This phone is horrible (Nokia 3230)

Member Name: rick77

Product:	Nokia 3230
Date:	30/03/06 (182 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: everything.

I chose this as an upgrade and received four 3230s from orange until I got one that worked. On the first three phones the memory card would not format, and the camera would not go on.

Also, there was also no icon to notify me that a message had been left for me and no notification of a missed call, even though I had been left a message.

On this fourth, phone the camera still only comes on when it wants to and not when I want it to. It often does not even take a picture when it does come on, and says there is not enough memory even though there is.

The main screen notifies me when I have a missed call but when I access this information it is often impossible to delete this icon, so I am never sure if this icon is referring to the first missed call or a subsequent one.

Yesterday I tried to text someone and the text would not send because I did not have a good signal. Fair enough, but then the icon on the phone that I see when texts are usually sending got stuck and will not go away even though I have switched the phone on and off several times.

The following annoys me incredibly. When I send a text message I write the text and click on 'contacts,' but I then have to press another button which changes the phone to alpha mode before I can scroll down the contacts and see the names.
There probably isn't another mobile phone alive in the world today where you have to do that. Come on Nokia, give me an explanation !

This phone is so slow, it inspires me with no confidence whatsoever. It is clear to me where the ultimate flaw of this phone lays. It is trying to be something it is not. It is packed full of hundreds of features and it can't cope with them. It is like a Robin Reliant posing as a ferrari or a sheep in wolves clothing.

I feel I've been cheated with this phone and will never again assume that just because it is a Nokia, (phones that I have previously liked a lot) that it must be Ok.

Finally, I've seen reviews on sites which say this phone is cool, they must have been written by those overpaid PR people who pose as genuine consumers in order to write lies about products on behalf of manufacturers !

Summary: Just don't buy it.

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