It should have been a great phone - Nokia took a very popular mid-range phone (the Nokia 6610) and updated it with an integrated digital camera, voice commands and XHTML browser, whilst retaining everything that was good about the Nokia 6610:

User-friendly keypad with 4-way scroll key
Slimline, lightweight phone with good battery life
Stereo FM radio
Triple band
Java games
Changeable x-press on covers

What went wrong? The problems started with the poor quality colour display - perfectly adequate for a non-camera phone a couple of years ago, but hopelessly inadequate for a camera phone. Add to this the intermittent software and hardware faults that were present in the Nokia 6610 - faults that Nokia failed to fix in the Nokia 6610i - and increase the complexity of the device, thereby introducing more glitches, and you have a recipe for disaster. Build quality also seems to have gone down the pan with the Nokia 6610i.

Features of the Nokia 6610i include:

• Integrated digital camera
• WAP 1.2.1, GPRS & HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data)
• XHTML browser
• MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
• Downloadable Java games & applications
• Colour display (4096 colours, 128x128 pixels)
• Polyphonic ringtones (MIDI format), plus standard ringtones
• Integrated stereo FM radio
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Voice commands
• Predictive text input
• Mobile chat
• Changeable x-press on covers
• Phonebook (500 names)
• 4M bytes shared memory
• Built-in infra-red modem
• Pop-Port interface
• Downloadable colour wallpaper
• Downloadable Java games
• Alarm clock, wallet, calculator
• Size: 106 x 44 x 19 mm
• Weight: 87g
• Battery standby: 6 - 18 days
• Battery talktime: 3 - 3.5 hours
• Tri band