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Reviewed by CMH on 18-08-2005
I am now on the 3rd 6320 inside a 12 month contract. All have failed with keyboard and or display faults which disable the phone from making or receiving any calls. It has been a nightmare loosing business calls and time in getting a replacement and an eye opener on the support side of the operator. I used to be a great fan of Nokia but within 12 months of purchasing this model I am now looking elsewhere for a replacement and needless to say a new carrier.
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Reviewed by Stephen - Glasgow on 15-08-2005
This phone has all the functions you need from a mobile and a few more... MP3 Player, FM Radio (with headset),MMC card compatability(up to 2GB Sandisk) and a half decent camera, I managed to pick mine up off a friend (for #20) who dumped his contract. If you want a fully featured phone you need a 3g model with video calling etc, but for everday use as a mp3 player, radio this phone is fantastic. If you are having problems with your phone crashing you probably have a SLIGHTLY earlier model with old software, the newer phones don't have these problems.
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Reviewed by Matt on 13-08-2005
This is a great phone and it has every feature but the screen is a bit small.Still would recommend one!
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Reviewed by Denise on 09-08-2005
Maybe it's a fluke, however I am on my 3rd nokia 6230 in 5 weeks. It is terrible...my key pads keep locking on me and the only way I can use my phone part of the time is to reboot it by removing the battery (which is hard to do). This is my first nokia phone and so far I am not impressed.
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Reviewed by Bill Straightener on 04-08-2005
this fone is amazing love the camera and the business feel to it
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Reviewed by Kristina on 01-08-2005
wen i first got this fone for my b'day i thought it was so kewl but wen i got into it, it was really boring the videos only go for 15SECONDS wat a RIP.i am lookin into new fones and i have onyl had it for 6 months and sick of it ALREADY!!!
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Reviewed by Matt Wilson on 17-07-2005
This fone is great! It has nearly every feature under the sun, like video, bluetooth and mp3 player. I used to have a Nokia 7600 but this is far better. Go buy a Nokia 6230!!
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Reviewed by conner on 14-07-2005
this fone is mint. it's got all the thins a fone needs and it's simple to use. the blutooth is exellent and i recon it's the best on the market at the moment.it's way better than the samsung d500 the best nokia so far i reccomend it to anyone whos mad about fones.
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Reviewed by katie on 13-07-2005
its a good phone but i cant get a gprs connection.i phoned up nokia and they said to call my service provider when i called my service providor they said it wasnt there problem and i should call nokia!!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by Dman on 29-06-2005
This is one great mobile phone!! very easy to text and has a very long battery life. i got my fone online and they were very helpful and deilvered goods next working day...
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Reviewed by max on 23-06-2005
Dis fone is jus wel gd init,me m8's r all well jelous of me, dey try 2 nik it off me bt it jus aint happenin. i can txt well fast n i can even get on2 msn coz it got internet n dat,so i dnt even hav 2 get outa bed 2 chat 2 me m8's. also i hav gt a data cable n it's well gdd!!!! i can take really bad pic's of ppl n put em on da comp and totally embarrass dem by puttin it as ma pic on msn! ha! da only fing dat i dnt fink is dat gd is da fact dat i can only take like a 15 sec video, i mean wots up wiv dat??? i hav 2 say tho ma fone is pretty gd lukin, i mean u can buy cover's frm da market 4 only like a fiver!!!! so i will tell evry1 2 buy dis fone coz it's da bomb!!! o n can i jus say, the ladies r luvin ma fone n all ma ova m8's jus aren't gettin no attention wen dey get out ther SE's!!
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Reviewed by Jude on 17-06-2005
Extremely disappointed with this phone. It hasn't worked properly from the day I got it. Keeps switching itself off. Bluetooth doesn't work. Internet doesn't work. Back cover is welded on and needs to be prised off. Due to being in a contract, getting yet another handset which will be number 4!!!!! shortly.Due to being in a contract, cannot change fone until nx Feb!! Def wouldn't buy another Nokia ever!!! AVOID!!!!
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Reviewed by Grant on 14-06-2005
The Nokia 623o is so awsome. it has so many features like 65536 active matrix display. and high quality camera. there is only 1 word for this phone "awsome" another cool ting bout it is da mp3 player. and u can put loads of songs on the mmc. and the veiwfinder display isnt blurred like someother fones i have had like da 7250.
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Reviewed by John Lewis on 07-06-2005
Sure, the 6230 is crammed with lots of features, and it has Nokia's wonderfully intuitive menu. But, how is it as a phone? Not very good. I was dissapointed in the sound quality on my first one, so the dealer gave me a new one which seemed better - a bit. Not as good as my old Samsung or my previous 5? Nokias. Additionally, callers complain about excessive background noise. Then, it began just shutting off and turning back on with no warning. It also kept giving a message that the SIM card was rejected. They gave me another one. No difference, still resets itself and every day or so it rejects the sim card. Also, it occasionally locks itself and wants an unlock code which I don't have. I have to turn it off and back on again. Got a Motorolla 550i from the same service, although I don't like the menu system, it has good sound both for me and callers, and it works. Nokia 6230? Good feature list, but not up to Nokia quality. I never worried about buying a Nokia product, until now.
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Reviewed by Heather on 04-06-2005
The 6230's camera isn't of the highest quality but its video makes up for that.All of the features are easy to use and its a smart looking phone.As with most phones the more you use it the quicker the batt runs out. I'd recommend a 12hr charge t start with even tho the manual says 3hrs 40mins?? A really nice phone all in all with the Nokia traits, well worth buying and not a bad upgrade. The central button can mean u scroll instead of ok but once you've got the hang of it its ok :D
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Reviewed by Aaron Terrell Britt on 06-05-2005
My location: Johnson City, TN. My carrier: Cingular Wireless. This phone is off the hook. I just bought this phone about 5 days ago. I'm so glad I did. This phone has just about everything anyone could want in a phone. PROS: Bluetooth: Great, great technology, I never knew what Bluetooth was until I bought a bluetooth headset and received a demo from my in-store sales rep. MultiMediaCard (MMC): The ability to download, store, and retrieve documents, mp3s, and wallpaper graphics, is great to have in a phone. Plus you can transfer them to and from your home PC. Will probably upgrade to a larger sized MMC in the future. Camera: Decent quality pictures with the ability to add clipart to those pictures, store them on the MMC card, send through email or MMS, or use them as wallpaper on your phone. Video Recorder/Playback: I've only played with this feature just a few times since I bought the phone. So far so good. All of my friends and the kids I work with love it. Very good and clear playback of recorded videos too. FM Radio: Who would have thought that an FM Radio receiver would be included in a cellphone. Not me, that's for sure. Anyhow, I love this feature, all of my stations that I have set/tuned come in just as clear as my home stereo and care stereo. Signal Reception: Very good signal strength in my area and my apartment. This phone has already outdone my old Moto V551 because it picks up a singal (and a Strong one at that) everywhere in my apartment. My Moto would lose signal and drop calls everytime I went towards the back and the front of my apartment. Sometimes I had to stand still in the center to get a good signal. Media Player: Very good addition to this phone, as well as the Media Equalizer. Music Player: Another great addition to this phone. Love being able to retrieve ringtones and mp3's to play through this useful player. Battery: I've been playing with my new phone over the last 5 days and have gotten very good battery usage off only a couple charges. EDGE: This phone flies when connecting to the net. And a heck of a lot faster than my old Moto V551 was. LoudSpeaker: Very good addition and perfect for those who may use the Bluetooth feature (although I wouldn't understand why anyone wouldn't want Bluetooth). In any case, having a LoudSpeaker (aka Speakerphone) is always a great addition especially while driving. I'm sure there are a lot of other features that I have not covered, I'm still in the exploratory stages with this phone, and recommend it to anyone thinking of getting it. CONS: I have not found any cons yet, but I don't think I'll find any either. ADVICE: If you're thinking of getting this phone, get it. You'll be glad you did.
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Reviewed by Joe on 04-05-2005
You'd be mad not to buy this phone. It's got everything you could possibly want - video camera, mp3 player, bluetooth, memory card, stereo radio, high-speed internet. The screen is good, although a little small, so if you want better get the 6230i. Otherwise you just cannot fault this phone!!! Go out and buy one now!!!
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Reviewed by ali on 02-05-2005
this phone is the best it is all thing that u need
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Reviewed by Who Knows How Good it is? on 23-02-2005
When you can't even get the back off? I've struggled for well over an hour now, four others in the offices have tried, now the back has a crack in it, this is simply ridiculous, perhaps a little tool in the box would have helped. If I do get the back off in the next week, I may write a proper review.
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Reviewed by v3 Boca on 16-02-2005
this fone rocks! camcorder and vga camera, music player, fm radio, bluetooth, high-speed data, voice recorder, expandable memory. what else do u need? this phone is mint.
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Reviewed by Bobbennet on 04-02-2005
Just bought this for my wife as she wanted a great phone that wasn't a clamshell design. Got it from FoneShop.com as I was impressed with their service when I bought the Sharp from them. Full of features, Bluetooth, FM, MP3, memory card, video and loudspeaker. A full house. Looks great too.
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Reviewed by Anthony Lawhorn on 01-02-2005
Just received this from the guys at FoneShop.com and it rocks. Full of features, Bluetooth, FM, MP3, memory card, video and loudspeaker. A full house. Looks great too.
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Reviewed by Annie on 30-01-2005
I owned this phone for a week, total. It worked nicely at first - good camera, nice picture quality, good mp3 player... but then all of a sudden, one day, it cut off and wouldn't turn back on. finally, after messing with the SIM card a little bit, it cut back on but it wouldn't find a network. Overall, i would recommend this phone if you are looking for style and not functionality.
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Reviewed by dre on 20-12-2004
Don't go with 6230 if you want to use bluetooth or/and GPRS. Very unstable. Even new firmware didn't solve the problems.
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Reviewed by Gary on 07-12-2004
Had this phone a week,great looking but battery charge is poor only lasts for about two days.The menu button can be a bit frustrating when selecting an option.Thinking of changing to K700i.
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Reviewed by peter hodges on 04-12-2004
i spent a few days deciding what phone to get, i was stuck between the sony-ericson k700i or the nokia 6230, i decided on the nokia,it turned out to be a great choice, ive always been a nokia fan, (apart from the 6220, total rubbish),this phone is great, it does what it says on the tin, what more can you ask for, screen great, features great,ect,ect.
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Reviewed by Steve on 01-12-2004
Had the phone for a few weeks now and all in all Im quite impressed. OK so my old phone was a (very) old 8310 - but it worked so what the hell. Took the plunge and upgraded to the 6230 with the idea that I would stick a 1GB MMC card in it to effectively get me a cheap IPOD alternative. Gamble paid off! Bought a 1GB MMC off ebay for #45 and copied about 15 albums of music on it. Setup a playlist for each album using the nokia suite software and hey presto! Only gripe is that some tracks do occasionally skip and the phone has re-booted it self a few times - but hey Im talking about once for every 10 hours of listening to Music so I can live with it. I use the GPRS over Infrared with my laptop which works fine, however I want to use the bluetooth instead. Just went to buy a bluetooth USB dongle for my laptop and started getting all sorts of horror stories from the salesman about it not working with Nokia phones and laptops which have had Nokia Communiation Suite installed. This scared me off for a while until I check out what the Web has to say about it. Couple of other minor gripes: (1) You cannot change the text colour on the phone, so if you do decide to have a some kind of wallpaper on the screen, and its quite a dark picture, you cant see whose calling you as its black text on a black background (2)The headphone connector plug which goes onto the phone it really fiddly. (3) The Central select button is one of the joystick types and it can be really difficult to press the centre 'select' button without accidentally pressing up or down instead. Pluses: (1) The Camera is excellent for its size. Im not saying you can take really good quality pics with it (buy a proper camera for that!), But for snapping people you know and adding it to their phone book entry so they appear on the screen when they call its great! (2) The MP3 sound quality is Excellent and you even have a built in 5 band graphic equaliser to play with too. (3) Automatic Key Guard is a godsend - no more dialing number 1 in my phone book (Sorry AA Breakdown!)
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Reviewed by Zara on 27-11-2004
I got this phone about a week ago and its great! Camera is really good! U can actually see the picture clearly! Colour screen is very good! Reli clear. its got mp3 player, bluetooth, video recording, all u cud need, even radio! how handy! Its not v.heavy either. its 97g. sounds reli heavy but its not. i luv this phone, i think its great. if u want a decent phone this is the 1 4 U!
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Reviewed by on 12-11-2004
dis fone iz da bomb yer sooo dont cuss bredrin
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Reviewed by Ricky on 19-10-2004
I have my contract 6230 for a week now and already it has annoyed me several times. Contrary to wot alot of reviews say, mine seems to do everything its supposed to do, but it also does a few things its not supposed to do! Such as totally freeze, once in the morning when it powered up on the alarm, once when an incoming call was routed to the loudspeaker and once making a voice dial call from the blue tooth headset, all of these events required the battery to be removed which also caused major fingernail fractures, because the rear cover must be tacked on using a plastic welder! That said however, the phone offers the high-end user great features such as the MP3 player, which I find easy to load music into by removing the MMC card and simply using my PC's card reader slot to directly record the tracks. Some pretty neat games too when you get time to fiddle with them, and Tri-Band for all your stateside ventures. All-in-all a good effort from Nokia but perhaps a bit more time in the hands of the testers before it hits the streets might make the end product a little more marketable for the end users.
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Reviewed by Rohil on 28-09-2004
I think that this phone deserves more credit than u guys are giving it. It is super fast in going through photos, videos and mp3s. The battery life is only good if you turn it off when you get it and charge it for 16 hours, and then when the battery goes dead the next time, charge it, DO NOT charge it when the battery is at half, you will lose the power very quickly. Although it records 4 minutes only, this is really enough to take a video. I have never taken a video exceeding 4 minutes, and probably never will. I have had many phones in my life, most Nokia, and this beats the Symbian phones by far, along with any other phone. One disadvantage would be that the phone can only hold 150 messages, plus sim, but thats alright I suppose. The symbians are better in that way. Anyway, in conclusion, this is a great phone, great loudspeaker, and great graphics. Get this phone, its good!
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Reviewed by Rob Beech on 30-06-2004
All the features seem to be great on the phone although the battery life is pathetic. After a 24 hour continous first charge with the phone swithced off. i managed a day and a half before it cut out. i recharged it a few time s and still teh same problem i have tried leaving teh phone in stnadby mode.. accepting no calls and making no calls.. this made no difference between 24 and 48 hours the phone is beeping low battery. I took the phone back to the dealer and the battery was replaced. no change. i have since had the entire handset changed. still no change. the rest of the features are great with this phone. But 48 hours of stnadby time?
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Reviewed by Neil on 29-06-2004
I've changed mobile phone every year since 1995. I've had the 6230 for just a week and this is the best one I've ever had. Everything it does, it does brilliantly. Get it!
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Reviewed by Ks on 04-05-2004
This is a superb phone especially for a business executive. Its a PDA in a mobiles form factor. Connectivity - GPRS, Bluetooth, IrDA - is very good and scores over its nearest rivals. The plus point is its ability to run Java Applications and Games. It comes factory installed with some useful applications and games. Application speed and frame rate is much better than any other phone. With a vast array of downloadable java applications today this is going to be a big plus. User Interface is a bit of let down particularly by Nokia standards and its screen is a bit flaky vis-a-vis its rivals. Its still imaging is high quality but its video is below blurry when moving. Overall its a very good value for money.
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Reviewed by jazzacotta on 19-04-2004
Got phone on 14/04/2004 to replace 6100 model. Most noticeable feature is the screen, very clear and crisp image wise, big improvement on 6100. Handling wise the phone feels very well put together, with no squeeking or creaking which has been mentioned as a problem elsewhere on line. The photo quality is very good on best quality option.The big selling point is probably the video capture and playback mode with up to 4 min of video possible, found this ok, quality of image depended on enough natural light, (fine outdoors, not so good indoors.) MP3 facility is tricky to get used to, and you really need a data cable or your pc bluetooth compatible to get the best of this. Phone came with 32mb data card, which fits in behind battery, but i found removing the back cover very difficult to do!!! Overall i think the real benefit of this phone will be in months to come when compatible games etc become available for this model, and the true extent of the memory card etc can be tested to the full. Very happy with phone so far, if only that back cover didn't require he-man to release it!!!!
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Reviewed by rambo on 10-04-2004
This is one of the best phones ever created! i am not a nokia fan but this one blew me away! well done nokia!
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Reviewed by m@mB#!$tTB#r on 10-04-2004
this phone is great it has everthing the quality is so good if u are looking for a good camera phone then this is the one to buy!!!!
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Reviewed by me myself and I on 14-03-2004
it is more than brilliant
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Reviewed by Review King on 10-03-2004
This is supposed to be a review site - not an expectation site! Why dont you lot wait til it comes out in the UK before reviewing it eh? Sort it!
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Reviewed by Daniel on 02-03-2004
Good phone hope to get it when it comes out anyone know how much it should roughly cost?
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Reviewed by billy ng on 18-02-2004
Disappointed ! As there is built in mmc memory card slot, I am supposing it should use all of its features and power, e.g. allows record radio, phone conversation and external voice to a unlimited time scale, but it only allows 3 minutes recording, too bad ! In Hong Kong, with USD$ 131 , we can get a NEC 3G phone c313, there is no reason to buy this kind of old 2.5G or 2G phone at such high price. Regards Billy Ng
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Reviewed by nk57 on 09-02-2004
nokia 6230 aint a bad phone at all. with its compact look, outstanding design and loaded with all the latest features, i think its the best phone money can buy.
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Reviewed by saj on 04-02-2004
i think the 6230 is the lick. its samll, smart and has all the features in it. This is the best fone out so far so people get it as soon as it comes out. am gona get it asap when it comes out.
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