Nokia on the road of smartphones

At first Nokia smartphones (Nokia 7650 and 3650) were released a while ago. At that time they were matchless, but now it's different. Now, Siemens has in the process of finishing its first smartphone SX1, and Sony Ericsson P800 that was much spoken about is going to be replaced with P900. The company felt that the sector of smartphones is getting tighter and decided to update its line. The Nokia cellular phone 6600 is a follower of the Nokia 7650, and it has taken its best features to a new level.

Nokia 6600 a slight look at features and market position

As soon as Nokia announced the new model, the 6600, fans of Nokia all around the world started to wait for its release. Since Nokia has the biggest share on the market, it can afford releasing slightly modified models from time to time and people will still buy them.

Nokia's third smartphone is smaller and more functional as compared to the previous two models. The Nokia 6600 cellular phone features new advanced imaging features, including a bright 65,536-color TFT display and camera equipped with digital zoom. Its dimensions are 109x58x24 mm and weights 122g which makes it very compact. Nokia considers it as a classical model and relates it to the 6000 series.

Nokia 6600 screen

Nokia cellular phone 6600 screen is a high contrast TFT that has the resolution of 176x208 pixels. The display can occupy up to 8 text lines and is visible even in the sunlight.

Nokia 6600 camera

The build in camera is further improved. The maximum resolution is same as before i.e. 640x480 pixels. The functionality of camera is enhanced, a self-timer, a night-shooting mode and a 2x digital zoom is also implemented. It can also record video at the resolution of 176 x 144 pixels. The software needed is supplied with the phone. The RealOne Player which can play stream video in Real Video and 3GPP formats (via GPRS and HCSD). You can also use the Nokia Multimedia Player to encode video into 3GPP.

Nokia 6600 user interface

A joystick of nokia 6600 is located in the middle which besides being four-directional also reacts to pressure. Each lower row is shorter than the previous one. This causes certain difficulties while using the phone, although some models have even worse ergonomics, so it's still acceptable.

Nokia 6600 applications

Let's have a look at the applications that this smartphone have. There is a folder named Try n Buy which contains demo versions of some programs. Some of them were also present in Nokia 7650/3650. They are Photographer, Quick Word, Slovo Ed and Zip Man. Unfortunately; they are only trial versions. But there is a full version of the Opera web-browser. It opens not only optimized pages but even the pages with flash banners. Nokia 6600 is not efficient enough to play animation flawlessly, but it's easy to guess what is advertised.

Nokia 6600 communications

Communication is a strong point of the Nokia 6600. There is no Pop-Port, but there are all other communication types – GPRS (3+1), Bluetooth and IR. HSCSD is supported too. The communication software includes three integrated clients (e-mail, VPN & XHTML) and SSL encryption. Also, you can find the Nokia Wallet used for mobile transactions; this program stores your personal data in the protected format.

Nokia 6600 other salient features

The battery can hold up to three days under normal conditions. Other advanced features such as Javaâ„¢ MIDP 2.0 are also supported. The phone comes with 6MB of phone memory with an additional MMC card of 32MB is bundled in the package. Nokia 6600 also supports the True Tones technology that can convert any MP3 file into a ringtones, but the results are not 100% accurate.
At first nokia 6600 cellular phone costs around 600$ and now it's between 350$ - 400$. I conclude the review by someone's words.

Conclusion

If you really need a smartphone - buy the Nokia cellular phone 6600, but only in case if you are limited financially. If you have enough money to spend on a good smartphone - pick the Sonyericsson P900. If you only need a camera, a Dictaphone, a color screen or some other casual functions - buy a usual phone. Because of the progress it's possible to get one with all these functions, but in a smaller size.