Nokia 6630 > Reviews > My review on Nokia 6630

Author's product rating:   

Look & Feel	Excellent
Durability & Robustness	Strong
Reception quality	Good
Battery standby time	Poor
Value for money	Reasonable
Range of features	Good selection

Advantages:	3G, Nice camera, MMC, Good feedback keypad, light sensor, theme, good loudspeaker, bluetooth .
Disadvantages:	Selected MMC card only, no infra, soft ringtone, low battery life, no full support pic msg, camera no protection cover .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

After some "turning" from brand to brand, i still decided myself to get back to Nokia phone model, so from my old Nokia 7650, i purchased this Nokia 6630 to replace it when the price has been lower.
THE PHONE PACKAGE

• Comes with 1 handset, one free stereo headset, one battery, one 64MB reduced size MMC, USB link cable, one charges then a pack of manual and info.
• This phone comes with 12/18 months of warranty in our country, which is reasonable.

THE PHONE LOOKS

• This phone look overall for me is average, the good part for me is it is very "class" with silver colored look like expense steel and very solid. AND the not so good thing maybe the overall design of the phone, especially the upper part look like very "boxed"...but if you turn at the back of phone with that large camera lens is surely like powerful looking phone.
• The size of the phone is ok for me, cost i dislike too small but average size phone. sometime too small size, do mean the screen will follows and i like bigger screen phone as easy to view especially good for photos.

THE PHONE OVERALL BUILD

• The phone comes with a solid looking build and good quality of material, it seem that Nokia is trying to follow Samsung step which is a good things.
• The phone comes with changeable cover, so you may wish to change color as you wants to OR when your cover is damaged or scathed. BUT i do personal think that Nokia should at least allow the cover to protect the camera lens as well, as in Nokia 6630, the cover provide none protection and the camera only use it build in len as protection. (do mean if you scathed it, you have to replace a new camera lens)
• The phone keypad provide very good or better than Samsung feedback, as it is not too hard and not too soft either.
• Buttons has no problem to operate except the power button is bit hard to press, you may always need to make sure you press the right button as the MMC slot is near that area too.

THE PHONE SCREEN

• The phone comes with a ok screen, not very sharp and not bad as well for my oppinion. in fact, i still like my Nokia 7650 screen more, as the brightness is better and look more sharp even N7650 comes with 4096 color and Nokia 6630 is 64k.
• Nokia 6630 64K screen while display photo is surely good, it is very clear with all the color displayed. BUT if compare with Samsung, i think Samsung screen is still the best.
• as mentioned, the screen of this model is reasonable big, which is good to display SMS or photo.
• I think one worst things in most nokia Series 60 new phone model now like the Nokia 7610/6630 is their fonts is TOO small! I really wish Nokia can give me back the fonts size of my Nokia 7650 which is bold and easy to read all time.

THE PHONE SENSOR

• The phone of this model comes with a auto contrast control sensor, it mean the contrast of the LCD will automatic adjust according to the surrounding light condition which is very "high tech" and good for me, even it is not a new thing anymore as Nokia 7650 do comes with two sensor.
• Nokia 6630 also will switch on and off the keypad lights accordng to situation to save battery life, which is GREAT and something that needed in PalmOne Treo 650 but Nokia has using it here...good work!

THE PHONE MEMORY & MMC

• This phone comes with 10MB build in memory and included the 64MB of reduced size MMC which enough for most not so heavy user like me.
• Most data like photo, video, sound, program and you will have a option to choose where you wish to save.
• The phone also provide a file manager for you to explore your phone saved data and also other function to format your memory card and others.
• I think the problem in this Nokia 6630 is, you may not able to use other MMC in this model due to voltage issue which is expense as well if you wish to purchase the original Nokia MMC card.

THE PHONE CAMERA

• The reason why i choose this model is the camera is GREAT! it take very clear and nice photo especially in day and enough light condition, almost like a normal quality digital camera BUT not when in low light condition. EVEN if you do on your night mode which is bit troublesome and only accecessable from option, you will get very "pixel" photo.
• the Camera is 1.3MP which is allow you to take photo base on two resolution at 640x480 and 1280x960 mode with image quality from High, normal and basic.
• This phone also comes with 10 sec self timer which is a plus for me BUT again, how you make this camera standing while you wish to shoot yourself? anyway, it is still better than my 7650 which you can't.
• The video that taken with this camera is better than Nokia 7650 and also 7610, it is bit smooth and less pixel than other model which is support up to 1 hour of video that both can save to phone or card memory.
• All photo and video can be viewed by the phone Gallery which is a good way to organize all your multimedia data.

THE NOKIA LIFEBLOG

• another good way you wish to organize your life and all your multimedia storage needs maybe using the Nokia lifeblog software which is very good.
• BUT this software didn't come free of charge, that is something i kind of angry with as after we purchased a so expense phone but the software was not inside. EXCEPT the paid version is PC version only, and the lifeblog that you need to install in your handset is free.
• Lifeblog will backup your data included photo, video, notes, sms and MMS into your PC by helping you organize it automatically which is very useful to keep as your diary.
• The problem maybe is, lifeblog will take away all data that it has backup and it end up your phone will be empty with no sms,mms,photo and video until you throw it into your "favorites" and sync back to your phone which is kind troublesome and very bad for lot of SMS.

THE PHONE BATTERY LIFE

• the battery of this model can normally last for max 2 days plus only, as once the 1st bar is gone, the rest will be slowly drop.
• I am not a very heavy user, infact after knowing the poor battery performance of this model i also "scare" to always using it except needed but still the battery perform not so good but not that bad either, at least not like some net forum said last for one day only.
• Nokia battery now comes with original security check, which is very secure for us to know the battery is original or not, you will just need to scatch the number then check it online.

THE PHONE MESSAGE SYSTEM

• Nokia text messaging is always the best is what i wish to said, as i do try other brand and none can match with Nokia "user friendly" type of menu and input system.
• Nokia 6630 support most format of messaging except no EMS AND not the full support for picture message. that mean you now cannot save any picture from pic msg, then have a gallary option to send any picture message, which is BAD!
• The big diffirent between Nokia 6630 and 7650 is it support two language input from both English and Chinese (Asia) and not like 7650 you have to choose one, then the menu will follow the language that you choose. BUT in Nokia 6630, you can choose to input chinese but menu is english, which is good!
• Other messaging are almost same with model like in Nokia 7650 and 7610 so i will not touch here.

THE PHONE RINGTONE

• The overall performance of sound for this model is still very acceptable, not mention the Stereo headset that provided and very loud speakerphone quality.
• But the ringtone of this model is middle only, not so good as Samsung model which is the best with clear and nice sound.
• The phone support support lot of format as ringtone included midi and mp3.
• New ringtone and sound file can be sync and create easily with nokia PC suite software which comes with the package.

THE PHONE PC SUITE

• Nokia PC suite is now improved lot, it allow you to do lot of things included contacts, photo, sound, ringtone, backup and restore.
• You can choose to use bluetooth and USB cable to connect your phone to your PC.
• You also can use your phone as a modem to connect to the internet as Nokia 6630 is a EDGE plus 3G phone.
• Nokia 6630 comes with a Quick Office suite, which you can download and view your word, excel and powerpoint file in your Nokia phone.
• BUT a word of advice, setting up this Nokia 6630 to work with your PC is not easy. IF you are user that using SP1 or SP2 of windows XP, make sure you contact Nokia careline for correct way or version of PC suite to "detect" correctly your phone. the best maybe trying to download a new version of software from their website, cost it used me hours of uninstall and install again because of the driver plus software issue.

THE PHONE FUNCTIONITY
Some of the function that i may not touch in detail, as it is almost same as other model of Nokia phone OR available in other review of the same model.

• This phone support caller photo ID, caller group and personal ringtone for each contact.
• This phone comes with voice recorder which is useful.
• This phone comes with bluetooh but NO infra red.
• This phone support theme, you can easily change color and background image with set of theme which is downloadable free from Nokia download Portal or internet included ringtone and others.
• This phone comes with a wallet for you to set password protected area for you to store important data like credit number and password.
• This phone also support Instand Messaging, which is i never try before so very sorry:)
• This phone also support voice dial, voice command.
• This phone support JAVA based application, which can be download and install directly or using the PC software.
• This phone installed with RealPlayer which able you to listen MP3, plus watch standard MPEG video in your phone from your MMC or phone memory.
• This phone gives you direct print function from your phone through bluetooh and some support devices.
• This phone allow you to edit your photo and video with some nice build in software from Nokia.
• This phone comes with a English to Chinese Dictionary in our country which is so good, BUT only some basic word can be found not so technical type of word.
• If there is some other function that i missed, please forgive and not mention the call quality and others should be standard for most nokia phone, thanks for reading my review!

CONCLUSION
I think this phone is very good, if now the price is drop it maybe a good choice...if before when the price is rocket high, then this is not a good buy as it is over expense for some limited function but selling at a price of a PDA phone.

Nokia 6630 still a very good and nicely build or designed phone, it has less design problem than other model like the 7610 keypad and some model that maybe keypad too small OR other weakness on design.

this phone also good for long run, as it support 3G even the camera do build at the back and you may not able to use video call fully BUT at least good for those that you wish not other party to see you...hehe.