Nokia announces 5 new phones and more
posted June 14th 2004 8:20AM
As expected, Nokia announced a slew of new products products today.
Charlie, the illegitimate child
between the 6600 and 3660 was released and named the 6630. You couldn't tell from the spy photos but it's absolutely
tiny — smaller than the 6600 or the 7610. Not bad for a 3G phone. It's tri-band GSM, EDGE and W-CDMA, so you can stay
connected from pretty much anywhere, as quickly as possible. Plus it has Bluetooth, and, as expected, the same 1
megapixel camera from the 7610. To save all those big pictures, it comes with a full size MMC card slot, but we bet
it's under the battery. Sounds pretty sweet, now if only it weren't so ugly.
For those of us who are
pickier about style but still want a smartphone, Nokia also announced the 6260. It has all the same features of the
6600 — Series 60 v2, a VGA camera, Bluetooth — but repackages it in a handsome little clamshell that has a twist and
fold screen. It also adds Push-to-Talk, which just about every carrier on Earth will be pushing this Fall if they
aren't already. It will come in two tri-band versions, one for Europe and Asia, the other for the Americas, and is due
out this Fall.
A second folder (WHAT? Two
clamshells from Nokia??), the 6170 has pretty much the same features as 6260, but it's not a smartphone. The 6170 also
trades out the twist and fold screen for a simple clamshell with an external display. It sounds like the 6255 is
finally coming for GSM users, but under a different name.
The last two phones are entry level models that you probably don't care about. What you DO care about is the new
Bluetooth keyboard that Nokia announced. We know there are other Bluetooth folding keyboards that have finally started
shipping recently.
Nokia's is made to work with all modern Series 60 phones. As soon as we see a picture, we'll know whether Nokia is
making one itself or just repranding one of the other new models.
UPDATE: We just got sent a pic of that new Bluetooth keyboard in action with what looks like their new 6260 handset. [Thanks, TheZodiac]
The new nokia 6630 has 1.3 megapixel camera resolution(1280 times 960), not 1 MP,as mentioned in the text. The effective resolution is 1.23 MP, but it also has better lenses then the 7610.(The focal lenght with 6630 is 4.5mm, and it has f/3.2 aperture(F number), (or 1:3.2). Nokia 7610, has 3.7 focal lenght and 2.8 aperture on the camera. (There are a few pics of the back side of the 6630 on the internet, where we can see wrong numbers put on the camera (the numbers that go with 7610, not 6630)) The camera colors are the same with both, 7610 and 6630(16.7 million/24bit). Also one other big difference worth mentioning is the 6630 video recording. It is improwed, and now it takes 15 frames per second(fps), the nokia 7610 still, like 6600 only 7.5 fps. 6630 is also tne first Nokia UMTS 3G phone and is one of the most advanced smartphones in the world...etc. It is expected to be available by the end of the year 2004 in Europe, and the price is expected to be, no more then 720$.
Another thing, with 6630 you will get a 64MB rs MMC(reduced size multy media card). It is half size a normal MMC and this time it does not fit under the battery. You put it in a specially designed compartment in the right side of the phone. That is excellent move by Nokia, cause you don`t have to open the phone, just to put your rs MMC in or out. 6630 has 10MB built in memory. (10MB+64MB=74MB)
The 6260 smartphone is now available in the UK and is reviewed here: http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/nokia-6260.htm
The 6630 smartphone is now available in Japan and is reviewed here: http://dillydallying.blogs.com/rantsraves/2005/01/nokia_6630_voda.html
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