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Perhaps mine was a lemon, however based on the other reviews I read, lemons with this model seem to happen fairly often. Based on my experience thus far, and the reviews I saw online, I took it back today and got the phone I originally was going to get. I got this phone yesterday and I returned it today. However, when I got to the store, I let the salesman talk me into this phone, which he said was a better quality, though at a higher price. The sound quality and signal strength were fairly good, but that was dwarfed by the other problems I was having. I went online and saw that almost every review for this phone was negative. I also was having problems with it powering down by itself, or suddenly lighting up--which was very annoying because I use my phone as an alarm clock so all of a sudden I would be awaken by a bright light in my room.
I also didn't need any of the "sophisticated" features, I only needed a phone that worked well as a phone, and that could text with relative simplicity. I consider myself fairly tech savvy, but I just don't understand why they make simple tasks like setting an alarm for am or pm require an additional 3 button pushes.
The vibration function did not work, no matter how much I adjusted settings, and the manual was no help. Maybe I just didn't spend enough time getting used to it (though I did spend about 4 hours on it last night trying to figure it out).
I did my homework before going to the store and I had narrowed my decision to 2 phones (an LG and a different model Nokia). I also found that the way the operating system on the phone was set up was not very intuitive.
I hear Nokia is a generally a good brand, but unfortunately I am a bit scarred after this experience. I took it home and immediately had problems.
Just this afternoon, the vibration miraculously started working, though intermittently, which confirmed to me that I had a defective phone.
Nokia 6555b:-On AT&T Network-A phone with lots of features that you will hate yourself later for buying.>>>Buy the Nokia 6085.
and actually gets hot in my hand when I make a call. I am a faithful NOKIA customer, so I didn't even look at other brands in the AT&T store. This was his best shot. SOO frustrating since we have ditched our landlines for our cells--I told the salesman I needed a solid workhorse phone for calls and texts, nothing more. What a big mistake. This phone has no battery life after 5 p.m.
The speakerphone could be a little louder. You can get a 3.5 to 2.5 adaptor, but you won't have a mic.I had no luck with the 3rd party SIM card reader in backing up the address book, but the I did get a data cable that worked. It's not as big or as solid as a Razr, but the price was right -- free with a family plan. I also have not been able to find a stereo headset with mic. I've had this phone for about 2 months and it provides basic multimedia (pix, camera, audio), reasonable contact functions and fairly good phone quality.
It has both phone memory and a memory card with is a little confusing. I added a 1 GB microSD card without any problems. I tried the Nokia HS-47, HS-42 and HS-40 with no luck. MP3's seem fine. It also has a flight mode which shuts down the cell phone but allows you to use the multimedia and phone book etc.I got a plastic shell and a leather case that both work fine and protect it as it is a bit fragile. I have not found a video format that will work, but takes most audio files, although some it won't play. Switching silent to ring profile is easy. Bluetooth worked ok on my Mac, but I didn't try the "Nokia Suite" on the mac.
I don't use my phone a lot so battery life is acceptable for me. You have to put it "Nokia mode" for the data cable to work right, the data and music mode don't seem to work as well. I can only sometimes get the voice recognition to work. The menus are ok and are somewhat customizable, and I think better than my inexpensive Motorola. I ordered it from ATT with a handsfree mono earbud which works okay, but is uncomfortable and rubber earbud cushions seem next to impossible to find.
The battery dies without warning, no beeps just dies. The battery is pathetic and it drops calls , the sound is pathetic.this is the truth. If you have to buy a nokia , buy the 6126, it has a better screen, clearer and louder sound, is smaller and has a somewhat better battery , does not drop calls. This phone is just not worth it, there are much better phones out there , so save yourself a lot of frustration and dont buy this phone. The people who say otherwise are a bunch of liars who mislead people and who probably work for the big companies. But this one has 3G, the slowest( 3.6 MB is a lie its only applicable to blacberrys and other phones , these have 356kbps theoretical , which effectively comes out to 12-15 kbps max). The 11 days standbay is a lie, its more 11 hours.
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