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(More customer reviews)To call this phone awesome would be the understatement of the year! Hands down the most amazing phone I've ever used and I've only had it a week!
Before I get started let me say that this is a European phone that is unlocked and I am using it in Provo, Utah in the U.S. I have 4 lines on my AT&T account - 2 for me and my wife and 2 for my daughters. I upgraded my wife's and my phone in January. We each got an LG Xenon (one blue, one black). 2 weeks ago my wife decided her phone might work better if she put it in a half-full Wendy's Frosty cup for about 3 minutes(!) She was wrong.... :)
I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it thoroughly - got it all back together and everything worked perfectly except the microphone - no one could hear her. So, I didn't have any more upgrades available with AT&T and frankly I am tired of renewing contracts and being perpetually in servitude to them; I decided to buy my first (almost) full-priced unlocked phone.
Enter the Nokia 6700 Silver. I looked around for quite a while and decided this was what I wanted. After using a qwerty keyboard for 5 months - I decided that they weren't any quicker or easier than a regular dial pad for texting.
THE DESIGN: This is not your normal cheap plastic (American?) phone. Almost the whole body, including the battery cover, is metal. And you can feel it in the weight - which I really like. The keys are textured nice and have a solid feel when you press them. I have average sized thumbs and find I can text easily and quickly. The micro SD card installs under the battery cover near the SIM card - so if you're someone who might remove yours frequently, that may bug you. The battery cover is on solidly and it does take a firm push to slide it off.
I like that it can be charged with the included regular charger or with a mini-USB cable type charger. NOTE: If you buy this to use in the U.S. be aware that the included charger has a European type plug (round tips) and NO adapter for U.S. plugs is included. So I had to run down to Radio Shack to pick up a Euro - US adapter for only $10. No big deal.
FEATURES: OK - can someone please tell me why American cell phones don't have nearly half the features that Euro phones seem to? This thing is so flexible and configurable that I'm still going through it! It's really advanced and I love it - it's like anything you can think of that you might like to adjust to your taste (menus, colors, fonts, sounds, on and on) can be adjusted. It's absolutely amazing! As soon as I got, I slipped my SIM card in and it just worked beautifully. The volume of the speakerphone will blow your mind! The first time the phone rang - my wife thought I had the TV on! I'm not hard of hearing but if you are, this is your phone!
The look and feel of the phone is just really classy and top notch. It's nice and thin and small, but not too small to use comfortably unless maybe you have HUGE hands....
It has a 5(!) megapixel camera that works really nice. I tried to text a picture today but it wouldn't send it - just kept saying "check settings"; apparently I have to call AT&T and have them configure this phone for MMS messages. Has voice-dialing, audio and video recording.
One of my favorite features is the motion sensors that are built in. If you're receiving a call and you want to silence the ring - just double-tap the phone either on the front or the back. Want to reject the same call? Just double-tap it again. If the phone is in stand-by mode and you double-tap it, it displays a gorgeous analog or digital clock (your choice) for a few seconds. Genius.
I do find that I'm always rubbing it on my shirt to buff off the finger prints - so if you're someone who would be bugged by that - you may want to consider the black version of this phone instead of the silver one. But the silver one is beautiful. If you want to be really gaudy, there is even a gold version ! :)
Anyway, so far I'm in love with this thing. I can't figure out why phones of this quality aren't offered in the US markets? It seems like we get the turd end of the litters... never again will I sign a contract and never again will I buy a locked phone.... I wish I had done this years ago. So worth the money!
Sorry for the long-winded review - hope this helps.
Thanks
Karl
UPDATE: I have been unable to send or receive MMS messages and AT&T was unable to determine the issue. I don't know if there's a fix for this or not. But be aware that if you send pics via text message frequently, you may not be able to with this phone if you're using it in the U.S. with AT&T. It's not a deal breaker for me since I rarely send MMS messages.
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