Nokia 6800 Review

its amazing the best ive seen o my god can cellular technology get any better? Phone giants nokia have hit another home run with this little wonder

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The best phone I’m ewer saw

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Meet all my expectations,- modem, e-mail,text, keyboard etc. Works were other phones won’t in weak signal areas. Disappointed with the small portion of memory devoted to business apps. – 4 months calendar and a couple hundred “contacts” – and it is full. But >5 MB of memory IS STILL FREE for “applications” !!??.. whatever they are… :( Rogers “Wireless Desktop” option (Canada) makes it an awsome business tool! I can drill way into my Exchange info and multiple POP boxes from anywhere!

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I’ve had the Nokia 6800 for about four months now. It is by far the best phone I have ever had. It looks very good. It’s not as small as many of today’s phone but to be honest I find many of them too small. They can actually be difficult to hold. This is very attractive and sleek in appearance and silver and black – and fits in one’s hand much easier than say the 7210. With a little bit of investigation I can honestly say: the phone does everything!

It’s a great phone, firstly. The sound is extremely good, both what you hear and what your caller hears. The Contacts feature is great. It can hold 500 names and in each case you can include a lot of info, various phone numbers, fax, e-mail, postal address… even a note. Quite standard for Series 40 Nokias to some extent. It’s friendly to it’s master and easy to use.

The FM radio is great. People seem divided on this newish issue of FM radios in mobiles. Personally, I think it’s a great idea. The quality is high and I really enjoying listening to music and the news. The headphones aren’t so well designed unfortunately. It’s good that you can exit the radio application and wander through the rest of the phone… write/play a game/check contacts… and the radio just plays away. I’ve had a great sense of calm composing a note or an e-mail, then turning on the radio and playing Block Buster downloaded from midlet.org

To the writing. Obviously the key feature of this phone is it’s hidden full qwerty keyboard. You flip open the standard mobile phone keyboard and there it is. This is a thumb-based experience, and entirely satisfactory. Some would say it’s awkward. To me, a laptop is awkward ’cause then I need a bag. To be able to flip open my phone and be typing in qwerty, either an e-mail or note: is a dream come true.

A word about e-mail. In a move they themselves must have regretted, the e-mail application provided is very poor. It’s slow, it lacks inspiration in the design and it has real problems with POP3. I have had to settle for using a separate account to the one I normally do. However, I made the ‘return to’ address on it my regular e-mail, so if someone presses reply: it still goes to my regular mail. The signatures on both are the same and I don’t think anyone ever notices the difference. It’s only sometimes I send an e-mail from the handset but great to have the facility. Once or twice I have been on the train and had to e-mail someone and, slow though it is, the typing isn’t – and it works. It’s as sure as sending a text.

The 6820, which many may opt for has a smaller keyboard – actually a disadvantage because these are little laptops I feel – and no FM radio which is a real loss. Furthermore the camera is, people should note, nowhere near the quality of the camera on the 7650 etc. It is the same as that of the 7210. Only really suitable for phone-phone. Also, despite it’s smaller size the 6820 doesn’t actually look as good! Bluetooth is the only gain with the 6810 and the 6820…

Indeed, getting back to the 6800, this brings me onto something else. You need to by the lead the connect it to your PC if you have one and struck me as somewhat overpriced. However, since I got it my life is a dream. I never hated Bluetooth the way some do, but I must say I prefer this lead. The software that comes with the 6800 is great, offering a range of choices. You can edit and import images, scale down Midi tones to Polyphonic, back up your phone, synchronize. It syncs with my XP Address Book beautifully… no probs…

The battery life is good at 3 days.

I have downloaded to applications – other than games – from midlet.org. EmailViewer and WebViewer, both by ReqWireless. The EmailViewer POP3′d easily. There’s no signature option, and you can refer to the phones contacts to choose an e-mail address you want to send a mail to, but I’m keeping it on the phone for something else. It’s great for viewing, like the titles says. It downloads all my spam titles and lets me delete ‘em. The email client that came with the phone, that I like for sending, ain’t so hot at that.

WebViewer is fine for when you have to look at something before you can reach a computer screen. It has a facility that alloed ya to switch on/off images.

It just seems to do it all. It’s not overly fragile either. Quite robust.

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I have to say that I probably would never have gotten this phone if it had not been FREE. However, it is really a trip. It does far more than I ever expected a phone to do and I am learning more about it every day.

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Has all the gadgets I wanted, but accessories are expensive and I haven’t been able to download my voice recordings to PC Suite yet.

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I used Nokia 7110 and i hardly found such a good phone to substitute it, and it 6800 surely is. I would never give over 250$ for cellular and this one is absolutely the best phone to buy at this price.

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Nokia have now updated this phoneto 6820. I think the reason is due to the front of the phone that flips over. This is a weakpoint and after time two cracks appear! The reception is ok, but its not the best phone in the world, there are better models out there.

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I think this phone is a great phone where i live in near philadelphia. it has almost every thing i wanted in a phone but a camera and blue tooth. i got this phone 1 year ago when it first came out but one good thing but kinda bad thing is that me and alot of people are used to using the phone for about a year then getting a upgrade but this phone wont die and i’ve been thinking about getting a new one but itz almost a rock and will take anything ( i dropped it in a puddle once and it keep going ) < dont try that thou > …. Its one of the best phones i ever had

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The battery door clips break easily and after 14 days, you are stuck with a worthless $200 phone. The broken item is considered an accessory, but I can not find it to replace it. The T-Moble customer service can not locate a replacement piece. NOKIA 6800 – Buyer beware!

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I have had a lot of phones and any phone might break. If yours gets broken get it fixed or get a new one! As for the other guy with the broken battery door… How does a battery door just break? My 6800 is going on 13 months old and been dropped lots of times with nothing breaking.. It works like new. Best phone I ever had.

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I rcvd a new nokia 6800 missing hte battery cover from a friend.. i called nokia and order the cover… it was .55 cents and 5.80 shipping …

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I love the QWERTY Keyboard; it makes messaging and calendar entries easy and comprehensive enough that I don;t need a PDA. But hone for 3 years, and have gone thru 5 different ones. On the plus side, Nokia’s pretty good about replacing them, but I can’t believe theded me to the new 6820 by now (from what I’ve heard, that one is more reliable). The 6800s I have had have had problems like: Keyboard stops working; Phone autodials people at random even while sitting untouched on my desk (I’ve seen it happen; It’d call my Mom in the middle of the night and so on); Screen cracks and becomes almost unreadable; Contacts on hinges rust and do not allow buttons to work; etc. I signed up to CNET just to write this review–skip the 6800!

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