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The 6555 comes with a WAP browser. Pressing the dedicated browser button on the navigation cluster will fire up the browser and take you to AT&T's MEdiaNet portal. There you have access to AT&T content and services, and can check the news, scores and the weather easily.

Navigating to the open Web is a little bit of an exercise in patience. You have to use the browser menus to navigate to other sites, save/view bookmarks and so on. As with all phones with regular keypads, it is best to spend the time loading up a bunch of bookmarks into the phone so you are not repeatedly typing out URLs into the address bar with the keypad. The browser renders pages in a single column, and most web sites default to the mobile view and are slightly stripped down.

As for speeds, the browser was fairly snappy in both EDGE and 3G coverage zones, though we can't say the difference was all that noticeable.

You can also adjust the font size of the browser, so that it is easier to read with larger fonts, or fits more text on the screen with smaller fonts.

Customize

The 6555's S40 platform lets you alter just about every aspect and setting of the phone. Don't like a particular screen, menu or the way a page looks? Chances are you can change it up to something more appealing to you.

The active standby mode is completely customizable. In fact, when you first activate it, it is a blank slate. You have to add all your own applications and shortcuts, making it entirely your own, custom list.

The main menu can be viewed in grid, list or tab layouts. The tabbed layout lets you jump sideways across the different menu selections, and it brings up a list of any applications or subfolders that may be in each of the main menu folders.

It comes preloaded with several themes and a number of wallpapers for the internal and external screens, both of which can be set to different styles and images.

You can customize and alter so much about the 6555 that is was a real disappointment that we were not able to use songs from our library as ringtones. We were met with error messages stating that the files were too big.

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Nokia 6555

2" display 240 x 320 pixels
1,020 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot