Nokia 6670 Review

The Nokia 6670 is a series 60 smartphone that offers a broad range of functionality within a stable, well-designed platform and is highly recommended for business use.
The 65k screen is the same size as other Nokia smartphones (176 x 208 pixels) and is adequate but not as good as rival smartphones from Motorola or Sony Ericsson. The form factor is convenient, with a conventional keypad that's more useable that the similar-spec Nokia 7610. This suggests that the Nokia 6670 is more targeted at the business user than the fashion user (or else that Nokia has learned finally that novelty keypads don't make for great phones!)
On the multimedia side, the Nokia 6670 comes with an excellent 1 megapixel camera with a digital zoom and a choice of normal and night modes. There is a also a video camera which takes reasonable quality video, with a maximum duration of ten minutes. Full-screen video playback is possible using the built-in RealPlayer software. The Nokia 6670 also supports video download and playback and can function as an MP3/AAC player, although only a mono headset is supplied.
The Nokia 6670 supports all the normal voice and messaging features that you would expect. These include voice dialing, speed dialing, voice commands, voice recorder and an integrated handsfree speaker. There is full support for MMS and email (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4), with a document viewer capable of viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. An integrated internet browser supports HTML, XHTML and WML. The memory card comes with a Netfront Web browser with suport for PDF files.
The internal memory of the Nokia 6670 is 8 Mbytes, and a 64 Mbyte memory card is supplied as standard. The size and weight of the Nokia 6670 are very good for a smartphone. Battery life is average to good.
The one area where the Nokia 6670 is weak compared with rival smartphones is in connectivity. Granted it comes with full support for Bluetooth and USB cable, but is missing an IR port. The internet connection is a GPRS connection, but there is no high speed data. This makes email and web browsing very slow.
Overall the Nokia 6670 is a great smartphone for business users. It lacks some of the functionality of the Nokia 7610, but has a better keypad. Equally it is missing some of the high-end features of the Nokia 6630, but seems to be a more reliable phone. The phone that trumps all of these is the new Nokia 6680, which has all of the funtionality without the reliability problems of the Nokia 6630. The Nokia 6681 is also an excellent phone if you don't want the 3G capabilities of the Nokia 6630 or Nokia 6680.
Features of the Nokia 6670 include:
- Operating system: Symbian 7.0s (Series 60 platform)
- Display: TFT, 65,536 colours, 176 x 208 pixels
- Megapixel camera (1152 x 864 pixels) with 4x digital zoom, optional flash
- Video camera (174 x 144 pixels) with 4x digital zoom, 10 minutes max length
- Full-screen video playback
- RealPlayer for downloading & displaying video & audio, including MPEG4, MP3 & AAC
- Graphical user interface with selectable themes
- Voice Features: voice dialing, voice commands, voice recorder
- Speed dialing
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Headset included
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4)
- View email attachments (xls, ppt, doc) with document viewer applications
- Downloadable Java applications
- Polyphonic ringtones & True Tones
- 5-way navigation key
- Contacts: advanced contacts database allows multiple phone and email details per entry, thumbnail pictures, and groups
- Integrated internet browser supports HTML, XHTML, and WML
- Mobile Wallet 2.0
- WAP, GPRS
- Connectivity: Bluetooth wireless technology, USB with Pop-Port™
- Synchronization of contacts and calendar with Microsoft Outlook (98, 2000, 2002, 2003), Outlook Express, Lotus Organizer, (5.0, 6.0), Lotus Notes (5.0, 6.0)
- Memory: 8 Mbytes internal memory plus 64 Mbytes Reduced Size Dual Voltage MultiMediaCard (MMC)
- Triband
- Size: 109 x 53 x 21 mm
- Weight: 120g
- Talktime: 2-4 hours
- Battery standby: 150 - 240 hours
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