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Summary: Excellent product!!
Review: Tried the Samsung-S105, Sony-T610, Nokia-3650... This is the best of them all, small size, light, very good reciption. A real quality product.
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Summary: Nokia 6610
Review: I bought this phone primarily for its small size, but have found the other features to be quite amazing. First of all its incredibly small size and lightweight are a dream come true. No hassles in putting clips on belts etc. The phone is also excellent in terms of clarity, reception and volume, although it takes some time getting used to placing the phone properly at the ear.Inspite of its small size, the nokia design allows for easy navigation of menus , adding calendar entries etc. An interesting feature that I have enjoyed really is the stereo FM radio which has excellent reception (with headphone provided).
The IR device allows for easy sycnchronizatio On the downside, there is no bluetooth connection.
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Summary: Great phone for the price
Review: Nice phone with an excellent speakerphone that I find most useful. Good reception and battery life. Compact, has tons of features. On the negative side, the screen cover seems to be made of some cheap plastic -- mine cracked on a minor impact. Tactile feel on the buttons could be better. Web browsing experience is so-so, but my gripe has more to do with the carrier. I've had the annoying experience of not being able to connect to T-Mobile's gateway for web browsing when I most needed it.
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Summary: Excellent Phone, Excellent Service
Review: I am a business user who heavily depend on mobile service. There is much which has been said in other reviews about the features of this phone, it is a great phone, mine worked without any problems right out of the box. Just double check with customer service to ensure the number provided by Amazon is for the city/exchange you wanted. After several years of torture in the hands of AT&T customer service I am delighted to drop them, and look forward to August 2004 when I will convert our other 3 family-phones from AT&T to T-Mobile! I have had the phone for 1 week, the signal quality has been great in the Detroit area (suburbs) and in my recent road trip between Detroit and Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati) I experienced perfect signal and reception along I-75, FAR superior to AT&T's which does not work along several long stretches on that same route. I have owned Motorola, Panasonic and Nokia phones over the last 8 years and generally prefer Nokia, this phone combines many of the best Nokia features, the only feature missing for me is the Voice recognition. My favorite features, although there are many, are the speaker phone, the radio and the infrared. The speaker phone is very functional and I use it in the car, very audible even with freeway noise. The infrared is a blessing if you have a previous Nokia and want to transfer your old phone book to this phone, saved me hours of re-entering my numbers. The combination of the Nokia 6610 and T-Mobile Service (Signal, Price, Service) is a winner, I highly recommend it. Update, Feb. 29, 2004. The T-Mobile service has been excellent pretty much everywhere I have gone, KY, CA (LA), OH and Canada (Toronto, Cambridge, Kitchner). The only drawback is the very expensive roaming charges in Canada! I will update with service quality in Europe, in the near future.
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Summary: Good Phone, So-So Service...
Review: The day finally arrived when I was sure I'd leave Sprint. After years with that carrier's expensive plans and horrible customer service, portability seemed heaven-sent. I'd always eyed the Nokia phones and had heard decent things about T-mobile, so I gave it a whirl. Here's the brief synopsis: the phone is tiny, cute, feels kind of "plastic-like" (as if it might break), but seems pretty sturdy. It has lots of little cute features, my favorite being the games and the PIM (Personal Information Manager--i.e. organizer), and the Radio! I spent hours setting up the stations (accepts about 13-14, I believe), though the reception is unpredictable. Also, you need to have the headset plugged in all the time to have the radio work and that can get tedious. The headset that comes with the phone has good sound volume but it hurts the ears like you cannot imagine! The phone comes with okay ringtones, some decent backgrounds/screensavers, but the phone has very little memory (mine had 230kb as it arrived from Amazon, so you don't have too many options on what you can put on there). The colors on the screen are not as crisp as I'd have liked them to be. However, it serves its purpose. The backlight on the phone goes off WAY too quickly (dangerous when you're driving at night), and there's no way to change this--I checked with Nokia. The buttons on the phone are small, even for my small fingertips, but you get used to them rather quickly. The menu options are uncreative, as you can't see a full screen of menu items to pick from; you have to scroll up and down to find what you're looking for (yes, this is minor, but not when you're trying to keep your eye on the road!). More downside to this phone? The volume. Oh my goodness--I have excellent hearing but the volume level on this phone is especially quiet. Forget talking on it in public--you just can't hear the other person! On the up-side, the phone has amazing battery life. I do like this phone overall (would give it a 3.5), but unforutnately, I am returning it. I was surprised by T-mobile's service. I assumed they had exceptional service, but their reception in my area (Los Angeles) is horrendous. Reason? They piggy-back on Cingular's service. Also, their t-zones, although cheap ($4.99/mo.) never works. Since I received the phone, I spent countless hours on the phone with Customer Service reps who promised t-zones would work "in 24 hours". I must have heard this about a dozen times over the span of 2 weeks, when t-zones NEVER worked. 24 hours? By what time standards--Martian? Apparently, T-mobile is heavily back-logged and can't keep up with demands. Also, they'd forgotten to add "WAP" capability to my service (duh), so that took another 4-5 days of figuring out. In all fairness, customer reps are very nice, and they (most of them) try hard to answer your questions. But they do have this annoying habit of asking you if they've answered ALL your questions, even if they didn't, to which they always seem to expect a "yes" answer from you. I realize this is for Quality Assurance purposes, but I should have the right to say when my questions have NOT been answered (i.e. Me: "When will my T-zones work?", CSR:"I'm not sure".). Umm, well, thanks for nothing. This one CSR insisted on trying to get me to say that he'd answered all my questions (same interaction as I just described), and well...that was annoying. T-mobile is trying very hard, and again--they DO have pretty good CSR's. However, the calls constantly drop in my area and I experince mega-static, to the point where I'd have to dial numbers 6-7 times to get a clear line. And no T-zones. So what's the point? I'm staying with Sprint, and though I fear that their CSR isn't nearly as good as T-mobile's, the clarity of their reception is exceptional. I've bought the VERY expensive Sanyo 5500/VM4500--which I LOVE--and I'm okay with my services. Guess all that glitters is not gold. It was worth a shot--too bad it didn't work out. Hope someone else has better luck!
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Summary: The Phone Refused to Die
Review: I bought one of these phones in Kuwait to use with the MTC prepaid telephone service EZ because I would be able to use it when I return to the States with T-Mobile. Recently I accidently washed my telephone with my laundry through two complete 18 minute wash cycles of a washing machine. Disgusted with myself after I found the phone in the bottom of the washing machine, I was about to throw it away when one of my fellow soldiers asked if he could dry it out for me in an effort to revive the phone. Two days later the phone was returned to me in complete working order. While I like the performance of the phone in every regard, I would buy another one solely upon the apparent indestructibility of it. I highly recommend a Nokia 6610.
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Summary: Best Phone For Free
Review: I've had an assortment of cell phones over the years (Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Nokia etc.) and in my opinion, Nokia has the best menus and promps hands down. No other color phone has the combination of features that the 6610 offers. From the speakerphone that can be used up to 15 feet away with clarity, to the downloadable poly-graphic megatones that adds a personal touch to this nifty phone. Whether you're taking a brisk jog, waiting for a bus or just having lunch at the park, you'll be glad you had the FM Radio.
Wish it were a flip phone, but thats not a deal breaker!
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Summary: Glad to own
Review: I have had this phone for about 5 months. I treat the battery well and it has lasted. At my heaviest usage, I must recharge after 3 days. It lasts about 5 days otherwise and has lasted up to 10 when I was making very few calls. Signal strength will affect the battery life. Frequent signal searches eat up battery power.
I took great care of the screen, till I realized that the part that might get scratched is part of the cover. I can replace that if the scratch is unbearable to look at.
The volume level of the phone is not all that good. Some of the higher pitched rings are very easy to hear, but not easy to listen to. The more subtle tones that were included with the phone are hard to hear at times.
The vibration is not top. It is a teeny phone, so it is hard to put a big mechanism in. I don't use the vibration, because it is often easier to hear it vibrate then to feel it. Vibration was not even listed as a feature when I purchased this. So it was no loss.
Overall this has been my favorite phone that I have owned. Great battery life, perfect size, but a tid bit quieter than I would like. I do hope that they offer more faceplate options. I am bored with the silver look.
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Summary: Cool
Review: It has a nice color screen. It is small. Radio is awsome, but it doesn't work unless you have the earpice in. That is a major minus, but its not that bad. T-mobile was a pretty good server. It has 2 games. They are not wowable good. You have to BUY better ones. It also doesn't have voice activated dialing. BIG MINUS!!
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Summary: Great phone, but NO WARRANTY!
Review: This is a very nice phone, but there is no warranty on it. Nokia WILL NOT cover phones bought from Amazon. We got two phones for the T-mobile family plan (indeed very easy to switch to the family plan) and one came with a broken headphone (can hear but cannot be heard) and one died today after less than two weeks of use. I'll see how much help I can get from Amazon and report back.
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