NEC DB4000

The phone looks class and you just want to flash it around to everyone. I love takin it to school, you can turn down the key volume and text your friends or girlfriend and your teacher won't even know!But it is quite disappointing that you can't download tones or games but the phone is still mint

BRILL, IT IS ALL I WANT FROM A MOBILE, IT HAS THE LOOKS, IT HAS THE FEATURES, BATTERY TIME IS GOOD TOO,IM ON O2 IT HAS GREAT RECEPTION,I GOT MINE FOR CHEAP MONEY, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS IF YOU CAN GET ONE(IAM SURE I COULD GET YOU ONE)GET IT!!!!!!!!!!

Great looking little phone. Although you cannot "personalise" it by downloading new tunes, screensavers or add cases, the features it provides as standard cover everything you could want from a basic phone. Seems fairly robust. I got mine for a complete bargin price.

the person with the review at the top saying they bought theirs for £40....when from, please tell me, coz i just bought mine from BT Communication for £80!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but the phone overall is MINT!!!

Finally got round to buying my first mobile phone back in Feb and found that the DB4000 seemed the best match for me - and only £40 on BT Cellnet PAYG. It worked out well so I bought a second one for my wife a month or so later.

I had mixed feelings about the flip being a pain - it is a drag having to open the phone to use it. However, it does protect the buttons and I'm kind of relieved/smug that I should never be guilty of making an accidental emergency call.

I keep mine in my pocket, without a case and it's not suffered so far, despite 2 drops onto hard ground. Once I thought something had broken inside when it really rattled in vibrate mode, before I realised that the aerial was simply a bit loose!

My one big wish is that the aerial was internal, but then there are still not many phones without a sticky out one.

Yup, it's more primitive than many other phones, but I don't use SMS and can't be bothered with games & changing covers and it gives me all I need in a small package.

I initially got a DB4000 in October of last year, having been very impressed with it's predecessor the DB2000 I was happy to pay the upgrade fee at the end of my contract to replace a handset with a slightly wobbly battery clip.

After a few months I had to take the phone back to the shop for repair after getting SIM FAULT messages. after a repair it seemed ok for about a week until it came up with the same fault again, this was added to by the software on the phone crashing randomly (stopping responding while beeping and vibrating) and the phone turning itself off while in my pocket. the phone went through periods of diminished reception, initially i assumed this was a problem with my network but having checked with other people there were no transmittor problems at that time. after having the phone repaired 3 times i was issued a replacement handset, brand new out of the box. This was approximately 2 months ago and my nice new handset is, again, being repaired while i use a loan phone.

I am always very careful with my phone, it was not dropped or jarred in any way, in less than a year I have gone from being very impressed with NEC phones to never wanting to have one again. I wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone that needs a reliable handset as it is, put simply, not reliable. If you want something to look pretty then it may be more down your street.

I bought this mobile phone last year and was initially very pleased with it. Phones don't get much smaller than this and it looked great. It's standby also lasted for ages and it took no time to charge. However, during the period of 1 year the vibrating mechanism has decided to die 3 times and the aerial also worked loose. It's pretty fragile. In addition, it doesn't have predictive text and generally doesn't have as many features as recent Nokias. If it hadn't have broken on me three times then I may have been chuffed to bits with it.