Finally a good Nokia
Written: Jun 10 '04
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Pros: excellent sound quality and battery life, lots of useful features, fun games
Cons: no WAP browser, speaker phone, or dedicated volume keys, power button hard to use
The Bottom Line: Excellent voice quality and battery life make this the best phone I've ever used. Love the metric converter.
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| bobbyslav's Full Review: Nokia 3560 |
By now I've completely lost count on how many Nokia phones I've had or used, but one think I know - until this one, I had never been happy with a Nokia phone. Besides the really long battery life that most Nokias seem to have, there has never been much about those phones that appealed to me.
The 3560 on the other hand, turned things around completely, and I can certainly say it is the best phone of any brand I've ever had. Normally when I choose a new phone I look for several things: I hate flip phones, so it must not be that; I like a little bigger phones, because they're easier to hold and harder to lose; I prefer built in antennas - I've had really bad experience with the antenna constantly breaking off on a Motorola V60 phone. These are the most important features I look for, and the Nokia 3560 has them all. I know that the bigger size is a turn off for most people, but in my book this is a great thing. Plus despite its size this model is still really light.
There are a lot of features on this phone - way more than I care to list on here, if you're looking for the features go to Nokia's web site and read. I guess the main selling point of the phone for a lot of people would be the color screen. I find it cool and all, but besides while playing the games (two of which I am addicted to), I don't think it makes that much of a difference. This phone doesn't have a camera, and the color screen has a pretty low resolution. Actually unless you put a background picture or something you can hardly tell it is a color screen. I found though that the background pictures built into the phone are really dark and the text remains black on all backgrounds, making it really hard if not impossible to see. For that reason I've left my phone with just a regular white background. Supposedly you should be able to download additional images and/or games, but I have yet to figure out how that works. I suspect this might be some provider dependable feature and I really have very little desire to figure it out.
My biggest complain of the phone is the discrepancy between the manual and the phone itself. It clearly says in the manual that there is a built in web browser, but my phone does not. I am guessing this might depend on the model for the specific provider too, but I don't know - I mean this is a TDMA phone and I think the mobile internet is only available on GSM networks. I know it's quite tedious using the mobile browser anyways, but one of my previous phones had it, and I liked it a lot. I do miss my mobile internet. Actually the Nokia 3595 or something like that looks a lot like this phone, but is a GSM model and does have the WAP browser.
Another feature I kind of miss is a built in speaker phone. It would be very helpful if I had it while driving.
Now to my favorite features. First and foremost the reception is really good. I receive a signal in areas where no other phones have any. And the sound quality is almost as good as a regular phone. Again reception is provider dependable, but with the same provider this phone beats all their other models. Also the battery life is amazing. If I turn it off at night the phone lasts about a week on one charge.
Other favorite features are: the built in alarm with snooze button - I only wish I could chose a different melody, because it only makes really loud beeping noises, but it's very effective; I love the metric converter - I grew up in Europe and still have a lot of troubles with all the gallons, and yards, and all that good stuff, so that converter comes in handy quite a lot; the automatic keypad lock - unlike any other phone I've used, you can set the keypad lock to either automatic or manual, and when in automatic mode you can select the time delay before the pad locks itself - thumbs up for this feature; and last but not least - the built in games, of course they're nothing elaborate, but I am totally addicted to the tennis and the bowling games.
Now features I don't like: you can't assign different melodies for different phone numbers; there are only polyphonic melodies and no regular rings... I really miss those; there are no dedicated volume keys - it is hard to adjust the volume during calls, especially if you have to punch in extra numbers, like making a selection or something. To change the volume you have to first delete all numbers from the screen, and then you can use the scroll keys to adjust. Some times this is very frustrating; to delete the call times after you end a call you've received, you first have to deactivate the keypad lock, this is a minor annoyance but still I don't like it; and finally I am not a big fun of the power button located on top of the phone - it's kind of small and difficult to push, and you have to hold it a really long time before the phone switches on. Not so much when you want to turn it off.
Well it is my experience that no mobile phone is perfect. But despite its several minor annoying quirks and the lack of some features, this is a really cool and reliable phone that I would recommend to anyone.
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Amount Paid (US$): 50.00
Recommended for: Stylish Trendsetters - Hip and Trendy
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Member: Bobby L
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