I had a chance to see the new Nokia 6620 in action today. Following is a short review and some images.
The 6620 is a candy-bar style cell phone. It offers GSM850, GSM1800 and GSM1900 service, as well as GPRS and EDGE data. The user interface is via the Symbian 60 OS.
The phone felt well built, was comfortable to use and easy to operate. I especially liked the large bright active matrix display at 176×208 pixels with 65K colors; games, and images taken with the built-in 0.3 Megapixel camera looked very good.
The unit comes with Bluetooth, so it works with various enabled keyboards such as the Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard shown above, and can function as a modem for your notebook. Internet access is via WML, XHTML and HTML browser. Browsing worked well and was quite fast, thanks to EDGE.
All in all, this is a very nice phone with many other functions, such as:
- Still image capture at VGA resolution, and video at QCIF image size
- Software to organize images, videos, & sounds captured with the 6620
- Support for MMS/SMS/Email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) and SyncML
- Typical smartphone functions including contact, calendar, & e-mail
- MP3 playback via the stereo headset.
- Games, ringtones etc.
EDGE-capable smartphones, like the 6620, with their rich feature sets should come to dominate the mobile phone market … now if they can only do something about battery life.
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What do you mean by “candy-bar style?”
That just refers to how the phone is shaped.