Nokia 6230 Reviews Summary

Highlights of Nokia 6230 Reviews

Pros:

• Very stylish, small and has lots of features
• MP3 player has astounding clarity, which can be used as ringtones
• Camera quality is very good, as it produces clear and sharp pictures
• Image resolution is very good, bright and sharp
• FM radio has space for 20 stations
• Can set the FM radio or a MP3 tone as the alarm
• Voice recorder is capable of recording 3 minute clips. Great for memos. Calls can also be recorded

Cons:

• Contains a few minor bugs in some phones (can easily be fixed)
• Some complaints of the small screen(128 x 128) and button layout
• Very pricy

Overall User Rating:

4.5/5 based on 166 reviews

Specifications for the Nokia 6230

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Product Description from CNet.com

Overview

Nokia's candy bar-style 6230 isn't pretty or particularly well designed, but it's stuffed to the gills with useful features. Boasting an integrated camera and video recorder, an MP3 player, an FM tuner, Bluetooth and IR support, and an expandable memory slot, there's not much this plain-Jane phone can't do. Hard-core road warriors who can put up with the handset's so-so looks and flawed keypad should give the 6230 a serious look. With a $300 price tag, the phone gives you what you pay for, but once a carrier picks up this mobile, it might be offered at a discount.

Design

The Nokia 6230 has the looks of a sleeper, which is to say it doesn't look like much. Sporting the usual Nokia candy bar shape, the handset measures 4.1 by 1.7 by 0.8 inches and weighs about 3.4 ounces. Overall it feels a little heavy for its size, but it fits in a jeans pocket, albeit snugly. Available in black and silver, the mobile's straight, sensible lines make it blend into the background. If you want to make a call without drawing attention, this is the phone for you.

The 65,000-color display is bright and crisp, and is a far step above the dim 4096-color versions on even the most recent Nokia models. Moreover, you can read the screen even in harsh sunlight, and its ability to display rich, high-resolution backgrounds helps gussy up the handset's sometimes old-fashioned interface. Another plus: The intuitive menus are easy to use. Navigation buttons consist of a five-way toggle and two soft keys with shortcuts to a variety of user-defined functions.

For a phone with such a safe, pedestrian design, the 6230 is unfortunately saddled with a would-be stylish keypad that's needlessly difficult to use. The middle column of keys is almost twice as wide as the left and right columns, which makes for tough dialing. The middle keys match the width of the square, five-way toggle, which works well when you're navigating menus but falters when you need to select items. Too often, we nudged it one way or another while trying to push it straight down.

Flip the phone around and you'll find the camera lens, which is embedded in a shiny, black plastic strip that stretches around to right side of the phone--the perfect place for a dedicated camera button. Alas, there isn't one. With the phone in standby mode, you activate the camera by nudging the navigation toggle up--a shortcut we discovered by accident, as it isn't labeled. A small, single volume control sits flush on the left side of the phone, and while it's certainly unobtrusive, it's hard to find when you're on a call. In typical Nokia fashion, a dedicated power button is located on the top of the phone, and its large size made it easy to press.