When the user searches to itself for a telephone set of initial level today before it by all means there is a dilemma: to take “heaped more up” monochrome phone with weight of additional “counters” or to get let less functional, but with color display of the display (about the market of second-hand phones in this article speech does not go at all). Besides, it is desirable, that this phone has been let out by an eminent brand, was high quality, had the strong case, a quite good electronic stuffing, potential to there is nobody perfection - in a word that it did not lag behind almost more venerable electronic colleagues. For the manufacturer of phones the optimum combination listed above parameters is a golden mean to which it is necessary to aspire constantly. For the buyer a choice of an optimum telephone set - a constant headache. Here and I became once before a dilemma that is better: The obsolete monochrome device with enough “advanced” stuffing or the color phone of initial level much less allocated with additional functions. Having thought, I have decided to test one of the cheapest (but not the most bad!) models of cellular telephones. The today’s review is entirely devoted the modern device of initial level with color display of the screen - Motorola C155.

The device specification: alas, but without transfer of all standard “novelty” and “lotions” of this phone this review it will be far not the full. So, here that I managed to get from the Internet and a management on using phone:
- Phone is efficient in networks GSM of 900 and 1800 MHz;
- Device weight: 81 г;
- The sizes: 98х45х21;
- Time of continuous conversation: 3,5 hours;
- A waiting time: 200 hours;
- The aerial built in;
- The accumulator lithium-ionic 920 mAh;
- Gymnastics time: 2 hours;
- Case type: the classical;
- Display type: STN, 4096 colors, 96х64 pixel;
- Number of lines: till 3 lines of the text on 16 symbols + a line of the office information and one more line of registration;
- A sound: 16-voice-frequency polyphony, loud communication, vibrocall, a silent call, various variants of work vibrocall, loading of melodies, the editor of melodies - as a melody can be used MIDI-files;
- Management of calls: a multipart conference, call readdressing, number definition;
- The keyboard: 4-item joystick, keyboard blocking, sound indication, input by Cyrillic’s, the answer to a call pressing of any key, a fast set;
- The interface of the user: adjusted profiles, a loudness regulator;
- An organizer: hours, an alarm clock, the calculator, a stop watch, the converter of currencies, a calendar;
- The conversation control: the control of time of conversation, the information on conversation cost, a call interdiction;
- Data transmission: SMS, EMS, MMS, GPRS (4+1), WAP (the version of a browser 1.2.1), loading of pictures and melodies, possibility of sending of one message to several addressees;
- Memory: number of records - 100 names + memory of a SIM-card;
- Games: are present;
- Java-appendices: J2ME, MIDP 1.0;
- Preventions and protection: phone code, PIN, PUK, PIN 2, PUK 2, restriction of calls, the minute timer.

On testing has got two identical phones Motorola C 155. They are delivered in enough volume packing where, except the device, there is a guarantee coupon of the official dealer centre, the instruction on using phone and battery charger. A complete set too not блещет a variety. Budget it is felt in all: in absence of a cover, a lace, in simplicity of a design of packing.

Appearance

Motorola C155 at more close acquaintance extremely reminds the most popular model of company Motorola - phone Motorola C 350. These two models are very close on the basic functions and the general using. However appearance Motorola C 155 reminds the smaller colleague - serial model Motorola with 115 (by the way, monochrome) much more. Phone has the design most typical for the majority of budgetary phones Motorola. Appearance of “device” will be most interesting to young men - to students and businessmen. Fans solid by sight cellular telephones should look to themselves for other device - this has more youth and stylish design. The device case is executed from qualitative plastic which is usually characteristic for phones of higher class (that rather pleases). By the way, on buttons, the case and its other components the manufacturer gives a three-year guarantee, that already in itself inspire trust. Smooth and streamline forms of the case, the rounded corners, and the aerial hidden in the case do the device very convenient in circulation. Actually, when you take this phone in a hand you do not feel any discomfort - the device lies down in a palm as poured in. So designers Motorola for an ingenuity can put «five with plus». Color of the case black also is looked stylishly enough. The case strong enough - is not present even a hint on deflections and проседания. Connections of details are driven to each other densely enough and have no люфта and extraneous scratches - in a word, before us a qualitative nutlet-robust fellow from an eminent brand. Obviously, the manufacturer has decided to emphasize on good quality and quality of the case of phone not to please to its low price that should please. In the top part of the case there is an aperture for device carrying on a neck, and on bottom - a light-emitting diode of additional charge of phone and port of additional charge. On a case left-hand side there is an aperture for connection sets. An arrangement of buttons of phone typically for the majority of all cellular telephones (the button plastic). Weight of the device small and the small sizes of phone approach for carrying practically in any pocket. In the top part of the case firm logo Motorola under which it is hidden acoustical динамик flaunts. Buttons of the device of grey color. The keyboard has sine-turquoise illumination. Its keys big and as a whole are convenient enough for number set. A navigation key round four-item with the button of a call of the basic menu entered in the centre. To tell the truth, arrange here developers button OK or choice Acknowledgement, navigation would become in general irreproachable, but - alas - it is necessary to be content with that is.

The screen. It is a STN-matrix with possibility of display to 4096 colors. The permission - 96х65 pixels. By the way, the sizes of the screen are absolutely insignificant (18х28 mm), but as a whole approach for comfortable reading of lines. Partially they increase at the expense of round protective glass of the case which is executed in the form of a lens. The line of the office information and one more line of registration is located on a screen matrix till three lines of the text on 16 symbols +. To the aforesaid it is necessary to add, that in connection with the small size of the screen of the name of many inscriptions of the menu (and not only) become chopped off what not to eat at all well. But it not that other, as a payment for cheap small, but the COLOR matrix.
The accumulator. Its capacity makes 920 mAh. Without additional charge at daily active half-hour use devices at me were regularly worked by four days. I think, that at small quantity of calls Motorola С155 it is capable to hold on much longer - somewhere about 6-7 days. The manufacturer. Under an accumulator cover on phone case flaunts world famous “made in Chinа”. However on a box-packing it is specified, that the unit in Thailand is packed. What you will tell? All is predicted enough and fair enough from the manufacturer.

The menu. To come to be in the main menu it is possible, having pressed the central button entered in a ring of navigation of the device. The basic points of the menu are located on the screen on one and thumbed through from top to down or upside-down on a circle. Generally all phone menu inherently looks like hierarchy - from the main thing to private. Basic menu Motorola C 155 has following sections: the Directory, Messages, Last calls, my menu, notification Type, the Alarm clock, Options, Tools, the Fast set, Games, the Browser and the Chat. The user of phone can interchange the position of all points of the menu how to it will be convenient, that is very good. Besides, in Motorola C 155 creation of the labels in the menu is possible. Icons of the main menu of the device have animation which can be disconnected in options. Besides, in phone menu it is possible to choose prompt and time through which that will appear at phone idle time (from 1 till 5 minutes). At the beginning of work of prompt some time will start to be shone the screen (illumination joins). Possibly, it is made that it was possible to consider prompt since at the switched off illumination to consider it becomes practically impossible. From all sections of the menu Options have the biggest size. The majority of groups of the basic and additional options of phone here contains: call blocking, call readdressing, a condition of phone, adjustment of calls, adjustment of the menu of the device, adjustment of appearance of the screen. Parameters of adjustment of sounds and melodies and other options are in separate point of the main menu. In options it is possible to appoint conformity of a concrete melody to a certain entering call, to adjust features of scrolling of lists, to appoint prompt-greeting and a banner-greeting (by the way, at phone inclusion at first there is a firm not adjusted prompt: The device screen a certain young man on a skateboard - the same, but in back order occurs and at phone reenergizing). Also in device options it is possible to adjust use of vocal mail, to activate functions the Accelerated set and the Set in one contact, to appoint features of readdressing of calls, to adjust parameters of a conference - of a call (simultaneous conversation with several people) to adjust work with entering and proceeding text messages and many other things. In the whole menu of options of phone not блещет the big variety, but it is quite functional, intuitively clear and it will be convenient for the majority of people. By the way, with menu russification there are some problems - in several places I have noticed extraneous symbols instead of the necessary letters. But it already the claim not to the manufacturer of phone, and to “curve” hands of the programmer who has spent russification of this cellular telephone (as it has appeared later, it is a problem not only my copy).

In the Telephone directory of the menu the user can make the list of the necessary names and phones. Feature: for one name it is possible to appoint only one number (it is insignificant, but nevertheless a lack). For each name it is possible to appoint a certain melody of a call. It is remarkable, that at each inclusion of phone at once in the telephone directory to you to get, most likely, it will not turn out. The matter is that to open the directory it is possible only after the lapse of some time after phone inclusion. Otherwise the device asks to try to enter a little bit later. Possibly, all the matter is that all numbers remain in memory of your SIM-card. All they can be no more than 230. If not to dig deeply directory to use simply enough and conveniently. For a set of letters of Cyrillic’s it is necessary to be switched at once to Russian apportion as by default the English-speaking keyboard (it here is established it is possible to make, having pressed the central button of a call in the menu, entered in a navigation ring and to choose the necessary point of the menu from the dropped out list). In section of the menu of the Message it is possible to see and make quickly entering and outgoing messages, messages of vocal mail, the message of a browser and the message of information mail. Also here it is possible to see and make fast notes for sending by e-mail. In total 155 it is possible to store in memory Motorola C about 20 sms (not much and not a little - quite enough). At drawing up of melodies do not forget, that the device supports standard EMS. Therefore all text messages it is possible, besides to supplement with pictures and melodies. Has undressed Last calls contains the information on last accepted and out coming calls on a cellular telephone. Here it is possible to see also numbers of the passed calls and at need to call back to the opponent. In this section there is also a task setter of conversations and a notebook for drawing up of messages by the user. In section notification Type it is possible to establish type of a profile of a sound signal (a loud call, a silent call, a vibro call and various combinations of three listed profiles). Also here loudness of a sound signal of phone is established (from 0 to 7), it is possible to choose this or that melody for any channel of the notification (for a call, vocal and e-mail). Besides, in this section of the menu the user can adjust loudness of a buzzer by pressing of buttons of the keyboard and see quantity of an empty seat in memory of phone.

The alarm clock in Motorola C 155 is established elementary: for this purpose it is necessary to choose section “to Create a new alarm clock”, then somehow it to call, establish time of operation of an alarm clock (where without it :))?, then to choose the necessary type of a signal and to establish demanded level of loudness (it is desirable not too silent or loud - in that case phone to you will much long serve:))). Further the wonderful technics will try to wake you at the appointed time. Phone supports some alarm clocks simultaneously. The section of the menu Tools contains the calculator, a stop watch and the menu of an office call (here it is possible to learn balance of the account and to set some questions to the cellular operator). The Game menu contains some unpretentious games: races, torpedoes and magic (the perverted tetris). It is to begin with poorly, but at desire the user and itself can injection on phone any game from the Internet. A fast set. The given function of the menu allows typing the programmed numbers stored in memory of phone. The operator of cellular communication can program on phone one or several numbers of a fast set (for example, support service number). To cause such number, simply enough to choose it from the list of a fast set. The bookmark the Browser contains some points of the menu: Start WAP, bookmarks, transition to URL (a window of a browser) and point of Adjustment of a browser. All is clear. Anything especial. For young (and not so) generations developers have entered into the menu point the Chat. I hope, sense of this word to you to explain it is not necessary. Here all is simple: we press the menu subparagraph to Begin a SMS chat, we choose to themselves a pseudonym, and forward… Also in this section of the menu phone conducts magazine of a SMS chat which at desire can be cleared.

General impressions from using phone

Quality of display of screen Motorola C 155 can be characterized as good. The image accurate enough, brightness of the screen quite sufficient (the screen remains well shined and quite read at a bright sunlight). In menu options it is possible to adjust contrast; brightness is not subject to adjustment. Generally I think, what even the most good monochrome screen of phone cannot compete with most плохоньким the screen of the color image. As has shown comparison in tested pair of phones, brightness of the screen and primary color of a matrix differed from each other (at least, I had an impression, that telephone matrixes, and phones, were are simply taken from different parties) a little. The Communication quality (and it is the most important tested indicator) it is possible to characterize as very good. Quality of transfer of a timbre of a voice at high level, thus the timbre of a voice of the opponent is as much as possible approached to the real. Sound in acoustical to dynamics very pure without extraneous additional sounds, distortions and hissing. The signal assured also does not vanish on sufficient removal from send-receive station. Thus loudness and a communication quality especially are not lost. Loudness of a telephone sound call in the device is quite comprehensible, vibrocall by average and can be used together with a sound signal. In general, phone Motorola with 155 has proved to be on «four with bo-about-olshim plus» (on five-point system of an estimation). It becomes excellent start for many young men some constrained in means for purchase of expensive and advanced mobile phone with the color screen of display. At certain quantity of lacks Motorola With 155 possesses weight of positive sides: The small sizes, the strong and qualitative case, color matrix, stylish design, excellent communication quality, long operating time, simple enough and convenient menu, polyphony, possibility закачки sound files and pictures, containing in more expensive phones, and - the most important thing - the low price (at the moment of article writing this device can be found in limits of Minsk under the price on the average from 70 to 80 evergreen raccoons). The result arises by itself: instead of “super heaped up” phone with the monochrome display the user had today a real chance to buy a cellular telephone with a color matrix, but with smaller quantity for the price 100 dollars there are less. And it already rather not bad in itself. And now do not say, that never heard about cheap mobiles with a color matrix and high quality of communication!