Philips 655 Mobile Phone Review

Philips 655 Details

tonypanduru it's a good phone but it has a few problems infrared port suports only 50kb to be transmited or receveid,camera needs a lot of light to take a good picture but the quality is very good,animations plays slow,games and apps are a bit hard to find,pictures are hard to receive unles you use the right software to convert them, recordings are stored in a crazy format *.fr and you cant send them by infrared, it has a defragmentation proces that is kind of stupid(after you send mms) well thats the bad side
the good things about it are:
cool design
loud speaker
infrared is compatible with all phones
BeDJ a great ringtone composer
great sound quality
7 mb memory
tv slide show
the adp format for plays quite well and you can convert small mp3(or part of an mp3 about 10 secons)
a good phone for this price
if anyoane wants games or apps for this phone contact me

zeon no it hasn't!

Ramses Ok tonypanduru but where do you put it? how do you connect the handsfree on this telephone ?

Ade It looks like we can't transfer pictures or anything else from the phone to the computer. This is what Philis itself emailed to me.
A CRAZY BUG, indeed. The manual says the contrary!
Is Philips a serious corporation? I think so. But not in this case!!!

soylera Ade I use infrared port to transfer data from 655 to PC. I do not use any spesific program for this i ust say send by infrared yhays all.. but you can not send large data by this way..

mxw The worst phone I ever had (I was using Nokias and SE before). Maybe it looks nice - that is why I bought it - but the software is VERY stupid... :-((

For example:
- phonebook entries are sorted in a different way for UPPER and LOWER case letters;
- that is why you cannot search entries in phonebook;
- SMS are sorted in completely unknown way - looking like "sorting by contents" :-))))))))
- the phone is extreamly slow (f.ex. you have to push arrow down two or three times to move the cursor one line down - on nearly any list);
- the "red button" (on-hook) not always works;
- when editing SMS-to-send, when you leave the phone for a moment, the phone goes for a screensaver, and the message is lost;
- you cannot use national-letters in SMS or phonebook entries;
- when you turn the phone on it plays extreamly LOUD some disco-music, which cannot be silenced nor turned off - what makes it difficult to turn the phone in a discrete way (e.g. at work or at hospital);
- difficult menu - sometimes you have to dig six or more levels down to get some simple function (e.g. outgoing calls counter);
- when you put an alarm (buzer) into a sleep mode (7 min.) there are no way to turn it off (you have to wait this 7 min. and press "OK" twice - if you press any other key, you have to wait another 7 min. for next try)
- etc. etc.

Generally: looking nice, but poor software engineering. Let's hope Philips will employ better specialists soon and a firmware update will solve all problems...

tonypanduru from me email me or give me your email adress

sanctos cable will not solve any problem. the only way to send pictures from mobile to pc is by infrared. but guss what? it dosen't work. i told Philips about this and i recive a mail in witch thei told me that i shoud take my phone to a service. in the end i found out that the problem can not be fix.

ionut Please somebody tell me if this phone has a video camera and what's a VGA cam. I might buy it.

tonypanduru about the fotocall function it works for groups so go to phonebook>settings>group you have about 20 groups so make a group whit only one person(go back to phonebook and delect the gruop for that person in the picture)