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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:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 103
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Disappointed June 9, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
As someone who'd been a die-hard Nokia user for years, I was really looking forward to (finally!) getting a 3G phone from Nokia. However, upon trying it out and using it, I quickly sent it back. Here's why:
- It's too big. Also having come from the 6230 (which was an amazing phone in its own right), this thing was just mammoth. Even folded, you can barely get it into your pocket, and unfolded, it's enormous. Even unfolding it is a chore.
- It feels cheap. The rubberized plastic coating is destined to rub off, and the battery cover on the back is barely held on by a small plastic tab. While the main numeric keys were large, they don't have any distinctive feel, which makes touch-typing kinda hard. In addition, the D-pad keys are too small and too close to the menu and music keys. I repeatedly went into the music menu when I meant to hit "right."
- The camera, well, sucks. I took a few pictures in lighted and dim conditions and they were grainy and poorly white balanced. You have to wait too long for the flash to kick in and it's pretty much useless anyway. Add in the fact that the lens is rather stupidly placed on the bottom of the phone, and it's rather disappointing overall.
- It was too complicated. As others have mentioned here, basic navigation involved too many steps for simple items like replying and whatnot.
As for the battery life, I never even really got that far as the other issues turned me off so much. Considering you have to spend two years with one of these things, you better really like it or just send it back and get something you love. For those that did get this phone, try turning the 3G access from "when available" to "when needed." I've heard that really helps.
I returned this phone (thanks Amazon for a fairly easy return process) and got the Blackberry Curve instead. Love it. I don't even miss the 3G.
Ehh... June 6, 2007
40 out of 49 found this review helpful
I ordered this phone a month back and just received it a few days ago.
I bought it mainly for the 3G connection and the fact that it's an Nseries phone.
I came from a Nokia 6230 which is a fairly small candy bar style phone so going to a bigger flip phone like the N75 is a big step.
I did use a 6102i or whichever free phone cingy had at the time and my gripes are basically compared to those two phones.
HATE:
- Sim card access. I don't know if there's another way to do this but once you insert that SIM card, you have to have a child take it out. Almost impossible for me to grab and pull out.
- Speakerphone is really low and almost inaudible even with the volume cranked up
- Vibrate on the phone is really... mild. If it's in your pocket, you probably won't feel it. Especially if you're on the train, for example.
- Long boot up compared to the two non Symbian phones I had.
- very annoying pop port .. i didn't think it would be an issue but if you have to hold the phone with two hands to insert your headset... annoying.
- no emoticons on txt messages??!!
- to reply to a txt you have to hit options->reply->via txt msg. Why can't i just hit reply and go straight to the txt box?
- zoom on phone takes f o r e v e r.
- where is the STOPWATCH and COUNTDOWN TIMER?!
- fingerprints/face prints get xfrd to phone easily
- my battery life : internet use only on/off = 4-6 hours with 2 10min calls and 6hours standby; MobiRadio on speaker, continuous = 1.5hours; mixed internet, mobiradio, regular radio, phone calls, text messaging, tinkering with phone= 6 hours or so. All hours est from full charge to when the batt just dies. Includes intermittent standbys and where I just look through the phone.
The charger is now tethered to my hip.
Like:
- really soft and big keys
- ability to move around the files/ folders
- Nice big screen
- Video (choppy and pixelated but it will do)
will con't as the months pass.....
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UPDATE:
-battery life has improved significantly. I still use it 13hrs a day but I now charge just once a day. And i use it more.
-I also bought this primarily as an MP3 player and I'm having the same problem that I had with the 6230. The shuffle is not really a shuffle. I have about 200 songs in there and it insists on playing the same songs over and over every 10th-15th song... it seems to loop to songs I've heard already every single time.
-I use the HS-31 headset that I had before and the volume is just really low. I have to roll the windows up in my car in order to carry a conversation. I thought it was just the speakerphone that had a low volume. The bluetooth earpiece was loud, though.
-And finally, 3G. I found no discernable difference between EDGE and the 3G networks while downloading video or viewing webpages. Maybe it loaded up a page a few seconds faster but that was about it. Mobiradio still buffered every now and then in 3G networks so that was surprising as well.
I'm still going to keep the phone, though.
 GREAT PHONE BAD BATTERY June 6, 2007
This is the best phone that you can get for AT&t for this money. But make sure that you order a memory card and an extra charger. The batter drains very fast when connected to the net. My previous cell was a nokia 6682 so I'm used to a much better battery life. It's also annoying that you can't listen to the FM radio via bluetooth. But I love this phone
A few Caveats, Pop Port a dealbreaker for many May 27, 2007
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
The reviews here are all positive, so let me temper the mood a bit. I like Nokia phones, but there are some frustrating issues with this phone:
-mediocre image quality (odd lens issues)-- and they stress the camera features in the description
-mediocre battery life
-NO headphone jack, Yes, you read it correctly
Their are many good web reviews by magazines easily found online for this phone: they give it between 6-7 out of 10 stars/points etc.
 Excellent...Excellent phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 26, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
reception is very good...better than samsung 707A....camera very clear, and you can even talk without openning the phone...I highly recomend this phone...best one at Cingular..ATT or whatever they call them selves now...
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