Nokia 6680

6680 Nokia picture The Nokia 6680 is an upgrade of the 6630, which was Nokia's first 3G smartphone. It's a big improvement. Firstly, the physical design of the phone has been improved. It's less distinctive than the 6630, being squarer in shape, but the keypad is easier to use and the whole thing is slightly smaller (albeit a few grams heavier.) The Nokia 6680 has an encouragingly normal look about it. Nokia has, in the recent past, sometimes gone over the top with handset design, occasionally leaving us wondering if the company ever talks to its users (read our reviews of the idiosyncratic 7280 and 7710 if you need evidence). Nokia 6680 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia 6680 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia 6680 Games Free Nokia Games download So it is encouraging for us to find that the 6680 is a very phone-like phone. Perhaps slightly too wide, too tall and too heavy, but then Nokia has had to squeeze cameras on the front and back and a slot for a Reduced Size MultiMedia Card, as well as 3G capability, so we are inclined to forgive that. Nokia's 6680 is being presented first and foremost as a 3G phone, but it's also a smart phone. It earns the title thanks to its Symbian Series 60 operating system and PC connectivity, which, via the provided PC Suite software, allows it to synchronise contacts, diary, to-do list and notes with a desktop PC. The smart phone features mean it should appeal to professionals, and Nokia has done a good job of catering for them as well as to anyone looking for some fun from their handset. There's a good set of software extras on the RS-MMC if you want to use this handset for personal productivity. Pop the card into its slot and you get the Adobe Acrobat reader as well as QuickWord, QuickSheet and QuickPoint readers for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and a utility for setting up Bluetooth keyboards. The 6680 also seems to have cured most of the reliability problems that dogged the 6630, and we recommend it for anyone looking for a multimedia phone with the advantages of both the Symbian operating system and 3G. Now updated by the Nokia N70.

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