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I have Cincinnati Bell and have this phone for about a year now. I agree with some of the other complaints where the wifi is flakier than the regular cell reception. I do get occasional cut outs at home but overall I am satisified. The main plus of the phone is the WIFI connection and when I was in Costa Rica and Canada, I was able to make and receive local telephone calls with no cell signal and an open wifi only. I can't wait to take it to asia and test it out.

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  • 2008-08-04 20:07
  • 4x@R
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I am extremely disappointed that this model does not record dates and times of calls, texts etc... In my opinion that is a very critical feature of having a cell phone.

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  • 2008-06-21 14:54
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> In reply to Kenneth R Lombard @ 2007-12-28 17:02 from jGYwKenneth,

Like you, I'm having many problems with Cincinnati Bell's service and my Nokia 6086. I think it's a good phone, its the Cincinnati Bell network that's really bad. It's outdated and poorly managed. Plus, they don't know how to keep up with changing technology. I'm constantly having problems with the wifi with dropped calls, cut-outs, bad voice quality, and not getting voice mails. I would avoid Cincinnati Bell at all costs. I am switching service next week because I am so unhappy with their customer service and network. Good luck with your phone!

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  • 2008-06-14 06:42
  • RYXe
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> In reply to Ser @ 2008-06-12 15:31 from jJ2vI also have a Nokia 6086 from Cincinnati Bell (Hell!) and I've had nothing but problems with it. I truly think it's their crappy wifi service/network causing it.Their network is outdated and poorly managed. I'm constantly having dropped calls, poor sound quality, and cut-outs on my wifi and gsm service. This all started the third day I had the phone! I've since had it replaced and the new phone is doing these things as well! You are right-their customer service is useless, and they have no idea what they are talking about. I've called them numerous times. I am definitely going to switch to Verizon. Good luck with your new phone.

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  • 2008-06-14 06:32
  • RYXe
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I was hoping to find other reviews on here with similar experiences, but in the off-chance this helps someone else - we've had a horrible time with this phone. My daughter and I both have this model, and while mine has been fine (I actually don't use it as much as my teenager) my daughter has had hers replaced once and repaired once within one year of owning it, and it still doesn't work. The display screen randomly cuts out, and believe me the battery's been replaced, phone's been replaced, nothing solves this problem. It's so completely useless to me now I'm going to have to buy her a different phone. And I'm beyond pissed at Cincinnati Bell for their complete lack of customer service.

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  • 2008-06-12 15:31
  • jJ2v
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wifi phone

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  • 2008-06-11 15:07
  • mJe{
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The rejected sim card is either
you didnt put it in properly
(the slightest slant or irregularity )
problem wth the sim holder
cracked sim card (EXTREMLY RARE)

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  • 2008-04-24 21:54
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as a standard
flip phone for a nothing fancy
but it works attitude
great functions not
the most features but
it has wifi and you can use that
to connect to skype
so theres plenty of options
if i was travinling id buy this on my trip and leave my iclone atr home and use it for skype

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  • 2008-04-24 21:50
  • Bp7y
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I thinkk it's the bestt phone for the middle class peoples...............!
it has all the essential entertainment features such as camera ,fm stereo radio ,stereo music player and price is also very low.

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  • 2008-04-24 14:12
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Had it for less than 2 weeks, could barely hear anyone on the phone. The people I called said that the phone would drop out occasionally. Only used it as a cell phone, never tried WiFi. Very cute design, but cute doesn't make it easier to hear people.

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  • 2008-04-09 17:18
  • 4f77
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can u browse the web with the WIFI feature or can you only use the wifi feature to make calls with t-mobile thanks

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  • 2008-04-06 23:40
  • xXZw
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it is very lovly mobiles

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  • 2008-03-08 20:25
  • fvxc
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I switched to T-Mobile from At&t in November. Since then I have had nothing but problems. First the Hot spot service was down for 3 weeks. Due to bad weather in Washington. After that was fixed I have not had consistent Hot-Spot service yet. I too have called several times and get several answers. The latest is that the phone has a software problem. That there is no resolution date for this problem. They then gave me a $20.00 credit for my next bill. That does not help me with my horrible service at home.
What I did learn is if I take my battery out I will receive temporary WiFi. They call it a hard reboot.

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  • 2008-02-22 21:41
  • jZES
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Its a good phone but for some reason it is rejecting my sim card. everytime i turn the phone on it says "SIM card rejected"

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  • 2008-02-09 08:34
  • T17L
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Transition from GSM to WiFi degraded slowly after few months. Requires everyday booting. Music player shuts off when flip is closed;leaving flip open is pocket makes no sense;a bad design. Battery degraded over few fews months. Handsfree set sucks, bad quality audio;volume rocker, memory-insert-Lid, feel cheap.
Pros: key-buttons, loud speaker

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  • 2008-02-01 00:09
  • YbRI
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I have had the Nokia 6086 phone for 7 months now and it keeps loosing connectivity at home. It also has problems finding the wifi service when I get home (using the T-moblie HotSpot@home router). I called T-mobile several times and get a different excuse each time. One technician told me it was the sim card, the other one told me it was the Nokia phone. Then they tried to make my _buy_ a Samsung phone for $179. But I paid so much for the system in the first place, it should work! Then they replaced the Nokia phone with the same model but a new one. Voila! The problem still persists. I live in an area where there is no tower, so it seemed like a really good idea to get this system, but the number of dropped calls and unavailable service is really not worth it. Anyone have a solution besides canceling ($200 fee)?

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  • 2008-01-23 03:02
  • 49T%
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I have had isuues with the phone's inability to log on to T-Mobile's WiFi network. I have called T-Mobile several times and chewed on them to get their system fixed. It seams to be working because this problem is much better. Don't put up with sloppy service!



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  • 2008-01-16 23:15
  • DB1h
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I have a 6086 with Cincinnati Bell Wireless, when connect at home thur my wifi system, cannot csll my home phone number, Cinainnati Bell be working on the promblem Oct. of 2007, they do not known how to fixed it.
Phone does not tell you when have Voice Mail. Cannot send picture over email very easy. If my promblem are not fixed by Jan. 15, 2008 I will be going to a new phone company for cell, home phone, internet.

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  • 2007-12-28 17:02
  • jGYw
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I have rated this phone terribly for several reasons: first, it advertises mp3 playback but for all intents and purposes, it is worthless as an mp3 player. the player will stop if the phone is closed, won't advance to the next song automatically, can't accept playlists, etc etc. sure, it _can_ play an mp3 but i was hoping it might actually be worth doing so with it. to me, i feel like the mp3 support was just purely a marketing ploy.
second, this phone is locked down so badly java apps are practically worthless because _none_ other than the default installed ones can access any data. gmail's awesome java app? worthless. google maps or any of the other map java apps? worthless. it tells you to change the permissions for the java app to allow data, but this simply cannot be done on this phone, not even the hackers have figured out how to work around the lock down that has destroyed the [potential] usefullness of this phone.
so great features don't mean anything if nokia is going to cripple this phone, and until they stop crippling/locking down all the useful functions on their phones, i won't buy them again. my motorola V3 didn't have any of these problems...

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  • 2007-12-21 00:02
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Here is another glitch I have found. I have gone around downtown Houston and "collected" saved WiFi networks so that as I would go from place to place the phone would automatically connect to the various WiFi networks.

After a while my phone quit automaticaly connecting to the networks, even my home network. I found out that there is a limit on the number of saved networks you can have. I you have somewhere around 10 saved networks the phone will stop automaticaly connecting. Deleting the extra saved networks solved the connection problem.

Anyone else have this problem?

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  • 2007-10-09 19:31
  • DB1h
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