NEC 515 Review

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Average User Rating: 3.8

1. Cool features, mediocre phone.

   

   By: Paul
   June 28, 2005 @ 9:51 AM

   Like the other reviews on this webpage, my NEC 515 gets poor reception, drops calls regularly, and locks up as often. Easiest remedy is to undo the battery & start over. Also, syncing software does not allow for the downloading of files such as pictures or sounds as does the Nokia software for my Nokia 6800. Needless to say, I will not buy another NEC phone in the future.

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2. Don't Buy It

   

   By: Kristin
   November 28, 2004 @ 8:56 PM

   This thing is a piece of crap. Each member of my family has one of these phones under a family plan, and we all have trouble with them. The phone has horrible reception, poor sound quality, randomly drops calls, and often freezes while I’m in the middle of a conversation. As soon as our 1 year contract is up (in 2 weeks), you can bet we’re staying away from phones by NEC.

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3. Phone drops almost every call

   

   By: Dennis
   October 24, 2004 @ 1:44 PM

   I purchased the NEC515 phone last February with AT&T service. The phone drops almost every call. I called AT&T and they swapped it with a new NEC 515 and the new phone does the same thing. What a piece of Junk! I will purchase a new phone next week and you can bet it will not be from NEC.

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4. average phone

   

   By: Jon
   August 23, 2004 @ 6:02 PM

   I just got this phone, and have not gotten too deep into it. One thing I have noticed, when i open the phone, sometimes it does not activate the speaker, so when i call people can hear me, but i can not hear them. I am currently in the process of contacting att about this problem

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5. Poor RF dooms an otherwise great phone

   

   By: Maureen
   February 17, 2004 @ 4:14 PM

   I used this phone for a month and sent it back. Bottom line is I am in a marginal GPS reception area for ATT. My roomate had a Seimens phone which worked. The NEC dropped call after call. It also kept changing network to Cingular, or just displayed SOS (its message for no signal). Got a Nokia 6200 to replace it. The Nokia, by comparison, usually has 3 or 4 bars out of 7 for signal, and doesnt drop the calls. So, in spite of a fantastic color screen, great sound, wonderful user interface, lots of memory, you name it, unless you use your phone consistently in a good signal area, the NEC’s poor RF makes the phone nearly unusable.

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