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For the future: I'll switch back to TMobile (or Verizon) and hunt a phone for its core purpose and not for fancy features. But for others, it is Nokia to blame. I have used, Sony Erricson T610 + TMobile, Nokia 6600 + TMobile, and Moto Razr V3 + TMobile, in the past. Much better than my other non-Nokia phones.One may wish to include such features as, pdf reader, flash player, real player, FM radio, Lifeblog, 3D Tones,.as pros. The hands-free mode, thankfully, works still.4. But frankly, I never used them.
It is 1 yr and 3 months now. Sound volume - very good - whether it was through the earpiece or the speaker. But then again, it is not a singular characteristic to N75.2. Camera - for a 2 MP camera it sucked.5. This speaks out the caller's name.3. Bluetooth - The 'file transmission' mode for bluetooth stopped working after few months.
3G - lets face it, for voice transmission this is useless. This will also not satisfy a (regular) non-smartphone customer. Hence, to me they are all superfluous.Cons:1. Actually I am surprised that it has lasted this long. Even Nokia can produce worthless products. I bought this with AT&T 2 yr contract. Weight - on the higher end of the scale.8. Maps - nice.
Nokia maps was the only non-trivial app that I found useful. Flip fold - flimsy. Now it hardly lasts 15 minutes. I am completely disappointed with this entire deal.
No updates, no improvements.All in all, this was an extremely cheap stint at a poorman's smartphone in US. Firmware - Nokia, after having realized the "bastard" nature of this product, abandoned it. But with no way to turn off 3G, the battery life was greatly reduced.7. It feels as if it can come apart any day.6. This phone is for no one.What I learnt.
Reception quality - I don't know if this should be blamed on AT&T but I did experience a decent number of dropped calls.3.
This will certainly not satisfy a smartphone customer.
The new battery used to last only about 90 minutes of talktime.
I can ascribe call quality to AT&T.
So, I've those experiences in my mind while commenting on this.Pros:1.
Those with "data transmission" needs might have found some use of it.
With only 1 yr of nokia warranty, I am stuck with this power hungry brick for another 9 months.2.
Text to Speech - quite helpful.
Power consumption / battery life - simple horrible.
My most used add-ons are e-book readers. I am hoping this one lasts me for years to come, as I think I'd be hard pressed to find a better flip phone out there. I've had this phone for a year now and still absolutely love it. I tote this thing around in my pocket, which certainly isn't the best way to go, but it has held up marvelously. All-in-all a wonderfully solid, quality, useful phone with open ended possibilities for features to add-on. I love the keypad on this phone, the buttons are big and smooth, I have large hands and can text at the speed of light with this phone, just quickly sliding my thumb over the smooth surface of the keys and giving the slightest press to each before moving on. From file managers, to personal accounting programs.
You have to use the power button and then scroll down to choose the key lock, a hassle to do every time. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically lock these keys when the flip is closed.
Call quality is great, I haven't had any issues with battery time, I generally charge it nightly but occasionally skip a day and don't have any problems. My only complaints about this phone are the music player that I never use and can't get rid of, that gets activated fairly often by the keys on the outside of the phone.
It has been such a huge improvement in all ways compared to the motorolla I had previously. I've packed a slew of e-books onto the memory card and have something to read no matter where I am.
The finish on the outside is still flawless, the buttons inside and out still shine.
My favorite feature of course is that it uses the Symbian OS so there are lots and lots of options for software add-ons for this phone.
MAJOR PROBLEMS.1st Phone - The phone despite being careful and having no damage would shut itself off. I'm on my 3rd one of these and I'm worried the same problem I had with the previous two will happen to my final replacement under warranty. The software is easy to navigate and it has many features. 3rd Phone - No problems as of yet and keeping my fingers crossed because only a month left on warranty.
About half the time it would not do what it was supposed to do even after verifying the settings were properly set. I could almost handle this before it stated doing the same thing the first phone did. Usually when you close a flip phone the call will end or begin when you open it. I called AT&T and had the phone replaced.2nd Phone - Almost right off the bat the phone had problems.
Slow shutter times and pictures that are worse than what I can manage with my old school RAZR. Also the SIM card would "pop" out of it's place which would cause me too loose service randomly. PROS - The phone is very sturdy and has a very good user interface. I missed several phone calls because of this.
Tied to charger for conversations lasting more than 45 minutes. CONS - Camera is almost not worth using. Phone gets hot after a decent length conversation.
I really regret this purchase. Simply atrocious battery life; it's far worse than my three-year-old Motorola, which it replaced. I'm hardly a power-user; all I really need a phone for is for talking. Color me surprised when I forgot to charge the battery one evening and the phone died the next afternoon; I couldn't have talked more than 45 minutes in total.
I remedy this with a car charged and a USB charger so that it can always be charging. Also, AT&T is great about giving out the unlock codes. What they all say about the battery life is sadly true. I've had this phone for about 8 months now. It's a little bit of a pain, but it's a great phone, loud speakers, lots of memory, fast, big keypad. The initial firmware is a botched headache. I got it back when it was free, with a new contract. After I got the old firmware on it (I paid someone to load the original nokia firmware), it works like a charm.
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