Compatible with AT&T cell phone service, the Nokia 6620 sports a ton of cool options and high-end functionality, including: a digital VGA camera with 640 x 480 resolution, 2X digital zoom and night mode; a video recorder that can record in varying resolutions and features RealPlayer playback; and high speed EDGE (up to 118 Kbps) mobile Internet connectivity; 12 MB of memory, (plus 32 MB more from the included MMC card); as well as a variety of organizer and phone calling capabilities. It's all wrapped up in a cool new design with a high-resolution, 176x208 pixel, 65,000-color screen.
Calling Features
Used simply as a phone, the 6620 features a 5-way joystick for easy navigation to a variety of handy features, including call timers, redial, missed call indicator, call log, voice activated dialing, any-key answer, auto-redial, speed dial, mute control, no-answer transfer, vibrating ring, differential ring, voice mail button, voice mail indicator, signal strength indicator, a phone book capacity of 500 entries, and more. Nokia also supports TTY/TDD (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf), and hearing aid support for the Nokia LPS-3 Loopset (adapter and Loopset sold separately).
Messaging and Internet
The phone's high speed EDGE browser provides high-speed data transmission (up to 118 Kbps) via EGPRS, and also supports WML, xHTML, and even full HTML, with multiple formatting options. You'll also get ECML digital wallet support, for safe and quick financial transactions, plus the usual advanced picture messaging where you can send MMS (multimedia messaging service) packets containing combined image, video, text, and voice clips to compatible phones or PCs. Predictive text input and text message templates round out the package, along with the ability to expand your phone's functionality by downloading Symbian and Java applications of a very wide variety.
Organizer
The Nokia 6620's organizer features include a full calendar and to-do list, and an alarm clock with a snooze function, among others. You can sync up your organizer data with your PC wirelessly via your Bluetooth connection.
Cameras, Fun, and Games
The high-functioning video recorder included with the 6620 provides a choice of either 176 x 144 or 128 x 96 pixel resolution, plus a 2X digital zoom, an audio on/off option, and true, RealPlayer playback. The still camera with 640 x 480 resolution, 2X digital zoom, a self timer, and night portrait mode. You can view your photos on the 65,000 color display, or send them to your computer or via MMS to a friend with your Internet connection. There's also a stereo MP3 player, 24-chord polyphonic ring tones, games, and more. The 6620 is equipped with 12 MB of built-in flash memory and an external multimedia card (MMC) slot for user data (one 32 MB MMC included).
Vital Statistics
The Nokia 6620 weighs 4.37 ounces and measures 4.28 x 2.29 x 0.93 inches. Its Lithium Ion batteries are rated at 180 minutes minimum digital talk time, and 240 hours minimum digital standby time. It runs on GSM 800/1800/1900 MHz, using the Symbian Operating System 7.0s, Series 60 platform, version 2. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
In the Box
Nokia 6620 cell phone, rapid travel charger, 32MB MMC card, hands-free headset, SIM card
1 Crashes on occassion, but otherwise a solid phone.
Ok, I got this phone when it first came out in late 2004. The only problem that I've had with it is that it likes to crash (and crash hard) on average, once a month. When I say hard its terriable. All internal memory is lost and the memory card is wiped clean. Since I have prior experience and use of Nokia phones for the past 8 yrs, Once a week I back up my phone on my pc. This saves a lot of heartache. It seems the problem is most prevelent when you take the phone from a cold environment (50 deg or less) to a warm one (work). The Phone will lock up after a call and then ask to save data press start (there is no start key) or data will be lost. You can do one of two things. Turn the power of then on (usually results in loss of all data ) or take the battery out and put it back in (75% this saves your data). I'm pc savy so as long as I back the phone up every week I'm ok. The less tech savy will be upset , esp after typing in 300 contacts and loosing them and the 200 pics you took in the last month. I contacted Nokia and they said they would need the phone for a month. At that time I could not be without it with no loaner so I've worked around the problem. Also of note, I purchased the phone from ATT (now cingular) in 2004 dec and the have told me twice they didn't recieve my correct rebate information for 100 bucks. The rebate dept is the worst ever! I hate em. In 8-10 weeks i might get a rebate if lucky. The transisition from ATT to Cingular has not been smooth!
2 This is a Phone for Geeks not for "Regular" Users
I just finished reading through the 17 or so reviews here of the Nokia 6620 and I had to laugh at some of them. The 6620 is the first Series 60 phone that Nokia has released here in the United States. What does Series 60 mean? Well, in short it means that it comes with an operating system on the phone...much like you have Windows on your computer. This means a couple of things. One, you are going to have software conflicts at some point...especially with the first Series 60 phone to hit the US. If you want a phone that is going to work 100% (or close to it) of the time with no hiccups do NOT buy this phone..get the 6230 it is a great phone (I have one as well). The other thing is that THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOFTWARE PROBLEMS. Did you hear me the first time? I am not on Nokia's side here, I think every phone released should work flawlessly and this one comes pretty close. I have had mine for about 2 months now and I really like it, even though there are a number of issues I have with it at this point. I will start with the bad.
First, the speakerphone is a joke. It really is. It gets about as loud as a whispering mouse at full throttle. Nokia...seriously, this has always been a major problem for you guys. Fix it already. Two, the buttons are located pretty low on the phone chasis and it makes for an awkward hold for people with big hands like me. This is due to the large screen on here and to be honest, it is worth having the low keys. The screen does 800x600 resolution at 65k colors. My first two laptops didn't do that. Third, there are some issues with turning Bluetooth on and off sometimes, but now I just know to "reboot" it and in a minute it is all sorted out. Lastly, the voice recognition is not so hot. I am still trying to figure out the best way to name people so that my voice dialing will work 95% of the time.
Now for the good stuff. The FREE Nokia sync software, available on their website, is great. I walk into my home or office and my phone will sync with my Outlook automatically....wirelessly via Bluetooth. How cool is that? Pretty darn cool if you ask me. That is how it should be. I have a Motorola HS810 Bluetooth headset and it works flawlessly with the 6620 and it is a great headset..get one. The camera is pretty nice. I don't care much for the whole camera in the phone thing, but it takes pretty nice pictures and video with sound @ 3MegaPixels. The joystick navigation is great. It is intuitive for those of us who use computers all day. You can program the stick and the two standby buttons to whatever function you want and that is great too. And, the real reason us geeks want this phone is the ability to run different applications and such. There are some good ones out there and I am waiting until some really useful ones hit the market. I put an FTP client on there the other day and I was downloading MP3 from my ftp server when I was at lunch one day. Pretty cool stuff. You can put 128MB MMC memory cards in there and they are super cheap.
So, to wrap up my ranting, the phone is great if you are a tech geek or a serious power user who wants to have a Bluetooth phone with some serious power. Plus, it has EDGE so when Cingular/ATT get their act together and get their GPRS/EDGE data network in gear this baby will be able to send and receive data up to 115Kbps. Oh yeah, and you can use it as a mobile internet gateway for your laptop (aka wireless modem) via bluetooth. Easy to do and I have used it many times already.
3 Good for new-fangled media gimmicks, mediocre as phone
I hoped I would get a good old trusty Nokia phone, simple, reliable, with a quick response to key input, and a straightforward menu structure and user interface.
Mistake. Since it is Symbian-based, you would not recognize it as a Nokia phone save for the logo.
Others have pointed out the positives, so let me concentrate on the negatives.
- Takes about 45 seconds to boot up (switch on to splash screen after PIN entry)
- Sluggish in responding to key strokes. If screen saver is active, needs an extra key press to wake up. So, if you want to lock it, press "Menu"-"*" and it's locked - unless the screen saver was active, then it would eat the "Menu" and just display "*". So you need to constantly look at the screen to see what it recognized and what not. Similarly, if you unlock, it will swallow the first keystrokes after that. So you unlock, enter a number quickly, and then realize that the first digit is missing.
- Complicated. Needs 28 keystrokes/joystick pushes to set the alarm. Woohoo. Has this great feature "Go To" that enables you to customize/collect often used commands, but very few applications implement it, the alarm does not. (I know that I could probably save some keystrokes by rearranging the menus somehow, but I want a phone, not a computer.)
- Crashes occasionally. Ok, not daily, but more often than a phone should.
- Weak battery life. Short warning. I found myself with empty battery more often with this phone than any other I have had.
- Nag-ware. Comes with some software that you can use twice, then have to pay around 10$. Some of the software is very badly written - eg. there was one app on it that required that you enter your name or zipcode or so prior to using it. I tried figuring out how, pressed a few keys, and the app quit. Tried again, app quit. Tried again, was greeted by "Your 2 trials are over. Do you want to buy this wonderful app for $10?". Guess what, no. This is a silly example, but indicative of the care that seems to have gone into fine-tuning the user experience.
- Recently, vibrating alarm just stopped working in silent mode (it was turned on). Missed 7 calls. Just not acceptable in my opinion. Worked again after reboot.
- Synchronization with iSync does not work.
- When you browse your contacts and press a letter, say "t", it lists everyone whose first _or_ last name starts with "t". Makes browsing for someone quite a bit slower (unless you don't know the full name of a contact - matter of taste, I guess, I don't like it.)
- Now you've browsed to someone, you press the green "call" key to call. It will display all phone numbers associated with that person, "mobile", "Tel. (home)", "Tel. (work)", etc. But guess what - the tag is truncated, and it displays only "Tel. (...", "Tel. (..."! So you don't know which number is which, and have to go to the contact, look at the numbers, remember the last digits, and then call.
- When alarm goes off, sometimes there is "Snooze" displayed on the right soft-key, sometimes there isn't. Pressing the red "Hang up" key puts it into snooze mode, not off.
There are lots of other little nuisances. All in all, the impression it left on me was that it was full of gimmicky features that are mostly useless to me, at the expense of being slow, buggy, inconsistent, and sloppily implemented.
4 Nokia 6620 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)
its a excellent phone with in built camera and much more functanility..this review is written by great Prashant
5 GREAT PHONE
I have use this phone for about 4mos, and I find it to be one of the best Nokia cell phones I have ever used. Great buy, but try and get it on sale.
6 Nice phone, not great software or reception
I owned one of these phones for about 15 days in October 2004. This account is an experience of using the Nokia 6620 with AT&T Wireless (now Cingular) in the San Francisco Bay Area (mostly San Jose, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and other locations on the peninsula). I'll make this short since others have done a great job of pointing out this phones strengths and weaknesses. What I thought was missing was the following:
+ Pro's:
Symbian OS phone (series 60) has lots of software included
Phone works well outdoors
Good resolution on camera
Graphical User Interface very intuitive
Easy to navigate menus
Typical excellent Nokia features
- Cons:
* Phone software navigates slowly (sluggish response to user input)
* Supports only Windows operating systems (data sync operations)
* Camera requires very steady hand (press "shutter" button and it takes a second or more for the camera to take the picture)
* Battery life is a bit brief
* Poor Mac OS/X support (not a huge surprise, but AT&T said it would sync just fine with a Mac ... and it didn't)
One last negative for the phone: Signal reception indoors was always marginal if not non-existent. I attribute this more to AT&T's network than the phone. It worked very well outdoors so long as you were not far from GSM towers.
Recommendations: Overall it is a good phone with plenty of features. The price is pretty high if you buy from somewhere other than the *great* Amazon.com site. Amazon has *wonderful* prices on cellular phones (shameless plug). Just be patient with the user interface and find a GSM carrier with good coverage in your area.
7 Fantastic Phone
This is a fantastic phone with the emphasis on multimedia. Still and video camera functionality is well placed, and the menuing style will be familiar to anyone who has used Nokia phones in the past. MMS (Multimedia Messaging) is heavily emphasized here. The screen is large and the display is bright for this reason. The camera itself is about 0.5 MP, so there are better out there, but this does the job when the lighting is good. You can take a picture or video and bounce it to someone else in a message.
It's painless to take a picture and attach it to a contact for display when ringing or browsing contacts. In addition to thumbnail photos, other detail may be added to a contact such as various phone, fax, email address, mailing address fields. You may also specify a contact's birthday, but curiously it requires a year to be set. "And what year were you born, Ma'am?"
The call log is setup into tabs for missed calls, received calls, and dialed numbers. There is no list that combines the three... a useful feature provided on other phones.
A 32MB memory card is included with the phone and may be upgraded apparantly. Throughout the interface when you save things, you are given the option of saving them (photos, videos, etc.) to the memory card or the phone memory. Similarly, contacts may be imported and exported in a straightforward way to the SIM card if you need portability of this information between phones. A USB cable is included for upload to a desktop computer. Useful for backing up or syncing contacts or installing applications, etc.
RealPlayer is the video player included on the device. Pdf+ is included for viewing PDFs on the device. A variety of games and other applications are included though many of them are only on a 2-use trial basis. The Nokia Sports feature allows for viewing of streaming sports (made possible by the use of the fast EDGE network available with AT&T or Rogers). This is a pay service though.
For Web browsing, the Opera browser (a very-capable browser) is included, though you could certainly download another browser if you prefer. Check out www.reqwireless.com for a different browser you might like. AT&T, Rogers, and others provide higher speed EDGE network services, and this phone will work with that. If however, you're reading this review with the intention of buying this phone unlocked from another source and activating on another network, you should know that you can setup web browsing with this phone on GSM networks that do not have EDGE. Browsing and other services will just be a little slower. You just need to setup the specific access point for your provider's GPRS service. Settings > Connection > Access Points.
Long story short, I'm really happy with my purchase, and I'd highly recommend the phone. When I bought, I also considered a Blackberry which would have been my choice if I needed the phone for more sophisticated email uses. Blackberry blows this phone away on email functionality, if that's what you're looking for. I wasn't.
8 An Awesome Phone
I'm a person who only wants the best, and my cell phone is no exception. I have a Nokia 6620 from AT&T Wireless and I love it. I can take 10 second video and edit it right on my phone; I can also take pictures and watch TV. I found few places where I couldn't get service on my phone, and with the allover network form Cingular I can talk to any AT&T or Cingular customer any time for FREE yup all 46 Million of us, try to beat that Verizon. The phone also runs Syrian phone OS which means you can get lot's of apps and upgrades and all this with a HUGE screen this is not one of the best phones on the market it is THE BEST PHONE ON THE MARKET PERIOD. -Andrew Kostin -- Student
9 If only I could get over my bad feelings about AT&T
Maybe just maybe then I would appreciate this phone more. It has a good signal, no dropped calls. Which the way my service was before makes this fact alone a miracle.
Got water damage, tried to dry it out. Now one of the softkeys on the right side that is supposed to disconnect calls and such doesnt work. Have to use a few different key combos to hang up.
Funny but warranty covered everything but water damage.
I like the picture quality. It works for me.
Darn there goes me thinking about AT&T again.
They lied to me so many times. Said one thing then did another. When I called back they said that there was nothing in the notes saying that I had ever been promised what in fact I know I was.
Good phone, bad phone company.
10 Best Cell Phone On The Market
I was very skeptical about buying this phone. I had heard of the numerous glitches in the 6600 (T-Mobile ) which is identical to this phone. However, I have found no problems with the 6620, the pictures are amazing and the signal is great!
I do hope that they eventually offer a more powerful battery. The one it comes with is good but once those top two bars are gone it goes rather quickly.
11 One of the best phones Nokia has to offer
I have overall been disappointed with Nokia in the past, finding that Samsung and Motorola tended to have better quality phones. While this phone obviously doesn't have the same quality construction as Motorola does, the Nokia 6600 is one of the better phones I've used. What makes it so great is the versatility and the number of features it has. The best features that I use most often are:
1) Great audio quality overall. Handset quality is great, as is the speakerphone quality and the headset audio quality.
2) Camera phone. A decent camera phone for taking quick pictures, movies, and having general all around fun with.
3) The joystick design they are using on the new Nokias gives you a great degree of control. The only problem is that occasionally the joystick does start to dig into your thumb while gaming.
4) One nice thing about Nokias is that they have a ton of ring tone and game choices. If you love your cell phone games or changing your ring tones everyday, Nokia beats everyone else.
5) Bluetooth wireless technology, so that I can transfer data to and from my computer without messing with any cables. This is great for putting photos and memos on the computer and transferring calander data to my phone.
6) The phone is really wide, which seems to be a turnoff for many people, but the phone is actually easier to grip and feel more ergonomic. I feel much less likely to drop this phone than others, which are actually starting to get too small. You will probably have to get a belt clip for it, however, unless you wear the pants with the cargo pockets.
My biggest concern is that I have found Nokia phones lower quality construction to lead to lower prices, but they also don't last as long. I can tell using the phone that it feels a little flimsier than Motorolas do, but as long as I'm not planning on dropping the phone or running over it with my car it should be just fine. I wouldn't use it for business purposes and hand one out to all my employees, because you tend to want a little more rugged a phone for that. Other than that it meets or surpasses all of my needs and surely won't disappoint any already established Nokia phone fans.
12 Nokia makes pretty good phones
General phone features are great. Cam is better than previous phone cams, but it still is a little poor. Edge services are cool but there aren't enough US mobile friendly sites. Europe seems to have way more. I think this will change. I have barely scratched the surface of the applications available for Symbian Series 60 OS.
Cons:
I have not been able to figure out how to get my voice tags to record. I had one recorded but when I deleted it I wasn't able to record another anymore. I haven't taken the time to troubleshoot this.
My Outlook 2003 on my laptop must have a corrupt installation b/c I can't get the Nokia sync software to work there. It does work on my office desktop with a direct connection to Exchange.
Be careful about the AT&T mMode service. It turns out that the "Unlimited" data plan ($24.99) is limited to port 80. So you can forget about accessing your secure Outlook site (if you have an Exchange 2003 server on the net) unless you fork over another $5-$10 for AT&T's Office service. So much for that Putty app I downloaded. I haven't been able to telnet either.
Disregard what the reviewer below said about voice mail passcode. You can for sure enter your passcode in the voice mail settings so you don't have to enter it every time.
13 Great Phone Bad Service
All the phones I've owned were Nokias and when I purcahsed this one it was what I expected from Nokia plus more. Great features with good amount of memory for couple of MP3's and other additions to the phone. The service I got from Amazon was horrible though. I was told 24 hour shipping and even paid extra to get it to me quicker. After getting e-mails saying my phone was delayed and would ship on the 12th, I recieved another one saying they had to cancel the order after waiting close to 2 weeks. So I got it from a AT&T store. The price on Amazon is unbeatable even compared to any website on the net and especially compared to the price at AT&T but with delays and no phone, what good is it? Plus theres no Amazon help desk number which makes it worse. Overall, I recommend the phone but go somewhere else to get the phone unless you have the patience of a saint.
14 Good phone
I think this is a great ohone, it's a shame I got it with AT&T who are the biggest bunch of clowns out there.
Firstly the phone:
Pros: Nice large screen
Syncs well with Microsoft outlook - calender , to do items, contacts. Since I do most of my changes on the PC I don't experience the issues the other reviewer had about data entry.
Good video streaming and mmode is useful (I have unlimited data package)
Sound volume - good, I could even hear and be heard at a live music festival (20ft from speakers)
Camera - not bad quality for quick snaps
Bluetooth - works well connecting to my pda as a modem, and to my Jabra BT250 bluetooth headset (didn't work with Logitech headset, needs handsfree compatability).
Lots of applications - like photo album, pdf viewer, nokia sports subscription - many of these things you have to pay for and could get expensive though.
Battery life - seems fine, 3 days casual use before recharging, on business trips I would recharge at the end of each day.
Memory- good internal memory and I upgraded the included 32MB MMC card with a 128 MB one and that is more than enough.
Voice recorder - useful for recording conversations with AT&T!
Cons: Keys are on small side but I don't have a problem with it.
Voice dialing - very hit and miss
Games - quite a few of them available - but not as good as those you get for your PDA. It doesn't come with any free games you have to pay and dowload them.
Bluetooth - can only connect with one device at a time. I therefore use the provided cable to connect my laptop and phone to download e-mails onto my laptop, so I can still use my bluetooth headset.
The cable attaches to the phone in an awkward way, often not making a very good connection.
You can use the phone for MSN messenger and e-mail etc, but doing a large degree of typing isn't possible - I couldn't get the hang of the T9 typing. Solution would be to use a bluetooth keyboard, but hey, I have my PDA and laptop so don't need it.
Secondly AT & T
Pros: So far very good connection - both on East and West Coast. The Edge technology makes a connection about 100Kbps which is adequate.
Cons: I could go on forever, I have been with them since 1997 and wanted to switch from TDMA digital to GSM. They treat you terrible all the way - I got charged $433 for this phone going through their business unit, even though in the shop and online you can get it for $299 - or Amazon for $149. They are conmerchants and when they say that they will give you a credit you had better get the persons employee ID number since they lie and say that there is nothing in the notes and that they cannot replay the tapes. Basically they lie to get new customers in and once you are there you can wave goodbye to good service - loyalty meens nothing to them.
15 Not a well-designed phone
This device is loaded (cluttered?) with features but is so flawed in the design of the basics that I am returning it. I would have done this even if the battery hadn't died (apparently a not uncommon occurrence with this model) after 10 days. The keys are way too small. Given a large screen and a small overall size, a small keypad is likely a necessity. The solution appears to be a flip phone design. What is not a necessity is an inability to store a voice mail security code so that every time you check you messages you have to reenter the code. The earpiece cable connects through a poorly fitting (there is no "snap") connector for the USB cable on the bottom of the phone that has to be scrutinized to get the alignment right. When connected (finally), a rubber tab (from the connector) protrudes from the side of the bottom of the phone which catches on fabric making it clumsy to actually remove the phone from a pocket. Why Nokia just didn't stay with the standard pin connector (toward the upper part of the phone) is a mystery. But none of this matters. The sound is so faint and the earpiece so ill fitting that hands-free operation is essentially impossible. It takes several key presses to call a contact not stored as one of the fast keys. Whoever thought that bleeding-hence illegible--digits was a good idea for a clock? The menu is completely cluttered with (essentially) 1-trial only games. I could never get Bluetooth to Isync with my Mac so I could never really judge how well it works as an organizer. Entering calendar items was really difficult with the small keypad. Some good points. Scrolling through the contacts (phone directory) was easy. The camera worked well but I would just as soon have had the option of not having the camera and email panels permanently on the screen. It was easy to snap a photo and convert it to the screen background ("wallpaper"). I would have preferred a well-designed phone.
16 Excellent Phone
For whatever phone you decide to buy, you must determine what features are important to you. To me, they are reception, PDA features and sound quality, in that order. Unlike my teenagers, I could not care less about style, coolness, text messaging or a camera.
I walked into my local AT&T store with the original intention of purchasing a Motorola V600. Both the sales people grimaced and showed me the Nokia 6620. I am sure glad that I decided to get this phone instead. This is the best phone I have owned to date.
First of all, the reception is outstanding. In my home with my Siemens S46 I would get 1 bar at best. People who call me cannot hear me and I cannot hear them. With the Nokia, I have no problem. My kids both have Siemens phones and we just today compared signal strength. They each had 2 bars and I had 5. Every time I talk with someone, I ask them about the quality of my phone. Even with poor reception, people remark that they can hear me as if I were on a land line.
The PDA is very good, although I can think of a few improvements. Finding a name is quick and simple. It will even store the notes field in your Outlook file. Downloading from Outlook is easy and relatively fast. The phone allows you to connect to your computer just about anyway you choose. You can use Bluetooth (who thought that name up anyways?), infrared or a USB cable which was supplied with my phone.
Sound quality is also very good. The speaker phone is more than adequate unless you are in a noisy environment. Changing from phone to speakerphone is one button. Very simple.
Now for the dark side. But not that bad. Not the phone, but the software mostly. Although the software is simple to use, it does seem to have some bugs and features missing. You cannot map fields from Outlook to the phone. You have to accept the default, which will probably work for most people, but I highly customized my Outlook forms and would like to download some of my custom fields. A bug in the calendar/To Do list section downloads all of your tasks regardless of whether they were already checked off or beyond the date limits set. I ended up downloading over 5000 tasks that took me a good while to figure out how to delete. It is peculiar that I could delete all my contacts, all my notes but not all my tasks. I now have my download set to only transfer the contacts and calendar items. I can live with that, but I sure wish I could see my To Do list.
The camera. I put the camera in the dark side because I use it a lot to take pictures of everyone. I can't tell you how many pictures I have of people's hand in front of their faces. Aside from that, there is a delay between when you click the button and the picture is actually taken. If you are trying to take an action shot, you will easily miss it. On the good side, after you take your pictures, you can very easily upload the pictures via any of the above mentioned connection types. None of this piddley picture messaging and paying for it. Take as many pictures as you want (which turned out to be of decent quality) or videos and upload them for free. Nice
That is about it. In summary
Pros
Great reception
Very good PDA
Very good sound quality
Excellent display
Large assortment of features and customizations
Expandable memory
Very easy to use/Intuitive GUI
Excellent connectivity
Cons
PDA does not allow mapping to Outlook
Bugs in To Do list downloads
Camera delay
Buttons a bit small
A bit on the large size
17 Some compatibility issues with other BT devices
I purchase this phone looking for a quasi-organizer phone that would keep me from having to get a PDA and telephone around. The requirements were bluetooth, modern operating system, large color screen, and HTML browser. This phone has it all, or so I thought.
Palm Tungsten T3, Treo 600, Pocket PC PDAs -- Dial-up using phone as modem over bluetooth and infrared did not work--some rumors about wireless providers disabling this feature to encourage subscription to data plans. Bluetooth exchange of contacts works. Initial attempts to send a recurring calendar entry (meeting) to PDA crashed the Treo and T3, and got an error on the Pocket PC. Update 9/26/04 - Fixed calendar transfer problems. First formatted the memory card using Menu > Extras > Memory > Options > Format mem. card, then formatted phone memory to default settings using the instructions from the Nokia 6600 and 6620 forum at allaboutsymbian.com
Sony Ericsson T610 over bluetooth. Contact exchange works. Sending a recurring calendar entry from the 6620 locked up T610 the first time and had to remove the battery to bring it back to life. On another try the phone accepted the transfer but the calendar entry would not appear--this also happened with a Sony Clie running OS v4.x.
Mac G4 (OS X 10.3.5) - the provided USB data cable does not work. Bluetooth file transfer works. iSync 1.5 (SyncServer service) does not support synchronization of contacts and calendar with this phone as the phone does not expose the Serial Port profile (bluetooth that is) and this is what iSync uses for the supported Nokia phones (through mRouter.)
PC with Windows XP SP2 over USB and bluetooth. File transfer
and synchronization works with PC Nokia Suite and Outlook (2002) using both the Microsoft generic bluetooth driver and the WIDCOMM driver provided with the Linksys (class 1) USB Adapter I used.
For those of us looking to access the Internet over bluetooth through a computer please know that currently this will not work with this phone. At least not with the free gnubox or any other "trick" that requires a serial "Data call" from the phone. Some on the web have reported it to work with GPRS access points.
Regarding the phone itself, it takes 5 to 8 seconds to dial out, it is a little slow, very nice "little computer" supports J2ME MIDP 2.0 but not the OBEX protocol through J2ME. Both J2ME and C++ SDK available from the Nokia developer site. Easily a four star rating once the issues above are resolved.
18 Excellent phone
First, the Amazon. Amazon could not deliver this phone on time. I ordered this phone in the middle of August, but Amazon did not ship it in the next 20 days. I end up cancelled the order and bought the phone from another store. Amazon has very good price, but what's the use of it if I can not get the phone? Besides, why can't they port my current phone number from T-Mobile to the new account?
Now the phone.
This is a great phone. I was originally attacted by the stereo mp3 playback. Added a 1GB MMC card so I can load a lot of songs to it. It also play video files. But you have re-compress to QCIF mode(176x144), otherwise you will get an error message. Sometimes I use it as USB storage drive, but I have to carry my MMC card reader with me then. Too bad it does have FM radio.
Reception is very good. Voice quality is close to the wired phones. (Better than my old GE cordless phone.) My home was a deadzone for T-mobile and ATT, but luckily roaming to Cingular on the 850 band solved the problem. I can even make phone calls in the basement now.
The display is clear. I love it. Camera quality is not bad at all. With my large storage card, I can take a lot of snap shots. The video recording which come with the camera only 10 seconds of recording. Did Nokia made it in purpose? A good 3rd party recording software will cost me 30 bucks.
Nice contact list. The list can be edited on your PC instead of pushing those tiny number pads.
The battery life is OK. I usually charge it every two days.
I ordered a Krusell phone case, since it is a snug fit case with opening for speaker, infrared, charge jack and pop-port.
Some free software I would recommend for 6620:
AgileMessenger --- An IM client for MSN/Yahoo/AIM. you may need to roam to Cingular to get connected.
FExplorer --- A file management tool.
ChessGenius --- A nice commercial game. Try it if you like chess.
19 Grrreat phone and then some!!!
I use ATTWS GSM America.
PROS:
1) Phone is fast.
2) Voice transmission and reception is excellent, as good as land line phones if not better.
3) Phone runs Symbian OS 7.0s.
4) Comes with good amount of memory.
CONS:
1) Speakers are not nearly powerful enough, this includes the earphone as well! In a crowded area, forget about hearing anything. Speaker is uni-directional!
2) Trial softwares included are all for 2 trials only! This is terrible, as after you open a software first time, it tells you, you can use it JUST ONE MORE TIME in trial! That makes them pretty much useless without pay.
3) Phone could use more memory. MS Windows based smartphones are coming with 32 or more MB of Flash memory, this only comes with 12. Included memory card should've been 64 MB it's 32 MB. Mine got filled up with 4 med-hi quality mp3s.
4) MMC card goes under the battery, replacing it is a HUGE hassle.
5) No indicator of all applications running. I'd think in a mobile phone, accessibility requirements should require that when a user quits application, it should ask, if the user wishes to quit the app. (by any means) and remove it from memory. As it is, if user quits by pressing "End" button on the right side, apps don't quit, they keep running. U have to learn to "Exit" out of them by going through Options->Exit
VERDICT:
- Great phone services
- Great features
- Could've used more features
- Shouldn't have been so cheap with software trials (MS Windows based phones come with FULL version of Word/Excel/Powerpoint reader softwares!) This one only comes with 2 trials.
- Short on memory but is pretty fast.
- Ahh the speaker and the earphone, I do not know why Nokia messed it up. Better speaker could've made it a much better phone.
