I got my Nokia 6230b back today from the wonderful people at iUnlock. I must say, they provide an awesome service and I highly recommend them to anybody with a GSM phone.
I purchased the nokia 6230b firmware upgrade to version 5.50 (my phone ran Cingular’s 4.43) with decustomization. On Monday, October 24th, I shipped it out via UPS 2-day AM service. On Wednesday, I received an e-mail from iUnlock stating my phone was received, upgraded, tested, and shipped back via 2-day air with a tracking number. On Friday at Noon, I received my phone back. How easy was that. You can’t even get service like that from Cingular (who’s stores are only for retail sales — they have never been able to repair a phone on-site for me, as Verizon has done for me in the past with my old Nokia 3589i).
Anyway, I stuck my SIM card and the 2GB MMC-Plus card I just purchased in to the phone and powered it on. Everything worked like a champ! Best of all: That stuipd bouncing Cingular guy no longer clutters up my menu! Not only that, but *all* the features of the phone, that cingular had removed, are now available (such as Presence, IM, more call forwarding features, etc etc) — although I doubt Cingular’s network supports most of them.
Additional observations:
* The bluetooth voice dialing bug is supposed to be fixed (I’ll test that when I get home) Update: This is fixed! Bluetooth works like a charm now!
* The mp3 player now reads all subdirectories on the MMC card to add music its playlist
* The Caller ID is supposed to show in a window on a white-background Update: It puts a semi-transparent white background on the caller id! Way cool!
* The battery status is supposed to be more linear (I’ll test this as the battery dies) Update: This doesn’t seem to be the case… although I have been using my phone significantly more for J2ME Google Maps, IM & Presence, and mp3 playing requiring me to recharge the battery every night
* The backlights fade out now when the phone is powered off.
* The backlights turn on for about 2 seconds when the keypad is locked so you can read a message on the screen without unlocking the keypad. Update: it only does this when I press “Unlock”, “Send”, “End”, or “Power”.
* I can see the *exact* time of the phone (to the second) in the Time and Date menus now
* The mailbox icon doesn’t show up when changing the volume level anymore: Update: this still occurs — the bug is not fixed!
* I can finally add the Music Player to the GoTo shortcut menu
* I can set an animated GIF file as an animated wallpaper
* Dozens of other little things
Once I’m activated on T-Mobile and sign up for unlimited GPRS, I’ll be able to stream videos (think: home security), check/send e-mail, auto-sync calendar and organizer settings to my PC in real-time. I love the Nokia 6230. I only wish Nokia had more US service centers so firmware upgrades would be free for me.
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