nokia 3230I’ve had this phone for about 2-3 weeks now and it’s the most wretched, ill executed piece of shit ever to hit the GSM phone market. I’m pretty sure you could use two turds connected with a piece of string for a phone and end up with a better phone than this crap. At least you’d know you were about to put shit in your hands before you made a call.

First of all it doesn’t charge properly. When you plug the charger into the phone socket, that should be enough. Oh no, this is like finding the clitoris on a very disinterested girl for the very first team. But unlike clit finding, it doesn’t get any easier with practice. It’s simply impossible to charge. Knock it slightly and it will stop charging. Leave it for 2 hours thinking it’s fully charged and it hasn’t even started yet.

So it’s not reliable, but what’s the quality like. Well if you like CB radios, then you’ll be happy with the loudspeaker. If not, then it’s the big 10 4 for you rubber ducky! It’s squelchy and terrible.

Then there’s the real let down: it comes with RealPlayer. So cool! It can play MP3s and shit right?! Well don’t get too excited. For some reason, the two MP3s I uploaded (took rougly 4 mins per song over a Bluetooth connection) are about as loud as a librarian live on stage at Madison Square Garden. Radio is at least 3 times louder than your loudest MP3. And I was going to use this as an MP3 player. Screw that to buggery.

Now the ‘good’ stuff. The camera: useless for anything by MMS. Upload them to your PC and you’ll see how useless they really are. Visual radio? WHY THE FUCK DO I WANT TO LOOK AT THE RADIO? It’s a great concept but somehow I don’t want to be walking down the street staring at my phone because it’s ‘visual’ AND it’s ‘radio’. Movie editing? Totally and completely stupid.

Battery life. It chews through. Charging roughly every 1.5 days. IF you can get it to charge.

Forget this piece of crap. I’m tempted to ask Nokia to swap it for something that actually works properly.