When people go phone shopping, they look for a phone that will offer them all the features they want. It has to look good, and be affordable, but most of the time you only find a phone with decent features and a high price tag.
Well Nokia has put an end to that with the Nokia 6555. The Nokia 6555 is stylish and feature filled. It has just a $39.99 price tag with a 2 year contract with at&t wireless. The Nokia 6555 is loaded with features, such as Bluetooth 2.0, a MP3 player, a 1.3 Mega Pixel camera that does both stills and video, capable of 3G, full color internal, and Push to talk (PTT) capable. The phone comes in Black and Red.
The Nokia 6555 has a nice form factor and is also light weight. It isn’t as thin as the Motorola Razr, but it does look better in my opinion. For such an affordable phone, the Nokia 6555 doesn’t feel as if it were cheaply made.
So, how does the phone perform? Well it performs pretty nicely. I for one like a phone with a nice user interface (UI) and one that’s easy to use and program. The UI for the Nokia 6555 probably isn’t the best I have seen, but it’s pretty good, and it is probably one of the easiest to use. I never had to read the manual to find out where what feature was and how to change any of the settings. Everything was where you’d expect it to be.
I tested the phone throughout New York City, and I never had any problems with the signal strength. At&t’s service in the city has improved a lot over the past 2 years.
Sound quality on the phone was superb. Every call was clear even on the speaker phone. A lot of times when you have a call on speaker, you get crackling and sometimes the person you are talking to sounds garbled. Not the case with the Nokia 6555. Calls were clear as day even on the speaker phone, no crackling, and the person I was talking too did not sound garbled.
Keeping on topic with the speaker the phone has, when playing music on the phone be it music stored on your phone or a microSD card or streamed music from XM, the sound is great! I see a lot of people, especially here in Brooklyn, walking the streets with their phones, and they have the phones playing music so everyone can hear. What’s worse is that you can barely understand what they are saying in the song because it sounds garbled. I for one find it annoying when people do that, but seeing as people do like to do this I thought I’d mention you can do it with the 6555 and hear the song perfectly as if playing it were from a traditional mp3 player. Oh, and if you are the type of person that does this, there is something called headphones; use them!
Continuing with the speaker I mentioned above, the Nokia 6555 supports PTT. What is PTT? PTT is Push to Talk and is basically a walkie talkie feature that you can add to your at&t phone provided your phone supports it. The service cost an additional 9.99 a month or 19.99 for a family plan.
PTT uses the speaker on the phone as well, and because the speaker delivers such good sound quality, your PTT communications come in loud and clear. I had a Nextel, and when I would use the walkie talkie feature a lot of times I couldn’t understand what someone would say because the speaker on the phones I had weren’t that great. You won’t have that problem with the Nokia 6555.
Just a little note, if you have used the PTT feature with Nextel and then switch to at&t, you cannot communicate with your Nextel contacts via at&t. The at&t PTT also seems to take a second longer to connect, but it isn’t noticeable. I only got to test the PTT feature in a limited fashion, but for me the quality of the PTT communications were better on the Nokia 6555 than they were on my Motorola phone with Nextel.
The PTT feature with at&T is also a lot better. You kind of set it up like you would a buddy list, and you get to see who is available, who is busy, and who is offline, which is good because sometimes you don’t want to be bothered, and you can set yourself as away or offline.
Ok, Ok, let me stop talking about how great the sound quality on the speaker is. I think I spent a little too much time on that, but then again I was impressed with it and wanted to express that.
The phone also takes advantage of the at&t 3G network, and it’s a lot faster than what I remember when I was an at&t subscriber. Streaming music and video to the Nokia 6555 is a breeze, and as I said before the sound quality is great, but the video quality is also great. On phones such as the HTC Touch and my T-Mobile dash, video, when streamed, looks pixilated, but on the Nokia 6555 while the video did look a bit pixilated it wasn’t as extreme as on my Dash and a little better than the HTC touch.
You can also lower the volume of what you are watching or listening too without having to lower the phones volume, which is cool because sometimes you don’t want what your listening to too loud but you still want your ringtones volume etc high, or vice versa.
The Video Quality from recorded videos you make with the camera is pretty good also. It’s not great but good, and the picture quality for still images is pretty decent as well.
Battery life was pretty good also, I got nearly 9 hours from the phones battery when having a few 10 to 20 minute conversations, texting a lot, browsing the web and using the PTT feature. I didn’t try to over do anything when testing the phones battery life, I used it as if I would use it normally.
Overall the Nokia 6555 is fantastic: great look, great sound quality, great features, and great price. We award the Nokia 6555 our 5 Star Kick Ass award (Using our sister sites HardwareGeeks.com award).
The Nokia 6555 is available now from at&t wireless for $39.99 with a 2 year contract, and although the phone is as cheap as a no frills phone, it is loaded with features and a great phone to have. It is perfect for kids, teens, and even adults.
The 6555 will also make a great gift these holidays, I think I will get one for my mom who recently lost the Pantec C150 I got her 2 months ago.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Well Nokia has put an end to that with the Nokia 6555. The Nokia 6555 is stylish and feature filled. It has just a $39.99 price tag with a 2 year contract with at&t wireless. The Nokia 6555 is loaded with features, such as Bluetooth 2.0, a MP3 player, a 1.3 Mega Pixel camera that does both stills and video, capable of 3G, full color internal, and Push to talk (PTT) capable. The phone comes in Black and Red.
The Nokia 6555 has a nice form factor and is also light weight. It isn’t as thin as the Motorola Razr, but it does look better in my opinion. For such an affordable phone, the Nokia 6555 doesn’t feel as if it were cheaply made.
So, how does the phone perform? Well it performs pretty nicely. I for one like a phone with a nice user interface (UI) and one that’s easy to use and program. The UI for the Nokia 6555 probably isn’t the best I have seen, but it’s pretty good, and it is probably one of the easiest to use. I never had to read the manual to find out where what feature was and how to change any of the settings. Everything was where you’d expect it to be.
I tested the phone throughout New York City, and I never had any problems with the signal strength. At&t’s service in the city has improved a lot over the past 2 years.
Sound quality on the phone was superb. Every call was clear even on the speaker phone. A lot of times when you have a call on speaker, you get crackling and sometimes the person you are talking to sounds garbled. Not the case with the Nokia 6555. Calls were clear as day even on the speaker phone, no crackling, and the person I was talking too did not sound garbled.
Keeping on topic with the speaker the phone has, when playing music on the phone be it music stored on your phone or a microSD card or streamed music from XM, the sound is great! I see a lot of people, especially here in Brooklyn, walking the streets with their phones, and they have the phones playing music so everyone can hear. What’s worse is that you can barely understand what they are saying in the song because it sounds garbled. I for one find it annoying when people do that, but seeing as people do like to do this I thought I’d mention you can do it with the 6555 and hear the song perfectly as if playing it were from a traditional mp3 player. Oh, and if you are the type of person that does this, there is something called headphones; use them!
Continuing with the speaker I mentioned above, the Nokia 6555 supports PTT. What is PTT? PTT is Push to Talk and is basically a walkie talkie feature that you can add to your at&t phone provided your phone supports it. The service cost an additional 9.99 a month or 19.99 for a family plan.
PTT uses the speaker on the phone as well, and because the speaker delivers such good sound quality, your PTT communications come in loud and clear. I had a Nextel, and when I would use the walkie talkie feature a lot of times I couldn’t understand what someone would say because the speaker on the phones I had weren’t that great. You won’t have that problem with the Nokia 6555.
Just a little note, if you have used the PTT feature with Nextel and then switch to at&t, you cannot communicate with your Nextel contacts via at&t. The at&t PTT also seems to take a second longer to connect, but it isn’t noticeable. I only got to test the PTT feature in a limited fashion, but for me the quality of the PTT communications were better on the Nokia 6555 than they were on my Motorola phone with Nextel.
The PTT feature with at&T is also a lot better. You kind of set it up like you would a buddy list, and you get to see who is available, who is busy, and who is offline, which is good because sometimes you don’t want to be bothered, and you can set yourself as away or offline.
Ok, Ok, let me stop talking about how great the sound quality on the speaker is. I think I spent a little too much time on that, but then again I was impressed with it and wanted to express that.
The phone also takes advantage of the at&t 3G network, and it’s a lot faster than what I remember when I was an at&t subscriber. Streaming music and video to the Nokia 6555 is a breeze, and as I said before the sound quality is great, but the video quality is also great. On phones such as the HTC Touch and my T-Mobile dash, video, when streamed, looks pixilated, but on the Nokia 6555 while the video did look a bit pixilated it wasn’t as extreme as on my Dash and a little better than the HTC touch.
You can also lower the volume of what you are watching or listening too without having to lower the phones volume, which is cool because sometimes you don’t want what your listening to too loud but you still want your ringtones volume etc high, or vice versa.
The Video Quality from recorded videos you make with the camera is pretty good also. It’s not great but good, and the picture quality for still images is pretty decent as well.
Battery life was pretty good also, I got nearly 9 hours from the phones battery when having a few 10 to 20 minute conversations, texting a lot, browsing the web and using the PTT feature. I didn’t try to over do anything when testing the phones battery life, I used it as if I would use it normally.
The Nokia 6555 is available now from at&t wireless for $39.99 with a 2 year contract, and although the phone is as cheap as a no frills phone, it is loaded with features and a great phone to have. It is perfect for kids, teens, and even adults.
The 6555 will also make a great gift these holidays, I think I will get one for my mom who recently lost the Pantec C150 I got her 2 months ago.
If you are interested in buying a Nokia 6555 you can do so at attwireless.com, it’s available with a monthly contract or prepaid.
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