Nokia 6630. Review on Nokia 6630

Dear Friends,

I must honestly admit that I have recently upgraded my cell phone from a Nokia 3530 to a Nokia 6600, as that was the only phone that fit into my budget, although my personal wish was to possess a Nokia 6630.

One of the primary reasons that I wished to purchase this phone is the fact that it can be connected to my Desktop PC and to my laptop as well, allowing me to store my contacts list in my computer. About a year back, my Nokia 3530 had a software problem and I had to have it totally re-installed, leading to the problem that I lost all the contacts that I had stored on the phone and many of them were obviously not copied onto my SIM card.

For a long time, I had to bear the annoyances of not only my family members, who are spread all over not only in India, but abroad as well, for how could I SMS my family when I had lost the contact number on which I used to SMS them from time to time? Some of my clients were also quite annoyed, because I did not call them until they called up to ask if all was well!! Finally, I have built up my contact list to what it used to be and this time I ensured that all of them were on my SIM card as well as on the phone.

The second reason that I wanted a phone like this was the camera. I am a person who loves meeting people and would therefore like to store an image of that person in my contact list itself, and I had heard that these phones allowed you to add a thumbnail image to every name on the list and so I would do this from my phone itself. Of course, I would take the person's permission before taking their photograph and anyway, who would not want their chartered accountant to possess a photograph of themselves. Still, rules are rules and so must be followed.

The third reason that I wished to possess a phone like this was the capacity to store music in a variety of formats which can then be played back on the excellent loudspeaker, which is sufficiently powerful for the ears of the possessor. Not only that, one can change the files from time to time, thanks to the excellent package that Nokia PC Suite offers from their own side. You can also copy polyphonic tunes from either the laptop or the desktop onto the phone using this facility.

And finally, if one comes across a moment in life that one wants to capture for prosperity, the video recorder that this phone possesses is functionally good enough to shoot a small video and then transfer it back into the PC or the laptop to be viewed at leisure later on. There have been many moments that I would have liked to capture in the past, which I could never do because I never had either a digital camcorder or a phone capable of doing this before, so now that I have it, I would never like to lose another opportunity. Once again, with the consent of the person concerned, if possible, otherwise not.

To sum it up, this phone is more like a miniature computer, where even some of the often needed information stored in Excel or Word can also be kept for ready reference, to be read by the software already provided by Nokia and other freeware from the internet. With a 1.2 mega pixel camera, it is handy to capture moments that do not require too much of technical expertise, the same goes for the video recorder. And it has a music playback system that I have simply come to love.