Nokia 6681 Review
The Nokia 6681 smart phone is very similar to the successful and highly-rated Nokia 6680, except that the Nokia 6681 does not have the 3G functionality of the Nokia 6680. The phones are the same in most other respects.
The exterior design of the Nokia 6681 is nearly identical to the Nokia 6680, and the phones are the same size and very nearly the same weight. It's not a lightweight phone, but is typical for a smartphone. The keypad layout is very convenient and features a five-way scroll key, two soft keys, application key, edit and clear keys, send and end keys.
The Nokia 6681 incorporates a high quality 1.3 megapixel camera (1.23 effective megapixels) with a convenient protective slide. The camera has a flash with a range of 1.5m and a 6x digital zoom. There is also a video recording facility. Images can be printed directly from the phone to a compatible printer or kiosk using Bluetooth or USB cable, or transferred to a PC for processing. Video can be played back in full screen mode and the video player supports both MPEG4 and 3GP formats.
The music player supports MP3, AAC & RealAudio format tracks and provides stero output with a pair of Nokia HDS-3 stereo headphones provided as standard.
The Nokia 6681 is a series 60 smartphone and comes with a selection of Symbian applications. Applications provided on the memory card include Kodak Mobile (for printing images taken using the camera), Nokia Wireless Keyboard application, a selection of games and a Photo Editor. Messaging is of course fully supported, with SMS, MMS and e-mail with file handling for attachments in jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf format.
The internal memory of the device is 8 Mbytes (slightly less than the 6680), with the addition of a 64 Mbyte MMC card which can be hot-swapped. Connectivity is via Bluetooth or USB.
The Nokia 6681 can also be compared to the Nokia 6670 smart phone. The Nokia 6670 is similar to the Nokia 6681, except that the Nokia 6681 has an upgraded display, camera, EDGE connection and Push To Talk, although it's a little heavier and battery life suffers. We would recommend the Nokia 6681 in preference to the Nokia 6670, and overall it's an excellent smart phone with few of the bugs and problems encountered in earlier Nokia smart phones.
Features of the Nokia 6681 include:
- 1.3 megapixel digital camera (1280 x 960 pixels) with flash and 6x digital zoom
- Video recorder
- Media player / music player (MP3, AAC, MPEG4, 3GP & RealMedia formats) - stereo output via headphones
- Display: TFT, 262,144 colours, 176 x 208 pixels
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, Email
- Voice Features: voice dialing, voice commands, voice recorder
- Speed dialing
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Push to Talk
- Polyphonic ringtones
- Java & Symbian applications
- Advanced Series 60 PIM features including calendar, contacts, to-do list, and PIM printing
- Advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry, also supports thumbnail picture and groups
- WAP 2.0, GPRS class 10
- Fast EDGE connection for broadband-speed browsing - up to 236.8 kbps
- XHTML/HTML multimode browser (supports image maps, background images, and frames)
- Mobile Wallet
- Memory: 8 Mbytes internal memory plus 64 Mbytes Reduced Size Dual Voltage MultiMediaCard (MMC)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 1.2, USB 2.0
- Triband
- Size: 108 x 55 x 21 mm
- Weight: 131g
- Talktime: up to 6 hours
- Battery standby: 6 - 11 days
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