Nokia 6230 Phone (Cingular)

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Summary: Number Portability is pain
Review: Amazon doesn't support number portability option with Cingular.

"Cingular and Amazon.com have not yet established a method for customers to transfer their current number to a new Cingular account. We hope to offer this option in the coming months, so please check back."

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During the order process, Amazon didn't gave me option of porting my old number. But after the order was processed, I got email from Amazon/Cingular allocating me new cell phone number. It took 10 days to convert my old number from TMobile to Cingular, as I had to cancel the number allocated by Cingular, get new SIM card from Cingular, activate new SIM card and then port the number back from TMobile to Cingular.

Apart from this, the phone works great.

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Summary: Technologies at your fingertips
Review: EGPRS, Bluetooth, InfraRed. Memory Card. MP3 player, wireless. Nokia. More than you'll ever need.
What with cameras, videos and mms, they're fun for children. I prefer to take pictures with my digicamera, resize them and upload using the Nokia software.

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Summary: Satisfied customer - almost
Review: I am very happy with the many features on the phone. Only problem - unable to use phone as modem for IPAQ 4150 to access internet. Deal er has tried very hard but to no avail. GPRS very efficient.

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Summary: Best phone I've had
Review: I just got this phone about a week ago and I love it so far. If you like phones that do EVERYTHING, this is it. None of the other websites, including the Nokia site give a complete list of all the things it does so here goes: great camera (no flash), video (up to 4 minutes with included removable 32MB memory card), photo caller ID, phone book that holds up to 1000 entries with multiple entries per person(email, address, etc), calendar with reminders and to-do list, voice dial, voice commands, polyphonic and MP-3 ringtones, built in MP-3 player (you can upload songs from your computer on to the removable expandable memory card, also has an equalizer), FM radio, voice recorder (up to 3 min), mobile internet, text messaging and instant messaging, multimedia messages where you can send pictures, audio and video, bluetooth and infrared, 3 games (some of which you can play against others with bluetooth, measures converter (for U.S. to Metric, etc.), language translator (translate words inbetween 5 languages, kind of crappy not alot of words in dictionary), world clock, alarm clock, calculator, countdown timer, stopwatch, changeable faceplates, external volume control. I think thats about it. I love the phone so far, its small, the camera is great as far as camera phones go, and i have always had good luck with Nokia.

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Summary: Harder than heck to open
Review: I only have one real problem with this phone. It is harder than heck to open. I tried for hours to get this thing open. HOURS. I was just about to return the thing when I thought to myself why not bring down to a cingular store to see if they could open it. It took 3 people to get this darn thing open. The last guy that tried open it in like 2 seconds. Maybe the reat of us were girlie men.

Other than getting it open I had no problems. Its small, feels good , has but load of features. All in all a pretty good phone.

Oh yeah one other thing you do need a headset to hear the radio. I was hoping I could just plug in my ear plugs of something.

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Summary: Nice little phone. No iSync support!
Review: I thought I had finally phone the right phone for me.

Small, good battery life and reception.
Bluetooth.
Hi speed EDGE.
Great price.

Sure, it had a camera but I'd get over that. (I hate camera phones. They're just a waste of space.) I waited around all day for the UPS guy. He usually gets to my office by 9:30. 9:30 came and went.
10:30...
11:30...
12:30...

Finally he came as I was leaving for the day. That's fine, I'll just charge it up when I get home. I do. Go to a movie, happy that i've got a modern phone again after a year with Verizon and their phones from the stone age.

I pair the phone with my powerbook. No problems (as expected)!

Get ready to add it to iSync. "Add new device" and the phone doesn't show up. Hmm. Look at the phone. 6230. Check. 6620. D'oh! I misread the iSync compatibility list. Sure enough, it's not on there.

I frantically search the intarweb for information. Nothing but a lot of disappointed people like me. :(

I'm not mad at the phone. I'm really not. Apple's been lackadaisical in their upgrading of iSync. I may yet keep the phone if Salling Clicker gets updated to work with it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

If you don't need iSync (e.g., don't have bluetooth on your Mac or use Windows), get this phone. It's great otherwise. If you want to use iSync, pray along with me that Tiger will bring the needed update.

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Summary: A top-notch performer in a small footprint
Review: I was pleasantly surprised at the small size of the phone when I received it; I knew it was small and light but it was somehow all the more impressive when I held it in my hand.

This is simply the best feature-packed bluetooth phone on the market right now for any price. And yes, I'm including the RAZR in that comparison. I almost forked over the $409 ($259 after rebate) for the Razr, but after actually seeing that phone in a Cingular store, I was not impressed. First, it's far too wide and in terms of thin, it's a pretty close match to the 6230. For the features the 6230 provides and the price (free after rebate!) this phone is absolutely unstoppable.

Camera works well. The menus respond INSTANTLY and the phone powers up in only a few seconds. Bluetooth has worked flawlessly with the hands free system in my car and the Nokia PC suite software (available free) is outstanding. All in all, this phone has every feature you could want and the implementation is excellent.

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Summary: Great phone with missing feathers.
Review: It can do many things but lacks taking time (while talking) which is pretty important. It can't repeat recorded voice. Everything else is supreme.

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Summary: Better than it looks
Review: Just wanted to mention a couple of other things that were not mentioned in the other reviews... I bought this phone after owning a few different phones (I Tend to lose phones every few months) most recently I owned the Sony Ericsson T610. This phone has everything that phone has including BlueTooth Connectivity, an Extensive Address Book, very Easy to Use Menu Functionality, Pic ID for callers and all the other things that high end phones tend to share. The great thing about this phone is that it also has a lot of hidden gems that you'd discover after playing with the setup for a while, for instance:
Its Collection Folder has a converter function that can translate Kilos to Pounds, Meters to Yards, US Dollars to Euros and so on. Scoff if you wish, but that function comes in very handu when you travel. The Same folder has a Language functionality to translate words into about 6 Languages.
In Addition to this the MP3 Player like the other user said is quite nice, same problem with the Lack of memory space, basically one song fills up the memory card, there might be a way to xpand that...
The Radio FM feature is priceless... once again for some one who likes to travel its quite handy to have.
The Bluetooth is great (Just remember to download the version of the Nokia Suite from their web site for free rather than what comes in the Box). Camera as good as any top end one out there.
On the Negative side, you cannot personalize the ring tones to your favorite callers, you can only do them by group, and Nokia could improve the Call Log to show more than Dialled Calls...
Other than those two things, qhich are small errors, it is one of the best phones I have owned, only phone I would switch back to would be the Samsung if they ever come out with a Blue Tooth Phone


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Summary: Reliable and easy to use phone. Recommended
Review: One thing I want to add, this phone easy to unlock so it can be used with other simcards. Once unlock you can travel anywhere and just buy a local prepaid gsm simcard and save alot from international roaming charges. Free to download Crux unlocker and enter your phone imei code and you will get unlock code. You will have five tries, but mine worked with the first out of seven code I got from CruxUnlocker.