Nokia 3230 – value for money. Review on Nokia 3230

This is yet another candy bar phone which has almost all the features, I was using this phone for almost more than a year or so. This is one interesting and affordable nokia had given, whose price had been reduced very much these days, when I bought, it was 14.7k, and those were the initial days of its launch.

I don’t want to give a full spec of this phone here, for which u can always refer to the site, I wanted to comment on the features, to say how they are, how best they have been done.

This phone had a decent camera which can give a good picture (In good light conditions only) to fit your laptop screen, which I found very useful, and I have taken lot of pictures with this phone, almost all have turned out to be very good, you can have a visit to ma blog where you can find most of these pictures. The camera enables you to keep a record of your old memories and it is very much supported with the resolution offered by 3230.

The next things is you can install whatever application you like to have on this phone, after downloading it from net, which are easily available for series 60 phones. So you don’t need to worry that Nokia had not given that application. The GPRS is very good and you will experience high speed net connection on your phone.

The next thing is the user interface and the display. The display is big enough for almost all the applications, but not sharp enough as compared to samsung phones of the same category. The UI is very user friendly, but slower, you feel it normal after few days of usage. The ringing always starts with some unknown sound, which I think is a bug with the phone, and never vibrates for incoming message, even when you set the vibration mode on, but that may not be worth complaining unless you are a SMS freak!!.

The voice quality is not good when you switch on the speaker, or even when you don’t use headphone, you feel very uncomfortable when you talk for long, especially for me when I use to talk for hours together, but battery good enough to support this kind of scenario. FM is one of the good features, but always needs the headset, even when you are putting loud speaker on.The keypad is less, which first make you little uncomfortable, but later you will get adjusted to it, not worth complaining about. The Rally pro is one of the best time pass game and its very nice; you will feel the same speed as on a computer, you never felt bored with this game, rest of the games are useless.

The wallet feature is very much useful if you have many passwords and all to remember, when you have many credit cards and many accounts. Which I feel is one of the mandatory features all phones should have.

Last, but not the least thing is it supports MMC cards up to 512 MB in size, which can help u to use ur phone as mp3 player, more like an ipod, but obviously compromised on quality of sound. And u need a MMC card read/writer for this to transfer songs from ur PC, u can as well use this ( card + MMC reader ) as a thumb drive in case when u need one.

Overall, it’s a nice phone in terms of feature, but quality wise you need to compromise on the size of the phone and quality of audio, rest all fine, and enjoy 3230.

Note: Please see ma comments for any questions you have in comments section for this review.