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| Nokia N75 Phone (AT&T) | 
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| Brand: Nokia
Category: Wireless
List Price: $449.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: N75
EAN: 6417182678165
ASIN: B000MSDKHA
Release Date: March 9, 2007
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 Don't buy this phone July 27, 2007
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
After using this phone for 2 months, I've come to the realization that this unit is seriously flawed:
- screen blanks out
- phone shuts off unexpectedly
- battery gets hot after minimal use.
In addition, I would caution new purchasers to return their phone before the 30-day period. Otherwise, you're stuck with this piece of junk.
 great convergence phone July 27, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've been a loyal palm user for 6 years now and I've had a Tungsten 3 since they came out. That means I've had a pretty powerful handheld, but no camera or video and no Internet. I've used a V600 by T-mobile along with the palm and that has allowed me to browse the Internet with GPRS (or CSD if I want to save $) and take pictures. That being said, I can now do 95% of what I could before with the N75.
First my experiences that prevent me from giving it 5 stars:
1) you can't connect to CSD for data connection. This would be great so you could use phone minutes for data. or free minutes for data
2) The pop port is a bit annoying and I think that the door will eventually fall off. a standard headset port or earphone port and USB would be great (see N76)
3) a phone with software will have issues. Apparently this is better by far than the experiences of people I know who have smartphone WM5 or treos. But I have had moments where the person on other end cant hear me and I need to restart the phone. Granted I had 5 apps running at the time.
Now the pluses:
1) did you see number 3! This thing multitasks and does it very well. Much better than Palm ever did.
2) SIND - speaker independent name dialing, means you don't have to train the phone for voice dialing.
3) SYNCML - get a scheduleworld account
Nokia - Terrible Service & Quality for Audio Devices July 16, 2007
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
Nokia produces so many high end multimedia phones but provides almost Zero accessory support for audio headsets.
When I went to my local cell phone store to buy a headphone adapter for my Nokia phone. I was told by the salesperson that I would have to buy the parts and build my own! When I looked online for one I found the same information.
I would have to build my own from parts.
Is this Nokia's customer service?
First of all my N75 does Not have stereo bluetooth capability. How is this possible for such a costly phone? After contacting Nokia July 2007 I was told they would Never offer an upgrade for the N75. It will never have stereo Bluetooth. You will always have to use a wired headset for listening to music.
Second.
I was disappointed to find that a stereo headset is Not included with my new phone at all. For such a costly phone that is advertised as a versatile audio player, to not have a stereo headset included is far below a company like Nokia.
Third.
This phone only has a proprietary 'pop port' that only allows for use of a poorly made Nokia headphone. I can't use an earbud headphone because it hurts my ear. Further, I have been universally told that all Nokia headphone units produce poor quality sound.
Fourth.
The ONLY 'pop port' to standard headphone adapter ever made is NOT available anywhere. NOBODY carries it, anywhere. Further, what I have seen of this non-existent unit shows poor design. It's bulky, with a big square connector box.
After purchasing this expensive phone from Nokia with the idea that it could be used to listen to music. I am left with NO options for a usable headphone unit. ?!?
I am forced now to buy a soldering iron, a 3.5mm female mini-jack and an HDS-3 headset and make my own 'pop-port' to standard headphone jack adapter. Which is the only way to be able to use a Quality headphone unit that does not cause pain to my ears.
I haven't been able to find the following information anywhere. Is the HDS-3 headphone unit's 'pop-port' connector compatible with the N75 phone? I can't even tell which headphone units are compatible. I found that Nokia data cables are not cross compatible between phone models, so I'm not sure about headphones. I have E-mailed Nokia customer support.
It's pathetic that Nokia can't use standardized USB and 3.5mm female mini-jacks for their phones. Why make it so hard on customers? Just for a little more profit?
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I was also disappointed about the Symbian software on this phone.
s60 version 3 is not backward compatible with s60 v.1 or v.2
Most software so far has been made for v.2 and don't expect many to port to v.3
The layout and design of the menu system is chaotic and jumbled with very little option for customization. In the end the best you can do to customize the menu system layout of the phone leaves one with a frankenstein like system. Better than the original layout, but still extremely annoying. Half of the total menu options on the entire system are designed to access private and general 'Pay' internet services. I have no interest in using this phone for internet. But I am forced to leave all these menu options on the phone.
I guess from all I have heard I expected more from Symbian & Nokia (ironically Symbian is produced by Nokia).
I won't be buying another phone from Nokia.
it's all true July 15, 2007
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
i switched to at&t for the iphone but purchased this phone instead. I wanted to like this phone and hoped the reviews were wrong. They weren't.
First, ATT's "3G" network is VERY SLOW compared to Verizon's (my previous carrier).
Second, the phone is packed with bugs and quirks. Programs (especially the music player) turn themselves on when the phone is not in use or in your pocket. This eats up battery time. Often, i take the phone out to find the battery dead because of this.
The camera is ok if you plan to use photoshop to fix your pix or if you like 80's horror movie color.
Features packed buggy phone July 15, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this phone from Amazon cell phone plan promotion. The transaction took a while to complete (about 2 weeks) but I got the phone a week ahead of schedule and at a low price so it was not too bad.
The activation and number transfer went smoothly. The phone works well except for a few annoyances. It has many features that I like such as Bluetooth, web browser, mp3 music player, nice camera, bright display and it is very user friendly and configurable. You can easily load your own ring tones, music & image files and contacts using the included PC software and cable (or just use Bluetooth).
This phone would have been perfect except for a few frustrating bugs (or "features").
If you have to turn the phone off, turning it back on can be a challenge. If you changed certain combination of phone settings (I still don't know what yet), it will error out during restart. Then you will have to press the 3 magic buttons (Talk * End) during power on to reset it. Sometime, it will startup fine but then some menu like "settings->config." won't work. Luckily, this phone has an Off-Line profile that can be used in flight without turning it off. I've found that if the magic buttons are pressed right after the Nokia flash screen and Cingular fire-ball, it will start successfully most of the time. Sometime, taking the battery out before restarting will help.
The phone has about 45Mb of free memory so I tried to use it to listen to a few chapters of audio book at a time then replace them with another set of chapters when I'm done. However, I found that if you play any music file loaded into the phone's internal memory, you will not be able to delete it. The only way to delete it is to do a soft reset (*#7780#) of power off then on (but see above issue).
I'm holding on to the phone hopping that Nokia will release software update to fix these and other issues soon.
UPDATE (08/05/2007):
I have found that the included Nokia PC Suite software works very well. The N75 connects to my PC easily using Bluetooth and I can use Windows Explorer to manage my address book and transfer images, music, ring-tones from/to the phone. I'm very pleased that it just works on WinXP SP2 using CSR Bluecore dongle with the default driver.
I've also used the phone's music player to listen to audio book. I can place it on pause for extended period of time then get back to where I was. I still do have problem deleting files that I've listened but I've found that they can sometime be deleted while viewing them by artist or album.
I've used a Jabra 350 and 620s bluetooth head set with this phone. However the phone does not support stereo so it is mostly good for listening to audio books or talking but not music.
Power wise, I usually charge the phone once every 4 days if I barely used it. I do have to charge it every day that I do a lot of talking or playing music (for more than 2-3 hours).
Here are more features that I've come to like: large buttons, bright screen, predictive text entry, customizable short cut buttons, good reception (I live in weak signal area).
I've come to like the phone more as I figured out how to get around it's quirks.
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