Nokia 6230i - O2 - Pay As You Go Mobile Phone

Best phone of this type!!!! - 03 May 2006

20 out of 20 found this review helpful.

I've not had this phone long but I love it, it beats the Sony Ericsson W550i (my very broken in less than 6 months former phone) hands down. Nokia are very reliable, the sound quality is fantastic on phone calls, MP3 and the radio.
Nokia stick with their tried and tested features that people love such as changable covers (this comes in really handy if you scratch the screen!), easy to use predictive text, logical menus and it's robust.
The phone has excellent features such as expandable memory, bluetooth and an MP3 player. My critisms are that there isn't a flash but on every phone I've had they've been rubbish anyway and that the phone doesn't come with a cable to connect it to your computer (an extra but worthwhile purchase).
This phone is so good my boyfriend bought one just after me and we both think that there is no better phone for the money.

Thank you, Nokia - 18 Apr 2006

18 out of 18 found this review helpful.

Favourite feature: wallpaper slide show. Only apparent flaw after a month's useage: the back light doesn't stay on for very long before dimming. In short, highly recommended.

At length.... I just need a decent quality, non-frustrating, reliable phone that looks the part. I don't need a phone to play Mp3s, or offer games, or radio or speak to my computer or take good photographs - or so I thought until I started to take full advantage of what this phone can do.

I'm somewhat of a prodigal son returning to the Nokia fold having spent a few years in the Samsung and Motorola-strewn wilderness. I can happily say it's very good to be back.

No more text-lag (Motorola Pebl), or frustrating (and wholly illogical) menus, just a straight-forward, no-nonsense attractive (but hardly ostentatious) phone that offers everything a mobile should in 2006.

It probably would be nonsense to suggest that it's because Nokia is European and I am European that I find Nokia menu systems more logical than other brands; still, it's a mystery why the competition can't be more like Nokia in this regard...

Usually firmware is patronising and restrictive. Not so here. Nokia's PC software is very user-friendly and allows you to do all sorts, from making ringtones to transferring files, sync-ing up your phone and Outlook contacts and calendar, or making wallpaper photos for your phone from high res digital shots that you have on your PC.

Gamers delight - 22 Nov 2005

28 out of 31 found this review helpful.

I went for the 6230i purely for the game,im a gamer at heart but hate the thought of lugging a handheld around with me,considering this is a phone the java is amazing!only need look at the golf and you cant fail to be impresssed!,by the time i had upgraded the MMC to 1GB (originaly 32MB)i have downloaded more than enough games for any length of journey!

The added bonus of MP3 is great i have a few "snipits" of songs stored on the phones own memory (32MB) for ringtones and a host of full MP3's on the MMC!

The video is amazing i took a few good lenght movies at a couple of parties (dark smokey flashing lights) and the video still looks great,i also took a movie of fireworks in the dark and everything shows up brilliantly!

These additions plus the regular phone apps (picture messeges,mms,gprs etc etc) makes this altogeather a great phone that il be hanging onto for awhile!

wooow - 01 Oct 2005

7 out of 12 found this review helpful.

this is such a cool phone. the memory is great when you have compressed all your songs. the fone is also loud the loudspeker comes in handy. the dowfall is the fone reacts slow. the camara is very good. overall i think its the best phone going around and i like it very much.

Not a style phone, but a great all rounder - 17 Jun 2005

105 out of 110 found this review helpful.

I have had the Nokia 6230i for just over two weeks now and I can say that it is a great all rounder. It may lack the flip-phone or slide-cover looks of the current hotties, however, it makes up for it in great functionality. It has the 1.3 megapixel camera, it takes a multimedia card, has Bluetooth and Irda, speakerphone, MP3 player, video camera, voice dialling and FM radio. This is a real "phone buddy", listen to the radio on the speaker or through the supplied stereo headphones (pop-port and a bit chunky on the cable end - however the headphones are used as an antenna, or listen to MP3s stored on the MMC). It also synchronises with MS outlook, I love having my calendar to hand without having to carry and extra PDA (sure its not so fab at putting lengthy info in, but it does the job and the Nokia data suite takes care of that along with MS Outlook. You can also send SMS messages from your laptop to the phone through bluetooth, manage contacts, transfer files, create wallpapers, backup data etc.). I also purchased the Nokia Bluetooth headset HD-W3 and it works a treat, at last real hands free with voice dialling that actually works. I used to have the Nokia 3200 and the only thing missing from the 6230i is the LED torch that the 3200 has, that's my only "why didn't they" gripe as the package would have been completed for me with the extra bit (a torch in a phone, such a neat idea). Forget the looks, just look at the spec. great screen, great features, a great all rounder.