Nokia 6131 Soft Touch Folder Phone Review

Nokia has started deliveries of the Nokia 6131 phone, a sophisticated and stylish camera phone that offers powerful feature set, including a 1.3 megapixel camera and a superb 16 million color display. The quadband Nokia 6131 will be coming to shops across Europe, Asia, Africa and select Latin American countries. A version for North American markets, the Nokia 6126 will also be available during the second quarter of this year.

With the 6131, Nokia significantly ups the anti on its previous lackluster flip designs such as the 6103. Tailored specifically for a more business orientated market, Nokia has adopted the less-is-more strategy for its exterior design. While not specifically designed to be one for the fashion set, it has all the basic multimedia features covered off, and it looks great.

The real winner here, though, is the internal keypad. Put simply, it’s big. In fact, the entire design rationale with the 6131 is to keep things simple, refined, even elegant. To that end, Nokia has created a keypad layout and accompanying navigational interface which looks great, feels familiar, and is easy to understand. The keypad itself is very well lit, and the volume and camera shortcut buttons are exactly where you’d expect them to be on a Nokia phone. Once again though, Nokia toys with its placement of the on/off button, this time opting for the side of the phone, which may again cause some initial confusion for its loyal customers.

Enjoying music on the go is also easy with the Nokia 6131 as the phone includes a built-in digital music player and FM stereo radio. Captured moments and favourite music can be stored on the optional hot-swappable microSD memory card, offering storage for a wide selection of images or music files.

Ultimately, with a lustrous black design, a fair set of multimedia features, and good support (including quad-band connectivity) for more business-related activities, the Nokia 6131 performed well. While its looks are bound to be somewhat subjectively interpreted, it has a handy features set, and most importantly it’s highly intuitive and easy to use. As a mid-range handset with a pleasant price tag, Nokia users shouldn’t be disappointed.

Review By Slashphone

Say hi to the latest Nokia 6131. This clamshell phone is encased in a layer of soft touch paint that feels like rubber, and flips open with a press of the button at the top right hand side of the phone. Quite a smooth idea, but closing it back is not as easy. If you try to do it with one hand, you will feel as if the phone is going to slip and drop anytime. When it’s closed, this phone is quite compact, only 92 mm long and 48 mm wide. It’s also very light at 102g.

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Review By Mobile88

At first, after touching the phone for like 30 seconds, I had maintained to Hartom and Carsmovies that the 6170 had a better keypad. After using the phone for a few days, I have to concede that the 6131 has the best keypad I’ve ever used. Text messaging without looking is so easy it’s not even funny.

The buttons recede about half a millimeter or so and while make a nice click you feel, make virtually no audible sound. The w810i makes a slightly louder click.

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Review By Mobileburn

The Nokia 6131 is the latest clamshell mobile phone from the Finnish company. It is a quad band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) world phone with support for GPRS/EDGE networks. Armed with a magnificent 16 million color screen along with a 262k color external display, the 6131 is poised to make quite an impact amongst clamshell aficionados - especially when it also has a 1.3-megapixel camera and external memory card slot.

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