Customer Rating:  
Summary: Sexy free phone
Comment: This is my first cell phone that I got with the Verizon Wireless plan and I am quite impressed. I really like the sleek glossy look that goes around the phone. Suprisingly enough after 7 months of use it doesn't have any major scratches on its surface.
I have NEVER lost a call or had no service wherever I have gone while using this phone. It is amazing since I always used to have a terrible time trying to find a spot where my older phones would get one bar of service.
I do have a complaint though, the screen on the inside of the phone is tiny. If your eyes are bad then I would recommend a phone with a larger screen. Other than that I praise this phone, especially since I didn't have to pay anything for it with my plan.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A lot to be desired...
Comment: I just bought this phone from verizon as a replacement for my 6256i which rocked to high heaven. I bought this partially because of the glowing reviews in this area and especially for the signal reception reports.
I find this phone to be poor in reception compared to my 6256i. It takes a couple of bars of signal to even boot where my 6256 was booting with not even a bar. The camera is crap but I knew that in advance. The buttons are way too close together and cause lots of screwed up sequences of button pushing. The clarity of reception I don't see. My mother who is a little hard of hearing can't understand me with this phone but had no problem with the 6256. The front display is tiny but the clock is large and readable. The inside display is small and made smaller with the banners up top and bottom with another banner added whenever voice or data mail is received. The colors are very vivid however. The available memory is VERY small...I can't believe they made a phone without more on-board memory.
I'm getting another replacement sent since it will not perform some of the advanced functions due to it's inability to get a programming update via the *228 function. If the reception is the same on the next phone and the clarity is not understandable by my mother, I'm swaping for another phone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Looks cool, does the job
Comment: The Nokia 6215i may be an entry level phone -- one of those that are given away with contracts -- but does the job more than adequately. The reception is excellent, which to me is the most important feature. The phone does have an extendable antenna, which might seem out-of-style, but reception remained quite good without extension.
The camera is very average, but as far as I am concerned, the phone camera is just for taking quick pictures to show your friends where you are, something funny, etc. If I want something I can print and frame, I'll still use my regular camera. There is a flash, which has come in handy.
The most unique part of the phone, however, is the screen. Though small, the screens are made with new OLED technology, which is extremely bright with terrific contrast in average lighting. On a traditional LCD screen, there is a large backlight that sends light through every pixel, and each pixel is like a little nightshade. To make a dark point, the screen pulls the nightshade to block as much of the backlight as possible. But the pixels can't block 100% of the light; a little bit always leaks through, especially if you look from other angles. A good analogy is a window blind -- never perfect at blocking all of the sun, and if you look at it from different angles, you get more or less light through.
On an OLED screen, each pixel is like a tiny little light bulb, which can turn on and off independently of one another. When they are off, they are completely off, which gives the screen its amazing contrast. It also looks identically sharp regardless of your viewing angle.
Unfortunately, it is COMPLETELY invisible in bright sunlight, even more so than most cellphone screens. This is also because of the fact that each pixel generates light directly rather than blocking it. Even though the light generated by an OLED is impressive, it is no match for the sun, and gets washed out completely. On the other hand, since an LCD works by blocking light, it is still able to block some of the sunlight to form a visible image, even if it was designed to be illuminated from the back. The nightshade/light bulb analogy is again appropriate. In a sunlit room, turning on a light bulb makes a lot less difference compared to pulling the blinds. So, the OLED is a bit of a double-edged sword.
My only other significant quibble is the low memory capacity, with no ability for expansion. 4 MB is just not very much; you won't be able to keep too many pictures or ringtones.
Overall, the phone is quite good. It is small and light, and looks rather sleek. Most importantly, it makes crystal clear calls with no drops that I can remember. That would have earned it 5 stars, but the screen problem and limited memory knock it down a notch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Never had so much problem with a cell phone
Comment: My old Motorola 265 is having cut-out problem occasionally so I decide to upgrade to a new phone. I signed two-year contract and get this phone for free from the Verizon website. Then my headache started.
The new phone looks nice and works nice except the speakphone is not as loud as my Motorola 265. But since the second day I got this phone, I found I'm having much worse cut-out problem than my old phone. I had to call Verizon for replacement. The first replacement only works worse than the original one. So, replace again. The second replacement still has the cut-out problem but I have no energy to care about this problem any more --- its speakerphone totally doesn't work! I need the speakerphone everyday when I chat over the phone with my husband.
Verizon is not happy either. Their CS told me they can not ship me again and again and I don't trust their service any more. Therefore I brought this phone to the local store. But the local store can not do exchange for me because my account shows my cell phone has only 3 months warranty(??!!).
I'm so tired but I still have to call Verizon. Today they told me they are going to ship me another model, Motorola V325i. I checked customer review on Amazon and only to find very bad reviews. I don't know how the new one will work but I'm just too tired to argue with them any more.
From the three Nokia 6215i phones I've got, I can tell that its speakerphone is generally soft (but my current one totally doesn't work). If a speakerphone feature is important for you, keep away from this model.
Customer Rating:
Summary: OK, but...
Comment: I upgraded to this phone primarily on the opinion of a the c-net review which said this phone had such good voice quality that it was indistinguishable from a land-line (San Francisco), and reviewer (VA) who said this phone had the "best voice quality" -- since i was having trouble hearing on my previous phone, especially in mobile-to-mobile calls. Perhaps it is the area I am in (north Jersey), but I sure can tell I'm on a cell phone! While better than my previous model, I'm still saying "what? could you repeat that?" In calling Verizon Wireless to ask another question, the technical supervisor just told me "the voice quality and even reception ability varies a lot from individual phone to phone within every model: we can get 5 phones of the same model and line them up and each one sounds different and right next to each other they'll display different signal strengths..." Wish I'd known THAT before I bought!
I like this phone's features, and since Verizon has it on promotion, it's a great deal right now. It has more "conveniences" than I'll really use. It doesn't have bluetooth for hands-free, but that's OK with me.
My biggest complaint is that the LED display (it's not an LCD but new LED display) is completely unreadable in daylight. Also you must use some kind of cover: the battery comes unclipped with the slightest of touches on the clasp such as pulling the phone out of a pocket or purse. I find the more "rounded" shape phones a little easier to hold than this "squared" shape, and it's easy to press on the exterior screen or the buttons on the side when holding the phone closer to the ear when trying to hear better in a noisy or outdoor environment.
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