Nokia 2680 – Modest features
It is really surprising for us tech enthusiasts to see that low end phones like these are still there in a market that is do minated by smartphones. But then, not everyone needs a super fast cell phone. I recently conducted a survey and found that most people don’t even use all the features of the phone. Hence it makes no sense in buying a high end mobile phone as it will be a waste of money.
Nokia 2680 is one such low end cell phone which is pretty modest on features. Except for Bluetooth and speakerphone, there are no advanced features on the phone. There is a camera on the back but the quality is so poor that you’d never use it. The features are all slashed in order to give you a basic and entry level phone at a really low price.
Nokia 2680 has a really small one inch screen and the resolution too is really small at 128×160 pixels. Things are pretty miserable and cramped on this display but this is not unexpected in a low end cell phone. I found that the resolution was small even for composing messages. I wish the phone was a bit bigger though. The gadget is really small and I struggled to hold it well in my hands. A bigger size would have also given a bigger screen for the phone.
Nokia 2680 also has IM and e-mail support but I won’t recommend using it because the screen size is really small and the buttons on the navigation pad too are hard to press. The key pad is good only to compose text messages and nothing else. There are a couple of organizational features here like calendar, to-do list, notes, calculator, timer, stopwatch, alarm clock, etc. These organizational features are found on almost all
Nokia phones and hence there is nothing special about it. On the back, there is a camera but don’t get too ambitious. It is just a VGA camera which takes poor quality photos. The primary use of this camera is to attach photos to contacts for photo caller IDs and I won’t recommend using it for anything else. Also note that the camera can also record video but the quality is lack luster, just like the pics.
When tested for call quality, the Nokia 2680 was quite good. Calls sounded a bit tinny on my end but my friends said that they could hear me well and there were no major problems. The speaker phone quality is pretty bad. There was an irritating background hiss in my calls, my friends could hear them too. Occasionally, the audio trailed off and I had a difficult time trying to hear my friends on the other side. I don’t know if good speakerphone quality is important in a low end phone. Voice can be heard well over the handset and that may be enough for some people. This phone is yours for $79.99 from AT&T and the service provider offers a lot of pre-paid plans which you can check out on the Website.
