Nokia 6131 Review

Re: Preliminary Nokia 6131 Review - Part I...

Are you suggesting I read a manual???????

Since my 6131 is made for the SE Asian market, it is 40% Melayu, 40% Chinese & 20% English.

My Cingular branded 6682 manual did have both Spanish & English though

You never know....

 

Re: Preliminary Nokia 6131 Review - Part I...

Ahh, you are coming to my favorite city and less than an 1.5 hours from me.

There are Art Institutes in every big & small city in the US but this is THE Nokia Store.... . Unfortunately I have to wait until one of the theaters has something that my "SO" wants to go to or a new exhibit at the Art Institute or the Field Museum, or maybe even something new at the Shedd Aquarium. He will never agree to going to Chicago to see "The Nokia Store" . Let us know if the store is fantastic as people have described it. The Moto store is also right there btw.

Here is another one of my shameless rf bragging...yesterday I could carry can an entire conversation about the merits of buying brats presoaked in beer as opposed to soaking the brats in beer after grilling them, from inside the grocery store, another place around here with poor rf.....

PS: I don't know about Nokia not being as cagey as Cingular, they seem to say similar things, atleast in my experience.

 

Re: Preliminary Nokia 6131 Review - Part I...

So what did you find out? Did Rogers have anything that Cingular does not?

I had an extremely interesting conversation with a CS rep from Nokia USA, this morning on the difference between 6131 & 6126. I was very impressed with her knowledge and her helpful attitude. She was not only familiar with the Nokia phones past, present & future, she was very interested in handsets in general.

Anyway, she couldn't find any difference between the 2 models herself and went 2 levels up to see if anybody could find anything. The general consensus was that there was no difference except the language packs and support and warranty issues. So it will be interesting to see if 6126 owners can do video messaging, since the 6131 owners have not been able to make it work.

She also said, that the 6126 will be available from Nokia directly, unlocked, unbranded and should be out within a month.

I think even though it will be unbranded it will probably be "Cingular ready", just like the 6230 & 6682 was from Nokia directly. So the Cengulat settings will be preprogrammed.

Just my 2 cents....

 

Re: Preliminary Nokia 6131 Review - Part I...

Another pleasant surprise for me I was able to install Opera Mini. So now I can browse the "real" sites, as I am now.

 

Re: Preliminary Nokia 6131 Review - Part I...

Hi Joe, Opera Mini is a free software that allows full browser capability on the phones not just thru the WAP site. That's why my posts are not showing up as wireless posts even though I am posting with the 6131.

Here is the web site.

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/


For all you non-believers of unbranded, warranty less phones, I hope the 6126 is atleast as fantastic and comes out soon....

 

After using this phone for 6 weeks, I have to say, it is still as good as when I first got it. So far, the only thing that still bothers me is the slight side to side play of the top in the flip closed position.

I also found something interesting, if I let the battery get too low, even before it gives an audible alarm it will turn the screensaver clock on the outer dispaly off and the wallpaper will stay dimly lit. It maybe because I have it on the "power saver mode". Also I can make a minimum of 15 mins. worth of phone calls after the battery gives the audible alarm of "low". I like this very much, on my LG, it will give the audible and turn off almost immediately and the PEBL was almost as bad as the LG.

 

Thanks Steven, you sound just like my favorite character.....

 

Hey buddy stop trashing my review, and go trash your s200 review instead....

Going back to topic, I just downloaded google maps and searched for my house, worked like a charm. Yet another pro for the 6131.

Nokia, I believe is starting to ship out the N73 this week, if I can resist buying the N73, that will be the ultimate acid test of how good the 6131 is...

 

Bobolito asked me in another thread, where the microphone on this phone was, well I couldn't find it. So today when I was at Cingular paying my bill, I asked the tech about it, this is how the conversation went:

ME: Can you tell me where the microphone is on this phone? (I open it before handing it to him)
TECH: Holy Crap, look at that screen...awesome.
ME: Yes, I know.
TECH: Is this the 6126?
ME: No, it is the 6131.
TECH: Where did you get it?
ME: Umm does it matter.
TECH: I love how it opens (proceeds to keep playing with opening & closing it).
ME: So where is the microphone? (as I try to pry it from his hands)
TECH: Love how fast the web browsing is (as he goes into Media-Net)
ME: Hey give my phone back.
TECH: Sorry, I don't know where the microphone is, never seen one like it. I could take it apart for you but it would void the warranty.
ME: It probably doesn't have one (my mistake-should have never said that, he then proceeded to "educate" me on manufacturer's warranty vs. providers's warranty, and assure me that NokiaUsa would honor it even if I got it overseas...yeah right!).

So I take the phone from him, say "thank you" and "see you" and leave...

So I guess I will have to wait until one of you get the 6126.

 

I am tempted to believe you WG. The speaker is at the bottom right side of the phone and would be in a logical position to serve as a microphone also. Interestingly there is nothing mentioned in the manual (yes I actually went back and read the manual )on the location of the microphone.