Shoutbox

I have the Nokia 6230 too, it's the first phone of its kind:
Full multimedia capabilities AND a compact design.

It's a really impressive phone, I recommend it too.

Still it has some disadvantages (confirm, Kaoster?):


1. Probably my biggest complaint: It's very hard to press the center button in the joystick, because it's attached to the four directional buttons. You can get used to it, but it's still quite annoying, especially when you let others use the phone.

2. Baterry doesn't last too long (but it's reasonable).

3. The speaker is a little weak when ringing. It doesn't matter when the phone's on you (because of the vibration), but if I'm in the basement with the door closed, I might not hear it ringing upstairs.

4. It has panels, which necessarily means a lesser build quality. The back panel doesn't sit tightly on the top part (it can't break off, but it's annoying psychologically).

5. It doesn't have a fancy OS, just normal phone software (an example for the software's limits: you can't seek songs or play them in the background).

6. About the camera:

Of course, the camera doesn't have a zoom nor a flash; and for those reasons, its quality is only good when you take a picture of close objects with some light around. Forget about distant shots, especially in the night. And forget about taking dark pictures when there are lamp lights in the background.

The night mode is effective, but suffers from lamp lights even more, and is less responsive because of its high processing. When it's really dark and there aren't any lamp lights, the night mode adds some disruptions to the image, and the colors are weird (in normal mode, you wouldn't see a thing in that situation).

The video image quality totally sucks because it's meant to be sent through 3G networks, so the phone makes it as small as possible. Limited to a few seconds, too.

In short, it's just like a Webcam, it's not even remotely close to the quality of standard digital cameras... It just isn't really useful as cam.

7. More on multimedia:

- The clean ~35MB that you get are more than enough for images, video and speech, but not much if you want to use the phone as an MP3 player.
- Bluetooth is slow and has lame software (on my PC at least).

But it's still fun to take pics and later download them to the PC and send people... You can take so many pics, that some of them ought to be worth something.

8. Costs a damn fortune.


Well....... that's it I think.

But it's a great phone, honest!