In short, Its my darling. I bought it some 3.5 years back with my first salary, and hence its so special. When I bought this baby, it was the best and the most beautiful thing NOKIA could offer. NOKIA has always been a hype, and I found it a safe bet to put my money on.
I rounded on 3 phones. Nokia 6600, Nokia 6260, and Nokia 3230. 6600 was everywhere and already 3 sets at my home. So I was looking for something new.6260 was a style statement and the features it supported made it even more special. But some bugs were reported and the company had to take it back.
3230 is something what I claim to be the mother of N Series. 3230 only started the trend of a phone with all features bundled in the 100 gms of sheer excellence.
This gadget once fell in the sea beach and was lying there in the salty water for whole 2 mins before I could pick it up. I tried my best to dry up the circuit. But my phone went blank and it didn’t boot up. I gave it to the service center and asked them to reload the software.
That’s it and it works perfectly even now, being 3.5 years old. Just it has become a bit slow. Hats off to NOKIA engineers.
GOOD POINTS
Name the feature any phone supported when this was launched and its there. A nice look
Easily configured key shortcuts
Infrared/Bluetooth/USB port data access options
Easily configured application data sets to be in phone memory or card memory
I just loved the calendar
Perfect GUI
The joystick was a bliss, too good for shortcuts and playing games
Even after 3.5 years looks and feels to be new
Sea water also couldn’t destroy its circuit
Battery life is too good and still the same battery gives me 2 days of normal talk time.
Option of vibration before the ring is a bliss as many time sin meetings when I used to forget turning the phone into SILENT mode, this saved me from PIERCING EYES of my bosses
A sensor kind of stuff which recognizes when the back flap of the phone is opened
Same port for data transfer and sound output
An envy still to the N series.
BAD POINTS
-. Its mono-phonic sound quality was a setback for a device of such caliber.
-. The camera image quality needed more refinement
The back cover always slipped out
Like all other Java application phones of NOKIA, its a bit slow
It hangs if we try to do many operations in fast succession
Keypads too below in the cellphone, many have problems to access it
Voice recording just for 1 min