My Experience with the Nokia 6233. Review on Nokia 6233

Recently a family member decided to

change his phone and I was requested to short-list a few phones which had the

following features

No flip or slider phone.

Decent amount of internal memory.

2 MP camera w or w/o auto focus.

Bluetooth Cable connectivity to computer.

A good screen with at least 65k colours.

FM

radio.

Decent music capability.

At least 500 phone book capacity, which allows multiple entries per contact

With these points in mind I short-listed the Sony EricssonW810i & Nokia N72. but I thought the N72 was a bit bulky for my relative& so we went to buy the phone. But when we went to the dealer(most of our phones have been bought from this guy as he gives us a good overall deal), he suggested the new(at that time) Nokia 6233.

I was not impressed, as this phone had just been introduced in the market then, he gave me many reasons why not to opt for the W810i(in spite of it being more expensive).We gave in to his pleading of ‘at least have a look at it’.

We did and the rest is now history as my relative was quite impressed but it s looks as

well as its price J. Frankly I was quite nervous of, according to me ‘an unknown entity’; especially after my bro’s experience with the Nokia 6230i(another review here). I didn't even know how much internal memory it had(moreon that later).

Anyway the deal was done the old Nokia 6610 went out for 2k and in came the 6233. its been a few months now so I can safely say that its been safely tested n our hands. I won’t bore you with the specs as that can be had @ their web site.

At firstlooks it looks very impressive as it quite slim(as compared to the N series), has a stainless frame & an overall black look(this piece). This phone is very handy in operation, especially b’coz of its keypad. The buttons in the side vertical rows stick out slightly; all keys have very soft click and great feel to it.

The usual(I say this as I have owned a 5110 & 3100 in the past) four-way navigation key and the “OK” button inside it are also very easy to manage.

It uses currently S40 3rd edition operating system.

Flight Mode. This was a new feature for me & was taken in by it, The phone part can be turned off in case you are in a plane or wherever mobile phones are prohibited, imagine having the phone in the off mode and @ the same time listening to the music or radio through the phone. Can be useful sometimes.

Calls list. Pressing the call key brings up the list of dialled numbers only. But, requires not only making, but also receiving calls.

I frequently need to call back people, whose calls I’ve missed when there are more than two of them, it’s impossible to do that without having to peek in the calls record. To access to general list, you will need to

perform at least 3-4 actions, and this is pretty much inconvenient.

BlueTooth-devices searching. The handset is always searching for new devices located nearby; you can’t pick a device residing in the list of already paired ones, and thus end up by having to spend a bit more time.

Incoming messages. The display doesn't offer the information on sender – only amount of messages(e.g you have one unread message).

Phonebookhas only 500 entries to fill, but

other standard for all business solutions made by Nokia was 1000 entries(like the 6230i which is an older vintage)this could be b’coz it does not have enough internal memory and firmware in spite of being a of 3G phones.

Themes. There are few themes preinstalled, they are all-standard and do not offer main menu’s icon customization, It is easy to download new themes, which are a lot more colourful and interesting than standard ones. But be warned if the themes are too big it will slow the phone

down drastically to the extent u might get a white screen for a long time memory. I really find this shocking as the older 6230i has 64 MB internal memory.

If you want to download themes for free or share it with others check out https://1.ownskin.com/index . This site has a good collection for Nokia & Sony Ericsson phones.

Voice dialing. Tags automatically get assigned to contacts in the phonebook, without having to train before

Copy & Move files is a very primitive operation as u cannot move/copy files to sub folders.

Coz of space constraints this review continues in the comments section:)

H