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MOBILE PHONE
Class without sass
Convergence is the name of the gadgets game. The PDA-slash-mobile phone, the MP3 player-slash-external hard drive, and the mobile phone-slash-digital camera are some genres that are common nowadays. In many cases, you pay for features that you don't use (3G anyone?) or end up with half-baked extras. It would have been better if they just took out the extras so the price would go down a few notches.
Enter the Nokia 6030, a mobile phone-slash-nothing else – a purebred budget cell phone with killer corporate looks. Easily mistaken for a high-end, “suits only” mobile, the 6030's black, silver-trimmed shell feels hefty and downright solid, with a build that gives you an extra feeling of confidence.
The 65,000-color LCD display is by far one of the best ever seen in a Nokia phone. Numbers and text messages come out sharp and clear, allowing even those with weaker eyesight to read messages easily. The keys are well built and are comparable to those of its rival, the Sony Ericsson J200i.
The Nokia 6030 has three megs of internal memory, fairly enough for a phone that's not capable of your usual array of multimedia functions (no camera or voice recorder here). Probably the only thing that you can do with this phone other than just plain calling and texting is listening to songs on built-in radio.
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Dual Band. 65k-color screen. Polyphonic tones. SMS. MMS. Java MIDP 2.0. WAP 2.0. FM Radio. XHTML. T9 Dictionary. Calendar. Calculator. Handsfree Function. Exchangeable covers.
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It's a mobile phone with simple functions and minimal add-ons.
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With all the simplicity, Nokia might have come up with a phone that's a tad too simple. The phone's connectivity is limited to MMS messaging. You can only receive audio and pictures through GPRS or through the plug and play connector that comes with it. This means there's virtually no free sharing of files on the go – makes you wonder what you'll do with the 3MB memory now huh?
After all is said and done, it's as simple as saying “You get what you pay for” with this Nokia. At P8,000, this phone is definitely worth it.- Elijah Mendoza
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T3 Magazine Philippines - November 2005 Issue
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