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My first impressions of the new phone were very positive. It looked very much like the other 63xx models presently on the market in Canada, including the 6310i (from Rogers) and the 6340 (from Fido). That makes it about the same size as the venerable 6190 (and indeed the 6185/6188). Unlike these other Nokia phones however, it doesn’t use the standard type of battery. Instead, it uses the white boxy internal type like you see on the 33xx and 35xx models. The phone isn’t as thin as the 6310i.

As far as battery life is concerned, the phone is certainly a huge improvement over the 6185/6188, as it provides about 2 to 3 days of standby using the standard internal battery. The 6185/6188 could barely give you that, even with the bulky 1500 mAh BLS-4 battery. However, battery life wasn’t anywhere near as good as you’d get on many of Nokia’s GSM models using the same capacity battery.

The menu system on the 6385 is pure Nokia, and that’s a good thing. The Nokia system is well known, and very easy to navigate. If you’re already accustomed to another Nokia model, you’ll feel right at home with the 6385. For those who are not familiar with the Nokia Way, suffice it to say that it’s fairly logical, and easy to master.

The screen is slightly larger than the one found on the old 6190/6185/6188 model, but not quite as big as on the 7190. It provides slightly better resolution than the older CDMA model, especially in terms of vertical pixels. Nokia opted for readability over total characters (though it would have been nice if they’d given us a font size option).

Backlighting is by way of old-fashioned greed LEDs, but they seemed bright enough for most situations. It also included Nokia’s new fade-in/fade-out effect. It would have been nicer if they’d supplied the blue/white LEDs from the 6310i, but I can’t say the green LEDs were poor.

They keypad feel isn’t quite up to the standards I’ve come to expect from Nokia. Overall however, I found the keypad fairly easy to use, and not markedly different from other 63xx models. Like the 6340 though, it has a very hard-to-press power button. For some reason, the power button on the 6310i is of a different design, and it works very well.

The 6385 finally brings industrial strength SMS capabilities to CDMA. With the exception of a few minor GSM-only features, the 6385 includes everything you find on Nokia’s GSM models, including a top-notch T9 implementation, user-defined mailbox folders, cut-and-paste options, and lots more.

The phonebook is also excellent, and it mirrors the capabilities that Nokia has been putting in their GSM phones since the 7190. You can store as many 5 different phone numbers in each entry, along with text fields such as street address, e-mail address, and generic text descriptions. Options for editing a phonebook entry are plentiful and well laid-out.

The other features of the phone are also stock Nokia, and they include: To-Do List, Calendar with audible reminders; alarm clock; games (including the venerable Snake II), calculator, calling cards, caller groups and group graphics, profiles, voice activated dialing and commands, and web browser.

As the phone is a 1X model, it also includes 1X data and a working IR port to connect to your computing devices (or you can use a data cable). Unfortunately, the 6385 does not support Bluetooth as does the 6310i.

The IR port can also be used to import information from other Nokia phones. I used it to quickly copy over complete phonebook entries (with multiple numbers, names, addresses, etc) from my 7190. Or for even easier data transfer, just download the free software provided by Nokia on their web page. It allows you to modify and backup all of the data in the phone using your PC. Connection to the phone is via a DLR-3P data cable, or IR.