Philips 535

Had the Philips 535 a long time and generally very pleased with it, apart from the joystick.

Thanks to Nedjma Telecom- Algeria, I got Philips 535 as a gift from Nedjma, three years back.

the set is perfect. Easy to use.

I had a problem with the joystick, and unfortunately I could not find the proper technician to repair it, they added another kind of joystick, it did not work, everyone says Philips is no good, the reason that Philips has no maintenance centre in Alger, and the price of spare parts are expensive. Now I can not get my phone numbers and photos from the set, the phone is not functioning, please advise.

This was my first camera phone and it's still in daily use three years on! The Philips 535 is a classic phone which doesn't date!

The Philips 535 good but its parts not available in Pakistan so I suggest to all Pakistani dont buy it and now it is not state of the art technalogy

I got the Philips 535 mobile phone after my old Nokia, and it seemed like a superb deal. It had a camera, and infrared, and it was stylish. And all for about £80 at the time. How wrong was I?

The phone has a good camera! The picture quality is actually OK. However, it very often freezes once a photo has been taken. So much so, that I had stopped using it. When on Demo mode, it froze every time. It froze while on the DJ mode. It froze while composing messages, and it froze when I was selecting wallpaper. It simply freezes all the time.

The joystick kept falling out, and it was a noisy and hard to use anyway. The buttons also fell out! It was a cheaply made phone, with no quality. It was confusing, and the joystick often refused to move. The games were terrible. However, it was quite easy to change wallpaper (if it wasn't frozen!). Sending MMS messages was a long process, and it rarely sent them properly.

The whole thing scratches easily, is confusing to use, is boring, and cheaply made. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now! It's terrible.

I don't recommend this phone to anyone. I have had my Philips 535 for about 1 year now. First month of buying it I had faults, (freezing, loosing signal, screen blur, changing language on its own) this all happens. Messaging is good if you don't have any of these faults. Having one of these faults always guaranteed, to cause another one. I have sent my phone back to be repaired, (4 months ago) and it still hasn't been returned. They can't find out why this is happening but won't replace it, even though it doesn't work!!!

If you were going to buy this phone all I can say is you are wasting your money. I wasted £80 buying it along with other people I know.

The pictures on the phone are brilliant and also ringtones. But like I said having a tiny fault knocks everything off.

So put your wallets away and get a better phone. (Stay away from the N-Gage as well)

If you want to buy a small phone for texting and ringing only then buy the Samsung A80, small, looks good, different flashing L.E.D's, also I've never heard such brilliant polyphonic ringtones in my life. They sound brilliant. It doesn't buzz or anything. Yer there is a downside like it tends to turn off now and then but not much and it's only because its got a low battery.

It holds up to 200 messages and 1000!!!! (I think more, could be 2000) phone book entries.

Get this phone I have it's brilliant.

The Philips 535 has a good screen quality, good camera quality and pixel settings can be changed highest being 640 x 480. It has around 2 mb space for pics, ringtones, etc. It also has infrared which allows you to send and recieve files such as pics and ringtones. There's a ringtone mixer so you can mix your own tones.