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Nokia 3220 Review Part 2 – Unlock Nokia Mobile
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Anyone who's used a Nokia Series 40 will immediately be comfortable with the 3220 as it has the same interface Nokia has used for the past few years. For those not familiar with Series 40, the interface should still be simple to learn.
On the home screen, the D-Pad select button is clearly labeled Menu, other buttons are also clearly labeled. Navigation is very consistent between applications: the right softkey always goes back a step, the left softkey opens up a menu of options and select chooses the default action.
Menu speed is very quick when opening the main menu, and generally as fast when clicking an item in the main menu. However once inside an application, things can slow down a great deal, especially when accessing the file system. Nokia has acknowledged this by display a sort of progress bar whenever there will be a long pause.
Some pauses are longer than others. The shortest pauses where the progress bar is displayed are for tasks like displaying the SMS inbox or starting the camera application, each of which takes less than 2 seconds.
The longest pause was loading an application from the Wave Messaging Fun Cover, which took upwards of 5 minutes. The 3220 is one of a few models that features Nokia's smart connector, a second connector in the battery compartment which allows the phone to use smart covers. The covers can have both hardware and software that work with the phone. However in order to use the software on the covers, it must be loaded from the cover into the phone's memory. Either the type of memory in the cover, the speed of the smart connector, or both contribute to this eternal wait.
Calls
Everything works exactly as expected to for calling: pressing the send key takes you to the dialed numbers section of the call log, holding down the 1 key speed dials voice mail, and so on. Once a call has begun the right softkey turns speakerphone on and off, while the left softkey lists other options such as mute, hold, new call, etc.
Contacts
Nokia uses both the SIM card and the phone memory to store contacts. If a contact is stored on the SIM, it is limited to one number per name. If it is stored in the phone memory, each contact can hold multiple numbers, email addresses, street addresses and notes. Any contact can be assigned a voice tag or a speed dial shortcut, but only contacts stored in phone memory can be assigned a photo for caller ID. Voice dialing must be trained for each entry. Selecting a photo for caller ID requires an extra trip to the options menu to select "Save to contacts," but otherwise is straightforward. It is also impossible to create a new contact without assigning a phone number of some sort. So in order to create a contact to send pictures to via email (if you are moblogging, for instance) you must create a contact, enter a fake phone number, add an email detail, then go back and delete the phone number.
Messaging
From the homescreen, tapping left on the D-Pad will bring up the new SMS dialog, which begins with the message composition window. This window will be populated with the previous text, so it must be cleared first unless you want to send the same message. Once the form is empty, composing a message is quick, as the T9 is very fast. However unlike other manufacturers, Nokia does not populate the T9 dictionary with many of the SMS abbreviations, so they will have to be entered by hand at least once. Once the message is written, addressing it is simple whether you use a number or want to lookup a contact in the phone book.
Composing and sending a picture or video message is fairly easy. After taking a picture, you are given the option to send it or it can be done through the Messages or Gallery applications. Once you've attached a picture or video, and added any text or other multimedia to the message, sending the message to another phone is easy. Sending the message to an email address requires using the options menu instead of the Send key, which is a bit confusing. Other than sending MMS messages to an email address, there is no support for sending or receiving email.
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