Philips Fisio 825

This Philips Fisio 825 is a good basic colour mobile phone. It is small and easy to use. You can set up email (POP3) and this works well (see earlier post on how to do it). Sound quality is good and quite loud. My phone has never locked up in the 11 months I have owned it. I got it for £70 with £25 of call time on Virgin. There are no downloads available and you can't change covers which is a problem for some people. I do have a problem with reception and I am not sure if it is the phone or the Virgin network. I am switching back to Orange but will keep this phone for emergencies! Buy it if it is cheap.

I love this phone, it isn't like everyone elses! The Philips Fisio 825 is secure as it isn't easy for anyone to pick it up and use it. Excellent different layout and quite cool! In the year that I have had this phone I have had no problems, it has been really good! When it did crash on me, I had just dropped it and so I'm not suprised! It is a really good phone I highly recommend it, if there are any problems with them they are caused by missuse! The phone tells you storage details and what is using up what % of its memory for this reason it is clever as you can balance these out to add space!!! A very Good Phone!!!!

I love it!!!

I bought this Philips Fisio 825 as a present for my son. Looked pretty, and was lightly used. Bluetooth not used. Then the Mobile Phone froze and packed up. It would turn itself on.Was purchased in Nov 03 and details registered on philips Web site. The phone froze and became unuseable at the end of March,four months of use. I sent it off back to Philips and they use SBE in Kent to do repairs. It takes a fortnight to have it checked but got a quote for £79.50 for repair of replacing Mainboard. I did not have details of purchase and SBE would accept registered details at Philips. With all the reveiws it obviously is not worth repair and the best possible end is authorizing SBE to scrap it. Luckily my other son was nearly bought one as well but preferred a Nokia.Would not buy any philips product again of any decription.

I bought the Philips Fisio 825 phone in March 2003 as a Virgin exclusive offer from the Link. I was convinced to buy because it was available with so many features such as e-mail and Bluetooth on pay-as-you-go. Disappointingly, after several calls to Virgin, I found out they don't support e-mail. This is mainly a criticism of the Link who should have considered that the main selling point (e-mail) was not supported by the air-time provider. However, Virgin staff had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them about e-mail support and did not tell me that they did not provide the facility. Instead, they kept explaining how I could get e-mails converted to texts. I had no success in setting-up the mobile phone tools on my PC. Connection with the bluetooth dongle on my PC was confusing and required the receivers to be within a few inches of each other.

Bought the Philips Fisio 825 phone for £52 + PP just to get bluetooth function for handsfree as new law comes into effect on 1/12/3. Was very cheap as all other bluetooth phones cost a fortune. Was conned as it was advertised as having polyphonic tones and downloadable games, pictures etc. etc. IT DOESN'T do any of that and web sites are impossible to find. Phone looks ok & is small but buttons are too close together. Game (Brick) is rubbish and takes up too much memory but you have no option to change it as web sited do not exist. HELP IF YOU KNOW BETTER!!! Good buy if you want bluetooth cheap for hands free headset. Difficult to pair it though - once you get match (I use Jabra BT 200) you need to put code in - use 0000 - it worked for me. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR FANCY FUNCTIONS & DOWNLOADS DO NOT BUY IT. IF TOU JUST WANT A BLUETOOTH PHONE THEN DO BUY IT - BUT YOU WILL NEED TO BUY A HEADSET AS IT IS NOT SUPPLIED - NEITHER IS A DOWNLOAD USB CABLE. If you buy both it could work out expensive if you only make a few calls & use pay as you go. HOPE THIS HELPS YOU DECIDE - LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN FIND A SITE FOR FREE DOWNLOADS WITHOUT A USB LINK. ALSO IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GET BLUETOOTH ON YOUR PC (FOR FREE) AS THIS MAY WORK FOR DOWNLOADS BY THE BACK DOOR.

Overall the Philips Fisio 825 needs rewamp on this software side

This Philips Fisio 825 mobile phone started out ok but 6 months l8tr it is a load of rubbish i think this is one of the worst phones ever. even there philips savvy is better.

I completely agree with fin on his review. Te Philips Fisio 825 mobile phone is loaded with bugs, which means the phone is blacking out a lot means having to take the battery out. You cant get any photos onto the phone and none of the email and GPRS items work. It is impossible to get pictures off WAP, and the menu is far to slow. When you first get it it looks and seems fantastic, BOY DID THEY TRICK YOU. i am a young guy that cant afford to go get a new GOOD phone every six months, i found this website trying to find ringtones, which i have never found. there are small things in this phone that just drive you mad, like the phone always switching on when its off so you can never have a password incase it gets bard. you can never see the screen and the reception is ALWAYS dreadful. im going to have to but a thirty quid phone, until i have enough money for a decent one, cos i cannot stand any more PHILIPS

Nice build!, really nice build, looks pure & rich! Nice use of Bluetooth, good improve resolution against Fisio 820. I have seen and used new Philipe 630 i must say it is very nice made phone, nice shape, good resolution, nice features, but waiting for new Philips 530, looks amazing.

Well what can i say that hasn't been already said, the Fisio 825 is great in theory shame the reality doesn't live up to the expectations. I bought the phone for my girlfriend cause she wanted a phone she could download ringtones etc. She loved the phone when she got it but after a while she realised there was no where to download cool stuff. So i was really miffed because thats the only reason i bought it. (She says she still likes it though)