I need a bigger pocket (Nokia 3250)

Name: darren1982

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Product:	Nokia 3250
Date:	16/09/06 (388 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It's Features

Disadvantages: Size & Weight

There are so many mobile phone's released so quickly these days it's hard to keep track. So when I needed a new mobile contract for work I went in search of a decent looking phone with a reasonable deal. Where did I end up? on O2's website ordering my classy new Nokia 3250.

So why did I choose this particular model.....not quite sure, a moment of madness I guess! Although I had seen it featured in music video's and advertised at the bus stop on the way to work and was Intrieged by the twisting keypad. Another boy had found his toy and couldn't wait to get his hands on it.

So, before I review it's features I thought I would provide a brief description of my first impressions. If I bore you just skip the next paragraph though I find first impressions quite important...even if it changes.

WOW!!!!! It's big, I realised I went for this phone purely for looks, I should have read the specs. I put the sim and battery in and browsed through the manuel...A thought!, lets put it on charge so when im done reading I can have a play. So I dug through the box for the charger and plugged it in - geez...this phone is quite heavy, wondering back the the box and cool.....they have given me a free memory card **Chuffed**. At this point the phones is really growing on me seeing all the features and playing with the twistable keypad.

So lets have a look and a rant at the phone and its features.

___Dimensions___

Let me be as acurate as I can and reach for the ruler. The width measures at 4.9cm the height at 10.4cm and the depth is 2cm. I measure the weight at exactly 132g.

___Look & Feel___

My handset is Black, the keypad is silver as is the surrounding frame of the screen. The screes itself measures 3.7 cm by 4.4. The front and back is of a shiney black feel with a large NOKIA logo in silver printed on the back and the sides are of a "rubbery" feel. The head phone and charger sockets are located on the right edge of the phone more or less central and on the bottom left edge of the hanset you can see the camera lens. The bottom of the hanset which is the kepad swivels round to reveal the control buttons for using the mp3 player, 4 buttons reverse, play/pause, stop and forward. When the keypad is in its right positions the mp3 buttons are visable on the back of the handset. The buttons on the phone are quite small (unless my fingers are very fat) as are the buttons below the screen (these buttons don't swivel round) these buttons are, Menu and Application shortkeys, cancel, answer & end call, 2 shortcut buttons and the navigation joystick.

___ Battery Life___

So far so good!, I can go 3 days without charging, though I dont speak on this phone much; probably about an hour a day. The battery will run out considerably faster if you play games on it.

___ Menu___

Here's the big one, the menu and all it's features. First up, on the main screen there are 6 shortcuts to the address book, message inbox, media album, wap services, calender and the clock. Once into the main menu you are provided with 12 further menu icons. Each Icon is illustated unless you change the settings to list view.

**Messages**
In the Messaging menu you have the usual sub menus: New message, Inbox, My Folders, Drafts, Sent, Outbox and reports.

**Contacts**

As usual your contacts are listed here.

**Log**

This menu lists your call logs including, Missed calls, received calls and Dialled numbers.

**Gallery**

The gallery includes your: Images, Video clips, Music tracks, Sound clips, Streaming links, Presentations and an option to display all the files.

**Music**

There are two options in the music menu, one to open your mp3 player and the other to open the radio. With the radio the headphones act as your am/fm ariel.

**Media**

Another 5 options in media, Camera, Real player, Recorder, Flash player and video editor.

**tutorial**

This is a handy little option. When running it guides you through a tutorial on your phone and its features and how to use them.

**Services**

This Icon opens your wap browser and all its options.

**My Own**

Includes Themes, Sound meter - you can use this to record the decibells of a noisey situation...quite cool, Web browser and a life blog.

**Organiser**

The usual suspects in here, your Clock, Calender, Currency converter, notes, calculator and File manager.

**Tools**

You go in here to change your settings on your Voice Commands, Voice mail, Spped dial, Profiles and general settings. There are also some other options which are Application Manager, Active keys, Device manager, Transfer, Help, About and the settings wizard which helps you configure your settings.

**Connect**

These are your options and settings for Bluetooth, Instant Messenger, Connection Manager, PIT??, Sync and your Data Cable.

___Games___

The only game installed on my phone is the new Snake 3D, a newer version the the origional snake and snake 2 but in colour and with much improved graphic's. I find this game very addictive.

___Sound & Picture Quality___

The phones camera is 2 mega pixel and produces sharp images and videos. The sound quality is superb, as it is also an mp3 player you can also have your music playing aloud and believe me it does play loud and to an extreme high quality. You can also set you mp3 tracks to play as your ringtones and text alerts so you will have one of the most clearest, crisp and loud ringer around..


___Whats in the Box___

I suppose this can vary but included in my box was: A CD installation disk to organise you phone using your PC, A data cable to connect the phone to the PC, Mp3 Headphones & hands free, wall charger, 512mb SD memory card, phone battery and of course....the Handset.


___Summary___

All in all this is a great mobile phone with brill features, A good quality camera that also captures video and has a good clear and crisp sound. I would recommend this phone to potential buyer's as my only problem with the handset is it's size and weight, this however may not be a problem for others.

Summary: A nice phone, just rather on the large side.

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