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Nokia 6085 Reviews Analysis

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Nokia 6085
alaSCORE 83

390 reviews

November, 2009

66 / 100

35 Experts

Product Age

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72 / 100

355 Users

What people think about the Nokia 6085: (BETA!)

We compute this summary by analyzing 390 reviews from across the web.

price

5

  • Cheap casing
  • Variety of colors, price
  • Good feature set for its price
  • Affordable, Good feature set for its price
  • price
  • cheap price
  • This phone has: great battery life, easy Nokia navigation, good music quality, good looks, cheap price, and much more
 
  • a lot of features for it's price
  • good value for money
  • Value for Money
  • CHEAP
  • cheap as chips
  • cheap p
  • above the money's worthor
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LCD

0.5

  • Low end screen
  • dim screen in daytime
  • The ONLY con I can think of is the monochrome front screen
  • hard to read outside screen
  • Horrible screen quality (dark and illegible)
  • big clear screen
  • Can not read the front screen
  • screen is always smudgy
  • Awfull LCD
  • Awfull LCD, 5 more bucks and they cound have put a 125k TFT QCIF, that´s a really anoying thing with MID/LOW-end cellphones from nokia
  • mine got a huge dent on the front screen
  • screwed up 2 times and the screen died
  • Dodgy screen
  • Dodgy screen
  • Small screen buttons
  • dark external LCD
 
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interface

5

  • Not as user friendly as previous nokia phone
  • Devoted Nokia user
  • I got my phone for free for adding a line and I have no serious complaints
  • user friendly
  • Nokia well known friendly user's interface
  • a lot of features for it's price, Nokia well known friendly user's interface
 
  • it has the trustworthy nokia user friendliness
  • relatively user friendly
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keyboard

5

  • no single key return to main screen
  • excellent keypad and controls
  • Call strength, keypad feel and feel of the phone
  • good keyboard good pics
  • big keypad for texting
  • Comfort Keyboard
 

appearance

3

  • Graphics and photos look washed out
  • Graphics and photos look washed out, grainy and the colors are dim
  • nice look
 

battery

3.5

  • Main complaint is the battery life seems to degrade if not used often
  • I replaced with a new battery twice and the times between recharge shrunk to 16 hours
  • I replaced with a new battery twice and the times between recharge shrunk to 16 hours , on Standby
  • battery dies quickly
  • battery
  • Decent battery life
  • This phone has: great battery life
  • super long battery life
  • Outstanding battery life
  • long battery life
  • poor battery life
  • Battery cover is broken
  • The battery are few
  • Large letters, long battery life, user friendly, love the colour...i got the pink
  • good battery life
  • Plays HE-ACC, was for free, good battery life
  • Battery life is awesome
  • battery, music player, all technologies
  • This phone has: great battery life, easy Nokia navigation, good music quality, good looks, cheap p
  • has a battery that is long in duration
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sound

0.5

  • Sound quality is low
  • Low Ring Volume
  • Sound quality SUX
  • Ring volume is bad unless the phone is by your head its easy to miss calls
  • Signal strength is weak old phone got 5 bars this one I'm lucky to get three, Ring volume is bad unless the phone is by your head its easy to miss calls
  • Great voice sound, i can hear you now
  • Its sound quality is good for talking & listening
  • The speaker system with hands-free when sound effect is very good
  • crystal clear music sound
  • great looks, volume, sound quality
  • Sound is terrible
  • sound quality
  • sound quality, battery
  • can't hear the phone ring at highest volume
  • Can not hear your phone ring or the callers voice
  • sound is only okay
  • ring volume inadequate
  • call sound quality
  • the buttons are realli noisy
  • UNABLE TO HEAR IT RING
  • Sound
  • Bad sound quality
 
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reception

4.5

  • Signal strength is weak old phone got 5 bars this one I'm lucky to get three
  • bad reception due to internal antenna
  • multi media nightmare,fuzzy pictures and videos,poor color,bad reception due to internal antenna
  • gets reception good
  • Poor reception unless in strong area
  • It is pretty - but a terrible phone reception
 

portability

3.5

  • Pretty light though
  • Heavy and chunky not so slim
  • VGA Camera, Heavy and chunky not so slim
  • lightweight
  • small compact
  • compact
 

size

5

  • a little chunky
  • very large and blocky
  • Nokia offers little in the way of good settings
  • very large and blocky, Nokia offers little in the way of good settings
  • big buttons
  • rugged,think, big buttons,good "talking"phone
  • size
  • Large letters
  • Large keys make texting easy
 
  • big buttons its pink :)
  • big clear screen, big buttons its pink :)
  • the keys are big enough to press easily
  • large size makes it hard to misplace
  • relatively user friendly, large size makes it hard to misplace
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connectivity

4.5

  • no 3.5mm headphone jack
  • pop-port for USB connection
  • Poor internal display, no 3.5mm headphone jack, pop-port for USB connection
  • Proprietary charge plug instead of standard USB
  • Absolutely Horrible audio quality at earpiece
  • Nice features:Bluetooth
  • Nice features:Bluetooth, Radio, Same as Cingular
  • bluetooth works well with my bluetooth enabled car
  • Good call quality, few dropped calls, the media functions are decent but not spectacular, bluetooth works well with my bluetooth enabled car
  • Has tons of features (bluetooth
  • no USB cable
  • it doesnt take optus sim cards and it doesnt come with a USB cord
  • Bluetooth
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image quality

2.5

  • poor call quality
  • music and picture quality could defintly be better
  • Absolutely Horrible audio quality at earpiece, Horrible screen quality (dark and illegible)
  • Pictures are poor quality for a $179 phone
  • call quality made the phone useless
  • good music quality
  • Call quality seems good
  • Excellent speaker phone and call quality
  • acceptable picture quality
  • quality
  • call quality extremely poor
  • Good call quality
  • call quality
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voice guidance

0.5

  • Voice recognition is terrible / unusable / using Nokia BH-700 bluetooth
  • You cannot use voice dialing
  • Somewhat hinky voice dialing
  • good voice quality
  • good voice quality, small compact,
 

color

5

  • poor color
  • nice color case
  • love the colour...i got the pink
  • i love the champagne colour
  • i love its colour
  • colour
 
  • Color
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video

2

  • video stinks
  • time for video recording is very short
  • Video recording
  • Video
 

lens

0.5

  • The lack of stability of system
 

memory

2

  • Low storage
  • 4 MB shared memory
  • gotta buy the extra memory
  • mine had not alot of memory
  • Not much memory without memory card, small screen, SCREEN STOPS WORKING
  • mSD expandable memory
  • add on memory
  • LOUD speakerphone, add on memory, design, size, quality
  • Increased memory
  • Memory card slot
  • small cell phone memory
  • Durable, Memory card slot, Bluetooth
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resolution

0.5

  • Display resolution (it is pretty good though)
  • Display resolution (it is pretty good though), external camera
  • Camera and screen resolution could be better
  • horrible screen resolution
  • horrible screen resolution, call quality made the phone useless, had trouble reading sim card multiple times, can't hear the phone ring at highest volume, camera produced very fuzzy photos
  • VGA camera takes low quality pictures, screen resolution could be better, web browser sucks
  • 000 pixels 2: a relatively low screen resolution
  • 1: The camera is only 300,000 pixels 2: a relatively low screen resolution
  • Relatively low screen resolution
 
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performance

5

  • The performance of the overall good
  • the rich business atmosphere 2: SMS input fast
  • 1Modeling fashion, the rich business atmosphere 2: SMS input fast
 

build quality

4

  • Cheap build quailty
  • Cheap build quailty, Chunky for a fashion phone
  • Hardly Durable
  • The phone is not very durable and the LCD scratches very easilly as I scratched mine wiping it off with a kleenex
  • Feels sturdy when you open/close it
  • is so pretty and feels very sturdy and well-made
  • Durable
  • sturdy
  • Great durability
 
  • Great durability, easy texting, along with some nice added extras
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menu

0.5

  • menu setup is awful
  • Sound is terrible, people can't hear you, battery dies quickly, menu setup is awful, texting is horrible
  • Mute/unumute functions are buried in a menu
  • only icon menu
  • Few options, low volume and vibrate power, hard to read outside screen, only icon menu
  • NO WAY TO TURN DOWN THE BRIGHTNESS
  • Nokia menu's are bad
  • Hard to navigate to menu's
  • MAIN MENU CONFUSING
 
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energy efficiency

0.5

  • low volume and vibrate power
  • Comparing power consumption of Bluetooth
  • Comparing power consumption of Bluetooth, and easy-to-dye virus
 

usability

5

  • Unsafe to use when driving
  • and easy-to-dye virus
  • Opening of the flip always for use
  • Cheap and easy to use
  • easy Nokia navigation
  • thumb friendly keys
  • Nice feel in your hand, keys are easy to find
  • Nice raised & rounded buttons which are easier to use
 
  • Great interface - very easy to use
  • every option is easy
  • easy to use
  • easy to use, PINK
  • compact,easy to use,cheap as chips
  • Easy to navigate
  • Easy to navigate
  • Easy to use buttons
  • cheap,easy to use,good features
  • cheap,easy to use
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of use,Handy
  • easy texting
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screen

0.5

  • Poor internal display
  • Display is not crisp
  • Subject to display problems
  • Can barely read the front display
  • light on main display is too dim
  • external LED display
  • better screen display
  • Increased memory, better screen display
  • Can barely read the front display, light on main display is too dim
  • needs small display time brighter.flatter buttons to stop scratching on inner screen
  • needs small display time brighter.flatter buttons to stop scratching on inner screen,vibration alert crap
  • DISPLAY GOES BLANK
  • The 1.8 inch 128x160 pixels internal display is very disappointing
 
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design

5

  • DON'T BE FOOL BY IT'S LOOKS
  • poor design and features
  • good looks
  • external design
  • design
  • looks cool
  • Looks Alright
 
  • excellent phone stylish
  • Very beautiful design
  • Very beautiful design, a variety of functions
  • Stylish design
  • great looks
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remote control

0.5

  • Not possible to set the volume control
 

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