nice phone
Pros:
battery life, size/weight
Cons:
no bluetooth
The Bottom Line:
If you can afford it, this world tri band (GSM 900/1800/1900) phone is very sleek and a great phone.
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Author's Review
Breakdown:
Reception/Clarity - The handset is super clear even with only 2/7 bars. It suffers a little when down to 1 or 0 bars (but which phone doesn't). The speaker phone is very clear, even works well in a car on the seat next to you.
Features/Menu - A sizeable set of features for a Nokia phone. As usual, an easy to navigate menu and some nice shortcuts to text messaging and the calendar from the standby screen. The phone/name list is very nice as you can add multiple numbers to each persons name (general, home, mobile, office, fax), and other bits of info like email, postal address. A whole bunch of other menu features and expandablity with applications and games. The data cable or IR port allow for synchronization with Nokia Data Suite.. allows you to manage almost every aspect of the phone.
Size/Weight - Approximately the same weight as a Nokia 8290 (officially maybe .1 or .2 ounces heavier). It's a lot thinner than the 8290 or the 8260. It is very nice looking and very sleek. The keypad can be a little slippery but overall is very easy to use and very good response from the quad-directional arrow pad.
Screen - The 128 x 128 screen is vibrant, large and very crisp when lit up. The built-in screensaver with a digital clock kind of sucks because you can't read the screen when it is not illuminated. When the screen lights up everything is bright and crisp. Very nice.
Ringtones - Donwloadable (via WAP or IR/DKU-5) 4-tone polyphonic ringtones. The ones included are pretty nice (missing the polyphonic Groovy Blue though!). The nokia sound converter (Nokia PC Suite) is very easy to use.. you can convert any MIDI file into a nice ringtone just by playing with the different instruments you want on your ringtone. Compared to some of the 16-tone polyphonic phones, not nearly as good, but it is sufficient for high quality and low-key ringtones.
Known Bugs (as of 4/03) - If you have different ringtones for each caller group the screen does not light up when a phone rings with something other than the Default ringtone. If you have caller groups and they use the Default ringtone, the callergroup graphic pops up and the screen illuminates though. The rumor is that this will be fixed with future firmware upgrades. The newest firmare upgrade should fix the bad screensaver (I have read, but have not experienced firsthand) mentioned above.
Overall - Very professional looking, yet eye-catching but in a low-key manner (unlike the 7210 or 3650 for instance). Easy to use, and so far my favorite phone. Very solid feel, no creaking (like some other nokia phones), light and compact.
