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Nokia 6280 review
|Review: February 2006
Last updated November 2006
In a nutshell: The Nokia 6280 is a 3G slide phone.
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It's a nice looking phone, about the same size as the Samsung D600, but with a squarer shape. One of the key benefits of a slide-up design is that it enables a large screen to be placed within a compact phone design, and for once Nokia have supplied a screen that doesn't disappoint. The display is a high quality 262k colour screen with a very high resolution of 320 x 240 pixels - as good as anything on the market today. It is prone to collect dust however. There are two cameras on the phone: an excellent 2 megapixel camera on the rear side of the phone for taking still images, and a front-mounted VGA camera for video calling. These are both excellent cameras.
Music is catered for with a music player for MP3 tracks and Visual Radio. Sound output is in stereo, and a stereo headset is supplied. The phone comes with 74 Mbytes of built-in memory plus an expandable memory card - ideal for storing music and video. The 6280 also has an interesting and novel feature - video ringtones!
Connectivity is fully supported, with Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and infra-red, as well as super-fast internet access via EDGE or 3G, supporting download speeds of up to 384 kbps, and upload speeds of 128 kbps. Battery life is very good for a 3G phone.
The Nokia 6280 is potentially one of the best 3G phones currently available. However, it is very unreliable and there have been a variety of faults reported - from memory card faults, to shutting down and even total failure. It's a shame, but we really can't recommend the 6280. Now replaced by the Nokia 6288.
Nokia 6280 features include:
- 3G functionality (including video calling)
- 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and integrated flash
- VGA camera for video calling
- Display: Active Matrix, 262,144-colours, 320 x 240 pixels
- Music player with stereo output (stereo headset supplied)
- Visual Radio
- Video ringtones
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, email (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4)
- Java games
- XHTML web browser
- Memory: 74 Mbytes plus miniSD card
- Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB 2.0, Infra-red
- WAP, GPRS Class 10, EDGE (up to 236.8 kbps) & 3G (up to 384 kbps download)
- Triband + 3G
- Size: 100 x 46 x 21 mm
- Weight: 115g
- Talktime: up to 3 hours (3G) or 4 hours (2G)
- Battery standby: up to 250 hours (2G or 3G)
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Average rating from 670 reviews:
Reviewed by Chidera
from Nigeria
on 23rd Nov 2014
My nokia6280 is in silent mode and is requesting for security code while the general profile mode code is not working what should i do please
Reviewed by stephen sang
from UK
on 26th Oct 2011
its an excellent phone, having used it for two years. But I am having problems with the flex cable. as the phone goes off every ten minutes or so! The internal memory is too small for a 3g environment, and worse still is that there are no updates available now.
Reviewed by Luke Collinson
from UK
on 29th Sep 2011
I have just ordered a second hand nokia 6280 and the I have to say it is the best phone you can get. There is a little hack that you can do to the battery that'll make it last longer, you leave it on for 12 hours or more even if it says full charge, because then all the chemicals in side get fully charged! All the features are great including the video calling, I am on GIFFGAFF and there video calling is rediculasly cheep. I recommend this phone to anyone who wants a small little phone that does its job!
Reviewed by Kingsley
from UK
on 12th Aug 2011
My Nokia 6280 is a phone of many capabilities like making video calls and so on.It also has a high graphic range of Java games to choose from { imagine playing a high graphic java game on a screensize as big as 240*320 }. But mine does not have up to 7mb of inbuilt memory(although it uses memory card),but i still love my machine.
Reviewed by sridhar
from UK
on 8th Aug 2011
very incompatible being outdated & old operating system.nokia in its website has not provided any software updatability service.i couldn't find 74MB memory rather only 6.4MB memory.not a good phone worth buying.
Reviewed by Hawk235
from UK
on 25th Jan 2010
Nokia have never let me down, and this phone didnt, brilliant display, brilliant battery life, brilliant conection speed the only fault it had was it was useless on vodaphone, dont diss the phone, diss voda...
Reviewed by doris
from UK
on 23rd Nov 2009
cant receive sms or i cannot read my sms
Reviewed by preeti sharma
from UK
on 10th Oct 2009
it is better then the best. outstanding. i love nokia 6280.
Reviewed by nokia 6280
from UK
on 22nd Aug 2009
i have a nokia it is a outstanding phone
Reviewed by George D
from UK
on 3rd Aug 2009
I have had this phone for four years and i have dropped it a ridiculous amount of times. It also survived when an infuriated stepdad threw it out of the window. Sadly it died this morning :'( It has been mostly on for four years. The camera shut off after two years but the sound quality is very good from the mp3 for the time it came out. I was with three, the best phone company by miles. I loved that phone BAD XD.
Reviewed by lydia
from UK
on 25th Jul 2009
my phone works well except that the camera has never worked since...... I got it as a present 1 1/2 yrs ago, I just love it...... ......TOO COSTLY SINCE ITS NOT VERY RELIABLE...
Reviewed by P
from UK
on 27th Jun 2009
That AL guy doesnt realise that he could just press right on the starting screen to access the calender lol - excellent phone - had issues with random switching off and the case fallng off but has never really failed me.
Reviewed by chelsea chapman
from UK
on 19th Jun 2009
TOTAL MONEY WASTING PHONE have not had any problem with it switching itself off but if you want battery life then no go. somedays it will last upto 10 hours someday only 5 hours thats on standby when using music or long phone calls it lasts an hour before it flashes up battery low. and now after having it only 3 weeks the memory card slot packed in and it has no memory. so now its just a basic phone. could rely on nokia but not anymore worst phone ever. up to this trouble it was a great phone. but i know a few people that have 6280 and nothing but problems and also the 6500 slide is just as bad.
Reviewed by Ofentse
from UK
on 22nd May 2009
Give or take, i think that the nokia 6280 is a kick a** good phone. I love it, thers absolutely nothin i cant do wit it : e-mail, video callin, internet modem. i also think there should've been a music edition too. A short coming i have experienced with this device though is that the screen had stoped lighting up & the covers break easily but, Should ther be an upgrade with Wireless Access Network LAN/ GPS 7 Megapixel camera Music Tracker ID & a 3,5mm headset jack perhaps also dual (sim) network. Id be sure to get one.
Reviewed by Daniel
from UK
on 1st May 2009
Battery drains very fast, please do not buy. after the full charge it was off in 3 hours...then I replaced a new battery, still the problem exists.
Reviewed by ASIIMWE EDSON
from UK
on 16th Mar 2009
Anyway Nokia 6280 is a nice phone with its nice look and a good web brouser.
Reviewed by jd
from UK
on 24th Feb 2009
the memory is good if you have a 2gb memory card in it, and the camera is good but the problems i had with the phone is that if you listened to the music player for to long the phone would semi reboot itself and the silent mode didn't work entirely it went off in class twice and the phone dodged up the memory card so i could only put on less than 170 tracks and the memory card can take over 300 tracks and the battery life is poor but overall it is a nice phone.
Reviewed by sophie
from UK
on 24th Feb 2009
i had this phone. it has never failed me. i am bored with it now after having it nearly a year! now im getting a nokia 5800 xpressmusic, which im very excited about. i would highly reccomend this phone if you want something reliable and practical.
Reviewed by Dave
from UK
on 7th Feb 2009
Very good phone. A little old fashioned but is still very nice and features are excellet. Screen is spectacular. No prolems with it at all. Very please I bought it.
Reviewed by Vicz
from UK
on 25th Jan 2009
i bought this phone from my colleague at work(its a used phone) been working superbly for this few months, satisfied with it for now :D
Reviewed by Jade
from UK
on 18th Nov 2008
thiz fone IZ totally awesome...the camera broke before my first year waz up...and it still functionz and everything...but the screen is totally and completely blank...can't see a thing....it suckz
Reviewed by Amila
from UK
on 14th Nov 2008
IT is good for soft use. does not match for hard warking. But It is good, Have all item that wont to have
Reviewed by muz
from UK
on 9th Nov 2008
an outstanding phone by nokia
Reviewed by donlie
from UK
on 6th Nov 2008
i think dat it is a good phone cause it hve alot of compatabilties with dat connections.its more like a one in every thing phone meaning dat one covers a whole range of gadgets.good phone
Reviewed by A
from UK
on 4th Nov 2008
I have this phone. Nothing to say except that it is a phone and it does what a phone should do.
Reviewed by Tom
from UK
on 3rd Nov 2008
its a useless phone never buy it the camera stuffs up on the first year.
Reviewed by imi
from UK
on 25th Oct 2008
absolutely amazing phone had no problems with it at all and i have had it for a year but not amazingly good looking phone though but works superbly.
Reviewed by r
from UK
on 21st Oct 2008
i've had this phone 4 ages and its great
Reviewed by daniel tokley
from UK
on 13th Oct 2008
the phone is rubbish i have had soo many nokias before this and thought they were on there way up but bitterly dissapointed it hasnt been made very well looks like a budget phone but not for a budget price i would have given this phone no stars but u have to give everything at lease 1 booooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewed by ashley d
from UK
on 11th Oct 2008
i brought it off my mate and as soon as i charged it my phone went into 'test mode' ? so i resolved it by changing the battery, then it worked again but then soon after i tryed to charge it then it would'nt charge how can i resolve this? thanks ashley
Reviewed by Ross
from UK
on 30th Sep 2008
I think that this phone has its faults, (Battery faults etc..) but i really like it, i think the lack of space is annoying but with a memory card in its really, i use it as a MP3, camera and obviously making calls and texts, the little bar that tells you your battery is the only problem i've had where it doesnt tell me the correct amount of power i have left.. but all in i give it a 9/10
Reviewed by hollie
from UK
on 18th Sep 2008
ive had this phone for nearly a year n ive had bad luck with it the cover has cracked 2 day :O n it slides down more than it should it turns off on its own it crashes im not very happy with it i was wen i first had it but now its terrible i had 2 have my teacher keep it in her cupboard for 1 lesson day so the screen would not break anymore
Reviewed by Hassan
from UK
on 28th Aug 2008
I have a 6280 and have had it for a few years and the batter seems to be very weak. Occasionaly the phone shuts down on music player but those are the only faults, all in all it's a good phone but i'm looking for something better.
Reviewed by Vanessa
from UK
on 18th Aug 2008
I have a Nokia 6280 and I love it! I've had it now for 18 months and have used it constantly. I have had the shut down thing only once or twice though and just fairly recently. Memory card is fine, no problem there and to be honest I would recommend it. I can't fault it all. I think really it's luck of the draw and with the reboot thing, it's like any piece of technology, even computers do it without reason! I should know, been working with them for 25 years.
Reviewed by Flo
from UK
on 15th Aug 2008
I have had this phone for over a year now and the phone is ok i gave it 2 stars because it had all the feature a amazing good has but it crashes down now and then. I have sent the phone before for a new one but they said they could only do a repair (it couldnt switch on) and they send my phone back to me saying it was fix and they removed everything on my phone, song ect.
Reviewed by David Stone
from UK
on 4th Aug 2008
I haven't found any problems with my 6280 except the screen display appears a bit dusty at the bottom, but only at times. Proved evry reliable and easy to learn and use.
Reviewed by anonymous
from UK
on 18th Jul 2008
this phone is absolute trash dont buy it
Reviewed by Kingsley Ogbonna from PHC nigeria
from UK
on 29th Jun 2008
Its no doubt a great phone for great people and in terms of durability,its excellent.I have been using it for 4 years and still counting.it has practically everything i want in a phone and even much more and most of all,it is the most dependable slide phone i know ever made by NOKIA. overall, i think the phone deserves the ACE
Reviewed by choudlal gonpatlal haramcore
from UK
on 28th Jun 2008
no good phone i give it gero out of dus bosat ne pet na thari ma
Reviewed by Demus
from UK
on 15th Jun 2008
Real shame cos I love the phone, but I would never recommend it, its the most unreliable phone I have ever owned, screen broke unbeleivably easily on the first, found it in my pocket, but I let that go, fair enough. The second just locked up and has never worked since, completely dead. Swapped screens to get broken one running, and it sayes insert sim - shock!! so for no reason that one packed up too, in its box not doing anything!!
Reviewed by ricky
from UK
on 15th Jun 2008
my phone spoilt the day i bought it. ):
Reviewed by jd
from UK
on 12th Jun 2008
the bluetooth totally failed and when i am listening to music it can only last 20 minites without freezing
Reviewed by AL
from UK
on 11th Jun 2008
I have had this phone for about a year now, and overall, I absolutely hate it! First of all, the internal memory is not very much. I download themes, etc. but I cannot apply them as they consist of 'too much memory'; ergo, my phone cannot look pretty, and stick to the boring Nokia theme. =( Furthermore, the style of the phone is U-G-L-Y! It comes in its black original casing - the size of a brick and very horrid indeed. It looks very old, and not something that I like to carry around. Due to this, I changed the casing to pink and I have another red fascia too. You can get these off eBay if the sight of the horrendous phone really agitates you. After this, the phone just keeps on crashing. I try to open up my memory card, but I just cannot! The phone just freezes, and I have to remove the battery and put it back in again, then start up the phone if I want to get it up and running again. It is not as though my mem. card/internal mem. is too full - there is enough space, hence, why the delinquent crashing? In addition to this, the calender/organiser is of no use. I need to store my important events onto my phone and there are a lot of them too. The calender just feels as though it is hidden away; hidden away into the menus and the submenus. I do not like this, as such basic operations and functions should be easily accessed - especially for a mainstream company like Nokia. Moreover, the phone always asks me for a 'security code'. The correct code is entered - and I am certain, but the stupidity of the phone suggests that it is incorrect. At times, when I seitch on the phone, it asks me this, and because it denies it, I cannot get into the phone! I have to keep restarting it, until eventually it allows me to access the phone without any hassle. Similarly, it also sometimes fails to recognise the sim, and therefore, more hassle! There are some unknown files (e.g. file name 'FOUND.000') that just do not delete. I connect it up to the computer, but when I do, it just comes back and does not delete! This is VERY annoying, as files as such are taking all my precious mem. card space. I do not know where these come from - I do not download anything online and whatnot - and yet, these THINGS are wrecking my phone and this is not what I want. Stupid phone! The camera sucks, and there is no option stating where you can change to use the front camera or the back camera. 2 megapixel, but not very good quality. Also, when you zoom in, it dramatically reduces picture size, and this also happens when pictures are (slightly) editted. On the contrary, it is a good phone for texting and calling. It is very robust and very strong; therefore, 2 stars. If it was not for this, I would not go as far as 1 star! I advise you not to buy this phone if you do not want to waste valuable time and valuable money! =) Hope this helps
Reviewed by imaan
from UK
on 30th May 2008
Nokia 6280 it is good
Reviewed by Abs
from UK
on 29th May 2008
Bad: Unreliable, bad reception, not strong. Good: nice looking, easy navigation. avoid this phone!!
Reviewed by iahmed
from UK
on 20th May 2008
it is a good
Reviewed by Mehmuna
from UK
on 19th May 2008
i've had the nokia 6280 for a year and a half and overall i'd say its not a very good phone at all. highly unreliable! after working fine for a couple of months, it then began to shut down when it felt like it and sometimes not even switch on properly. although the look, the feel and the excellent camera are outstanding, the poor mechanics left much to be desired for. i would not recommend this particular nokia model as there are much better ones out there!
Reviewed by michelle kenney
from UK
on 15th May 2008
I've had this phone for 18 months, and after having it for 3 months several people I spoke said they had to get replacements due to it crashing or breaking down. I've not had any problems with this phone, apart from it sometimes turning itself off (usually during a text). It's pretty sturdy, I've dropped it so many times and it's still ok. The mobile internet is really good. The only thing I didn't really like was the size. It feels rather chunky compared to what I've had in the past. Not a bad wee phone.
Reviewed by p.i.m.p
from UK
on 15th May 2008
a good fone but while i was listening to music it turned off then turned on again the sound is good but the loudspeaker is so so so quiet but the 2mp camera is good
Reviewed by Alex
from UK
on 5th May 2008
This is the worst handphone I think which I had send for repair for a few times already but still got problem. I really don't know it is the handphone problem or maybe the Nokia Engineer got problem. My handphone getting worst and worst which make me feel like want to throw it into rubbish bin...For all your attention : "PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS MODEL" !!! this had make me no confident at all on nokia handphone anymore..I feel like don;t want to buy Nokia handphone anymore..
Reviewed by Mohan
from UK
on 25th Apr 2008
Nokia 6280 Simply Super
Reviewed by Thomas
from UK
on 25th Apr 2008
I have had nothing but problems with my nokia 6280 i looses my signal all the time, it freeze very often and now my camera wont work!
Reviewed by rachael
from UK
on 9th Apr 2008
my dad got this fone and it was AWFUL! he had so many problems with it....including the network. he had fluff under the screen,so it was sent back and fixed, and then there was another problem. in the end he sold it because he hated it. from my point of view its really bad. *****NOT WORTH THE MONEY :( !!!*****
Reviewed by anonymous
from UK
on 7th Apr 2008
This phone is incredible, i have had it since nov 2007 and it hasn't really let me down. It's easy to use and i love the features that came with it. Lately though, i have noticed that it jus shuts down randomly while i am listening to music and i would have to switch it on again. one major thing about this phone is the battery life, i rarely have to charge it! but i am going to buy my first samsung now the U600 and i think it will be a lot better than the phone i have right now. :)
Reviewed by susan
from UK
on 2nd Apr 2008
I have had this phone for a year & it is the best phone i have ever had. Admittedy, there are a couple of minor problems, but they are nothing comapred to the annoying things my other phones have done in the past! the minor problems are that it will sometimes crash (where the screen will suddenly go white) & then come back on, and also the wall peper I put on suddenly disappears for no apparent reason. To me, theses things are unimportant compared to other problems with other phones. When reading mobile phone reviews I am always surprised at the number of people who insult other reviewers and call them things like retards, as it is very telling about that person (namely that they are so unhappy & insecure that trying to put other people down is the only way they can feel better about being them). Everybody knows this, but they still do it! It seems it may ironically be pot calling the kettle black.
Reviewed by Unknown
from UK
on 16th Mar 2008
I have had this phone for nearly a year now and it has never let me down. A good phone and i would say very reliable like all the other nokia phones i have had. I do not understar what other reviews have been saying about the phone switching off and totally failing as no signs of this have occured with me. Compared to other phones on todays market it is a little but too big. The camera is of a very good quality. I would recomend this phone as overall it is great!
Reviewed by charlie
from UK
on 10th Mar 2008
i reccomend you don't. i have no end of problems with mine; camera broke, memory card slot broke, the flash cover snapped off, its locked up 2 of my memory cards it freezes and turns it self off i have it repaired twice, and still most of the problems are still occuring. i recommend you get someone different and steer clear of it.
Reviewed by lee alberts
from UK
on 9th Mar 2008
i have be a nokia user and fan for a few years and have alway loved there easy to use menus but this phone has put me off nokias for life it is forever crashing, loseing info or simply falling apart( one small drop and its in a dozen bits) avoid
Reviewed by Frank
from UK
on 7th Mar 2008
Nice phone to start with although its a bit big and bulky and feels very cheap and plastic. Mine broke after a couple of months. Screen cracked. Two of my friends also had this phone but it broke. If your very kind on your phones its a great phone but if you use it everyday and keep it in your pocket its not for you! I suggest a case.
Reviewed by *****
from UK
on 29th Feb 2008
Reviewed by Laura
from UK
on 24th Feb 2008
Nice looking phone, got this on an 18-month contract. Bit of a plasticky feel, due to changeable covers, and dust easily gathered under the screen. Battery life is OK, though not excellent. 2MP camera is great outdoors, but grainy inside, not very good even with flash. Music player sounds great with the supplied headset, although I do not like the pop-port connection; I'm not a heavy user of the headset, but even so the connection became temperamental, it would partially detach itself from the phone so the music only played in one ear. My main complaint with this phone is that it was returned to Vodafone 4 times with the same fault, before they finally managed to fix it; it would occasionally decide restart itself. It did this once when I had to make an emergency call in an area with low signal, as I had to call my breakdown company; cut off just as they were taking my details. Happened more often when playing music, and I knew someone else who had the same phone, same problem. Too clever for its own good? Despite the problems, I liked this phone, but there are more solid, reliable phones out there; got a 6300 now which is excellent. The 6280 has plenty of customisation options, makes it good to use, and is as user-friendly as pretty much any Nokia.
Reviewed by Sandy
from UK
on 22nd Feb 2008
To be honest i am disappointed with this phone. It does not function properly. Since then i have bought a Sony Ericsson W850i which i would highly recommend.
Reviewed by caroline
from UK
on 21st Feb 2008
I have had my nokia for a year now and it has just started to give me problems ie. not being able to send and receive text messages and geting error in connection when trying to make calls also switching its self off . The good points are : different ringtones for different people and you can add there pic as well. Very easy yo use (that is why i keep buying nokia phones ) I loved my phone for the first year but i think i will have to up grade very soon . If you want this phone just for a year then go for it but would not recomend for the long haul .
Reviewed by han
from UK
on 19th Feb 2008
In the beginning,phone was amazing, all the features were good and camera way better than my old phone. After a few months, it started to freeze, switch off and unable to use some funchions on the phone. this progessivly got worse and in the end i had to exchange. Not a very hard waring phone either. Mine is kept together with sellotape !
Reviewed by saleem
from UK
on 8th Feb 2008
The fone is good but not reliable
Reviewed by Philip Holland
from UK
on 5th Feb 2008
Yes, at first the phone had problems, I put them all down to battery connections. Since giving it a clean up and a little bend it has worked very well. 2 day battery life with bluetooth on. 3 connection also getting better now in Worc/Glos. Don't know whether to keep it or upgrade to an N95.
Reviewed by harry77
from UK
on 1st Feb 2008
i got this phone nokia6280 that was a gift from my brother. i was so happy to see the phone but my exitment only last for few hours. after charging ta battery to fullest, it was only gone in 2 hours just surfing the features of the phone. i got the replacment battery but again the problem was same.
Reviewed by max
from UK
on 31st Jan 2008
excellent phone i love it
Reviewed by Neloy
from UK
on 26th Jan 2008
I have been using a Nokia 6280 which Software version-V 03.81 09-05-06 RM-78 & Product Code is 05 31190. I think its have some optional problem which are as follows:- *The Call log option is not upto mark. *Wnen it is charging mood then no ligft shown or indicate any how. *Call duration shown after ending the call, No durition is available when it is talking mood. *Call Confernce & Call waiting option(Enable but Cant Ans or Received the Incoming Call) is not Upto mark. It'll be my pleasure if I get any response from NOKIA othurity. Thanking You, Neloy firstname.lastname@example.com
Reviewed by Anonymous123
from UK
on 22nd Jan 2008
Excellent phones and great to use however bit annoying as does not support .sis files still recommended there are a few websites to get the.jar files from. great phone
Reviewed by robo
from UK
on 17th Jan 2008
it is the best phone eva it can do anything it is worth 398 pound the features it has got
Reviewed by bobbie
from UK
on 15th Jan 2008
Although the features of this phone are impressive, the realiability is awful. Not many weeks after id bought the phone did it start to black out mid-use, more frequently during phone calls. It has now progressed to a point where it switches itself off altogether, and will randomly freeze from time to time. When i slide the phone down this also causes it to black out or swtich off. Many people who have this phone have complained of the same problems. Generally a good phone and very easy to use. But i would not recommend this phone, its poorly constructed and not very sturdy.
Reviewed by Chris
from UK
on 29th Dec 2007
Absolutely terrible. No-one wants a phone with a mind of its own and this is what the Nokia 6280 seems to possess. Constantly turning itself off, deleting characters from a text before it is even sent, screen suddenly turning black and constantly crashing while on the internet. And its not even a year old. Couple that with the shabby body and dusty screen, and I FIRMLY recommend people steer well clear of this phone! An absolute con. I sure as hell will never purchase a Nokia phone again.
Reviewed by michael
from UK
on 29th Dec 2007
I had the phone 4 two years,but now its really ticking me of,it keeps asking for a restriction code but then comes on and i cant go on planet 3 .
Reviewed by Katy
from UK
on 26th Dec 2007
i got this phone and every time i listended to music, it switched off and said phone restricted and would go back on again.also the battery doesn't last very long.
Reviewed by mark
from UK
on 25th Dec 2007
First off i have to say the phone itself is fantastic, but it is so full of bugs that it is so annoying. first phone i had, the screen just stopped working one day, i got this replaced and now i cant get any wap services. also if your on a game and recieve a text it will vibrate until you turn the phone off. the other things are great though, camera is fantastic, video is sufficiant, navigation is easy. the slide motion does seem to weeken after a while. a friend of mine has the newer moel 6288 and they seem to have ironed out these bugs so i would say that one
Reviewed by Not So.....
from UK
on 10th Dec 2007
well, it has an exelent camera, but pretty average with everything else. To be honest, If you are just buying it for the camera than i would say for you to keep your old phone and buy a digital camera. Besides, the camera is only 2 megapixel so you wouldn't be able to make a very large print. The video quality isn't all that good, nor is the sound. I would look past this one....
Reviewed by Sophie
from UK
on 10th Dec 2007
i think this is a great phone i just got one for christmas and its so easy to use and has lots to offer. since it has blue tooth and an MP# and a great camera its an overall good phone!! GO AND BUY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewed by sehindemi
from UK
on 9th Dec 2007
this phone is the best phone in the world tome but other think is good but to me it is great
Reviewed by Alex
from UK
on 4th Dec 2007
IM STRESSING OVER IT AT THE MINUTE. I try to switch it on and the buttons just light up and the screen just goes a lighter black. HELP PLEASE. I FEEL LIKE SMASHING THE UGLY TRAMP OF A PHONE. I actually love the phone - WHEN ITS WORKING. But at the minute, I'm totally unimpressed. Thanks. Bye.
Reviewed by hegel
from UK
on 3rd Dec 2007
I use 2 change phones every 3-4 months.This one i have 4 two years now,V 03.81 works fine 4 me.If it was just a little bit smaller...But hey,there is no perfect phone.
Reviewed by Mark
from UK
on 2nd Dec 2007
Well,, i Have 2 Say... THIS PHONE SUCKS!!! 1st Of All The Internal Memory Is 6mb + a 64mb miniSD card... I Have to charge it every night now. It Has been in repairs 11 times NO JOKE!! The Screen is actuallly broken Ryt now... DO NOT WASTE UR MONEY ON THIS HEAP OF JUNK!! The Onli Reason I Still Have it is coz i goT it on a contract. I WILL NEVER BUY NOKIA AGAIN!!
Reviewed by mini me
from UK
on 30th Nov 2007
it is a quite good phone. however, it is quite big in size. the camera is brilliant and has an okay sound quality. it is quite heavy! i did not have any probz with it turning off! i just wish that is is not so... chunky. there is not much memory in the fone alone but fank god i have a memory card. :P
Reviewed by Jacqui Beardsley
from UK
on 29th Nov 2007
I run a business that uses two 6280's. I'm fed up of them not working properly for all the reasons stated in the text here. Most frustrating is when it shuts off and doesn't even tell you it's done it! I will be switching to another make at the next available opportunity.
Reviewed by Modbury Runner
from UK
on 26th Nov 2007
Useless useless useless - phone turns itself off several times a day, need to charge it almost all day, every day, and 3 have been completely useless - AVOID THIS PHONE!
Reviewed by coolboyz
from UK
on 26th Nov 2007
nokia 6280 is the best phone in the world!don't know what you lot are whinging about?bought it in april , so far had no problems with it. once again nokia has won the world cup in making phones!!!!!!
Reviewed by marinelxp2
from UK
on 25th Nov 2007
no 1 this one phone
Reviewed by matt gerry
from UK
on 20th Nov 2007
everyone said this phone was rubbish until a freind gave me his old one and it was quiet good exept the battery was shot and the dust under the screen i would not memory card has small space but is good all the same sliding up is a bit stiff but the buttons are supprissingly soft and easy to use as is diferent to my new motorola e1070 which is a lot better than this and i think im gunna give this a 4 but 3 is very close definetly not worth a 5 or 2
Reviewed by Dave Thailand
from UK
on 18th Nov 2007
Have read your report on the Nokia 6280 and the various reviews and you have all failed to mention the most important aspect of this phone you cannot UNLOCK it!!!!!
Reviewed by bad phone
from UK
on 18th Nov 2007
this is the worst phone EVER. don't ever buy this phone!! i have sent it back to my useless network 5 times and still have not received a replacement even tho it keeps breaking, it has broken my charger twice of which both times i had to pay to replace! now it has starting freezing again (same as previous problems) and switching off. cant make phone calls, or send texts. what is the purpose of this phone?! it doesnt even look good, and falls apart. i too chunky, rubbish camera, rubbish image viewer, rubbish phone speed, basically its rubbish, don't buy it!!!!!! EVER!!!!!!
Reviewed by nigel daw
from UK
on 18th Nov 2007
the phone is great but the screen is so sensertive and cracks . another problem is you loose the signal to often ,makes it difficult talk for any lenght of time
Reviewed by ABDUL REHMAN
from UK
on 16th Nov 2007
Reviewed by anonymous
from UK
on 16th Nov 2007
Reviewed by Mr Hames
from UK
on 15th Nov 2007
For the first few days you will think you have got the best phone ever. I had the double bad luck of getting a '3' contract also. The phone randomly crashes, i can't count how many times it has dropped calls, won't dial or have my mates leaving me voice mails when it's switched on because they can't get through. On MANY occasions it will turn off and not turn back on for ages, oh yeah and it fell apart after 6 months also. On the flip The Camera is great for photos, videos and music and with a 2GB card you can use it for all of this and not worry about space or getting media to and from your PC. But the fact is it should be able to use it as a phone in the first instance!
Reviewed by v3nom
from UK
on 13th Nov 2007
hi ive had the 6280 for a while and i hate it, it has a very low battery life and i find the slide stiff and the buttons are too small but doable. but it has a lovely camera and takes clear pictures and videos. The nokia 6280 is a handy phone but has a few miner problems with that small piece of technology.
Reviewed by Emman
from UK
on 8th Nov 2007
Reviewed by Patrick Marsden
from UK
on 6th Nov 2007
This phone can be very good and quick at times, but for example when i get more than 800 txt messages in my inbox it slows right down to a stop. I think that the fact you cant install software like TOMTOM is a bit on the rubbish side also. I know its only java enabled instead of a symbian OS, i think this was a bad move on Nokias part. Symbian rules an java does balso but not as an OS
Reviewed by Lizzie
from UK
on 5th Nov 2007
I had this phone for about a week, fell down the toilet..left it to dry for a night.. worked perfectly!! then a day later i couldnt text or answer my phnoe to anyone the top buttons didnt work! i now have to have a disgusting Nokia 3650!! might be getting Sony ericsson w810i tho!! but this phnoe is really gooood! get it
Reviewed by James
from UK
on 3rd Nov 2007
broken .. back spring and the slide mechanism snaped, scratched the ribbon cable that gives info to the screen .. good fone until this happened .. and it used 2 turn off by itself
Reviewed by www.katebabe101.piczo.co.uk
from UK
on 3rd Nov 2007
oh my god you should definately choose this phone it is incredible and has all the stuff you could wish for it is the best !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy it xxx kate xxx


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Allergan touts reorg, plans to lay off 13% of workforce
Allergan's second-quarter earnings and a new round of announced cuts are now part of the the Botox maker's record as it seeks to remain independent of Valeant, which has made several uninvited attempts to scoop up the company.
Allergan's sales were up 15.9% for the quarter ended June 30 compared to the same period last year, to $1.8 billion in sales, with specialty medications sales rising 31.2% and medical device sales rising 25.1%.
CEO David Pyott told investors Monday this was the "strongest increase in absolute dollar sales in any quarter in our history." He also announced a plan to overhaul the company's workforce and that the effort would push earnings-per-share to $10 in 2016. It would also add an additional $475 million in savings by 2015. The company announced a reorganization earlier this year, but this latest plan includes shrinking the sales force by 6%, to 3,750, from 4,000 and cutting R&D by 33%, to 1,450 from 2,150. The overall crunch would mean 13% fewer Allergan employees and three site closures. Allergan hinted at layoffs last week.
Allergan is also getting heat for comments it made questioning Valeant's earnings claims for its Bausch and Lomb products. Pyott said his firm "was impressed" by Bausch and Lomb sales figures he called "eye-popping" and said he was looking forward to third-quarter numbers which will help clarify if the reported growth were a trend. He also urged investors to query Valeant about what is behind its figures.
Valeant has filed notices with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canada's equivalent, the Autorite de marches financiers, over Friday remarks by Allergan about its Bausch and Lomb sales, calling them "stagnant or declining," whereas Valeant says B&L second-quarter sales were 6% higher than during the same period last year. Valeant called Allergan's remarks an "apparent attempt to mislead investors and manipulate the market."
Although Allergan is resisting Valeant, the takeover does have supporters, including hedge fund Pershing Square, and, indirectly, Capital Research and Management Co. The Wall Street Journal reports that Capital Research—Allergan's largest shareholder—has sold most of its stock. Sources tell the Journal this move indicates that the firm "didn't see Allergan's shares heading much higher than Valeant's offer."
Pyott noted Monday that Allergan is not standing still and has stepped up its search for a merger/takeover target, which he says investors have told Allergan they want. He said this could "mean taking over or merging with a big company or a small one as long as it "offers the right level of accretion."
Pyott also noted Allergan would most likely pursue a specialty company takeover, because "that's our fit."
He also gave investors a recap of recent history, saying, "in my 16 years we have never disappointed you in any one single quarter. The only time we ever reduced our outlook during the year was 2009, and that was the year of the Great Recession."

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The British champion is not of the sort of scale you imagine for a horseman. Most jockeys would scarcely reach his waist. Frankly, he is so tall a Lions second row would look up to him.
And as he marches round Badminton, his giant stride the equal of Usain Bolt, he leaves a flotilla of some 50 of his fans panting in his wash.
Fox-Pitt does this every year. He takes a troupe of members of the Fox-Pitt Eventing Club round with him, pointing out the pitfalls and the pratfalls of the fences, telling them that if you land in the bottom of that ditch there, then, to be honest, there is no way you're going to get to the top of the next hill still in the saddle.
The walk is the equivalent of AP McCoy taking punters round the Cheltenham course, or Lewis Hamilton driving a minibus full of petrol heads round Silverstone.
It is the sort of privilege that makes the Fox-Pitt crew feel special. They are a collective that few other riders on the circuit gather. Something about the elegance of their hero's stance in the saddle, they will tell you. Plus his easy charm, the twinkle of his eye. Not that many can see that high up.
According to a Fox-Pitt fan called Carol, who has been coming on these walks ever since he first instituted them some eight years ago, doing the preparatory preamble with him means she will be able to watch the riders tackle the cross country on Sunday with a real insight.
"If someone approaches a fence differently from how he said it should be done, I'm going 'that's not how William said it should be done'," she says.
And who does she want to win?
"Well, William, definitely," she says, as if the question is the most stupid ever uttered.
This year there is an extra spring in Fox-Pitt's step on the course walk. As he acquaints himself with the jumps and studies the approaches, he knows there is more than prestige at stake. Over the weekend he will be riding for the Rolex Grand Slam, the treble of Kentucky, Burleigh and Badminton. A handy £240,000 prize is on offer to any rider who holds all three titles at once.
"It's the money," says Fox-Pitt as he power walks past the lake jump, Carol doing her best to match his stride. "That's what's got everyone talking. You know if you win Badminton alone it's £60,000 which isn't really a talking point. But the Grand Slam, that's real money, that's what's got everyone talking."
And by a quirk unlikely ever to be repeated, Fox-Pitt is not the only rider in with a chance of completing the Slam this year. New Zealander Andrew Nicholson, currently the No 1 rider in the world to Fox-Pitt's No 2, could also snaffle Rolex's fortune if he wins here.
If it might appear impossible for both riders to be in with a chance of holding all three titles simultaneously, we need to factor in the British climate.
Fox-Pitt won Burleigh in 2011 and Kentucky in 2012 and was on his way to attempt the slam when last summer's wash out of Badminton put his chances on hold. However, he was allowed to carry over his unbeaten run to this season. Meanwhile, Nicholson won at Burleigh in 2012 and Kentucky last week. So he too is primed for a run at the big prize.
And just to add further spice to their little dispute, there is a small personal issue between the two. Nicholson ran off with Fox-Pitt's first wife Candida, universally known – this after all, is the horsey world – as Wiggy. This is a competition that matters.
Not that Fox-Pitt sees it like that. He is happily married these days to the racing presenter Alice Plunkett, who mother hens the fans at the start of the walk, keeping up spirits until her husband arrives, ignoring Nicholson as he starts a course walk of his own just ahead of the Fox-Pitt mob. Though it should be noted that the New Zealander does his walk unaccompanied by any fans.
For Fox-Pitt, however, the Slam is not a case of besting a rival. The injury of his wife's defection is now, he says, something from pre-history. Rather he wishes to grasp the opportunity to make history.
"With the cancellation, it's added to the whole thing," he says. "There was a bit of disappointment I couldn't go for it last year. But on the other hand, it's given me a year to prepare my horses for it and gear up mentally."
It could not be a tougher year to do it. With no Olympics and no World Championships, Badminton is the season's big event. "It's not good timing in that sense," he admits. "Everyone's riding their best horses, no one's saving themselves for anything else. They're here to win Badminton. The competition here is extraordinary."
Yet, as he marches round the course, envisaging how the next time he is out here it will be atop his horse Oslo – owned by members of the Fox-Pitt Eventing Club – he exudes optimism for his chances.
"I'm feeling good, I've ridden round here in much worse shape. My horses are in good shape too. If I'm honest I'd rather the conditions were much worse than this, but otherwise I can't complain." But what, one of his admirers wanted to know, if it doesn't happen? What if Nicholson snaffles the slam?
"One of those things," he says, matter of fact. "I'll just have to do it next year."
The $350,000 (£225,000) Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing is the sport's richest prize offered to any rider who can win Kentucky, Badminton and Burghley in a 12-month period. Only Pippa Funnell has achieved this, in 2003. William Fox-Pitt was due to go for it at Badminton 2012, having won Burghley 2011 and Kentucky in the April of last year, both with Parklane Hawk. When Badminton was rained off, Rolex decided to roll over his options till Badminton 2013. Andrew Nicholson won Burghley 2011 and Kentucky last week, so he is also in contention.
Australians Christopher Burton and Sam Griffiths eased ahead of Fox-Pitt (Oslo), Nicholson (Avebury) and Olympic champion Michael Jung on the first day of dressage on Friday. Fox-Pitt and Nicholson were relegated to third and joint fourth, with Jung, making his first bid for the Mitsubishi Trophy, sixth on Leopin.
Even though Fox-Pitt, Nicholson and Jung compete their better dressage- scoring horses on Saturday Burton could still be dangerous on Sunday's cross-country off a mark of 43, his mare Holstein Park Leilani having beaten the optimum time from pole position at London 2012.
While Grand Slam prospects are "a dream" for Nicholson, 51, he is as much focussed on winning Badminton in itself after 31 completions and deemed the cross-country course "tough enough, with some serious jumping right to the very end from the Lake onwards."


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Listening Post: McCrary Sisters, Shuggie Otis, Lara Downes
The McCrary Sisters, "All the Way" (McCrary Sisters). Their father, the Rev. Sam McCrary, had a famous a cappella gospel quartet in their native Nashville. Their childhoods were as saturated with music as those of Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. The difference with Ann, Regina, Deborah and Alfreda McCrary is that the group they've formed together is as close to a gospel version of the Pointer Sisters in the year 2013 as you'll ever hear. To coin a phrase about that combination, yes they can can. This is a terrific disc by four singers who have all made solo discs and accompanied the likes of Stevie Wonder but have never made the impact they're likely to make together. If you're going to try to pin down exactly what musical category it fits into, you're going to be in a lot of trouble. It's soul music, gospel music, R&B – all of them almost equilaterally and all as conspicuously as possible. What they're doing on their second disc as a group, says Ann, is bringing "joy to somebody's sadness" which would, no doubt, sound rough-hewn and even primitive to anyone expecting more elaborate self-justification, but when you actually hear the disc, seems to fit its thrust rather perfectly. The title of the disc, by the way, is from the Ann McCrary original that ends the disc and not the famous Sinatra smash hit of the '50s first introduced in the Sinatra movie "The Joker is Wild." Three stars and a half stars (Jeff Simon)
Shuggie Otis, "Inspiration Information/Wings of Love" (Epic/Legacy). One worries about child prodigies. Time routinely fails to treat them well. So many who burn so bright so young run out of room to grow, or else find themselves up to their necks in a music business that has very little to do with music itself, and run screaming for the relative comforts of obscurity. Shuggie Otis was barely a teenager when he began performing regularly with his father, R&B legend Johnny Otis. He was 16 when Frank Zappa picked him to play on his "Hot Rats" album. By 21, he was simultaneously releasing his third solo album, the brilliant, genre-busting "Inspiration Information," and getting ready to disappear from public view. He'd written, recorded, produced and performed virtually every note of the album's music himself, most of it while a mere 18 years old. The record earned massive respect from musician peers, but didn't really sell, despite the fact that Otis was clearly an artist reaching toward the heady air of Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder's best work. "Inspiration Information" became a cult classic over the years, but here, it finally gets its fully remastered, amended due – with four strong b-sides added to the original album, and a second disc, "Wings of Love," comprised of songs recorded by Otis between 1975 and 2000. Anyone who cares about classic R&B, funk and soul needs to own this. Failure to do so should not be considered an option. Four stars (Jeff Miers)
Uri Gurvich, "BabEl" (Tzadik). The sound of the group is anything but the chaotic omnilingual incoherence of Babel. In fact, this is an unusually artful version of a fusion that has become increasingly common in jazz of the past 15 years i.e. jazz combined with Middle Eastern music. On this second disc for John Zorn's inimitable Tzadik label, Israeli-born alto saxophonist and composer Uri Gurvich plays with his usual quartet (including superb young drummer Francisco Mela) and Moroccan Oud master Brahim Fribgane on three tunes. What has become obvious in the last decade of jazz is that the import to America (usually Brooklyn, eventually) of musicians from all over the Middle East and Latin America has resulted in a post-Coltrane fusion of musical influences that would have seemed almost absurd a half century ago, but which couldn't possibly sound more natural and organic than it does on discs like this. Gurvich doesn't quite have the hair-raising icy virtuosity of the great Indian jazz master Rudresh Mahanthappa, but he's a first-rate alto saxophonist and his group is fine in every way. Leo Genovese is his pianist and Peter Slavov is his bass player. Three stars (J.S.)
Han Bennink and Uri Caine, "Sonic Boom" (816 Music). The great Dutch drummer Han Bennink was just presented with a birthday cake in Buffalo when his ICP orchestra played a gig in the extraordinary series of avant-garde jazz events we've become so used to at Hallwalls. What you have here is a wild, free and exhilaratingly unpredictable piano/percussion duet with Bennink and pianist Uri Caine. It's a live performance set from Amsterdam in 2011 and, according to Caine's own apportionment "there's some pretty straight ahead music in there, there's other stuff that's pretty free, and a lot of it is morphing from one into the other. A lot of the pieces start out in one place, then move into another realm and develop into different areas. That can be risky and it doesn't always work out, but it's a fun way to play because you have to think on a second-to-second level." Which is the way you have to listen too (Caine's self-appraisal – including his confession that "it doesn't always work out."). The only "standard" here is Monk's "Round Midnight," which is exploded, atomized and played in a way you've never heard before. You may not want to hear it again this way either but it IS fun to hear it once. Three stars (J.S.)
Lara Downes, "Exile's Cafe" (Steinway and Sons). Pianist Lara Downes will be coming to Buffalo to play some of this repertoire May 7 and 8 at Denton, Cottier and Daniels. She says she got the idea for the disc from a composition called "Tango from the Exile's Cafe" by former UB Creative Associate Michael Sahl. "I began to fantasize about this cafe as a place both real and metaphorical where individuals gather from all over the world to find a home away from home. It is filled with dream-chasers: travelers, nomads, explorers, gypsies and vagabonds as well as refugees thrust on journeys undesired." The resultant repertoire makes for a burstingly unusual and indeed singular piano recital of miniatures – Hungarian folk songs from Bartok, Preludes by Rachmaninov and Paul Bowles, who is much better-known as the author of "The Sheltering Sky," Chopin Mazurkas, a "Pastoral Sonatina" by Prokofiev, Dumkas by Martinu, a Korngold Sonata, a Stravinsky Tango, a tribute to Africa by William Grant Still and, would you believe, an arrangement of Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars." And yes, the original Michael Sahl piece that inspired this peregrination among the musically stateless is also here. The playing is more than adequate but the repertoire makes the disc a brilliant adventure. Three stars.(J.S.)


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The term "EMV" and "chip card" are interchangeable.
EMV has been widely used in Europe for many years, and the U.S. card issuers are now taking steps to make EMV the standard payment application for enhanced card security. The adoption of EMV will require financial institutions, payment networks, card issuers, payment processors, and businesses to make substantial changes to card issuing, transaction authorization and related processes as well as point-of-sale and/or ATM equipment.
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A chip terminal is a point-of-sale (POS) device or ATM that is able to process chip transactions. Instead of swiping your card, you insert it in a chip terminal and leave it in the terminal until the transaction is complete. If a merchant does not have a chip terminal or if their chip terminal is not yet activated, transactions will be processed by swiping the card's magnetic stripe, just as they are processed today.
Chip cards are in use throughout Europe and in most of the Middle East, Asia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Africa.
October 2015 marked the official migration to chip cards for the United States. However, the migration effort is still in process. Issuers have been quicker to move to chip cards than merchants have been able to transition their point-of-sale devices. According to The Strawhecker Group*, a management consulting company focused on the electronic payments industry, only 37 percent of merchants were capable of processing chip card payments in January 2016. They project that the United States could reach a critical threshold of 90 percent merchant adoption in late 2017 or later.
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A chip card is available now for commercial, credit and debit cards. If you have an existing magnetic strip only debit card, that debit card is scheduled to be replaced with a chip card by the end of 2016.
We are issuing chip cards for new cardholders, expired cards, lost/stolen cards and replacement cards. We have replaced magnetic stripe only cards with chip cards for all commercial and credit card customers. We are in the process of replacing cards for our existing debit cardholders.
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You can verify and update your information by logging in to Online Banking and selecting Services>My Preferences>Address/Email Preferences from the top navigation menu. If you are not enrolled in online banking, please call the number on the back of your card or visit one of our branches.
At this time we do not plan to charge customers for a chip card. If you request expedited replacement of your current card, we may charge a fee for faster delivery.
Yes, subject to our fraud monitoring and ATM limits, you may continue to use your magnetic stripe card outside the U.S. Please notify us in advance of traveling abroad to better ensure your legitimate foreign transactions are not declined. Magnetic stripe-only cards are still accepted outside the U.S. though some "unattended" kiosks (parking meters, gas station pumps) may take only chip cards. For foreign travel, we recommend that you consider having another method of payment available just in case.
We take card security very seriously and have sophisticated fraud detection services in place:
Both "chip and signature" and "chip and PIN" refer to the way a card is authenticated at the terminal. Your card will be authenticated using chip and signature. Chip and signature offers the same cryptographic security as chip and PIN.
While most of the banks in Europe chose chip and PIN authentication, the US market has leaned toward chip and signature in an effort to ease transition by maintaining the current experience of signing receipts. We expect our customers will also appreciate not having to remember a separate PIN in order to complete their transaction. The terminal should recognize that the card is chip and signature and won't prompt for a PIN, even if it's used in Europe.
No. Currently, we do not plan to issue contactless chip cards. Chip cards will need to be inserted in to a chip terminal.
If you have a contactless card, that feature will end when your card is replaced by a chip card.
If prompted by the chip terminal to do so, you will be required to sign for credit card purchases. Some merchants, however, do not have customer's sign their receipt if the sale is below a certain amount.
For debit cards, you have the choice of signing or using your PIN if the merchant's terminal supports PIN entry.
For credit cards, your existing PIN can be used for ATM-based transactions only. For debit cards, you can continue to use your regular PIN at chip terminals that support PIN entry.
Yes. At ATMs that are not chip-enabled, the transaction will be processed using your card's magnetic stripe technology in combination with your PIN. At ATMs equipped with chip readers, the transaction will be processed using the chip technology in combination with your PIN.
Your card account number, benefits, terms and conditions of your account remain in effect. You will receive a new expiration date when you are issued your chip card.
Each merchant is responsible for setting-up their terminal. This includes the customer interface design and how a transaction is processed.
Customers may see different terms now being used on screen prompts. Some merchants have used off-the-shelf terminals that come with displays that say "Visa Debit" or "US Debit" as options. Other merchants have customized their prompts and may follow more traditional terms like displaying "credit" and "debt".
Merchants are required by Visa rules to allow a customer to authorize a payment by both a signature and PIN. If a merchant only allows PIN or only allows signature, they have set-up their terminal outside the network rules. The networks are working with identified merchants to solve this set-up issue. To be prepared in case you encounter a merchant with a terminal outside network rules, make sure you have your PIN. You can visit a branch or call the number on the back of your card to have one mailed to you. If a merchant terminal will not process a debit card using a PIN, request the merchant to process the transaction as credit. Depending upon the merchant set-up, this may allow the debit card to process with a signature.
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Some top-rated brands of cookware made in the United States are All-Clad and some lines of Calphalon. USA Pan Cookware is also solely made in the USA.Continue Reading
All-Clad is one of the most popular cookware manufacturers in the United States. It is the only bonded cookware manufacturer that utilizes American-made steel and employs American artisans to handcraft every single piece of All-Clad cookware. The all-American manufacturer of bakeware and cookware utensils produces quality products from its headquarters in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. All-Clad cookware is available at retail stores and on All-Clad's online store.
Calphalon cookware used to be made solely in Toledo, Ohio, until Newell-Rubbermaid bought the Calphalon Corporation in 1998. While most of the Calphalon collections are now made in China, Calphalon Unison nonstick cookware continues to be manufactured in the United States. Calphalon Elite is another line of cookware developed and manufactured in the U.S. through the collaboration between Calphalon and Williams-Sonoma. It is best to purchase a Calphalon cookware from a brick-and-mortar store to ensure that the cookware is made in the USA.
USA Pan Cookware manufactures cookware and bakeware in its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is not as popular as Calphalon or All-Clad, but it claims to offer the same superior quality as other commercial brands. USA Pan cookware and bakeware are available online and in retail stores.Learn more about Cookware & Kitchen Tools


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Are you losing customers because your employees lack "emotional intelligence"? Are your employees too aggressive, hurting your brand, or driving down your customer volume?
According to Psychology today, Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your emotions and respond well to other's emotions.
It is said to include three skills: emotional awareness; the ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes regulating your emotions and cheering up or calming down others.
Emotional intelligence is said to begin in the spine. From the spine, up to the limbic system (the emotional part of our brain) and then to the rational part of our brain.
"The communication between your emotional and rational "brains" is the physical source of emotional intelligence. The pathway for emotional intelligence starts in the brain, at the spinal cord. Your primary senses enter here and must travel to the front of your brain before you can think rationally about your experience. However, first they travel through the limbic system, the place where emotions are generated. So, we have an emotional reaction to events before our rational mind is able to engage. Emotional intelligence requires effective communication between the rational and emotional centers of the brain."
Learned Behavior
Emotional intelligence can be learned. Once learned, over time the behavior will cause neuron connections that lend itself to habitual behavior.
No doubt employees may join an organization with plenty of emotional intelligence, but over the span of time, with failed policies and decreased morale, employees can completely abandon their emotional intelligence for the need to say or do whatever they please. Rationalizing their behavior as deserved, by the organization. The limbic part of their brain appears to incite an emotion, and rational does not meet it with a positive response.
When employees reach this state of mind while working in an organization, more than likely, it won't be long before the change takes place with that employee (for better or worst).
The bottom-line
Either some change will take place and cause the employee to alter their behavior and learn socially appropriate behavior (this is not always the emotional response from the employee). Or the rage from their emotions can override their rational and what the customer experiences are nothing close to pleasant. Unfortunately, this can be at the expense of the customer. Many incidents like this have taken place with organizations and have been splattered all over the news.
So the question that now stands is how do companies identify these demoralized employees who are sowing these "death seeds" to the organization. Perhaps there's a way of revitalizing them instead of throwing them back into the rat race, jaded (just to be recycled as another disgruntled ex-employee).
Bradberry, T. (2014). Emotional Intelligence – EQ. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/01/09/emotional-intelligence/#2527abe71ac0
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On this episode of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, I spoke to John Corbett.
John has been a maths teacher for 11 years, and is better known the world over as the man behind the ridiculously incredible Corbett Maths – the home of hundreds of free videos, practice questions, textbook exercises, revision materials and more.
In a wide ranging, interview we covered the following things and more:
- How does John introduce pi via the medium of a baguette?
- How does John prepare and deliver a lesson using the Flipped Learning approach? Now, I feel Flipped Learning is a concept that does not get discussed all that often these days, and it is absolutely fascinating hearing John talk about the planning process, the logistics, the technology, what happens before the lesson, what happens in the lesson, what John perceives as the numerous benefits to Flipped Learning, and what advice John has for teachers wanting to try this out.
- John tells us about his amazing 5-a-days, where the idea came from, and how exactly he uses them with all his classes
- We delve deep into why John started recording videos, how Corbett Maths has grown, and he describes exactly how much work goes into preparing and recording a video – and it is quite a surprise, I can tell you!
- How has creating videos made John a better teacher, and why he would advise every teacher to record a video?
- John explains about his Practice Questions and Textbook Exercises, and how he manages to write so many original questions
- We talk about John's GCSE Revision Cards, and after you have heard how much work John does, and how good these are, you will be ordering them up
- And just before he talks about his Big 3, John describes what he he wishes he had known when he started teaching
Now, this is yet another epic interview, and unless you are stuck in some serious traffic you might need to digest it in a couple of sittings. But I am so happy that people are seeing these interviews as really useful CPD. I know I am learning so much myself from my guests, and I hope you are too.
As ever, just a reminder to check out the most recent developments of Diagnostic Questions – including our lovely GCSE Maths Collections for Edexcel, AQA and OCR, and our student mobile app – and over at Mr Barton Maths, where I have updated my Topic Page to make it even easier to find rich tasks, worksheets, complete lessons, interactive resources and probing questions for every single maths topic, and my popular GCSE Maths Takeway page for the new specification.
John's website (as if you didn't know) is corbettmaths.com
On Twitter John is @CorbettMaths
You can find out more about John's amazing GCSE Maths Revision Cards by watching this video
The the website/app John uses to collect student notes prior to his lesson is showbie.com
The construction website that John mention is mathopenref.com
Click to download the (amazing) Pirate Game, and the festive spin-off The Reindeer Game
John Corbett's Big 3
1. Resourceaholic
2. Mrbartonmaths (I am going to go bankrupt if I keep having to pay guests to mention my site)
3. Twitter
Thanks so much for listening, and I really hope you enjoy the show!
Craig Barton
I am a maths teacher, currently teaching at Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton, UK. Here are links to some of my work:
Mr Barton Maths Blog
Twitter: @mrbartonmaths
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Mr Barton Maths Podcast
Just the Job Podcast
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The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
The pain remains. It changes and morphs into anger and sadness but sometimes also joy. Joy to know that I had you once. Joy to know that I was your favourite. Joy to know I am your mimi and nothing can change that. Joy to have known you. Thank you for making me your mom 9 years ago. I miss you.
Happy 9th Birthday my Phoenix 💜 #happybirthdaymydarling #missingphoenix #loveforphoenix


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I have read the related questions to this Lint warning about the suspicious truncation, but here it is a purely C case.
The following line is where the
Warning #647
pCont->sig -= (signed int64_t)((sub2 << 8)/pCont->freq + 1);
signed int64_t
From this reference about the warning
For example:
(long) (n << 8)
might elicit this message if n is unsigned int, whereas
(long) n << 8
would not. In the first case, the shift is done at int precision and the high order 8 bits are lost even though there is a subsequent conversion to a type that might hold all the bits. In the second case, the shifted bits are retained.
This seems to fit your case exactly and also show you how to fix it.


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2016 Project Goal: Retrofit our Parish School of Religion
Help to Retrofit our Parish School of Religion! We are looking at cost estimates of $70K+ to install needed air conditioning in all of our Parish School of Religion classrooms, as well as to replace the worn out flooring. Right now, our students get very warm during the spring and fall months, when we currently rely on ceiling fans only. When we host our homeless families through Family Promise of Greater Modesto, they too must endure our uncomfortably warm classrooms when they are converted into bedrooms. We know that with your support and prayers this year, we can meet this need, as we Shine Mercy on God's Children!
I cannot attend, but I want to donate, or just want to donate to the cause.
You can help keep our children cool and comfortable when they are in catechism classes at St. Joseph's.
Your tickets, donations and auction items for this year's Gala on November 5 will raise funds to install central
air conditioning and heating!
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Event 11/5/2016
Join us for St. Joseph's Annual Parish Gala Dinner and Auction with gourmet food and wine, silent and live auctions with dancing and after dinner cordials and chocolate. A special evening you won't want to miss. Proceeds go towards retrofitting and air conditioning our Parish School of Religion.
For table sponsor and ticket information, or to advertise your business, call (209) 551-4973, ext. 207
For table sponsor and ticket information, or to advertise your business, call (209) 551-4973, ext. 207


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September 6, 2010
Harland & Wolff wins order for offshore wind farm platforms
Siemens has awarded Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the design and build contract for two offshore substation platforms for the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm off the coast of North Wales. The substations will be completed by June 2012.
H&W, with long experience in offshore and marine projects for the oil, gas and shipbuilding industries, has designed the platform using stiffened panels typical of shipbuilding and offshore structures. This approach offers cost and weight savings, increased watertight integrity, structural flexibility and opens opportunities for floating, self-installing projects in the future.
Harland & Wolff CEO Robert J Cooper said the award "clearly demonstrates our continuing development as part of the UK supply chain for marine renewable energy. Our project goals are to make the design and build process frictionless for Siemens and to ultimately provide the operator, RWE Innogy, with a robust and durable offshore platform, built safely, on time and to budget."
The Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm is a 576 MW, 160 turbine UK Round 2 wind farm being developed by a consortium of RWE Innogy, SWM - Municipal Utility Munich, Germany and Siemens 13 km off the coast of North Wales. Siemens will supply the wind turbines which will be connected via 33 kV array cables to two new offshore substations.
Siemens' equipment on the H&W built platforms will transform the power from 33kV up to 132kV for transmission back to a new onshore substation at St Asaph also to be built by Siemens.
John Willcock, director of Major Projects for Siemens Transmission and Distribution Ltd. Says: "Siemens is delighted to make this award to Harland and Wolff. This is a key project for Siemens, as one of the largest of its type ever developed. The H&W team impressed us by their approach to the project and understanding of our requirement. This is a new relationship for both companies and one that could be fruitful in the future. It is great also to be able to support a UK-based firm."
Trevor McCormick, H&W Project Manager will have responsibility for the project in Belfast. He says: "This is a substantial project that will be the focus of our attention over the next two years. The project was secured due to a number of factors including the commitment demonstrated by all areas of the company during the tendering phase; we fully intend carrying this enthusiasm and dedication through to completion."


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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—South African police investigating Oscar Pistorius for murder pulled their lead detective off the "Blade Runner" athlete's case on Thursday after it emerged he himself faces attempted murder charges for shooting at a minibus.
Battling embarrassment in the glare of a global media spotlight, they named the nation's most senior detective to take over, as preliminary hearings to decide whether the Olympic and Paralympic star can go free on bail were adjourned until Friday.
Hilton Botha, the initial lead investigator had already faced a torrid time over his evidence from defence counsel this week, and police commissioner Riah Phiyega said he might become distracted by the charges relating to the bus shooting in 2011.
"From this point forward, I will take over," Lieutenant General Vinesh Moonoo told Reuters. A 32-year veteran of the force, he added: "It will not affect the court proceedings."
Charges against Warrant Office Botha over the taxi minibus shooting had been dropped but the National Prosecuting Authority told Reuters they were reinstated on Feb. 4 - 10 days before Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkampin his Pretoria home.
"The decision to reinstate was taken on Feb. 4, way before the issue of Pistorius came to light or the murder of Reeva was committed," NPA spokesman Medupe Simasiku told Reuters. "It's completely unrelated to this trial."
It is not clear whether the dismissal of Botha would affect the athlete's chances of securing release from custody pending his trial. After a fourth day of bail hearings , the judge said the court would sit again on the matter on Friday.
At the time of the shooting in 2011, Botha was chasing a man accused of murdering a woman and disposing of her dismembered body down a drain, local media said.
Pistorius, who was born without bones in his lower legs and runs on carbon-fibre racing blades, faces life in prison if convicted of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day. He denies murder and his lawyers say he opened fire with a pistol at what he thought was a burglar.
Sportswear giant Nike froze its endorsement contract with Pistorius on Thursday saying the athlete should be "afforded due process".
Other companies with sponsorship deals, including British telecoms firm BT, U.S. sunglasses maker Oakley and French designer Thierry Mugler, have declined to comment on their contracts while the bail hearing is continuing.
The revelations about Botha capped a troubling 24 hours for South Africa's prosecution service.
Under cross-examination at the hearing on Wednesday, the detective was accused of contaminating the crime scene in Pistorius's house and backtracked on details like the distance of witnesses from the home when they heard shouts and shots.
Grilled by lead defence counsel Barry Roux, he also had to concede that Pistorius's version of events - that he fired into the toilet door in a blind panic thinking an intruder was lurking behind it - was plausible.
"The poor quality of evidence presented by the chief investigating officer exposed disastrous shortcomings in the state's case." Roux said in arguing for Pistorius's release.
The 26-year-old runner denies murder and was more composed in court after repeatedly breaking down in previous hearings.
His uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said his nephew was eating again after consuming nothing for six days and had spent much of his time in police custody reading the Bible.
A trial is likely to take many months to prepare, and even if he is acquitted, Pistorius faces a huge challenge to rebuild his career and image in the eyes of the millions around the world who saw him as the epitome of triumph over adversity.
At the close of Thursday's arguments, prosecutor Gerrie Nel tried to recapture the initiative, reminding the court of the seriousness of the premeditated murder charges facing Pistorius.
"His actions are indicative of a man who was willing and ready to kill," Nel said. "There were two people in the house.
"One survived to give his version."
The proceedings have gripped South Africans, who have found themselves debating the finer points of police forensics and the ins and outs of the criminal justice process.
As public opinion has swayed back and forth, schoolchildren have come to blows in playgrounds over the athlete's innocence or guilt, and on Thursday "Hilton Botha" was a top-trending topic on Twitter in South Africa.
"We talk about the case every day. It's all over the news. You can't ignore it," said Happy Ngwenya, a taxi driver waiting for rides in Johannesburg's Sandton financial district.
"He must face his music but the thing is, here in South Africa, criminals have so many rights."
With huge international media interest in the case against a global celebrity, many South Africans feel that apparent initial slip-ups by the police are hurting the country's image.
"Bring someone from outside to sort out this mess," said businessman Godfrey Baloyi. "The whole justice system needs an overhaul."


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The German Association for Data Protection (Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz – DVD) has expressed immense disappointment with the recently presented material of the EU-US Privacy Shield. According to the DVD, the attempt to get the US Government to conform to the requirements of the European Court of Justice has completely failed. The DVD appealed to the European Parliament and the Article 29 Working Party to reject the intended adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Press release (PDF)(in German)


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Southwark Council
Group From 1965
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey.
Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques from which a short list of nominations is produced. The winners are voted for by 'The People'. Whatever you think of that idea we hope you approve, as we do, the variety of plaque styles used by Southwark. Looking back Southwark probably regret it and would have preferred a 'house style' but we enjoy the diversity.
Londonist brought Southwark's historical maps to our attention. Irresistible to mapophiles.
Go to map of other memorials in this area