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Nokia 6086 Silver Phone (T-Mobile) | List Price: $199.99
Discount Price: Too low to display
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Brand: Nokia
Binding: Wireless Phone
Release Date: 2007-12-05
Features: - Clamshell phone with Wi-Fi capabilities for T-Mobile's Hotspot @Home service for unlimited nationwide calls
- Compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service--unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
- Text, e-mail, and instant messaging; Web browser; Bluetooth for wireless headsets; MicroSD memory expansion; VGA camera
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 4 days of standby time; measures 3.62 x 1.81 x 0.91 inches (HxWxD)
Decent Phone [Posted on 2008-01-23]
My husband and I both have the Nokia 6086. While these have not been problem free, they are decent cell phones.
My husband had to get a replacement because the speaker went out and he was unable to hear his phone ring or hear anyone talking. This went very smoothly with Nokia.
After having my phone for about a week, I had to get it replaced because it would not stay charged. I could charge the phone and in 2-3 hours it would be dead. Since my husband has the same phone, I charged the battery that came with my phone in my phone. He charged the battery that came with his phone in his phone. When both batteries were fully charged, we switched batteries. My phone was dead in 2-3 hours. His phone still showed a full charge after 12 hours and a lot of calls, so obviously it was the phone, not the battery. T-Mobile replaced my phone and I haven't had any problems with the one I currently have.
I have found 1-2 days on a charge is pretty much normal for any cell phone we've had. It depends upon how and how much it gets used. I don't see any difference in power consumption with the WiFi connection.
The only other problem we have encountered is that sometimes the phone does not stay on the WiFi connection. We can make a call while connected, stay in the same place during the call and when we finish realize we lost the WiFi connection.
In our opinions, these are not big problems.
This phone, with the earpiece plugged in and acting as an antenna, receives FM radio. Amazingly, it sounds pretty good. It's not high-quality stereo, but it is a lot more than I though it would be.
For what we want out of a phone, this is a good choice. Cell phones should be chosen based on needs and wants of the user and, of course, what one can afford.
Power consumption makes phone useless [Posted on 2008-06-02]
I have owned many Nokia phones but never one that disappoints the way this one does.
Battery life - lasts 2 days at best, this is after trading in for a new battery and never using WiFi
WiFi - useless as it eats the battery alive and drops calls. You will have to charge the phone every day if you plan to use this. It also often cannot find a WiFi network even if you are standing next to the router.
Connection - difficult to find service where other Nokia T-Mobile phones have no issues. Also inconsistently receives/doesn't receive calls when the phone is sitting in the same place at the same time
The ability to make or receive a call is really the most important consideration with a phone and that is the reason for my low rating.
worst Nokia phone ever [Posted on 2008-07-16]
I have been a life long Nokia cell phone user, and so when it came to upgrading my mom's cell phone, I bought another Nokia for her. She has used it for 3 months now. She has had nothing but non-stop problems. The phone keeps getting heated, getting discharged overnight. The wi-fi signal is very poor. I installed a wi-fi signal booster a few feet away from her chair and still no difference. The worst part is the rapid discharge and poor voice quality. I will now have to buy her another cell phone. A month ago I upgraded my own cell phone. I had decided to never ever buy a Nokia and so bought a Blackberry curve. This too has Wi-Fi. I have never had a problem. Strong signal all over the house, no heating up. No doubt battery life is poor, but 2 days with 2 hours of talk time is not bad. I would thus not recommend buying a Nokia Wi-Fi. It is a pity that from the world leader they are continuously going down. I personally will never ever buy a Nokia. I used to blindly buy Nokia phones and they served me real well. But I think they have lost their technology edge. Time to move on to another brand.
Does exactly what I bought it for [Posted on 2008-07-21]
Summary: Good phone and service. So-So battery life with WiFi and some minor annoying features.
I've been with T-Mobile in the south Chicago suburbs for over 6 years. I started my own construction business and needed something to use both in the office and out on jobsites. This phone and the HotSpot service fit the bill perfectly. For the extra $10 a month for HotSpot, I've probably saved $30-40/month not upgrading to a plan with more minutes.
I use the phone at my office on WiFi and save my 600 plan minutes to use out in the field. The WiFi connection has been excellent and the only issue has been incoming calls occasionally going straight to voicemail instead of the phone ringing when on a WiFi network. When I am on a WiFi call and leave the office, the transition occasionally has a click or dead moment.
As others have posted, I found that battery life is reduced when using the phone on Wifi. I came from a Motorola phone with a different interface, so there are some minor Nokia annoyances but nothing that makes the phone un-usable.
I would purchase this phone and the HotSpot service again in my situation.
Great inexpensive full featured phone [Posted on 2008-07-24]
After three months of constant hard use, this phone has held up well. The battery life and call reception are very good. For an inexspensive phone the features are excellent, the WiFi and bluetooth capabilities are outstanding!!!. I am able to ultilize the bluetooth with both LINUX and Windows Vista, though not a smart phone,syncing the phone is still possible with the nokia software. Internet access is great and fast for a phone of this size and price, I can monitor my IP cameras from the phone and accessing URL IPs are very easy.
Bluetooth connections to other devices are also very good, I presently have a Garmin Nuvi 660 connected and all features work great, minus the texting mode.
My previous phone was the Samsung Blackjack, a windows CE based phone, it had many bells and whistles , but not as functional or compatible with the Nuvi 660 as the Nokia 6086.
For texting the 6086 T9 and its prediction text can use a little improving, but I donot text much so I can live with this draw back. As with all phones with american firmware the Nokia is limited to English, French, and Spanish languages. Hopefully phone manufactors will be able to give the consumer a choice of languages in the future.
Over all I found the Nokia 6086 a very good phone in features, excellent in price, and extremely good for combatibility with other devices.
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