Philips 650

I remember this phone. In those years it was a good phone with advanced features. Very convenient slider, good quality of communication, the battery held the charge for a long time. Now this is a story.

I was looking for a long time, for a phone with the standby time of the Philips 650 mobile phone. I have been using it for five months now, and I am really pleased with it. I am not a power talker (on average of 15 minutes per day), and I recharge it at two week intervals. I have a few requests though; I mailed them to Philips too. Maybe if they get more requests they will release a firmware upgrade!

1. There should be a possibility to have the external display on permanently.

2. The missed call announcement should be louder, at a fixed interval, and also, maybe a blink of the icon on the external screen would help.

3. The phonebook:-

3.1 Once you have highlighted a name in the phonebook, pressing OK should display the information about that contact, not the menu it displays now.

3.2 There should be a possibility to change the way the names are displayed (now they're sorted by "last name"). I would like to have them sorted by first name, as long as I have different fields for first and last name.

4. There isn't a T9 function for Romanian.

Overall it is the best phone I ever had.