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Summary: A handy phone, with not so handy functions.
Review: I purchased, rather, received this phone for free with AT&T service about 3 weeks ago. As an active teenager, I think its button layout is pretty cool, and I love the fact that it weighs so little. It's packed with 11 menu features, text AND multimedia messaging, mMode (©) or, wireless internet access, and much more. I have downloaded three ringtones and they sound great, I love hearing my phone ring now, heh. However, there are some things that bug me about this phone. It has one-touch dialing so you can store the number and just press, for example, "8" and it will call the person stored there. Well, when I do that sometimes, the phone shuts off by itself and turns back on. And sometimes, when I'm opening incoming text messages, the phone freezes and I have to shut it off. The entire interface moves about a half second behind how fast you press the buttons, maybe longer, but that's not so bad. You can have voice tags, but I wish there was more memory for it so I could add more. I guess overall the phone is a good buy, generally a first time cellphone user would enjoy it. Great buy, especially when it came free with service activation. :-)
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Summary: Surprising ... Junk from Nokia?
Review: I really liked this phone when I first got it. Of course, it was free and that helps, but I also liked its simple and straightforward interface. I didn't want a lot of useless gadgets and this is a pretty bare bones phone. It sounds good to me and has a long battery life. BUT, recently I've had a problem with my phone. After about three months I noticed the phone would fail to re-locate coverage after losing it. For example, in an elevator I lose coverage and that's fine. But, when I exit the elevator I must turn the phone off and then on again for it to re-establish a connection with the satellite or whatever. It can be a minor inconvenience unless you forget to check it or if you don't realize you've lost coverage. I find myself having to constantly check the screen. It's annoying. My girlfriend has the same phone and is having this problem too.
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Summary: A minor, but annoying, glitch:
Review: I really liked this phone when I first got it. Of course, it was free and that helps, but I also liked its simple and straightforward interface. I didn't want a lot of useless gadgets and this is a pretty bare bones phone. It sounds good to me and has a long battery life. BUT, recently I've had a problem with my phone. After about three months I noticed the phone would fail to re-locate coverage after losing it. For example, in an elevator I lose coverage and that's fine. But, when I exit the elevator I must turn the phone off and then on again for it to re-establish a connection with the satellite or whatever. It can be a minor inconvenience unless you forget to check it or if you don't realize you've lost coverage. I find myself having to constantly check the screen. It's annoying. My girlfriend has the same phone and is having this problem too.
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Summary: Cool cell phone, but needs improvements
Review: I was impressed with the Nokia 3595 Nokia Phone. It gets pictures from the internet, but it cannot load in large pages, which is a downside. You cannot directly connect this phone to the computer. It has execelent sound quality though. This is a phone for someone who isn't for spending a lot of money.
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: I'm a long-time user of Nokia bar type phones. I've always loved them for being reliable, good sounding and easy to use. When I switched providers recently to Cingular GSM (same network of towers as AT&T), I needed a new phone to be able to access a GSM network. It wasn't a hard decision as Cingular was selling this little Nokia bar phone for about thirty bucks. The only problem was the keypad. I tried it, and hated it. I might have been able to get used to it after a while, but I wanted a phone that I would be comfortable with straight out of the box. The Cingular salesman sold me a new (non-OEM) cover and keypad for another twenty. NOW the keypad feels even better than my last Nokia! The buttons (under the keypad) are much firmer than any cell phone I've owned. I find this makes "typing" much easier. With the (raised button style) keypad I bought, this phone FEELS fantastic to use. So if you need a good keypad for this thing, pick one up at a Cingular store. You won't even find them on ebay, where they are all the OEM style. (I tried) The menu system of this phone makes it fairly easy to use, but I wish some functions were easier to access. I guess when you add more features to a phone, the user interface gets a little harder to work with. I like the color screen and the included games, though I'm not sure how much value either adds to a cell phone, other than "looks cool". I LOVE the organizer (calendar) built into this phone. You can write yourself notes and attach alarms to them. Thus, your phone beeps at you to remind you of an important meeting or something else that you can NOT forget to do. I'm using this function constantly. I don't know how I ever lived without it. My phone came with lots of good-sounding polyphonic ringtones, but a really disappointing selection of wallpapers. For wallpaper, there's only two you can actually use as the colors of the others make text almost impossible to read. (yes, you can change text color, but I've found this doesn't help much) I don't know if this is a Nokia thing or a Cingular thing. (I do know the same model phone sometimes is shipped with different features from different network providers) While you can get more wallpaper and ringtones for this phone, you either need to pay for them or spend a lot of time on the work-around. I'm not sure either option is worth it, so I wish it had more wallpaper to choose from. Sound quality (BOTH ways) and battery life are excellent. But I'm used to that with Nokia, so there's no surprise there. Overall, this phone has a GREAT set of features for a surprisingly low cost (I've seen this one advertised FREE recently). It is a great value!!! I would give it five stars if it wasn't for the horribly designed original equipment keypad. I don't think you should have to pay an extra twenty bucks for a decent keypad. But I was willing to do it, as it was the only Nokia Cingular offered that I thought I'd be happy with (minus the keypad, that is).
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Summary: VERY AWESOME PHONE
Review: My freind got a phone about a year before me and when I finally got a phone he recommended me Nokia. When I went to cingular I was going to get a sony ericson color phone, but then remembered what my freind told me about getting a nokia phone so I got this phone. Very wise decision on my part. This phone is AWESOME!!!!
Another freind of mine got the sony phone and my phone is way better. It looks cooler, has better color, and better games. IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS PHONE GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Nokia=>Crap
Review: No wonder why service providers give Nokia phones away free. I have owned a previous Nokia phone, which was also not worth buying, and I decided to give them another try and have a go with this model. I have had this model for a 1 month, and is one of the worst phones I have ever owned, besides the other Nokia. If you use your phone frequently, this phone is not for you. It will frequently cut out on a phone conversation-at full service! One can only hear it ringing if it is completely quiet-if you are in a crowded area, you will not be able to hear it, or for that matter feel it vibrate. If you miss phone calls, it will frequently NOT MENTION that you have! Same goes for voicemails or text messages. Others that I have met that have this phone, no matter who the service provider is, has the same problems. DO NOT get this phone!
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Summary: The worst phone I've ever owned!!!
Review: Now, I've had several phones- mostly Nokia and Samsung, and I've never had one that I disliked as much as this one. This thing was a replacement for a phone that I lost (and I was going for the cheapest model- big mistake). First, I HATE the keypad design- I'm constantly misdialing numbers. I'm a bit nervous, as I've not had the phone for very long, and the paint is already starting to flake off the overly cheap phone. The sound quality is not as good as with any other Nokia phone that I've had, but this could be psychological, more than grounded in reality. I HATE the ringtones that come with the phone, and don't really like my phone to have music playing instead of a real ring. The originally installed tones are annoying, or easy to miss- nothing inbetween. And I've not had any luck with downloading new ones. This phone also randomly stopped working a couple days ago- I had to spend over ****10**** (ten) hours on the phone with AT&T getting it sorted out over the course of three days. Horrid customer service hold times, but they're generally very helpful once you get through. It wasn't always like this with AT&T, and I hope it goes back to normal, soon... I'd recommend NOT buying this phone. Wait for AT&T's famous "get a cool phone for free" promos that they do allllllllll the time, and get something you'd actually like instead.
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Summary: Very decent phone
Review: Okay, Nokia has been sort of shelved aside in this new age phone market but I think this phone is good. Light and comfortable (very unlike Nokia) it fits into your pocket easily. It is wap enabled although surfing is a drag. It uses SyncML via WAP to sync contacts and calendar. This is a bad idea especially as only one company (fusion) offers the service, so choking you to pay exhorbitant fees...to sync your contacts or calendar. And there is no data cable option! Was it too much to ask for data cable and sync software? Removing the infra red was a bad move. This used to help me sync up my other nokias with my PC or other devices. Yet, I am sold by the weight/size convenience and the keys have got to be the sweetest phone keys I have pressed. Plus the battery is smoking! Talk for an hour and your haven't even lost a dot on the indicator.
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Summary: not a successful design
Review: slow display speed, esp. for the display of that cross when you lock/unlock the phone. weak signal capture speed, might take forever to re-synchronize with the base station when you carry it from a weak/no signal area to a strong signal area. the echo cancellation circuits have something wrong, you are always able to hear your own echo in the phone. not good human-machine interface design. pre-installed game is stupid designed, no instruction, no way to turn off the background music.
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