Aug 25, 2005 04:30 PM
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(Updated Aug 25, 2005 04:34 PM)
It took my wife sometime to convince me to change my mobile from a C650 (teenage) phone to a smart phone. And so we went shopping to pick up a Nokia. After all, these guys are like Microsoft or probably cockroaches. Don’t get me wrong - Microsoft is not cockroaches.
Nokia showed off 2 models the 6670 and the 6680 or whatever. The difference between them being that the second one had a slightly advanced camera. So we settled for the 6670...and now on to the actual review.
6670 is being advertised by Nokia, as we speak, as a smart phone. So what does a smart phone do - its a mobile + pda.
Mobile Phone
The first thing that strikes you is the angular approach to the sides of the phone. Nokia seems to be making a fashion statement here and has moved from its standard fat bellied, tapering side phone.
The keyboard layout though seems to be slightly misguided. Of course, if you have long nails like the women or even the bus conductor in Tamil Nadu you can operate the keyboard easily. The keys are embedded and sometimes you actually hit the right key.
Contact lists of course is as good as the rest of Nokia with multiple phone number storages. Call settings and phone settings are run off the mill. Speaker phone is enabled and it works fine. You just need to put the phone closer to your ear to listen to the conversation. As usual there are a couple of themes already provided and the phone supports polyphonic ringtones. Of course the best of them is of Rooster crowing and to this date, it drives my wife nuts early in the morning
Nokia seems to have not got the Java jones technology right for this phone. Activate the GPRS and at times your phone will need a hard reboot. Sounds very similar to the Microsoft XP when it was initially launched. Bluetooth connectivity available although I am not a great fan of that.
Dialling and answering calls become easy once you have played around with the keyboard and got the hang of it
PDA
A tungsten or a zire is probably a PDA one would like to own with its quick works. Nokia seems to have gone back to stone age here. Everything works in slow motion. You switch on the word viewer and it takes a bit of time to recognize that you have actually pressed the switch. Of course, as Indians we end up pressing it again and again and the phone goes : wheez, wheeez, wheeez, kaboom. But remember the keyboard once more, you type in Good Luck and it comes out Jeze Bulk. Imagine keying in a 25 word phrase.
Camera:
Seems Nokia outdid themselves here. The camera is positively interesting. All pictures that you take seem to come out very misterious. Of course, you tend to take a lot of pictures when you try to call a number, once again the keyboard conundrum.
Extras:
This includes converter, wallet, recorder, chat, presence etc. A lot of this are probably gimmicks to hide the inability of the phone itself.
Notes: Works like the draft for text messages
Calculator: Don’t you find using the mobile phone as a calculator cumbersome. Anyways, its more or less a standard offering of all phones
Converter: If you are a GPRS user, why need a converter. Log on to xe.com and it will do everything for you
Recorder: I tried it and tried to set a ringtone of the next door donkey braying. The donkey sounded better actually :)
Wallet stores financial data - so what happens if you misplace the phone or it gets stolen? Who in their sanest mind would store financial data on their phone
Chat: Hey isn’t it cheaper to talk rather than chat itself
Presence: Can hide your presence from a compatible phone provided your service provider offers it. Lets wait for Airtel to become visible again
Other items include Lifeblog (10 posts free or whatever), pocket reader - against restricted to usage. Games - nil, nada. But anyways which businessman would be caught playing Snake2. Maybe one needs it after all. Else what would we do during hour long meetings and conference call
So after 3 months of usage I am ready to say good bye to Not OK Iya.
