I have 4 Nokia 6610's in our household, and they work great! Never a
reception problem, though we live in a pretty spotty area. One day I was
talking to CS rep at 2nd level, who was trying to trobleshoot some other
thing with my account (not phone related), and he wanted to check which
tower my phone was currently connected to. So he asked for my exact
location (what intersection is the nearest), and said in a very surprized
voice, that his map shows me as being on a very margin of coverage (like
between 2 towers, where each is on a boundary of their range). None the
less -- the phones work great all around the house, even in stairwells,
where there's no windows near at all. Sometimes I do lose a signal in the
house, but hey... when I had Sprint and their Samsung phone, I could only
talk when near a right window (I know they use different towers, but I
think they are all in the same general area).

Display. Hm... I never thought of it... I never had any issues with
display. I guess it never occured to me with my 6610, that it is
"supposed" to be hard to read the display under certain conditions...
Definetly no problems under daylight that I can recall I just get it out
and use!

The only problems with this particular phone are size related, and are
based on your preferences. For one thing my mother can't read the display
without her eyeglasses, except for a phone book, which has a very nice
setting for just such persons, that displays names in very large font
across the entire screen. And my wife has trouble finding her phone in
the purse, but, and that's the only negative things about it. I love my
phone, and have no troubles whatsoever!

LEM.
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I've had solid RF performance from mine. Granted, you don't usually
read such info. in reviews, because honestly most people don't know
whether they're getting it or not. They often focus on the "service"
as the issue if they're getting dropped calls.

I use mine outdoors all the time with no trouble. Obviously, in harsh
sunlight, you're going to have some issues, but they're easily gotten
around by holding at a different angle most of the time.

One thing to look out with the 6610 is it's screen. I've found it's
relatively easy to scratch. Having said that, once I had a few initial
ones, it's never really been much of an issue and it's never impaired
the screen viewing.

It's not a very high resolution color screen,  and sure it washes out in
bright sunlight as any screen would. Of course we only have about 7
sunny days a year here..

The downsides to the 6610 that I can think of:

1. Tiny Power switch, an annoyance really.
2. proprietary headphone jack (they call it a POP Port and you need it
for the included FM radio - nice touch.

I travel internationally with it, and it is really the best phone I've
used. Verizon phones included.

Nokia 2190.  Heck of a phone and it does double duty as you can use it
for self defense.

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