Nokia 6230 Cell Phone Review

The Nokia 6230 is a standard camera cell phone in a familiarly Nokia candybar design. The covering is plastic-y in feel with small keys, especially the navigation key. However, the 6230 does have an impressive color screen that is very easy to read with vibrant colors and animated menus.

The Nokia 6230’s camera is located on the back but not in the best position since it requires manual tilting without independent screen positioning. Standard features on this cell phone include Bluetooth, IR, FM-tuner and MP3 player.

The Nokia 6230 is a GSM phone that can be used worldwide. Users have given this phone an excellent rating for call quality and design.

Full Specifications

General

Tri-band Operation

- EGSM 900, GSM 1800, and GSM 1900 networks in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, and South America where these networks are supported
- Automatic switching between bands

Size

- Weight: 97 g (with BL-5C)
- Dimensions: 103 mm x 44 mm x 20 mm, 76cc

Display and User Interface

- 27.3 mm x 27.3 mm display
- Active TFT color display
- Supports up to 65,536 colors within 128 x 128 pixels
- 5 lines for text in basic mode with 16-pixel font
- Three soft keys with five-way scroll including select function
- User configurable right and left soft keys
- List and grid menu

Integrated VGA Camera

- Resolution up to 640 x 480
- Self timer function (10 sec)
- Phone display used as a viewfinder
- Standard, portrait, and night modes
- Photo album in Gallery
- Gallery for storing and editing images
- 3 image quality options: High, normal, basic
- Integrated video recorder: 3GPP spec (H.263 video and AMR audio packed in .3gp format)
- Integrated video player: 3GPP spec (H.263 video, MPEG-4, and AMR audio packed in .3gp format)
- Video streaming: 3GPP spec (H.263 video )

Phone Features

- Personal shortcuts
- Alarm clock
- Stereo FM radio
- Radio as alarm clock alert
- Automatic volume control
- Extensive calendar with busy view of the week, improved notes view for each day, snooze on calendar alarm
- Notes view for each day
- To-do list (up to 30 entries)
- Automatic key guard
- Wallet
- Stopwatch
- Countdown timer
- Wallpaper: Full-screen color image
- Animated color screensavers
- Changeable color schemes
- Calculator

Messaging and Imaging

Multimedia Messaging (MMS)

- Multimedia messaging (MMS) with compatible devices: Send and receive messages containing text, a sound clip, and an image or a video clip to other compatible devices
- Max message size: Up to 100 kB per MMS

Email

- New Email alerts over SMS
- Email client for connecting to private and business email

Presence

- Chat (Instant Messaging )
- Presence-enhanced contacts

Text Messaging (SMS)

- SMS distribution list
- Up to 150 text messages or 50 picture/concatenated messages
- Concatenated SMS: Send and receive up to 6 messages (885 characters) as a single message
- Message register
- Predictive text input: Support for all major languages for Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas
- Picture messaging: Send pictures with text to other compatible phones, 10 preset pictures in the phone, all replaceable

Templates

- Quick and easy sending of predefined messages
- Insert smileys with the editor

Imaging

- Picture viewer
- Storage of images uses shared user memory. See Memory Functions below
- Images: 10 preset wallpapers, 10 preset SMS pictures, 5 preset frames, 10 preset clip art pictures in the phone
- Image editing
- Image editing features: Add a scalable clip art picture, add colored text, make the image smaller for contacts

Games

- Java games
- Beach Ralley II, Golf, and Chess Puzzle
- Possibility to download new games
- Two-player games over Bluetooth technology between compatible devices

Java Applications

- Converter II: Converts currencies, measurements, temperature, etc
- World Clock II
- Translator
- All applications user removable
- Downloadable games and personal applications via Java technology (MIDP 2.0)
- Max download size: 128 kB per application

Ringing Tones

- Fixed ringing tones: 20 polyphonic and 10 monophonic tones

Connectivity and Data Transfer

Connectivity

- Pop-Port interface
- Connect wirelessly to a compatible phone or to a compatible PC
- Connect to a compatible PC with Nokia Connectivity Cable DKU-2
- Infrared
- Bluetooth wireless technology
- Send and receive images, video clips, audio files, and graphics
- Install applications with Nokia PC Suite for the Nokia 6230 phone
- Browsing XHTML (WAP 2.0) over TCP/IP stack
- JPEG/PNG support in browser
- Full OMA DRM for content protection
- SyncML

Data Transfer

- EDGE: Mobile broadband access with upload up to 118.4 kbps and download up to 236.8 kbps
Note: Actual achieved speeds may vary depending on network support
- GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Class 10 (4+1, 3+2)
- HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data)
- Data transfer up to 43.2 Kbit/s in HSCSD networks
- Multitasking
- TCP/IP

Call Management

- Speed dialing: Up to 9 names, with keys 2-9
- Last-number redial from dialed calls list (Dial key brings out the dialed calls list)
- Automatic redial (max 10 attempts)
- Automatic answer (works with headset or car kit only)
- Call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer
- Automatic and manual network selection
- Caller identification with image
- Closed User Group
- Fixed Dialing Number, allows calls only to predefined numbers
- Conference call (up to 5 participants)
- Vibrating alert

Voice Features

- Voice dialing, 25 preset
- 16 voice commands
- Voice recording up to 3 min
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Automatic volume control

Software

- PC Suite

Memory Functions
The following functions use shared memory that is dependent on the data quantity per item and shared memory available at a time in the Nokia 6230 phone. The shared memory pool is up to 6 MB. Possibility to get additional memory with MMC.

- Notes: Up to 3000 characters in one note
- Email messages: Max 30 kB per message
- Ringing tones in Gallery: 20 preset, all removable
- Images in Gallery: 10 preset
- Video clips: Record up to 2 MB (equal to up to 4 min); download up to 5 MB
- Multimedia messages: Max message size 100 kB per MMS
- Java applications: 6 preset, max download size 128 kB per application
- Phone book: Up to 1000 contacts with all entries filled, in addition to SIM card contacts
- SMS messages: Up to 150 maximum-size text messages in addition to SIM card inbox messages

Personalize

- Java midlets
- Games: Possibility to download new games
- Polyphonic tones
- Monophonic tones