It's a hardcoded link to the Facebook website, which opens in Opera Mini. There is a non-removable Facebook icon on the menu screen, but don't stress it's not an app. There's a web browser, but it isn't good (which encourages you to stop doomscrolling). It has a web browser, Opera Mini a handful of simple games, including an updated Snake a music player that will play files from your memory card an FM radio, which will play over the speaker as well as through headphones and a voice recorder. The 225 isn't quite a digital disconnector's phone. The 6300 gets around it by using WhatsApp. This is a common problem on a lot of voice phones. It's basically impossible to participate in a group conversation. They also appear out of order, and occasionally, not at all. You can send group texts, but any group texts received appear from only their individual sender, and when you reply, it only goes to that individual. Texts appear threaded by sender, and you can both send and receive picture messages but not emoji. Texting is fine, but group texting is a complete mess. You can create contact groups and select ringtones for individual contacts or for groups.
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You can't select a subset of contacts to sync, so I suggest setting up an Android device with only the contacts you want on your 225. There's a neat little feature to let you bring over contacts from an Android phone via Bluetooth. However, you'll get several days' worth of standby time because the phone isn't doing a lot in the background. 4G voice phones tend to have less talk time than their 3G and 2G ancestors did because voice over LTE (VOLTE) calling is a more complex, power-consuming affair. That's less than the 6300 (7 hours, 37 minutes) but more than sufficient to get you through the day. The 225 has a removable 1150mAh battery that delivered 6 hours, 21 minutes of talk time. But whatever the difference was, it was slight in our New York City testing location. The 225 doesn't give you cellular signal in dBm, so it was hard to tell whether it got slightly better or worse reception than its peers. There are 14 ringtones, including the traditional Nokia tone, and you can use your own MP3s. Maximum volume is a bit lower than on the 6300, but it's still perfectly usable. Like all of the new 4G voice phones, the 225 supports HD Voice, and it doesn't distort at top volume. Nokia's website says it's dual-SIM, but that appears to be an error.Ĭall quality is good.
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If you want full T-Mobile coverage or a wider range of carrier options, you need to go to the Nokia 6300. The US version of the phone has bands 2/4/5/12/13/17 but lacks band 71, which T-Mobile uses in rural areas. Put an AT&T SIM in and the phone is 3G-only Verizon SIMs don't work at all.
That means you can use T-Mobile, Metro, Mint Mobile, US Mobile, or other T-Mobile–based carriers. Right now, the phone only supports T-Mobile's network for 4G calling. My phone had no problem with my 256GB card. If you want to do much with pictures or media, you'll need to add a microSD card. It has 128MB of RAM and 64MB of storage-yes, megabytes, not gigabytes.
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The Nokia 225 runs Nokia's proprietary Series 30 OS on a Unisoc USM9117 chipset. I have heard the argument that side volume keys are too easy to accidentally press, but I like to know I can turn my volume up or down quickly at will. If you want to change the call volume, you have to do it in a call if you want to change ringtone or media volume, you hold down the # key on the home screen and click left and right. This being a Nokia, it has the big Nokia quirk that some people like and I hate: no hardware volume rocker.
The menu hearkens back to the early 2000s. The color options are black, blue, and gold. The screen cover scratches pretty easily, but the springy plastic material generally resists cracks and handles drops well. The plastic screen is a 2.4-inch, 320-by-240 LCD. It measures 4.91 by 2.01 by 0.54 inches (HWD) and weighs a mere 3.17 ounces. The 225 is a simple plastic bar with a flat keypad and raised four-way rocker.