's standards - no camera etc. - Great if you just want a cheap, easy to use, simple, no-thrills phone just to text and phone people on.

I remember my mate having one of these when they had not long come out and I always wanted one but wasn't aloud a mobile at the time because I was too young.
When I was eventually aloud a mobile the SAVVY was no longer available so I bought the cheapest phone in the Orange shop at the time which was a Siemens A55 at £79.99 (somewhat more expensive than the SAVVY which was £39.99 in Woolies when I wanted one originally).
I was very pleased with my phone and it did what I wanted it to and it was easy to use. However, due to an unfortunate incident involving me, my phone, a boat and the sea, just 3 months after I bought it it stopped working. I couldn't afford a new phone again this soon after buying this one so I looked on eBay and bought a SAVVY for about £15 inc P&P.
I finally got what I wanted! It was everything I hoped and more. It did pretty much everything my A55 did except Polyphonic ringtones (big deal) and WAP (never used it anyway cause its a rip off). Anyway, it lasted me a few months and never failed and was the best easiest to use phone I ever used. However, eventually for some unknown reason my A55 decided to work again so I went back to using that as it was smaller and lighter (no other reason!).
As I was no longer using the SAVVY I gave it to my grandad to keep in his car for emergencies. He has used it since until recently when the battery decided it no longer wanted to charge. I am sure the phone is still fine and would work perfectly again with a new battery but it is not really required anymore so unfortunately it is now living unused in a cupboard somewhere at my Nana and Grandad's house.

I still believe the SAVVY could give a lot of phones even now a run for their money in many aspects and it certainly still has it's place and will always have a place in my heart and will always be my favourite phone I have ever owned.

In summary, it's best points are it's simplicity and ease of use and you will have to work very hard to break it! (I dropped mine on concrete floors many times and (apart from the battery cover coming unclipped a couple times) it never even marked it! BRILLIANCE!!!