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Nokia 6230 Review

The 6230 is highly recommended

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Standard kit:

• Phone
• Charger
• User's guide
• CD with software
• Stereo headset
• 32 Mb MMC card

The case with lots of models from Top 3 manufacturers is that they are awaited by a lot of people, they show their interest towards them, even though they do not contain any new functions, and their only difference from the previous models is changes design.

Nokia 6220 was expected in same way, its appearance did not become a sensation, the discussions toned down by themselves, the sales were not shockingly big. The consumer's psychology is rather simple and is known for quite a while now, manufacturers are affecting weakest spots and offer their faultless solutions in this area. Fortunately Nokia 6230 is actually new generation phone built in Series 40 platform, it has a lot of new functions on board. The model itself is innovative, it has certain amount of interesting solutions, but on the other hand not all of them are convenient in our daily life. The phone's ambiguity guarantees lots of discussions now and then.

But one fact is certain, Nokia became the first company in the world who started shipping phone with exchangeable memory cards. The competitive products will be released only in the middle of summer, this automatically guarantees good sales for Nokia 6230, its success on the market. Let's review all (yes and no) for this model and compare it with its competitors.

The phone took after its outlook from 6000 series models, you can notice the shape transformation - first it was Nokia 6610, then transfer to Nokia 6220. The phone's sizes remained typical for this series (103x44x20 mm), it is neither small nor big. The phone's weight in standard package without memory card is 95 grams (the manufacturer claims that it is 97 grams), when the memory card is installed the weight increases up to 97 grams. The phone cannot be called light, its weight is concentrated in the phone's small shape, you can actually feel it. Perhaps the fact that the phone is not balanced, upper part (where the speaker is located) is hollow, meanwhile starting from the speaker the mass increases, is the one to blame.

The phone is shipped in few standard color solutions (Graphite, Pearl White), they are performed in one color gamma. In all conditions keyboard, edging around the edge of the case, upper butt-end are colored in silver. On the back cover you will notice glossy setting in, it is shading the camera.

The phone supports exchangeable covers, this function becomes standard for all class phones, starting from the beginning one as well as fashion, business models. With the help of exchangeable covers you can get up to 4 new looks of Nokia 6230 (colors: Green, Red, Brown, Tin Grey).

Back cover has only one holder on the lower part of the case. The peculiarity of this cover is that it should be moved upwards, meanwhile most users are used doing this operation downwards. The fact that after few openings the panel will receive backlash is more critical, in future it will only increase. The locker's construction is safe, the case can be accidentally opened only if the phone fell down, but because of the backlash you will always have a nasty feeling about the cover.

The horizontal backlash of upper panel looks funny, it turns out that the phone's parts are not balanced in various directions. Due to the construction the backlash is springy, this creates squeak when dialing the number, even if you are not holding the phone tightly. In order not to be picky we decided to test few phones from various shipments targeted for Russian market, as well as for others. In all cases we noticed the very same backlash, squeak when dialing the number, holding the phone tightly. Of course this backlash did not appear at once, but only after the phone was in use for at least two weeks. Unfortunately the manufacturers were unable to gain good fixation of the panels, this is phone's disadvantage.

On the right side you can see speaker's hole, it is used for playing ring tones, providing loudspeaker and music playback. Considering that all of the mentioned functions are used as addition to an existing speaker this looks interesting. More than that, it is exactly the speaker that provides good volume for the ring tones, it is the loudest for Nokia phones. The phone has 24 chord polyphonic ring tones, but the preinstalled ring tones do not allow to see its true quality, they are basic for all phones on the 40th platform, sound exactly the same. On the whole the speaker's quality can be rated only if you upload your favorite mp3 files on the handset, the ones you already know well. You should not except amazing quality, but I think that the thing you will hear will actually amaze you in a pleasant way.

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