Review Of Nokia 2680- A Basic Phone For Calling And Text Messaging
Sum and Substance:
Thumbs Up:
A simple basic phone, nothing else.
Thumbs Down:
Seriously low on features, inexpensive
Inside the Trunk:
Technology:
GSM
Band:
GSM 850/1,900
Phone design:
Slider
Caller ID:
Yes
Other features:
Speakerphone, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth, Java
The Whiz Kid Speaks:
TFT, 65K colors, 128 x 160 pixels, 1.85 inches, – Downloadable wallpapers, screensavers.
Dimensions 99 x 47.1 x 14.8 mm, 61.7 cc, Weight 97 g
Alert types
Vibration, Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Phonebook
1000 entries
Call records 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
Internal Memory 12 MB, No expandable card slot.
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 6, 177.6 kbps, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth
Camera – VGA, Resolution – 640×480 pixels.
For messaging – SMS, MMS, Email, WAP 2.0/xHTML
FM radio; broadcast recording, Games
Standard battery, Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S), Stand-by – Up to 400 h, Talk time – Upto 3h 30 min
Razzle Dazzle:
The Nokia 2680 is available in various colors like Orange, Slate Gray, Violet, and Night Blue. The phone is not great on features but has sturdy design on the outside. The phone’s exteriors have been made so strong that sometimes it is tough to press the buttons. But it is shiny and metallic with rounded edges. It is quite small and will easily fit in to your pocket.
Inside Dope:
We all know that the 2XXX family is quite old in Nokia phones. When saw the Nokia 2680 lying on our desks for review we quickly made out that it would be a basic phone just by the numbers ‘2680’ on the box.
We, as gadget enthusiasts don’t have much to write about this phone because there is not much in there. The Nokia 2680 is made for people who don’t call much and use the phone to text messages occasionally.
The screen of the Nokia 2680 is 1 inch big TFT LCD display and it is seriously small. We frown even at 2 screens and we seldom come across such tiny displays. The resolution is 128X160 which is also low. But with this screen you can’t ask for a bigger resolution. But you will get an idea about how small the screen is when we say that the phone could house only two icons at a time in the messaging menu. On the home screen you can change themes, you can adjust the size and color of the font and you can change the wallpaper.
Below the display is a tidy arrangement of the four buttons and the middle four way navigation button with the OK button in the middle. The four buttons consist of two soft keys and the call and call end buttons. The buttons are quite stiff and the phone sometimes pretends that the buttons are never pressed. We struggled with these buttons and kept wondering what was wrong with them.
Beneath the top half is a numeric keypad, it would be a crime to ask for QWERTY keypad for a phone like this. These set of keys are better to press, the slider is smooth and clicks when it reaches its place.
Other connections on the Nokia 2680 consists of a power connector, 2.5-millimeter headset jack and USB port. The phone doesn’t have a music player, the head set is provided for FM radio. The accessories included are a charger for the battery and the reference material. You also get a SIM card along with the phone.
Nokia has always been generous when it comes to phone book and the Nokia 2680 gives you about 1000 entries for your contacts. The SIM card can hold 250 more contacts but we doubt if you will ever run out of the phone memory. A single entry can take e-mail address, five numbers, birthday, job title, etc. There is a camera behind and you might want to attach a photo to the contact so that his face flashes when there is an incoming call. Well, Nokia 2680 lets you do it but you can’t assign ring tones to individuals. You can only assign unique ring tones to separate groups.
The Nokia 2680 has integrated Bluetooth so you can use the handset to pair up with Bluetooth devices like wireless headset. Other features on the phone include speed dial, speakerphone and text and multimedia messaging
The Nokia 2680 has mobile e-mail and you can also use IM clients like AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail. But again internet experience won’t great due to the tiny screen. If you use internet a lot, you’d better think twice before buying this phone. There is also a built in WAP browser.
Behind the Nokia 2680 is a VGA camera which takes bad photographs. But you can hardly expect good pictures from a VGA rated camera. There is 4X zoom for photos and you can also do video recording. Settings like self-timer and night mode are all there. There is nothing to say about the quality of the camera, videos and pictures are pretty dull.
The Nokia 2680 is powered by 860mAh lithium ion battery and Nokia rates its talk time at about three hours and the stand by time is about 17 days.
We tested the Nokia 2680 for call quality and we could hear the voice clearly but there was a little disturbance on our end. Our friends said the voice sounded fine and they could hear us clearly. Speaker phone calls were bad and there is a bit hollow sound in the phone and we experience echo too.
Nitty Gritty:
The Nokia 2680 is prepaid; you are not contract tied if you buy the phone. It is for people who don’t use the phone much for calling and are not so enthusiastic about gadgets. Buy the phone if you belong to this category.
