Elegant and Costly appearance. Review on Nokia 6030

The Nokia 6030 is a basic yet stylish phone, and it has a raised keypad, which makes it easy to dial by feel. The speakerphone and the built-in radio are a nice touch. Its quite useful for people who ride a lot, and are bored riding bikes in the heavy traffic. They can plug in the headset and listen to crystal clear FM Radio.

Measuring 4 by 1.7 by 0.7 inches and weighing 3.17 ounces has a simple candy bar design. It has smooth, rounded corners and a sleek black and silver color scheme that adds style to its otherwise basic appearance. The display isn't much to look at, however, with its 65,536-color palette and small 1.5-inch-diagonal stature. Although you can't change the font size, you can change the display's contrast.

It comes with an impressive 500-contact address book, and each entry can store up to five numbers, an e-mail address, a Web address, a street address, and a note. You can add an image for each entry for caller ID, but since there's no camera, you'll have to use one of the included graphics as a replacement. You can organize your contacts by caller groups and assign a group with any of seven polyphonic ring tones, though you can download more MIDI and MP3 ring tones. The Nokia 6030 has a built-in speakerphone that you can turn on only after you make a call, plus there's instant messaging (AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ), text and multimedia messaging, a vibrate mode, automatic redial, and last-number redial. A WAP 2.0 browser that connects to wap sites is also included, but Web access is predictably poky and close to unusable. Organizational tools include an alarm clock, a calendar, a to-do list, notes, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a countdown timer.

You can personalize the Nokia 6030 with a variety of themes, wallpaper, screensavers, graphics, and alert tones. Java (J2ME) games included with the phone are Block Breaker, Club Pinball, and Tetris. You can purchase additional ring tones via airtel masala which is free to browse, as well as additional graphics, games, and applications.

In an argument I threw my 6030 with full force out of anger, you know what!!!!. The peices flew in all direction and just the machine was visible. I found sim, battery the front and back cover and managed to assemble it back. THE PHONE WORKS GREAT, THERE WERE NO BROKEN ENDS, ONLY FEW SCRATCHES WHICH WERE INVISIBLE ON THE SILVER BACKGROUND.

I had a 6600 earlier which I gave it my wife because it was too bulky and could not be kept in my Jeans pocket , hangs sometimes and the biggest worry was what if it gets robbed. Now I dont have to worry much because most of the time 6030 is in my pocket and not in my hands.

The Nokia 6030 has a rated talk time of 3 hours, The rated standby time is up to 12 days. According to FCC radiation tests, the Nokia 6030 has a digital SAR rating of 0.70 watts per kilogram.