
COULD BE ALOT WORSE!!
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I was looking for a cell phone to-get this:TALK to people with! I actually had to HUNT for a phone WITHOUT a camera. I already HAVE a camera. If I want to take a picture, I will use my CAMERA. Ill give you a moment to absorb that radical notion...
OK. I've had this phone for about a year now, its my 2nd Nokia of 4 cell phones I've ever owned. I was really mad for the first 8 months because I could FIND NO VOLUME control for calls. Only an "Automatic Volume Control" option, that didnt really seem to do anything. Then one day, my 1 year old was playing with it, (in my metal-sided house in the country I get no signal so he cant call out..:)and when I got it back from him, he had tried to call out, and the LITTLE TYKE FOUND THE VOLUME CONTROL for me!!! When you are in a call, press left or right on the d-pad (assuming you are in the main idle screen ONLY; if you have used the keypad to enter digits in a call, this wont work) and THATS where the volume control is!! That is the only time it works. I never could find that info in the owner's manual, they could write it alot better!
So now its nice and loud. Speakerphone is great, graphics and screen are great, handsfree is great, battery life is great! I have dropped this phone probably 20-30 times on CONCRETE, still works great, just a few scratches on the chrome trim. Ha. Durable. It got left out in the summer sun once, which messed up the snap-open-close hinge mechanism, so now its just all floppy... No biggie, just not snazzy to flick out in front of people..but like I said, I got this to TALK to people with, not to impress.
But since you mentioned impressing, check this out: Nokia's website doesnt tell you, but there IS a data cable for it,(I got mine right here on Ebay, hint hint its the CA-45 Fbus type of USB cable hee hee) and software too! Forget about their PCSuite stuff, MobiMB from LOGOMANAGER.CO.UK has the software to put your own graphics and tones into the phone. I have absolutely one of a kind ringtones (it takes mp3 format!) and wallpapers, using photoshp and soundforge I can make any image or sound I want! Impressive huh?
All that being said, decent phone, takes a moment or two to find a signal. If Nokia wrote a better manual and provided better online support for features, it would be perfect. But they make like 30 million different phones, (how different can they all be, really?) so I guess they dont put too much effort into promoting one of their cheapest models. Go figure. I would recommend this phone to anyone who needs to TALK to people. And I still suck at Solitaire, BTW.
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