The Good: The Nokia 6215i is a cute and compact flip phone with a VGA camera, a speaker phone, voice dialing, and a wireless Web browser. Its OLED display is also quite pleasing to the eye. The design is also simple and sleek. This attractive phone will also feel great in your hand and be very comfortable whenever you are talking on it. You also have the ability to adjust the back light timer, the screen’s contrast, the font size of the numbers that appear when you dial, the display theme and the clock format. A nice touch is that you can personalize this phone with a variety of wallpapers, colors, themes and message alert tones. If you do not find anything already on the phone that you like, then you can quite easily download more. However, the most important thing is that the call quality was stellar, with little to no difference when compared to a regular land line phone.
The Bad: While the alphanumeric keypad is well-spaced, it is a little too flush to the surface so each key sinks underneath the surface whenever you press it. This makes it a little tricky to dial and navigate by feel alone. The internal display is rather small as well, which will make menu navigation a lot harder than usual. Its speaker phone is also not very good as you will have to speak loudly in order to be heard. The camera does have a VGA camera and flash but the pictures that come from this camera appear to be both blurry and grainy. You may also be disappointed to learn that this phone does not come with any games included, you will have to download these for yourself.
The Bottom Line: The Nokia 6215i is a very nice, entry-level VGA camera phone. This will work well for people who would like to have a phone that is both attractive and slender. However, you should know that there are not a lot of frills with this phone either.
The Good: The Nokia 2366i an easy to use flip phone. The phone has decent call quality, even when you are using the speaker phone option. The phone, which is made out of plastic, is very lightweight, weighing only 3.7 ounces. The phone also has a few unexpected advanced features including a unit converter, a world clock and a voice recorder. The phone has a long battery life of 4 hours talk time and 13 days standby time.
The Bad: The internal display on the Nokia 2366i is dim and the menu system is quite sluggish. The antenna makes the overall clean and compact design of the phone somewhat bulky and unbalanced.
The Bottom Line: The Nokia 2366i is a good choice for a simple, functional cell phone.
The Good: Loaded with features including extra-large dual color displays, microSD memory card slot supporting up to 2gb (as well as 60mb internal memory), 2 mega pixel camera (along with video capabilities) and external touch controls.
The Bad: The design of the MOTORAZR maxx Ve may not be for everybody. While the 2 mega pixel camera does offer good quality pictures, the video quality is lacking and can become grainy. The camera can only be activated when the phone is open, which can be annoying as well.
The Bottom Line: The Motorola MOTORAZR maxx Ve is an all-rounder, with features that will appeal to the majority of those looking for a cell phone that offers more than just text and phone functionality. Some may be put off by Motorola deciding to include Bluetooth v1.2 rather than the v2.0 seen in other handsets.
The Good: Very reliable with strong reception and a camera that will give you solid results. The SCH-u340 also has a good battery life, especially in standby mode, plus comes with Advanced Speech Recognition which allows you to not only speak phone numbers to dial, but also allows you to use voice commands to launch applications. For those who like to instant message AOL, MSN and Yahoo messaging is supported with this handset.
The Bad: The u340’s speakerphone can be soft at times, and the phone is fairly lacking in features, with no Bluetooth functionality or mp3 player onboard.
The Bottom Line: As an entry-level handset, the SCH-u340 is a solid choice. If you’re looking for a cell phone purely to send text or MMS messages and to make phone calls from, this will suit you fine.
