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Nokia 6800 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)

Nokia 6800 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)

List Price: $199.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: O:K Range
Review: Phone is very attractive . But is very easy to
break. Nice idea of the Keyboard!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: thanks for the tip
Review: ...found the link to http://muwap.com here on amazon. Also found that they give you 10% off everything when you type in "amazon" as the coupon code. They have tons of tones for the Nokia phones, and with the coupon it's only $9/year. Cheaper than mMode, and much better selection. Thanks, whomever posted this before!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: thanks for the tip
Review: ...found the link to http://muwap.com here on amazon. Also found that they give you 10% off everything when you type in "amazon" as the coupon code. They have tons of tones for the Nokia phones, and with the coupon it's only $9/year. Cheaper than mMode, and much better selection. Thanks, whomever posted this before!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: ATT Wireless? Never again!
Review: AT&T Wireless has the WORST customer service I've ever encountered!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: ATT Wireless? Never again!
Review: AT&T Wireless has the WORST customer service I've ever encountered!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Smaller, faster, cheaper, better than Treo, Blackberry, etc.
Review: Don't follow your friends and coworkers who pay more for Treos and Blackberries, then have to deal with a stylus and/or a teeny, tiny keyboard on a big, awkward, heavy phone. The Nokia 6800 is THE mobile professional's phone and PIM/PDA in one. It has 5MB RAM plus a SIM card to hold all your mobile data, and it really does last 1-2 weeks on a charge.

If you use Outlook or Lotus Notes you can synchronize your contacts, to-dos, memos (notepad notes), and appointments using infrared or an optional USB cable. This phone's perfect for people who do a lot of texting, instant messaging, and email--the T9 dictionary is the best predictive text input tool available and this phone's flip-open, full qwerty keyboard (with keys big enough and spaced out well enough for two-thumb typing to actually work!) makes it quick and easy to type. It also has voice dialing, voice commands, and a voice recorder for when you're in a hurry or have your hands full. And when you're sitting in a meeting without a pen and paper you can type notes on it too--even when talking on the phone, using the speakerphone capability.

This isn't an "everyday person" phone: it's a bit pricier (although you can get it free depending on what provider and plan you choose, and it almost always costs less than Treo, Blackberry, Palm, etc. PDA-phones) because it's not just a phone, it's a PIM/PDA; it only comes with two built-in games (which isn't a priority for businesspeople, although you can easily download additional games and other Java software); and it doesn't have a built-in camera (but have you ever seen a cell phone camera that was any good?).

My only complaints about this phone after having used it for over a year are: the GUI is a bit slow moving from screen to screen; the color display isn't as big, sharp, and impressive as some other phones with, well, bigger and sharper displays--but this phone was designed for text-based features anyway; the calendar doesn't support the complex recurrance and rescheduling features as Outlook so you sometimes get duplicate entries in your phone after synchronizing; the flip-open keyboard has a few characters in odd places that you have to get used to; and the proprietary accessory connector is horrible--impossible to tell whether you've got it upside-down, forces you to use Nokia's stereo headphones for the FM tuner, and often doesn't fully connect in the desktop cradle. Bluetooth and international GSM capability would also have been nice, as would MP3 playback capability.

The best thing you could do is go to a service provider's store where they have a real phone (not a shell) you can hold to see if you like it. If you're considering the 6820 just because it's newer, look carefully at the specifications because they aren't all improvements--also make sure you try typing on both keyboards because they're very different.

Oh one more thing, this phone is very durable, in my experience. I've fallen on it while mountain biking and playing sand volleyball, and while the window did crack, the phone kept working fine and the LCD didn't bleed or anything. I'm pretty impressed about that. Someday I'll send it in for repair, but it'd be hard to live without this phone even for a few days--it stores all my names, numbers, addresses, email addresses, directions to people's houses and businesses, personal notes, to-dos, appointments and meetings...and I probably send up to 50 emails and text messages a day because it's so convenient to type on.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Thanks for the tip
Review: Finally got all my ringtones loaded on it using http://muwap.com. They even give people 10% off if they use coupon-code "amazon" -- best deal in town, especially when you use it with such a cool phone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Love this Phone
Review: Geart model from Nokia. I was never a great fan of AT&T..but just for Nokia 6800 I had to go for ATT. No regrets. Quality of the sound is great. I liked the FM radio. Looks like after a long time I got a great Phone.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Front panel and arms split after 1yr
Review: Great concept, I was completely enthralled in the beginning. Then, fine cracks began to appear on the arms, due no doubt to the click lock mechansim always bending them a little. Then, where the contact pins press against the front flip, a crack appeared on the main casing and one on the flip, going right to the first key. Numeric keys stopped working reliably.

I found several similar reports, so I assumed Nokia knew about it.

Sent it back, just 12 days out of guarantee. This is clearly a design fault, not abuse. Nokia were not interested, out of guarantee is out of guarantee, period. Am deeply disappointed.

Next phone will be the Motorola A630. Never a Nokia.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great!
Review: great phone. higly reccomend it. esp if you like text messaging


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