Philips Savvy Reviews

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Good Points: 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.

Bad Points: 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.

General comments: 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!!!

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Well, I rescued this Philips Savvy phone from one of those old phone boxes, in immaculate condition, with 2 different chargers and an instruction manual and a sim card! For a free phone this is very impressive, even now, but if I had paid any money for it, I would be sorely disappointed. The only good things about this phone are the ease of use and the build quality. Other than that there is absolutely nothing good about this phone. If you are either a collector, mad or can get this phone for f ...

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I bought my Philips Savvy mobile phone about five years ago as a pay-as-you-go phone. It worked exactly as advertised and had only one failure. The failure was because I dropped it into the sea while "rescuing" some girls who had been cut off by the tide at our local beach. Corrosion caused the battery connection to corrode and after a brief call to the Orange help line, decided for myself that all I needed to do was scrape the green corrosion from the contacts with my trusty Swiss Army Knife. ...

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You can't smash it up, it is invincible it's impossible to break and believe me I wanted and upgrade but my Mum said I can't until it packs up and I don't know when that will be probably in the next twenty years.

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I hate the Philips Savvy, it is too old and therefore it is not up-to-date with the newer phones and technology. It has a small screen but it still is a good screen. I would not recommend to buy one but if you already own one then keep it.

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This Philips Savvy is a good starter mobile phone, it was my first phone, BUT with only two lines of txt, and no prodictive TXT, and hard to uderstand menus...that you get used to...this was once my grandparents phone and it was NOT suited for them...too hard to use...they chose a Nokia 3310 instead and gave this one to me, in 2000...i have now got a new phone. It was only a phone I used untill I got a job and could afford a new one.

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I recently bought a Sendo M550 because my Philips Savvy was like the mobile phone in the advert that hides under a brown paper bag. The M550 is small with colour screen, games and lots of gizmos. Great for posing but not a patch on the Savvy for just making calls. The Savvy will pick up the network where the M550 wont. It's easy to operate with large buttons and a screen you can read in direct sunlight.

True it has no street cred but it's as tough as the 1/4 house brick it resembles - ide ...

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I bought this Philips Savvy mobile phone in summer 2000 as my first phone! It is a great starter phone and gives you a great introduction to mobile phoning! If I had to go back and buy my first phone again it would definitely be this one! Although lacking in games and other features, such as Bluetooth, its a great starter phone and I would definitely choose it due to its easy to read screen compared with something like the Nokia 3310/3330.

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I purchased Philips Savvy 3 years ago. It is the best I ever had. It is durable and is very easy to operate. Has user friendly menu which is not at all complicated like other mobile sets.

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I paid £20 for my Philips Savvy Mobile Phone three years ago and it's yet to let me down. It's simplicity and durability are it's biggest benefits. I've lost count of how many times I've droped it now and there is barely a scratch on it. I bought my mum a sagem last christmas and neither her or I have yet worked out many of it's faffy features. Friends may follow the sheep and want pointless picture phones at 40p a picture, personaly I'm able to use a camera so I'll be sticking with my sav ...

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Mine lasted 4 years and was excellent, until the keyboard was ruined by squashed banana (!) - I replaced it with a Nokia 3430 - bad mistake. Rubbish phone - bad reception, poor menu system, poor battery life and often could not hera callers anyway. So now I am looking for a cheap Savvy as I managed to lose the Nokia within two weeks (thank God)

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I have owned 2 Savvys over the past 2 years (I lost one) and am only just about to replace it. I have found it very easy to use and as the buttons are of a decent size, texting is fine.

The only reason I am replacing it is because I am out of room for more phone numbers. Its a shame because I would keep this phone, but I now need to spend about £100 on a new one just to store another 20 numbers!

If you are after a phone (not a style accessory or games machine) then I highly recomme ...

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I bought two almost on the same day, used them almost daily but for 8 days in February and they both failed to Tx within one day of each other. Lifetime of two years is a bit worrying, coincidence - doubt it Orange refuse to comment. Me and the girlfriend now have to phone by landline

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This phone is a brilliant phone. It's great value
for money. It may only have a few extra things but that gives less things to go wrong with it. The only reason people mock this phone is because of street cred. The main thing about a phone is that you can contact people if you want to play games go buy a playstation or a computer or even go on Sky Playjam there are games on there or go to an arcade. If you want to listen to your favorite song instead of getting the ringtone go out and buy the s ...

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The philips savvy is a dirt cheap reliable phone, although large in size.

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The Philips Savvy ia a brill phone to have, light and simple.

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I really liked this Philips Savvy mobile phone. It was my first phone and a brilliant start. Some of the features aren't very useful (such as the voice dial feature or the stupid little sub-games) but other than that I was stunned at the product for the money. This phone is also built like a brick and is virtually indestructable.

-FD

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When i first bought this Philps Savvy mobile phone i thought, what a brill bargain, but then i used it and came to my senses. It has hardly any decent stuff on it and NO GAMES!!!!! that was the bit that i was most cheesed of with. Thank you for reading my review.

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All in all the Philips Savvy is a good mobile phone for the money.

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This was about the second or third phone I owned. Originally costing about £70 or so on Virgin Mobile. What a superb little phone. Reliable and never goes wrong. Good phone to use although I suppose the menu system could have been better but a brilliant phone all in all. I still have mine as a backup should my main mobile decide to go wrong.