Nokia 3200 Review

Overall Rating

A lot of features found in the phone.

Covers.

I loved the Nokia 3200 mobile phone within a day after purchasing it. Reception is very good. Though it has an upgraded GPRS (EDGE) but at times has difficulty connecting to internet; to download files, tones, and screensavers.
Screen display is acceptable, what do you expect from 4k colour display? Just buy an expensive phone to get an excellent resolution. The only flaw I get is that when I'm recharging the battery in off mode. It's difficult to see the bar scrolling in the display while charging.
Camera image quality is like of 7250 or 7250i. But be cautioned, the more you edit or transfer the image to other folder or make it as a screensaver, the more it is getting distorted. Overall, image quality is good. 1Mb of memory for this phone is okay. If you want to enter the world of photography, then again, the market has a wide selection of camera phones that has 2 Mb or more of memory capacity.
I hate the covers. It creaks all the time. Nokia is promoting this phone to personalize by changing the cut-out covers but they forgot to design a plastic covers that is easier to remove and to replace. If you intend to change the cut-out covers frequently to show off it to your family and friends, forget it. You might damage the plastic covers in the long run especially the front panel in which the dowels are subjected to extreme pressure when inserting to the inner housing. Back panel not really a problem when replacing but removing requires two hands and a good point to hold otherwise your phone will drop or fly, depending on the angle you choose to remove. At first, I disliked the design of the keypad. But now I can live with it, somehow. You just need patience.
Tri-band phone, no problem travelling the continents and staying connected. Can record calls and sounds in 3 minutes duration. Flashlight is better than in Nokia 1100. "Go to" menu is an excellent idea where you can store your frequently used functions, menus, and sub-menus and accessing it with one to two keypresses. Calendar is bit of a problem. Why? You can delete all notes in one press but you can't view all the notes you've stored! Voice quality is very good. The loudspeaker function is very useful especially when the conversation is important and you want everybody around you to hear what's going on on the other line. The headset that comes with the package is not stereo. You have to purchase the stereo headset seperately to satisfy your love for music. Lanyard hole is very small; it may take a considerable effort to insert a lanyard. Polyphonic ringing tones are loud enough to hear even in a very noisy environment when you selected the "Outdoor" profile. My only dismay is that some of the classic Nokia polyphonic ringing tone is not included and only 11 ringing tones are available. The rest it's up to you to download from websites or to create true sounds of your own.
Overall, the phone is very good to own. Maybe it'll take years before I would replace this phone.