The Nokia 6630 is Nokia's first 3G smartphone. It's Nokia's most powerful smartphone yet, built on the Series 60 Symbian operating system with a wealth of pre-installed and downloadable applications. The Nokia 6630 is Nokia's flagship phone and it takes smartphones to the next level. Physically it's reminiscent of the Nokia 3660, although its more compact and has a better keypad. In terms of functionality, it offers everything that the Nokia 7610 can do, with the addition of 3G, an improved camera, faster processor and more memory. For the power user it's a winner!
Business applications include full always-on email support, with support for Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and a built-in application for reading attachments such as Microsoft Word and Excel documents. With full broadband internet via 3G or EDGE, you can send and receive multimedia documents very quickly indeed.
Multimedia applications include a high-resolution digital camera (1.3 megapixels) with up to one hour of video capture. You can also download video or audio (MP3/AAC) for playback on the high quality 65k colour display and stereo headset. The 3G connection is fast enough to enjoy real time video streaming. The supplied software includes Nokia Video Editor and Movie Director so you can edit the videos that you record. The web browser provides advanced HTML support, including background images, frames and some JavaScript so browsing the web is a much richer experience than on most phones. The large screen is ideal for viewing all these applications. It's not the best screen in its class, but it's as as good as anything Nokia have previously produced and it's good enough. It's worth noting too that the headset provides for listening to MP3 in stereo, unlike some of the other Series 60 phones.
One feature that's notable by its absence is video calling. The 3G functions seem to be aimed primarily at providing fast communication, and the video calling function has been left out.
There's a full range of connectivity options, including wireless Bluetooth support, both for headsets / car kits and for all kinds of data transfer. You can synchronise your contacts remotely using Bluetooth or via a cable.
The internal memory of 10 Mbytes is not going to be enough for all of the functions available on this phone, but a 64 Mbyte memory card is supplied and this can be hot-swapped to store or transfer data. For users who download a lot of applications, the lack of internal memory may be a problem, but then again only the Sony Ericsson P910i offers significantly greater internal memory. We would expect this to be remedied in the next generation of 3G smartphones.
Battery life is excellent for a phone of this kind. Depending on usage, it should be possible to get a couple of days use from this phone between charges.
At the time of writing, the Nokia 6630 has no direct rivals, but we expect that to change during 2005 with the launch of more 3G smartphones.
An outstanding phone, but a word of caution: some users are reporting reliability problems with this phone. The Nokia 6630 has now been superseded by the Nokia 6680.


Features of the Nokia 6630 include: