Nokia 3230 - 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera Phone - Video - Mp3 Player - Memory Card Slot - Sim Free

Amazon Customer Reviews

(5 out of 5)

i was never one of those phone kids...untill

I cannot believe this phone… how pleased with it am I? Really very pleased.
I think what makes this phone so good is the Symbian operating system. Like your windows or Mac o/s, this is the interface that lets you exploit all the cool things this phone can do. And then keep adding to/tailoring those cool things to your needs. The phone is stuffed with apps that let you edit photos/video/sound. And then more stuff. And games. Everything your old phone did is here, just a little better. Not lest because of how flexible it is. You can really make it your phone. This will do what most people use the palms PDA's for, so capable is it. Again I think this is thanks in no small part to Symbian.
The first phone I owned was a Nokia, every phone I’ve owned since I have regretted not buying another. Nothing else has the logical, user friendly well put together-ness. Each progressive menu takes you to exactly where you expect, does what you want, then gets you back to where you started. Sounds simple? Not for Motorola… and none of this is even the reason I’m so into the phone, that has to be the camera.
I always wanted a camera phone that could take a picture, not just a blurry mess of pixels. An old maxim states; “The best camera is the one you have with you”. Yeah, if you can get a print off it. With this you get a camera that takes a pretty ok picture (remarkable for a phone cam). Not just that; you have a zoom, and best of all a low light setting. I don’t know about you but every picture I want to take with a phone seems to be in low light. Then once you have taken the pic's you can Bluetooth them to a photo printer booth. They never said the future would be this cool at school. But better yet, you have a hot swappable mmc card slot so you can cram your phone with pic’s and apps and mp3’s, up to 2gb (ok, it comes with a 32mb card…) so there you go. I like it.
Some people will tell you it has slow menus. The menus are noticeably slower than some, but we are talking the beat of a heart, rather than the blink of an eye. Look at comparable phones, and then wonder how they are doing this for that money, with that lovely big screen.

(5 out of 5)

Nokia 3230

I have breifly experianced my friends 3230 and i found it the most slim line and superb caera quality phone i have ever seen. The games are absolutly amazing, and the realplayer makes it so easy to play all kinds of formats of video and music. This phone is amazing in every way. Best phone out by far!

(3 out of 5)

Full featured - less reliable mechanics

I chose this phone in August 2005 because of the full feature list. It has everything else except 3G. The acompanying Nokia Software Suite which is downloadable from the internet makes it hazzlefree to enable your laptop on the internet, download pictures etc...
Negative is the 7 navi keys around the joystick and the on/off switch. I had it repaired twice under warranty. Maybe it came from too many drops on the floor or whatever but it is less durable than my previous phones (Nokia 7650, 7170, 5150, 2110)