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NEC 515 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)

NEC 515 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)

List Price: $319.99
Your Price: $179.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ok Phone
Review: The NEC 515 has really good reception and coverage. The screen is large and legible. The USB feature is ok, I have had some problems with connections with my office applications. Do not understand the infrared transmitter. You can only use this with other NEC 515's. Speaker Volume is horrible, I use the hands free ear bud. With out the ear bud I have to press the phone against my ear. Overall for the price I would not purchase this phone. If you can get it for free go for it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Poor Service Provider and Very poor phone in my life
Review: The service really sux. Half the time u can not receive the signals. The reception in the phone is very poor. Hangs in between you have to turn the phone off and switch it on again to make another call if it hangs in between a call. Till now i cannot figure out its due to the poor service provided by AT&T fellas or the worst quality of the phone. The customer service in AT and T is the worst i have ever seen in my life. I will rate the customer service as one of the poorest service in the world.
MY ADVICE IS NEVER HAVE A SERVICE WITH AT & T IN LIFE AND NVER BUY THIS PHONE!!! This is my personal experience. Still if you want to try. Then i cannot help fate playing in ur life!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Spam in cell phone section
Review: There is an imposter in the cell phone site, who is posting spams about his website for ring downloads. For your spamming, I am not even going to check your web site.
Amazon editor, please delete those spams which you will see entered under almost all the phones. Thank you!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You all are crazy
Review: This is one of the nicest phones on the market...
This phones huge color screen and easy to use keypad are spectacular. This phone is beter then any phone I have seen in a long time. It is 1000 times better then my previous nokia phone. And anyone who says it is to bulky, it is smaller then the nokia 3595 and 3560. It is a phone that can be complex or simple, if you are a person who loves to use the phone for all features there are many things you can do with and it can also be simple for just calling. It is a great phone.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst Phone ever
Review: This is one of the worst phone ever i have owned. Hangs up in the middle of the conversation and call does not end till it is shutdown.

Least to say AT&T service is the worst ever i have encountered till now as a consumer.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't Be Fooled
Review: This phone has all the bells and whistles but they are no good if you can't hear the person on the other end. I had this phone for LESS THAN one week and I am returning it. Unless you are indoors, with absolutely no noise, you cannot hear on this phone. I read this before but did not believe it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Poor quality product
Review: This phone is horrible.

1. Frequently it goes into "SOS Only" mode, which means that you can't make any calls or receive any, and you have to turn the phone on and off several times and even then it may not work. This happens over half the time the phone is on at all, it makes you miss potentially important calls and is highly inconvenient - what's the point of owning a phone if you can't make calls? My fiancee gets so frustrated that he's constantly threatening to lob it out the window.

2. Reception is very poor, even though I live in the D/FW metroplex where there are plenty of towers.

3. Frequently I won't receive messages (voice or text) until at least a couple of days after they were left/sent - this is especially inconvenient because over half the time the phone can't receive calls or messages anyway.

4. It's bulky, the displays are ugly, and there aren't many rings. These are all asthetic qualities which I find to be relatively unimportant, but are significant to some people.

Altogether this is a horrible phone. Certainly not worth cute polyphonic rings or a sleak design that's very cheap-looking once you really look at it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cool Phone!
Review: Why do people say this phone is bulky? How small do people really need their phones? The size of a ritz cracker OK? It's a portable Telephone! A device that connects you to any other phone in the world right in the palm of your hand. Amazing really if you think about it. Now on to impressions...

The 515 is great in my opinion, It has a very large screen which is bright and vivid. The sound quality is great! Even when the signal strength is at only 1 bar, I can still hear clearly. It's sleek and stylish with chrome accents here and there, and you have the privilage of having a phone that not everyone and their grandma has yet. It has a multicolor LED on the front which is really cool it changes like 6 or 7 colors.

The ringtones are pretty good, but I think there's only 12 of them so get downloading! It holds a minimum of 30 custom tones. I didn't really like where they placed the speaker on the phone because it's on the back side, but it's still loud and noticeable. Polyphonic Ringtones can play up to 40 channel tunes, so their getting more complex which is great. Also the games that they have on here are awesome for a phone! It's like a tad bit less than SNES quality, which would make it Genesis quality, yeah, that's the ticket.

The menus take a little getting used to. This ain't your standard nokia here. There's all kinds of options hidden here and there and some you would think are in one category are in another. It took me 1 week to learn everything on it

I get the feeling that the NEC is just a tad bit fragile, I mean, I would never just throw it on the couch like I used to with my nokias, It's a premium phone at a premium price and it demands reasonable care. It is quality made but It's probably not too durable. In other words: I wouldn't have this thing clipped on in addition to a tool belt.

One thing that did happen and it's bound to happen sooner or later as things get more technical, It crashed on me... Yup, did they sneak windows in there? I placed a call and hit the send button, right then I decided that I didn't want to call that person so I pushed end, and it locked up on the sending screen. I had to turn it off and on to get it back to normal. Only happened once so I forgive them.

Battery life is probably not gonna be good to a person who talks a lot. If you're a normal person and you use it sparingly, it will last you 3 days. You get this thing in the hands of a teenage girl, and they'll be charging it every 3 hours! The battery is smaller than a book of matches,(thanks a lot small phone people!) So battery life is comprimised, you also have to remember, that this phone is a multimedia machine as well so it was to be expected

NEC 515 - Recommended to the casual user that wants style and features all in one.


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