Samsung C3050 Stratus

I bought this phone after I broke my old one and needed something immediately. It was only £10 pay as you go from the orange shop with £10 credit.

The first thing I was amazed at was that it was effectively only £10. I've spent more on a meal deal at a deli! It also had a variety of colours which was nice.

The phone can hold about 200 texts (if you have a few images) which is fair. If you want any more you can simply add a mini memory card.

I've taken the back off numerous times and it's still very sturdy. I've dropped the phone about 50 times onto concrete and it's still going well. I've even fallen under a car and is perfectly functional. The screen is in tact and all the buttons work.

It doesn't have many features above the basic call, text, calendar and trying to play music is an utter nightmare. I can't remember exactly what was so annoying but it was something like you can't create playlists and have to select each song separately, or you can't put songs as your ringtone (or both).

Overall if you're a techy person it's not for you, but if you want something that is cheap, reliable and does the basics this is your man!

I bought this phone from a Tesco Mobile network and experienced good and bad times with it. It is a very stylish phone and value for money at only £35, So that was good as I wanted to be like my friends.As I love customising, I wanted to attach several phone charms to it, but I was quite dissapointed that this mobile does not have a hole for the key charm. But its features like the VGA camera and MP3 were very useful. When you buy this mobile ask the shop assistent about the PIN code and PUK code. As I blocked my phone trying to find out the PIN for Bluetooth. I locked the SIM card and had to renew it. To Recover the old SIM you had to enter the PUK. But overall it is a great phone and value for money!

I bought this mobile a month ago as my first phone and i wanted a stylish slider. i had been looking at a samsung j700 as it looked like a good value buy. when i went into orange store i saw this mobile. it has a smooth sliding mechanism and stylish crome softkeys. the phone comes in two colours, black and purple, both priced at £35. it has a larger screen than some phone twice its price. the battery life is not great, but that's because i spend all the evenings playing with it's camera and video recorder. the features are great, and it even comes with a sweet sidebar as expected from expensive phones. the camera is a VGA (which is about 0.5 mega pixels), but comes with great effects, panoramic mode, frames (as in glasses and a fake nose) to embarasse your pals, and a mosaic mode. the music player is good, as music players are, and the phone comes with 16mb of memory- a memory card can be inserted (up to 2gb with orange) and files can be simply transferred across (the music player can still play files on the memory card). the themes are good- black and blue, green and yellow, white and blue. It is a best buy for a first phone.