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3.5 stars
"Would have been perfect, except for one thing..."
Pros: Nice & comfortable design, big buttons, FM radio is great, other great features
Cons: It won't allow me to send a text message (or other message) to an email address, and earphone jack is kind of a pain
Summary: Overall, this is a nice phone. The only reason I bought it was because I wanted a nice Nokia flip phone, I don't even need the WiFi feature. I love the radio and mp3 player features, the big buttons make it easy to dial, the bluetooth feature works great, the speakerphone is cool, and I really don't think the screen is that bad at all like the cnet review says.
My only big complaint about this phone is the fact that I can't send messages to an email address! For the price of a text message, my old Nokia 6010 had that capability - I was always able to send text messages (or multimedia messages) to any email address, but this 6086 does not even give me the option! So let's suppose I want to send my grandma a plain ol' text email, since she doesn't have a cell phone...CAN'T DO IT. Also suppose I take a picture with its mediocre camera and want to email it to a friend real quick who'd like to print it from her computer...CAN'T DO IT. I guess my only options are to just take the extra steps and save my pictures to the micro SD card, wait until I get home to transfer them to my computer with the micro SD card, and then email them that way. OR I could just use Tmobile's My Album web page to share photos from my camera, which isn't all that user friendly either in my opinion, plus I can't even send more than one photo at the same time to that site -- I have to send one photo at a time. So why even bother using this phone's camera at all when I can't simply email the photos as attachments the way other phones do? This may be a deal breaker for me and I might start shopping around for another phone with the email capability that I want.
The other thing that kind of annoys me is the headphone jack because it's one of those other types, I don't know what they're called...But it's the jack with the teeth and it's close to an inch wide. Anyway sometimes it's hard to plug in the earphone, as well as hard to unplug it, you have to wiggle it in and out just right. I guess that's no biggie, but sometimes I think I might break it.
Other minor quirks about this phone are: the automatic voice tag assignments are kinda weird, because instead of using your own voice to create voice tags as on other Nokia phones, the phone creates them for you with funny male robot voice! Also the outer screen is tiny and I do have to hold the phone up a little closer to read it! I got used to these two things though.
I might keep it for the year I am committed to, at least until Nokia makes another nice flip phone with that email feature I miss from my other phone. Otherwise, it really is a good flip phone with lots of great features.Updated
I had written before (Dec. 19) that this phone does not allow you to send text messages or photos to email addresses, but I finally found my way around it!! You have to create a separate contact entry in the phonebook SOLELY with an email address. For example, you already have "Jessica" in your contacts with all her info, even her email, but that won't work. So you must create a second separate entry for Jessica with her email address: after clicking Add New Contact from the phonebook, type in Jessica's name plus a #2 or "email"(or something else to distinguish the two), then click OPTIONS, then ADD DETAIL, then EMAIL ADDRESS. After entering her email address, click SAVE, and that's it --- Do NOT add any phone numbers to this entry. Now when you want to send a text or picture to her EMAIL address, you just scroll to her second entry, "Jessica #2", and it will automatically fill in the email address and send it with no problems! I tested it several times with text as well as photos and it works (Yaaaay!). So now I can probably live with this phone for a LOT longer and actually enjoy using the camera!
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