Nokia have always been great at producing good, reasonably priced low end phones, for example the 3210 / 3310 / 3330 phones are amongst the most popular phones ever so why have they released this?
The 2600 is a basic phone with the classic Nokia menu system, which cannot be faulted as it is probably the most logical, easy to use menu system any phone manufacturer uses. It is a no frills phone, it can be used to call, send texts, play a few games and not a whole lot else, although it does have a colour screen.
The phone retails at between £99 and £129 sim free, but who wants to pay that much for a phone as basic as this one? For those just wanting a basic Nokia phone can buy the 1100 or the 3510i for around £40-£50 less, both of which have more useful features than this phone. The phone has a 4096 colour screen, but no multimedia messaging, infrared, Bluetooth, WAP or GPRS on it, making it virtually impossible to download any content such as wallpapers etc therefore making the use of a colour screen seem pretty pointless.
Anybody willing to spend over £100 on a phone can obviously get a lot more value for their money, with phones with cameras, 65000 colour screens, video record and some even have Bluetooth for a similar price. Don’t let the fact that it’s a Nokia tempt you to buy one, I’m sure you will be disappointed with this phone from a normally innovative, market leading company.
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Advantages: Business functions, mp3 support, noiseless turnoff and more Disadvantages: Bad photo/video camera, alarm feature is not comfortable, no USB/IR support
Dmytron 13.07.2009 ·
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