Design
The L6 is one of the thinner phones in the market, measuring just 113 by 49 by 10.9mm and weighing just 91 grams. It has a solid silver metallic casing and look, with a form-factor that easily allows it to fit in a pocket or handbag. The only drawback to this design is that it is longer than many phones. The keys are inlayed flat on the keypad, and while generally not a problem, they occasionally seemed difficult to use, especially during one-handed operation. The menu is accessed via a four-way rocker switch with a central selection key plus four additional buttons for quick-access and two buttons for other access on the edges of the unit. The VGA camera with 4x digital zoom is on the back of the unit near the top.
Features
With a design definitely aimed at clued-in but not too technical consumers, the L6 has a range of features that appeal to the basic and more advanced markets. The L6 is a tri-band phone with up to 315 minutes talk time and 345 hours standby time.
Connectivity options are excellent, with a mini-USB port that is used for both power recharging and PC connectivity. An impressive feature for a phone this cheap is the Bluetooth connectivity that allows the phone to interface with a variety of devices and to transfer files or data to your PC.
The phone's VGA camera is not as high resolution as many current phones, but it is not surprising for this price point, and produces adequate photos for casual use. The video camera is of similar quality, but the biggest problem in this area is a lack of memory card slot. With only 10MB of internal memory, there is quite a limit on the amount of pictures or video that can be taken with the camera, and there is no way to expand that capacity. However, the phone does come with a full suite of extras, including a USB adaptor to connect the phone to your PC, appropriate software that makes this interaction a painless and useful process, a power adaptor for recharging and the usual headset connection for hands free operation.
The application set on the phone is definitely aimed at the mid-level consumer, with MP3 ringtones and downloadable sounds, images and animations among the more popular and fun features. More practical tools include picture caller ID, a 500-entry phonebook, inbuilt speaker phone for easy hands free, group SMS, calculator and currency converter, alarm clock and date book with reminder alarm, and WAP 2.0 with Web access.
Performance
A generally useful and easy to use phone, the L6 would be a great choice for anyone who wants a reasonable amount of features in their phone, but isn't too concerned about having the most up to date and advanced innovations. Most importantly, they also won't have to spend too much on the phone, which makes it a good choice for pre-paid users. There are downsides to the L6, including its lack of memory card slot, its easy smudging screen and its sometimes ambiguous screen display when on silent, but these should not be too much of a concern for most users.
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Aimstar
24/09/2008, 01:21 PM
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1/10
Horrible to use, bluetooth doesnt stay on for more than 60 seconds, keeps unlocking itself, and sending messages by itself, or not sending them at all!
Pros: Thin, Nice colour, games are ok
Cons: Video very short
hardly any memory
not reliable
bad pictures and video
back falls off
scratches easily
Bluetooth unreliable
freezes a lot
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dfghn
21/09/2008, 10:47 AM
rating
1/10
reaallly crap phone
Pros: fgdh
Cons: dfsgdh
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Rich g
18/09/2008, 11:49 AM
rating
8/10
A coworker gave me one to use with a prepaid simm card I use with a older Motorola V400 which was pretty well banged up.
Pros: Looks good, slim, bluetooth works good, many features and price is good.
Cons: memory limited, camera resolution could be better, screen smudges easily.
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alexia
06/06/2008, 04:56 PM
rating
5/10
yeah...its alright, the mobile is okay, i hate technology. mobiles suck........ perfer talking to people up front
Pros: -slim and simple
Cons: -camera is crappy
-not alot of storage
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benq-siemens ef81
13/05/2008, 10:44 PM
rating
8/10
L6 is my best experience to try this hand set. Cheap phone with quality features. I like this phone.
Pros: Good looking silver color.
Fast and reliable software.
Cons: Small LCD.
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motousless
10/05/2008, 07:48 PM
rating
2/10
heap of cr@p absalootly useless a briks more usefull wodent recomend it even if it was only 5 bucks
Pros: ummmmm dano cant even get it to work propaly to fid out
Cons: cous there so thin u can throw them a long distance
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yeii
16/04/2008, 07:09 PM
rating
6/10
mnyeh,
Ive had this phone for.. uh 2 years now?
and it stuffs up ALOT..
cant hold barelly any songs..
camera is bad..
Pros: eh..
Cons: mainly everythinn
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rgf
14/03/2008, 04:46 PM
rating
5/10
how do u turn off the sound when watching a video?
Pros: gf
Cons: ggf
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Lulu
28/02/2008, 06:24 PM
rating
6/10
Had it for a year before I could no longer message. Phone would freeze up when I started to type (had predictive text on). However, new phone (LG KG800, DON'T BUY IT!) conked it big time so I'm using the L6 replacement at the moment, and I figured out that if I don't have predictive on, I can REPLY to messages and send with green button, not the send to button. However, when I press space the phone freezes, so my.messages.all.look.like.this (or.wor.se.like.th.is.bec.ause.i.have.n.o.ar.row.bu.t.to.n.use.either). I also just found out yesterday that I can message someone from my phone book by going to their contact, options, send message to.
Also there's been issues with the sound after about 8 months with it. Tones wouldn't play through the files, had to go to change my ringtone settings to listen to a tone. Videos played but also without audio. A kid at school fixed it once, but did same thing after about a month (and the kid left the school by then).
It has it's issues, but while it worked it was awesome phone. A lot of people at my school have this and I've only heard of the audio issues. And it restarting from time to time.
My phone was never dropped, never screwed with, never wet, nothing. I'm extremely podantic when it comes to my phones and such, such a shame that it ran out of warrantly 2 weeks before it started faulting!! :(
Pros: Good size
Speakerphone
Great for people who don't want mass amounts of functions/special effects
The fact it still is kind of sort of working aside from the issues I've had
Cons: No expansion slot for memory.
Only about 10MB internal memory.
The problems I've had.
If you text a lot (like most people who have this phone: teenagers!) then the keys really hurt your fingertips. They're a bit rough, strange.
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anshu
27/02/2008, 07:02 PM
rating
9/10
its good fone whose
standby capacity impressed me alot.............
I've been using it from sept 2006
my cell has the talk hour of 956:34:45
isn't it great..
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