Nokia 6086

If you have a "dead zone" at home or anywhere that there is wireless access then this phone is for you! Setup is a breeze and I went from 1 bar at home to 4 ----

Love the @Home T-Mobile interface! You basically have unlimited nationwide calling for $9.99 a month when on any open Wifi network. I've used this at school, hotels, and of course at home!

I bought this phone to work as a T-Mobile HotSpot phone and it works great! It was really easy to connect it to the internet, via my existing Wi-Fi. Call quality is as good as cellular while using the Wi-Fi. (This phone will connect to T-Mobile across the internet to make calls. This comes in handy if you have internet access and poor cellular signal)

This phone also gets great reception of the cellular signal too!!

I couldn't be more pleased with the Nokia 6086.

Great Buy........Has all the feature's was in need of.......Easy to read.....Details of the menu makes east to understand!!!!!!!!! Would buy another phone like this one............

my purchase was sent to me promptly. just the way i like it. i would have no problem buying from them again and recommend others to do the same with confidence

There is good Nokia quality here. The design is nice, and it is a solidly built phone. The screen is bright and the images sharp. Call quality is excellent, both hearing and speaking. Good speaker phone also. I have not used the MP3 player - why would I when I have an iPods? The camera is pretty basic, but is easy to use and takes okay little pictures. Functionality and ease of use are the strong points here. Furthermore, I have had excellent reception both in buildings (yes, even basements) and in remote areas. All in all I have no hesitation in recommending this phone.

The Nokia 6086 is a good phone. It has a few megabyte of storage so you can hold a couple thousand of text messages. It also can send text messages with just about a thousand characters in them.

It has a camera too. The max picture size is 640x480. You can also store quite a few images as well as other content, like short videos (the camera also records short videos), music, and voice recordings. You can even buy a cable (for approximately $10) and download free software that allows you to download MP3 music and listen to it on your phone.

Of course it's main draw is Hotspot@Home offered by T-Mobile. Hotspot@Home allows calls through a wireless router. It cost just $20 a month to get unlimited Hotspot@Home calling. And just about any wireless router will do, whether at a coffee shop or a pet store. Calls made through a wireless router (wifi) are unlimited. You can even start a call through a wireless router and then walk off. As long as there is a signal outside of the wireless router's range the signal will seamlessly transfer to a cell phone tower and the call will remain free. On the other hand if you start a call through a normal cell phone connection and then walk into the range of a HotSpot you will still be charged regular minutes because the call started through a cell phone tower, so hang up and call them back! It is a good way to make up for a week signal at home and can easily replace a house phone giving you unlimited calling within the U.S.

However you don't need to pay money to make calls through a wireless router. Whether or not you pay $20 for unlimited Hotspot@Home use you can make wi-fi calls. The minutes will just be used as they would for any other call. So if you own a wireless router you can count on having a signal at home. Even if you don't they are not very expensive and are easy to hook up (assuming you already have high speed internet).

Although I do recommend using a wireless router optimized for Hotspot@Home. They offer a few nice features, like improved battery life, the ability ability to connect 8 phones at a time, and the routers prioritizes phone calls first. That means that if there is interference for some reason you phone call is the last thing the router will drop. It makes for a more stable connection. I've connected with other routers and the connection quality varies per router. Some routers seem to only allow one phone to connect at a time, a few don't like allowing any phones to connect. The Hotspot@Home routers work the best.

In comparison to another Hotspot phone (the Samsung t409), the Nokia 6086 connects to wi-fi equally well. Nonetheless Samsung seems to connect to regular cellphone towers better. It just has a stronger signal. It may be an isolated experience with this single Nokia 6086 phone as I've only owned one. Still, I find that the Samsung t409 has signal in remote area and the Nokia 6086 doesn't. I mention this because both cost the same and the Samsung t409 certainly has a better camera an is slimmer. Although it doesn't play MP3 music, have as much storage for content as the Nokia, and only hold 40 text messages at a time. But if your just looking for reliable phone connection the Samsung far outshines the Nokia in my experience.