Nokia 6165i

The Nokia 6165i is solidly built flip phone made for Sprint. In typical Nokia fashion, the keypad on this phone is hard to navigate with the slippery, flushed keys and it looks a little cheap. But the white backlight illuminates the keys well.

The 128x160 display is impressive and it makes reading the Caller-ID easy. Although not as bright and vibrant as one would like, both the internal and the external display on this phone are customizable though you are limited in what you can do.

The phone has a talk time of about 240 minutes which is decent. The standby time is 240 hours which places it in the above average zone. It weighs in at 3.96 ounces which is average for Nokia.

Nokia 6165i Features

This phone has a conservative, awkward looking clamshell design with dual high-quality main (262K-colors) and external (65K-colors) displays, an Integrated 1.0-megapixel camera with LED flash, zoom, and video recording and playback, 64-chord polyphonic sound engine with MP3 and video ringer support, BREW support for application, ringer, wallpaper, graphic and game downloads, Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free conversations and conference calling with integrated hands-free speakerphone.

The Nokia 6165i features sports a 1.0-megapixel camera with flash and keeps you in the loop with Bluetooth, USB cable and infrared. You can also take advantage of mobile applications for tourist information, directions, etc…In addition to Bluetooth technology, the 6165i features support for downloadable Java or BREW applications, streaming audio and video content and customizable MIDI ringtones. A big disappointment is that Nokia does not have any Downloadable ring tones, games and graphics for the Nokia 6165i phone so your personalization options are severely limited.

Additionally, you have an integrated hands-free speaker, voice dialing, voice recording, speed dial, automatic redial, key pad lock, vibrating alert and the call log registers phone numbers of missed, received, and dialed calls.

Your Multimedia Messaging options allow you to Send messages with text, videos, photos and sound with MMS and text and picture messaging. The Nokia 6165i comes with a mega pixel camera (1152 x 864 pixel resolution) with built-in flash and self-timer.

You can surf the mobile Internet faster with CDMA2000® 1X technology and it has Bluetooth wireless technology to send and receive data wirelessly.

The business features of the Nokia 6165i synchronize your phone book and calendar with your compatible PC using Nokia PC Suite (available free at nokiausa.com) and you can store up to 500 contacts with multiple entries per contact in the phonebook. You have up to 14 MB of internal memory for your photos, messages, games and applications and a calendar with monthly view, notes and to-do list. Of course, you have your basic Nokia features such as alarm clock with snooze and repeat, stopwatch/timer, calculator, world clock and currency converter.

As mentioned above you are limited to the fun you can have with personalization on the Nokia 6165i but you can watch music video with live video streaming,, the phone does come equipped with some ring tones and you can customize wallpaper and themes and is preloaded with BREW games and applications.

All in all, the Nokia 6165i is a good phone for making calls and snapping a few low quality photos. If you are looking for high tech, go a different route. Nokia tries with this one, but still leaves a lot to be desired.