IMPORTANT: THIS PHONE DOESN'T PLAY MP3 RINGTONES! I explain this further bellow.

I saw this phone on T-Mobile's website and immediately fell in love with it despite it being a Nokia phone.

I will admit that I have had a bias toward Motorola and have avoided Nokia phones from the beginning. I came across this phone looking for a good PDA/Smart phone/Data phone for T-Mobile.

The best phone I found was a third party phone from HP, but when I saw this phone it just grabbed my attention.

The best thing about this phone is that it has some PDA like qualities. It allows you to have an active calander on your phone's desktop with some notes, reminders, and the occasional to-do list (not pictures in any press photos) and shortcuts to your favorite applications, games, or whatever feature the phone has to offer (also not featured in press photos).

The full beauty about this active desktop like feature is that it can be fully customized (within reason) and can be turned on and off for those that don't need or want it.

The image quality in the phones displays are bright and colorful. You can fully see the rich texture of the colors in your images.

The extended memory slot in the phone allows you to use this phone as your mp3 player or carry many more games, images, movies, and ringtones than the phone can hold.

The built in 11Mb of memory the phone comes with is more than enough for the casual phone user and a healthy tease for those looking to do more with their phones.

The bluetooth connectivity allows you to add games, ringtones, music, images, and other stuff to your phone without having to pay for it. The music player not only plays mp3's, but also MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, and WMA files.

As I said above, this phone doesn't play mp3 ringtones. That is both true and false at the same time. This phone will play mp3's as ringtones ONLY if they are signed by T-Mobile, meaning if you like paying for your ringtones from your phone carrier then it will play them as ringtones.

If you are like me and want to you your own mp3 collection as ringtones then this phone wont play them.

It will NOT play them as mp3's, YOU WILL HAVE TO CONVERT THEM TO WMA files in order to them music files are ringtones. So I searched some on the web and found Xilisoft WMA MP3 Converter is good for this ,which can convert formats between WMA and MP3 easily and fast,really do me a great favour. To some people that is a lot to ask for, but for me its just a small price to pay in order to get things the way I WANT.

This is truly the best phone that T-Mobile has out and will have out for a long time. If anyone out there is sitting on the fence debating whether or not to buy this phone - just do it!

Best Nokia phone ever ?

I'd agree, if it was November 2002. But its not.



EDIT: hang on, i said 2003, i'll change that..

It was just released October of 2006 and is in fact a very good phone by US standards which are not up to European or Japanese phones.

Can the 6233 use mp3s as ringtones and message alert tone just like sony ericsson?