Making a Call When the phone is in automatic Standby - you first need to press the little button in the centre of the scroll wheel to activate the phone, then you simply tap the centre of the LCD display to access what is essentially a mock-up of a Serene keypad. Quite natty actually, and after a little while i am getting used to scrolling and clicking

Everyday use Texting.. Texting on the Serenata is like trying to weave fog!!. I found the Serene hard work, but they have gone one step further and actually made the predictive text accessible by scroll wheel!! A downside of not having a keypad, and i'm sure this will drive some people mad. However, if you're not a prolific texter - who cares

The Sound This is the question that everyone wants answering - what does it sound like? Well, you flip down the little sprung rectangle of brushed Alu at the rear - and off you go! Initially it's really a mixed reaction as my heart was saying 'it's Bang & Olufsen - it's going to be LOUD' - but my brain was saying 'there's

Using the Serenata as a Mobile Phone Bang & Olufsen are making great pains to point out that the Serenata was never designed as a phone - but a portable music device that just happens to have a phone inbuilt. However, with a name so similar to Serene i wonder if people will just assume it's the next generation of Serene - which is a dedicated

Can i also say i've typed up the Torben interview, and am about half way through the Serenata Review. The hours are whizzing by!! It will be on tonight - i guarantee - but most of you may have gone to bed!! Still, it doesn't steal the thunder from the Wednesday Night thread which we all love!. Lee

jandyt: 9 LEE: Those are the standard press pictures. I sat behind the T3 reporter on the coach! Did he look a bit thick? Couldn't even spell Serenata!!! Far be it from me to criticise my fellow "hacks" - but he was asleep most of the time on the coach. He was pretty young (i'd say early 20's) and had obviously been to a great

Okay - now to the phone itself.. -------- Handling the phone When you pick up the phone, it certainly has quite a heavy and chunky feel to it - but when your head gets around how comfortable it is to hold you seem to forget about this. If it was feather-light, it would feel cheap - so heavy is good in my opinion. It was also slightly larger than i expected

Next up is the actual contents of the box, as outlined in the initial Tech-Specs list - but here they are anyway for you to see.

For the record - if you click on any of the images, you should get an enlarged view in a seperate window. The first thing i noticed when being handed the Serenata was the size of the box - you could get some small shoes in there!! Packaging of the smaller 'gift' style items is becoming very important to Bang & Olufsen as presenting a premium

Okay - i've got another eight pages like that, but you can read all that elsewhere. I can say there is a tan-coloured Louis Vuitton case for it, which actually looks nice, but probably costs a squillion pounds more than the phone anyway... I'm sure you are all interested to know what i think of the phone - so here's the schedule! A total