1 A decent phone by Nokia, but nothing special
This is a very good phone for anyone who is a Nokia fan or who doesn't want anything fancy. It will call people and receive calls. It has a color screen, downloadable ring tones and games, and has a decent audio quality. There is no camera or bluetooth or advanced organization tools. It is growing increasingly outdated and by a year from now hardly anybody will be using it anymore, but if you own this phone I wouldn't go running to throw it out just yet. It gets the job done, but isn't going to wow you in the process.
2 Surprising ... Junk from Nokia?
After owning solid, reliable Nokia TDMA phones for several years, I migrated to AT&T GSM and accepted this as a "free" promotional phone. Unfortunately, "free" isn't cheap enough ...
Disadvantages:
- TERRIBLE audio quality! Severe echo, white noise, and frequent garbling. Just barely usable.
- Cheap, flimsy construction
- Awkward and error-prone keypad design
- Unreliable volume control - frequently defaults to high volume despite user setting
- And more ...
Nokia would have been better served to put their effort into higher quality audio, a sturdier case and better keypad, rather than focusing on useless features such as "polyphonic ring tones," wallpaper for the 1" square low-res screen, crude wireless web features, games, and the like.
There are better Nokia alternatives in GSM, but at steep prices, and you will be paying for other "vital" features like a crude camera, fold-out keyboards, etc. If you want a phone that is primarily designed to reliably MAKE AND RECEIVE PHONE CALLS (!!!), and not play games .. you are probably better served by traditional TDMA service and the more robust and simple Nokia TDMA phone offerings.
3 A minor, but annoying, glitch:
I really liked this phone when I first got it. Of course, it was free and that helps, but I also liked its simple and straightforward interface. I didn't want a lot of useless gadgets and this is a pretty bare bones phone. It sounds good to me and has a long battery life. BUT, recently I've had a problem with my phone. After about three months I noticed the phone would fail to re-locate coverage after losing it. For example, in an elevator I lose coverage and that's fine. But, when I exit the elevator I must turn the phone off and then on again for it to re-establish a connection with the satellite or whatever. It can be a minor inconvenience unless you forget to check it or if you don't realize you've lost coverage. I find myself having to constantly check the screen. It's annoying. My girlfriend has the same phone and is having this problem too.
4 Best bang for the buck
I have owned this phone for a year now and absolutely love the sound (excellent reception) and build quality. The interface is quite user friendly and wonderful to look at...although it is sometimes hard to see in direct light. Plenty of downloadable apps and games for it, and just enough bells and whistles to keep me happy. Highly recommended.
5 Boring
The phone actually works great and is easy to use. Lacks features compared to most phones today (no camera, no speaker, small screen, no bluetooth, strange look...) If you just want a reliable phone I would recommend this Nokia. Software is easy to use and it sounds very clear and loud. Basically, the phone bores me, other than that, it is fine.
6 Great phone
This is my second nokia phone. I started out with the Nokia 8260 phone which i loved, but i wanted to have a color screen and changeable face plates. I bought the nokia 3595 on e-bay and when i received it, i noticed it looked a like the nokia 3650 because of the keypad. i like the keypad for the 3650 phone, but i like the 3595 features. the nokia 3595 is awesome. i bought tons of cool faceplates which are very easy to put on, no tools required. i also love the color screen, accessing the internet, downloading ring tones/ graphics, the games, the screensaver clock, and all the other features! the ringtones are kind of disappointing, i wish i had some of the original ones which were on my other phone, but i like the way the tones sound when the phone does ring. all in all, with the great at&t service, this phone is great for anyone who likes lightweight quality phones.
7 too bad.
yeah, it seems like a good deal on a decent looking/working phone. The interface even works well, once you climb the learning curve. But this glorified candy bar is less than 5 months old, and the LCD is already shot. It malfunctions on every 20th call or so, running the vibrate into the ground and throwing conversation out in every direction but your ear--the only way to fix it is to turn it off and on. And two months ago I had to bring it to a hack in the local mall and replace the vibration unit...sending it back for factory service would have taken 6 weeks and $30 in shipping--Nokia, of course, is a Finland company. No one offered me a loaner.
Save yourself the trouble.
8 Nokia=>Crap
No wonder why service providers give Nokia phones away free. I have owned a previous Nokia phone, which was also not worth buying, and I decided to give them another try and have a go with this model. I have had this model for a 1 month, and is one of the worst phones I have ever owned, besides the other Nokia. If you use your phone frequently, this phone is not for you. It will frequently cut out on a phone conversation-at full service! One can only hear it ringing if it is completely quiet-if you are in a crowded area, you will not be able to hear it, or for that matter feel it vibrate. If you miss phone calls, it will frequently NOT MENTION that you have! Same goes for voicemails or text messages. Others that I have met that have this phone, no matter who the service provider is, has the same problems. DO NOT get this phone!
9 Great Phone For Anyone!
This phone is my very first phone and it is great! The buttons are so easy to use and are much better than some people think. The features are great and you can customize a truck load of things! It could come with a better variety of ringtones but for what there is its pretty good. It is a phone that is easy to figure out and you can use most of the phone without looking in an instruction booklet!
10 A very good phone for a very good price.
I had just placed an order for this phone over the weekend and the date they (amazon) promised for it to be delivered by was the beginning of the next week. Amazingly though, it arrived that same week, I thought I should share that note.
The phone itself is not bad if you're looking for a value phone with a few extras. The ringtones are very loud even at the lowest setting. The only major problem is navigating the menus but that's probably because I'm not use to Nokia's. Reception is good and clear. Get this if you want a value deal and A PHONE without the unnecessary bells and whistles.
Also, there's no direct connectabilty with a computer, which could be usefull sometimes.
11 VERY AWESOME PHONE
My freind got a phone about a year before me and when I finally got a phone he recommended me Nokia. When I went to cingular I was going to get a sony ericson color phone, but then remembered what my freind told me about getting a nokia phone so I got this phone. Very wise decision on my part. This phone is AWESOME!!!!
Another freind of mine got the sony phone and my phone is way better. It looks cooler, has better color, and better games.
IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS PHONE GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 Excellent Buy!!!
I have this Nokia 3595 and it's AMAZING... the keypad it's easier to use than I though, the ringtones are INCREDIBLE, I can hear the people who call me very clearly, the cellphone design when you say it in your hands is cool, the cell's lights at night are really NICE too... I think this is one of the best cell I ever had. The wallpaper pictures don't have a great resolution but for a cellphone is great.
I bought it and when one of my friend saw it she said:"I am going to buy one TODAY"... THIS IS A GOOD CELL, I recommended to anyone.
13 The worst phone I've ever owned!!!
Now, I've had several phones- mostly Nokia and Samsung, and I've never had one that I disliked as much as this one. This thing was a replacement for a phone that I lost (and I was going for the cheapest model- big mistake).
First, I HATE the keypad design- I'm constantly misdialing numbers. I'm a bit nervous, as I've not had the phone for very long, and the paint is already starting to flake off the overly cheap phone.
The sound quality is not as good as with any other Nokia phone that I've had, but this could be psychological, more than grounded in reality.
I HATE the ringtones that come with the phone, and don't really like my phone to have music playing instead of a real ring. The originally installed tones are annoying, or easy to miss- nothing inbetween. And I've not had any luck with downloading new ones.
This phone also randomly stopped working a couple days ago- I had to spend over ****10**** (ten) hours on the phone with AT&T getting it sorted out over the course of three days. Horrid customer service hold times, but they're generally very helpful once you get through. It wasn't always like this with AT&T, and I hope it goes back to normal, soon...
I'd recommend NOT buying this phone. Wait for AT&T's famous "get a cool phone for free" promos that they do allllllllll the time, and get something you'd actually like instead.
14 Nokia misses the mark on this one
I like Nokia products in general - but this one is simply not good. For one this phone has a 'plastic' feel to it. Simply too light and yet still not compact. I had 2 of these phones...the first one the ring and vibrate would occasionally get stuck and continue to vibrate after answering the call. This also happened on the 2nd brand new one I got. The keys are actually easy to get used to but after 4 months the MENU button started to give out. I had to start REALLY pushing it hard...I could have sent it to Nokia but a friend gave me another one to use.
I think Nokia makes many better phones than this one...shop around some more first before settling on this one!!!
15 Almost Perfect
I'm a long-time user of Nokia bar type phones. I've always loved them for being reliable, good sounding and easy to use. When I switched providers recently to Cingular GSM (same network of towers as AT&T), I needed a new phone to be able to access a GSM network. It wasn't a hard decision as Cingular was selling this little Nokia bar phone for about thirty bucks. The only problem was the keypad. I tried it, and hated it. I might have been able to get used to it after a while, but I wanted a phone that I would be comfortable with straight out of the box. The Cingular salesman sold me a new (non-OEM) cover and keypad for another twenty. NOW the keypad feels even better than my last Nokia! The buttons (under the keypad) are much firmer than any cell phone I've owned. I find this makes "typing" much easier. With the (raised button style) keypad I bought, this phone FEELS fantastic to use. So if you need a good keypad for this thing, pick one up at a Cingular store. You won't even find them on ebay, where they are all the OEM style. (I tried) The menu system of this phone makes it fairly easy to use, but I wish some functions were easier to access. I guess when you add more features to a phone, the user interface gets a little harder to work with. I like the color screen and the included games, though I'm not sure how much value either adds to a cell phone, other than "looks cool". I LOVE the organizer (calendar) built into this phone. You can write yourself notes and attach alarms to them. Thus, your phone beeps at you to remind you of an important meeting or something else that you can NOT forget to do. I'm using this function constantly. I don't know how I ever lived without it. My phone came with lots of good-sounding polyphonic ringtones, but a really disappointing selection of wallpapers. For wallpaper, there's only two you can actually use as the colors of the others make text almost impossible to read. (yes, you can change text color, but I've found this doesn't help much) I don't know if this is a Nokia thing or a Cingular thing. (I do know the same model phone sometimes is shipped with different features from different network providers) While you can get more wallpaper and ringtones for this phone, you either need to pay for them or spend a lot of time on the work-around. I'm not sure either option is worth it, so I wish it had more wallpaper to choose from. Sound quality (BOTH ways) and battery life are excellent. But I'm used to that with Nokia, so there's no surprise there.
Overall, this phone has a GREAT set of features for a surprisingly low cost (I've seen this one advertised FREE recently). It is a great value!!! I would give it five stars if it wasn't for the horribly designed original equipment keypad. I don't think you should have to pay an extra twenty bucks for a decent keypad. But I was willing to do it, as it was the only Nokia Cingular offered that I thought I'd be happy with (minus the keypad, that is).
16 Cool cell phone, but needs improvements
I was impressed with the Nokia 3595 Nokia Phone. It gets pictures from the internet, but it cannot load in large pages, which is a downside. You cannot directly connect this phone to the computer. It has execelent sound quality though. This is a phone for someone who isn't for spending a lot of money.
17 A handy phone, with not so handy functions.
I purchased, rather, received this phone for free with AT&T service about 3 weeks ago. As an active teenager, I think its button layout is pretty cool, and I love the fact that it weighs so little. It's packed with 11 menu features, text AND multimedia messaging, mMode (©) or, wireless internet access, and much more. I have downloaded three ringtones and they sound great, I love hearing my phone ring now, heh. However, there are some things that bug me about this phone. It has one-touch dialing so you can store the number and just press, for example, "8" and it will call the person stored there. Well, when I do that sometimes, the phone shuts off by itself and turns back on. And sometimes, when I'm opening incoming text messages, the phone freezes and I have to shut it off. The entire interface moves about a half second behind how fast you press the buttons, maybe longer, but that's not so bad. You can have voice tags, but I wish there was more memory for it so I could add more. I guess overall the phone is a good buy, generally a first time cellphone user would enjoy it. Great buy, especially when it came free with service activation. :-)
18 not a successful design
slow display speed, esp. for the display of that cross when you lock/unlock the phone.
weak signal capture speed, might take forever to re-synchronize with the base station when you carry it from a weak/no signal area to a strong signal area.
the echo cancellation circuits have something wrong, you are always able to hear your own echo in the phone.
not good human-machine interface design.
pre-installed game is stupid designed, no instruction, no way to turn off the background music.
19 great value for the $$
For those using the ATTWS GSM platform, the Nokia 3595 represents outstanding value with: color screen, Li-Ion battery, GSM 850/1900, compatibility of accessories with older Nokia models, great clarity on calls & more. Size is good---not overly miniature or small; easy to hold & dial. Very lightweight. Keyboard is easy to use after initial break-in period. On/Off button on top of phone where it belongs. Very easy to use proven Nokia menu system. Great value at low or no cost.
20 Very decent phone
Okay, Nokia has been sort of shelved aside in this new age phone market but I think this phone is good. Light and comfortable (very unlike Nokia) it fits into your pocket easily. It is wap enabled although surfing is a drag. It uses SyncML via WAP to sync contacts and calendar. This is a bad idea especially as only one company (fusion) offers the service, so choking you to pay exhorbitant fees...to sync your contacts or calendar. And there is no data cable option! Was it too much to ask for data cable and sync software? Removing the infra red was a bad move. This used to help me sync up my other nokias with my PC or other devices. Yet, I am sold by the weight/size convenience and the keys have got to be the sweetest phone keys I have pressed. Plus the battery is smoking! Talk for an hour and your haven't even lost a dot on the indicator.
