Sagem my501C - user opinions and reviews

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Design
7.6
Features
7.3
Performance
7.1
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wait till the phone freezes .
you wont be so cool .

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  • 2007-04-19 03:52
  • pwdw
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i just got 1 of these !! complete wiv photo printer, bluetooth dongle & £10credit for 65 quid!! how cheap is that!!!!!!
took me 10mins to load up mp3's. 5 mins to work out cam/printer
seems bloody good to me

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  • 2007-04-18 18:32
  • pwfX
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You got MEMORY CARD!
It refuses some transfers:.image size too big,format audio not allowed.
You must also send into service.There is a bug which should be solved(background trouble).
The BTooth is not for mp3/aac transfer.Use a cable(miniUSB from HP,CAnon photo)or a card-reader.
LEARN to USE the PHONE!

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  • 2007-04-03 16:34
  • n2yr
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I got this phone for christmas and was very pleased as it has good features! I soon regretted this as it is a VERY slow phone!!! When i flip it up it stays on a black screen for so long AND then my background comes up. I also have to keep puting my background back up as it just disappears. It does not have much memory for songs as i can only fit about 6. The bluetooth is so slow and sometimes after it sends it says 'failed when reading'!!!!! I will never buy a sagem mobile again EVER!!!!!

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  • 2007-04-02 10:57
  • mqdb
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really good phone but what headphones can you use all i have tried do not fit

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  • 2007-03-29 19:39
  • mHdx
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Well, I'll give it a bit of support. I'm not as young as many of you on here and I'm female so I like the pink colour (makes sure hubby or son doesn't help themselves to it :)) I don't do a lot of texting so that's not an issue with me. The camera works OK - haven't tried the video yet. Just connected my Bluetooth headset to it (Motorola HS820) and it seems to be working OK. Overall I'm very pleased with the phone - it does what I want it to do. The only downside is I don't think it has voice activation which surprises me as it's Bluetooth compatible, although my previous phone was a Motorola Razr (fell out with T-Mobile so it doesn't work now) and the voice activation didn't always work on that anyway.

The My501C is on the Orange Pay As You Go network and I got a good deal on it so I'm happy.

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  • 2007-03-23 22:35
  • pYZu
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There is no help with this phone. Buy some other brand and forget about this miserable sagem my501c.

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  • 2007-03-20 12:27
  • m1Tk
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Video is limited on aproximatly 10-15 sec. duration and when you done recording it compresses recorded material so it has pour output.Can I improve this,will mini SD card help?Please guys!!!

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  • 2007-03-19 11:28
  • prN%
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i agree not a mans fone more 4 the women

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  • 2007-03-18 21:20
  • mHpx
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this fone is slow i wish i never brought it n its a girlz fone not really 4 boyz

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  • 2007-03-18 21:19
  • mHpx
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mmm sagem my501c

very nice design
slow performance
good camera
display not bad
sound sucks..and not that loud
price lm59..relatively cheap...but for its price it is worth it although there are many MANY other BETTER phones.

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  • 2007-03-18 13:05
  • p7J7
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i got my sagem thorght i got a real deal then i find out the bluetooth is lame for some reason people cannot send me n e thing i e songs or vids i can only get pics it just says rejected and even sometimes now when i record a vid and play it back it says rejected again is this normal and if so can i send it back

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  • 2007-03-10 22:54
  • iLMH
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The volume in mp3 is usually a matter of the mp3 imported from PC(loud in pc=loud in phone).
If you want more vol.in ringtone use a software equalizer(but the quality will be less).

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  • 2007-03-10 22:49
  • n2yr
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well,
i have had this phone for nearly 1 week but i have 1 problem....my mp3 is not that good ...i have no clue for what to do and how to download.
the phones not to bad.
just the volume is a problem!

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  • 2007-03-10 20:52
  • SeLm
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I purchased this phone on the 8th March 2007 and took it back on the 10th March (was bought from Argos at £39.99 on Virgin Network).
Initial impression of the phone when it was bought it looked a nice phone.
When I finally had the phone charged up it was found to be
1) Slow accessing various parts of the phone especially sms when changing to mms.
2) Sound Volume was poor and that included the hands free speaker option (waste of time).
3) Camera was not too bad for the price.
4) MP3 Player now this is where the problems start (when you start playing music (midi, mp3 and aac it starts ok ish but after flicking through about 5 tunes the phone display goes off then comes back on with a blank white screen with a grey line and welcome as if the phone was crashing and re booting itself).
5) After the mp3 problem occures your wallpaper pre set by yourself changes to a blank screen and no wallpaper and the T9 Predictive Text mode which was set changes back to ABC Tap Tap mode.
6) The inner screen is more like a CSTN screen rather than a TFT similar to the old Sony Ericsson T610 ( a poor show).
Basically i would advise anyone considering to buy this phone on Virgin to give it a miss (if your thinking of getting it on another network get a demonstration before you buy checking out what i have put in here, orange uk stores should be fine to show you the phone working, if anyone refuses to allow you to try the phone out in a phone shop then dont buy the phone this goes for any other phone being sold unless you have a good returns policy like a real virgin store has. Argos is not the best place to ask for a refund bit like getting blood out of a stone. They dont allow you to even try the phones out at home and change your mind as they say returns in 30 days only if unused).
ONE IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE:
All of Argos sold Virgin Phones have Sim Cards with no free £5 Airtime Credit (they must have asked for it to be not put on the sim). The Argos Version of this phone does not come with handsfree kit or memory card reader.

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  • 2007-03-10 18:35
  • pwiS
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Seems to me that you're using an operator software not a Sagem original.

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  • 2007-03-06 00:08
  • nDEZ
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I've had this phone for 3 months now, when I got it I was very happy with it. For the price you get an awful lot of good features, also I love the red colour. However, some aspects have irritated me so much, I have ordered a Nokia 1100, like the one I used to have. This Sagem phone has several bugs in it which over time are really aggravating, such as not being able to turn off the vibrate alert, even when that option is set in the menu. If I use the alarm clock, and select to switch the phone on when the alarm goes off, it forgets what the wallpaper was, I am forever resetting this. The bluetooth seems unable to connect with Samsung mobiles (this may be a samsung problem). Also, T-Mobile have 'customised' it poorly, it seems much too easy to go online with it by accident. The text message alerts are basically ringtones, no straightforward beep if you get a message, this will ring excessively (Sagem have a fixation with animal noises for ringtones - different, yes. But the novelty soon wears off!). I have also experienced the mono headset problem, and have cut some of the plastic coating off the adaptor, but its still very temperamental. The predictive text seems to put all the words I use most at the very end of the list you have to scroll through, why its done this I have no idea. Also trying to find someone to unlock it has proven impossible, I only wanted it on Orange, but in red and not pink as Orange offered. The fact that it can charge from USB is pretty neat though, but plugging it into my computer also makes the phone forget what the wallpaper was. Oh and the fact that you have to confirm everything before it will delete anything is also an annoyance. I bought this as a phone/camera/Mp3 player. But it performs unsatisfactorily on all counts. I will go back to using iPod/digital camera, and a phone that communicates well - the Nokia 1100. If you can live with the idiosyncracies of this phone, then it represents astonishing value. It still doesn't seem quite polished enough, quite rough around the edges, hopefully Sagem will improve the software in future.

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  • 2007-03-05 23:49
  • mqkM
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Can anyone help? I have purchased trough Sagem a USB data cable to try to transfer data from my PC to my phone. What a I doing wrong, all I get is rejected. Please someone help before I go insane!!!!!!!

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  • 2007-02-27 22:09
  • mHhH
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Data Transfer:
Possibilites are via Bluetooth or data cable. Data cable (USB type Mini B - male) is almost certainly more reliable & is cheaply available from 'phone shops, electronics shops, camera shops or Ebay. (Be very careful about the data cable type - there are various versions of mini usb connectors supposedly 'standard' connectors & a seemingly increasing number of 'item specific'/manufacturers own versions.)
NOTE: 'Phone must be USB enabled ('Menu', 'Settings', 'Connectivity', 'USB Mode', 'At Plugging-in' & 'Validate'.) When I first connected my 'phone to PC via cable, the PC had to be restarted before I was able to copy to the 'phone's folders or to the MicroSD card's (still in the 'phone) folders. The MicroSD card appeared then in Windows Explorer as one 'Removable Disk' & the 'phone's storage appeared as another 'Removable Disk'.

MP3s:
So far, I've only managed to get MP3s to the 'phone using a data cable or by removing the MicroSD card from the 'phone & transferring the music files directly to the card (via a multi-card reader/writer) & replacing card into 'phone. I've not, as yet, been able to get any type of files to transfer via a Bluetooth dongle (Belkin F8T001uk) from the PC.

Ringtones:
It appears ringtones must be in the 'MIDI' (.mid) format - at least, that is what works for me. (1) Transfer via Bluetooth to the 'phone, alternatively, (2) copy directly from PC onto a MicroSD card & insert that card into the 'phone or (3) use a data cable from PC to 'phone (see 'Data Transfer' section above). I copied the files onto the 'phone so the ringtones work directly through the 'phone rather than sourcing from the card.
I first found out when I just couldn't get along with the standard tones provided. A daughter of a good friend, who is musically inclined, offered to create a simple ringtone on her electronic keyboard. Me not having a data cable for the Sagem my501c meant she saved the music file she created, onto a floppy disk, transferred it to their PC, sent it to her mobile phone & sent it to my phone via Bluetooth. A rigmarole indeed, but it worked.

Editing contacts via PC:
I've not yet found a way of getting the contacts list to the PC, to be able to edit it, then send it back to the 'phone. If someone else has any idea, I'd appreciate the knowledge.

Usability:
I find the menus are a little slow, but the text entry requires the user to be very quick - I wish I could slow it down a little, I often find it has timed out before I can get to the wanted character with my slow fingers.
The camera isn't at all bad. Considering it has no flash, the light sensing works quite well depending on the subject & surroundings.

Be careful with the side buttons regarding incoming calls. I put my 'phone in a belt pouch which apparently left one of the buttons pressed. When someone 'phoned me, this continuous key press connected the call without ringing or vibrating - ten times(!!) - leaving the caller rather irate with me!

I'm using a Southwing SH505 Bluetooth headset by recommendation of a guy in the 'phone shop where I got the Sagem. While I felt it was expensive, I have to say the audio quality is excellent & more than loud enough for use in an old diesel van!

Generally, I'm well impressed with the my501c, especially for the price. Except, that is, for the only awful (pink) colour sold by Orange, but, thanks to the Bluetooth headset, I can limit my embarrassment.

I hope all this helps some of you guys.

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  • 2007-02-25 23:47
  • mWwx
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Australia is so unlucky !!!

Here it only comes in a light purpulish silverish colour on front and everywhere else it is the keypad silver colour.

My friend got it its a great phone. Would have brought one myself if i could get it in red.

Bought a Z550i instead.

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  • 2007-02-24 08:15
  • RBjx
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