6230 or 6600

Maybe someone already asked this but I couldn't fon it..... Wivh phone should i take??? The price of the phones doesn't matter at all, but the functions does... I want to use it as a mp3player but I never heard mp3's in mono, is it really that worse?? (nokia 6600 does NOT have stereo-output) So I think I should take the 6230 but the 6600 is operating on Symbian with lots more functions... Are there people that can tell me about the 6600's mp3player and ringingtones (read in the review that there are not that hard) also I would like to know about the different applications that you use...i know there are lots and lots of appz but do you really use it?? What I would like to know about the 6230 is of the screen is really that bad...? P.S. sorry for my english but it is not my motherlanguage __________________ About the 6600: The mp3 songs plays not that bad but plays like what the .WAV files, it plays at 16kHz so you won't expect very good quality songs. But it's unlike any previous series 60 phones, the 6600 ringtones are loud, very loud enough to hear it (that's my opinion). A good application for playing MP3 music is MP3Player, and for getting the ringtones even louder you could an app such as Ringtone Studio. The applications are usefull depends on what you realy need. About the 6230: It's the latest best series 40 Nokia phone you'll see, It has the stereo ouput and plays the MP3 songs very clearly (a good mp3 player) specially that it comes with a 32MB MMC card, you can add 256MB MMC cards too. The screen is perfect in my opinion it supports up to 65k colors just like the 6600. so if your looking for an mp3 player phone with other feature packed, you should be looking for the 6230. The 6600 also feature packed plus it's a symbian phone you could add apps and good programs, but you won't like the mp3 sound quality on it because the phone doesn't support stereo. hope that helps __________________ kingrichard47 all series (3650,3660,6600,... ) are very awfull in quality of mp3 ringtones and speakers ... P900 beats all of them. __________________ i dont get it.... when a person is asking about 6230 or 6600 y do u ppl have to come up and tell them about a third phone preforming better??:S saliquincer y do u alwaz keep trying to prove tht sonyericsson is the best??well i know they make dam good phones but over here the guy is asking about 6230 and 6600 . plz stay on the topic. and well for the price of a p900 , tht unit should play mp3 better then those two..... its almost double the price , and bigger in size . as for the original thread , i would say 6600 . casue it could function as a multi unit . u could alwaz get games , unlimited recording , bigger screen , few other softwares . where as for 6230 , u stuck with mp3 , radio thts it . and the biggest problem ........... no gprs and mms ... the rest is for u to decide . __________________ saliquincer the series 60 phone with the best mp3 quality is the N-gage, it uses a hardware decoder... the others don't have good mp3 quality the 6230 uses also a hardware mp3 decoder and it's a pretty sound comming out of such a small device. so if you want it for mp3, go for the 6230, do you wanna have more options and more application that can do more, go for the 6600 __________________ kristof.vanriet I talked about mp3 ringtones quality... __________________ To enerlevel I get it.......................SE P900 is the best __________________ of course the p900 is better than those two, but as enerlevel said it cost's the double! and its pretty big to... @enerlevel: according to www.nokia.com the 6230 does support mms and gprs... @Ahmad007: because of the screen and the symbian os I tend to the 6600 but for the stereo output to the 6230...the mp3player I will probarply use in a noisy area (school) most of the time...would I hear a lot of difference in the sound in that situation??? __________________ YES there will be ALOT of differnces in terms of sound. the MP3 sound in the 6600 is not gonna be that clear it will be like your hearing a simple .WAV file. While in the 6230 the sound is so so clear and a perfect quality sound. __________________ well thanks for all of your support!!! espacially ahmad007 I have made my dessision and it is.......the Siemens SX1 On a dutch forum (GoT) I saw this phone and actually its a combination of the 6230 and 6600!! stereo ouput and symbian os!! __________________ Yeah but the stereo on the SX1 sucks... sounds like mono honestly. By the way, dont compare a P900 with a 6230 ! LOL... One is for business other is for everyday use... you guys have no idea wth you're talking about... __________________ ok here u go .. 6230 : the best speaker phone any nokia phone had uptill now . the mp3 sounds realli sweet when u play it from its own speaker . while the headset isnt all tht loud . i guess the handsfree nokia is using isnt all tht gr8. 6600 :u can have mp3 player for this phone but trust me , its just like having a mp3 player, and getting happy tht u have it , but never listening to it . the quality realli is bad speaially when u listen it tru the speaker . its realli low , distroted . p900 : it has the best mp3 player . well when u listen to it tru. the mp3 player , the volume is low . but when u put it on the ringtone , its realli loud and good . sx1 : the phone is bad in every way . stay away from it plz!! unstable software, difficult keypad , bad mp3 and the speaker is allmost same as 6600 . i think the best for u is 6230 if for mp3 . but the handsfree 7200 is using , is the best i have seen . its really loud and nice . i hope this helps __________________ Thx for the info but I think I will still go for the SX1, and if it is that bad as you say, then why did Xonia calls it the best phone ever? The first version where very unstable indeed, but the firmware is already upgraded for 3 times and I heard that it is stable now (heard from people who have the phone). As I'm going to buy it I will of course first take a look at it in a shop and test the mp3/radio and stuff __________________ I would go for a Nokia 6600. The phone has better screen, camera(?), and way better software-speed. It has a newer version of SymbianOS (7.0), SX1 has (6.1). But if you really need mp3 in stereo and radio in your mobile, then go for a SX1. And the keypad is very good on N6600. Good luck! __________________ the annoying thing about the 6230..when playing MP3's is that most of the name is cut off on the screen(cos its small). If you have a large MMC with a lot of music it becomes more of a probelm. If u want to find a particular song most of the time u cant tell which is which because of the "cutting off". therefore you have to listen to the start of most of the songs....i suppose you could get used to it but i find it really annoying. I would definately recommend the N6600. Twista Mavi forum