rod_bunny
01-08-2004, 09:28 AM
Read the review etc on the T610 (US version) and sorry to say it isnt any different here in the UK...
I live in a poor coverage area anyway but ALL of my Nokias worked there... the T610 doesnt... and to make matters worse it seems to think to itself " No network, might as well go on strike for the rest of the day then" and wont pick up reception even when I am back in a good area. It didnt even alert me when I had messages on my voicemail - from a week ago! (O2 voicemail calls 3 times after a missed call and then sends a text to alert you to voicemail)
Spent a week down in Cornwall over xmas & NY and had NO reception anywhere for the whole week and even when I got back to civilisation it still didnt pick up the network until I rebooted the phone. (I thought it was odd that I had NO messages from new year plus my rellys are pi**ed at me for not calling them for xmas.)
I have swapped back to my Nokia 6310, 6210, 6110, 6330 and no problems... swapped to another T610 - poor reception...
O2 (Provider) are sending me a new T610 and new SIM (Apparently mine is a 256kb, 2volt SIM my new SIM will be 512k, 5v - what diff this will make eludes me) Not sure what the firmware version of the new one is but I hope it sorts the poor reception!
I have tried to get along with it for 3 months now...
I can live the umpteen button presses to do something simple and the really poor (compared to the 6310) address book syncronisation and battery life. The occasional crash & auto reboot. The frankly pathetic rising ring volume and ear piece volume. My coworker sitting not 25 feet from me has full network bars on his 6310... my T610 has 1 and then none and then 2 and then none etc etc etc. But this is a business phone! I NEED to able to take and make calls!
Rant On... :mad:
As much as the T610 is nice to hold and look at (But not in bright sunlight). It does have some nice features... but if it cant do THE ONLY thing a phone HAS to do - IE Take & Make calls! - then what use is it??
Rant Off... :mad:
I live in a poor coverage area anyway but ALL of my Nokias worked there... the T610 doesnt... and to make matters worse it seems to think to itself " No network, might as well go on strike for the rest of the day then" and wont pick up reception even when I am back in a good area. It didnt even alert me when I had messages on my voicemail - from a week ago! (O2 voicemail calls 3 times after a missed call and then sends a text to alert you to voicemail)
Spent a week down in Cornwall over xmas & NY and had NO reception anywhere for the whole week and even when I got back to civilisation it still didnt pick up the network until I rebooted the phone. (I thought it was odd that I had NO messages from new year plus my rellys are pi**ed at me for not calling them for xmas.)
I have swapped back to my Nokia 6310, 6210, 6110, 6330 and no problems... swapped to another T610 - poor reception...
O2 (Provider) are sending me a new T610 and new SIM (Apparently mine is a 256kb, 2volt SIM my new SIM will be 512k, 5v - what diff this will make eludes me) Not sure what the firmware version of the new one is but I hope it sorts the poor reception!
I have tried to get along with it for 3 months now...
I can live the umpteen button presses to do something simple and the really poor (compared to the 6310) address book syncronisation and battery life. The occasional crash & auto reboot. The frankly pathetic rising ring volume and ear piece volume. My coworker sitting not 25 feet from me has full network bars on his 6310... my T610 has 1 and then none and then 2 and then none etc etc etc. But this is a business phone! I NEED to able to take and make calls!
Rant On... :mad:
As much as the T610 is nice to hold and look at (But not in bright sunlight). It does have some nice features... but if it cant do THE ONLY thing a phone HAS to do - IE Take & Make calls! - then what use is it??
Rant Off... :mad: