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The only thing that doesn't like me in this phone is the quality of the material. Very cheap and easy to spoil. It is bad for a mobile with such an easy menu and large memory capacity in elements like email, site etc.
A year on from the first mobile phone that was dedicated to Skype, 3, the mobile phone operator, has released a follow-up second version titled the S2. Available as a pay-as-you-go (and contract) offering from the operator, the S2 is a candybar glossy black and silver affair that is inoffensive to look at and will appeal to many looking for a mobile phone that sits firmly in the middle ground. There is a 2.2-inch QVGA screen (240 x 320 pixels), a keypad that has thin, narrow, keys and the usual array of shortcut keys on the sides for taking pictures and changing the volume. Above the keypad there is a d-pad, and further shortcut keys allowing you to access the menu beyond the pick up and hang up buttons, and while these aren’t perfectly arranged to be easy to use (they are in a c and reversed c to give it symmetry), they aren't too difficult or cluttered either. Other features include a microSD card slot so you can expand the memory beyond the phone's meagre 50MB and a 3.2-megapixel camera on the back so you can take pictures or record video. Being available on the 3 network means the phone is 3G ready, and 3 has taken this one step further and offering HSDPA connectivity for fast internet access. Probably hoping to get people to use the HSDPA connectivity further, 3 has bundled modem drivers for the device in the box, meaning you can use this phone to connect to the Internet on your laptop, however, you can't do this and benefit from the free Skype calls: it will all be classed as data and charged accordingly. How the phone looks is one thing, but what about performance? Turning the phone on gives you a simple home screen with a series of icons at the bottom that you can then scroll through. Clearly the way new phone interfaces are going (we've seen similar designs on the new BlackBerry and demoed Android handsets), the system lets you quickly scroll through your applications very much like pressing Alt-Tab on your PC. In use and it is easy to find the app you want, although it we are being really picky, it's frustrating if the app you want is some way through. Of course to get around this there is a menu button that gives you a more familiar grid and quicker access, but on the whole we like it. Press the Skype button - after all that's the main reason you've bought the handset - and all that's required is your login. Pulling in your Skype contact list, the software lets you, like the first model, phone anyone in your Skype contacts Skype-to-Skype for free when in the UK. While the phone is on you stay logged in and contacts theoretically are automatically synced between your PC and phone. (We experienced a delay in syncing contacts, however based on previous experience with the Skype software on the original phone we believe this might have been down to new software not fully finalised, as the phone isn't released until the end of August.) Call quality was good on our tests, not perfect, but good enough and certainly in line with Skype call quality on the PC or Mac.Read full review
A good phone for anyone new to Smart phones, simple to use, and plenty to download for it as supports java, also comes pre-installed with skype, which is free on 3network, along with msn messenger and ebay... So its a pay as you go fone that is cheap and full of surprises...
This little phone is brilliant, i know other manufacturers offer a skype service on the phones but this way with the skype button is better, my son lives in Australia and we can communicate at a click of a button for FREE and the great thing is you know when they are on line, i have bought 3 of these phones now for my other children so we can all talk together,
nice size phone loud ring tones keys litte small, i bought mine from ireland and was not aware 3 uk was not compatiable so i had to have it unlocked the skype function,internet functions dont work as a result .i also call 3 to hear if i could solve this some how but thy just kept saying it was not a 3 phone strange as 3 is written on the phone and they sold it in there shops-very unprofessional anyway good phone but dont buy from overseas
