CECT Sciphone I68

My son has an iphone and I fell in love with it, however the price of an iphone phone is just silly. I researched this phone and found a ebayer who offers 1 year UK service (not the return to China option) which gave me the confidence to buy this phone.

I have had the phone for one week and so far have been very impressed. It has dual sim cards and I have both working I have used Swisscom, Orange UK, and Cytavodafone in the phone with no problems so works well in France Germany and Switzerland. I have had no problems with signals and strength. A quick start guide was provided and in that there is a link to the full English manual which I printed from the internet. It will not take automatic settings for MMS so you have to set this up yourself, however my seller provided intructions this for me via email and following the idiots guide it worked fine.

The Main advantage is running 2 sims at once, I have different ring tones and know which line is being called.

I hardly use the stylus provide and find just tapping with my nail works very well. The camera is not brilliant (but it is a phone), it does have a video which my son's iphone doesn't. Other features include, the usual games, calculator, currency converter, email, wap, mms and Java which opens up a whole new field of applications.

My favourite extra is the ebook reader, I have downloaded 6 books and read 2 they are easy and convenient to read, and free, (obviously not latest novels but 1000's to choose from. You can also download music and video's.

Dislikes, nothing that would stop me highly recommending the phone, shake funtion changes wallpaper and music with a shake but annoying so just turned it off, now not annoying. qwerty key board was odd to start with instead of predictive text but after a week I am use to it, you would need to use the stylus to tap emails out if no nails and can be fiddly. I would not buy this for my husband as he can be very unforgiving with a mobile (quite often found rolling about on the car floor) and although I have had no problems I would worry about it's durability if dropped or treated badly.

All in all I would say as a cheap alternative to an iphone with the options of any sim (except 3 I think) or 2 sims at once, pay as you go or contract it's ideal and if you find out you don't like touch screen phones you haven't lost alot.