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If you're looking for a new mobile phone, ask yourself what you're really going to need it for. Are you an oldie-worldie Luddite who wants a phone which just makes calls, stores numbers, sends texts and wakes you up in the morning, or do you want to trade shares online, download warcraft games, film short award-winning movies and remove champagne corks from chaps' eyes?
If it's the latter, you would be better off spending your hard earned cash on something a bit more splendid than this phone. If, however, you're a Luddite like me, then this phone will suit you just fine. It looks pretty neat doesn't cost a packet. Added to that, you also do get a few "modern" applications and features chucked in which enable you to kid yourself that you do have a super-duper uber modern phone, when in actual fact you don't.
The Basics
Making calls. Yup, this phone is pretty good for calling people on. You can store names and numbers as you would expect, as well as adding email/terra firma addresses, job title, nickname, formal name, favourite colour and so on to a contact's details. The extra details get stored on the phone memory rather than your SIM card, so don't go into the sea with the phone in you trunks in case you lose Posh Spice's "formal name" only to get embarrassed later on the same day when you meet her by chance at a royal tea party and can't remember what it is.
Alarm Clock. You can select whichever tone you desire, or download a new one from one of those premium rate numbers if you get bored with the selection on offer. You can choose how long the snooze button snoozes for, and you can have a repeat alarm set up for certain days of the week, which is quite handy.
The Useful Extras
Things to do while waiting for a train No.1: explore your phone's untrodden menus. You won't find much of interest though on here!
My personal favourites are the calculator (which includes a "scientific" and a "loan" calculator, and the calendar, which allows you to make diary entries with or without an alarm, and, that's all folks! The radio also works ok, and there are a few nifty applications like internet, bluetooth 2.0, converter, budget planner and voice recorder. I never use them though….
Disappointing Extras
Camera. The camera is very poor quality. Although you can select night mode and zoom (4x) features, they really don't make your pictures look any better. They're grainy and ill-focussed, and frankly not worth bothering with.
Likewise, the video camera is unimpressive, has tinny sound and the phone's lack of decent memory (up to 11mb available for everything you need on the phone) makes it fairly useless for recording anything above 10 seconds or so of video.
Games. My very first mobile phone back in the 20th century has Snake. No game since Snake has been worth the fiddle of playing on a mobile phone, if you ask me. If you own this phone, make sure you always have a newspaper or book in your bag in case of unexpected delays, because these games will not entertain you for long. There are 3 demo games, (which I have not downloaded the full versions of) - Pacman, Platinum Solitaire and Tetris. The full games are Phantom Spider, where apparently I have become a pilot whose mission it is to fight against the army of the evil tarantula, capturing their evil eyes, (as if I didn't have enough to do already), Snake EX2, which is too fiddly by half and Sudoku. I was pleased to find the Sudoku, as I do like a neural challenge, but sadly the games are far too easy for a veteran Sudoku champion like myself.
Look and Feel
So, it probably sounds pretty negative by now, doesn't it? But this phone LOOKS lovely. It's really slim-line (9.9 mm thin), has a lovely big screen (128 x 160 px) and is as light as a feather (66g). This is exactly what I want out of a phone - one that looks nice but is actually rather cheap. Perfect combination! Being really slim is also a good anti-theft device, as you can slip it in your back jeans pocket and it will hardly show at all.
Practicalities
The phone comes with charger and radio earphones, as you would expect. My charger was faulty and I had to wait 3 days over the weekend before I was allowed to exchange it, so I think my battery has suffered a little bit. However, the battery like is fine. It's not as good as a Nokia I had about 6 years ago in terms of battery life though, which is disappointing. The keypad is reasonably easy to use, if a little stiff.
Overall Impression-
This phone is good if you just want the basics but want a smart-looking phone for a reasonable price. The entire spec of the phone can be found here: http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4405744.
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This Nokia 2630 mobile phone is a sophisticated and easy to use phone packed full of more
practical features including VGA camera, Bluetooth, video capture&integrated FM radio. This mobile phone comes on the Orange network with up to 288 hours standby time and 240 minutes talk time. It also features WAP access with downloadable ringtones.
Sep 7th, 2008
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