Equipped with Nokia's new Series 40 OS, a Pop-Port connector, 12-bit color display, MMS, FM-radio and polyphonic ringtones, the Nokia 6610 is now available - here's the review!
Recently, infoSync published a review of Nokia's 7210 - a phone aimed at the fashion segment. This time around, the Nokia 6610 is victim to our scrutiny as the latest addition to Nokia's line for mobile professionals. And what do the two phones have in common, you may ask? Well, in the exterior department, they're completely different. WHere the 7210 sports innovative traits, a classic keypad and navigational system springs to the eye when opening the box of the 6610 - otherwise containing a user's manual, handsfree set and a charger. As for their operating system, internal features and battery, however, the two phones are a dead match.
 | Nokia's 6610 is the successor to the Nokia 6510
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Its similarities with the 7210 aside, the Nokia 6610 is in reality the successor to the Nokia 6510 - a phone which earlier this year was weighed and found slightly too light by infoSync in the areas of short-range wireless connectivity (read: lacks Bluetooth) and a proper operating system. Although Bluetooth is also amiss in the 6610, at least it sports Nokia's new Series 40 operating system.
Another obvious improvement is the 12-bit color display of the phone with a 128 x 128 pixel resolution, implemented without causing considerable weight gain. The 6610 weighs in at 84 g and measures 106 x 45 x 17.5 mm, while the Nokia 6510 also weighs in at 84 g but measures 97 x 43 x 20 mm. Also; the battery of the 6610 is a 720 mAh one offering up to 5 hours of talk time and 12.5 days of standby time, while the 830 mAh of the 6510 offered no more than 4 hours of talk time but up to 14.5 days of standby time.
Internal differences aside, the 6510 came equpiped with buttons far too small to handle, whereas the 6610 is a solid improvement with larger and more comfortably shaped buttons - a design which also shares traits with many mobile phones sporting color displays currently.
The relatively new Series 40 operating system is a welcome improvement to this kind of mobile phone. Particularly editing text messages and notes takes less time than before, since it's possible to navigate text the same way one would on a computer of any kind - in four ways. It's also possible to send e-mail and MMS messages, but to exploit the full MMS potential of the phone, Nokia's new digital camera accessory for phones sporting the Pop-Port connector has to be present.
The 6610 has also been equipped with support for J2ME and polyphonic ringtones, meaning that that Java applications, games and multi-tone ringtones can be downloaded and stored in the internal memory of the phone. To make room for all of the new niceties, Nokia has cut down the amount of space available for storing contacts from 500 to 300 compared with the 6510. This is however not considered a major problem, since users who have close to 500 contacts in their phone memory and consider themselves to be part of the 'professional' segment, there are better solutions available - also from Nokia - than a Series 40 device. Also part of the Nokia 6610's feature list is an integrated FM radio, WAP browser, GPRS, HSCSD and tri-band EGSM 900/1800/1900 MHz support.
Audio quality whilst in calls is quite satisfactory, as is that of the built-in speaker of the phone and its bundled handsfree set. Its talk time proved in our experience to be approximately 2.5 hours, and the standby time some 5 days with normal use.
- What's positive: Series 40, comfortable keyboard, Pop-Port
- What's negative: Lacks Bluetooth
| Features | 7/10 |
| Exterior | 7/10 |
| Ergonomics | 7/10 |
| Performance | 7/10 |
| Value: | 7/10 |
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iSW Score:
7/10 |
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