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When I first used this phone, it was my first phone beyond an old Nokia 6210, therefore it was a totally new experience for me. Upon picking up the phone I liked how it was comfortable to use, it is easy to balance the phone with your fingers which I consider an important aspect of a phone, the phone is easy to quickly flick out of a pocket and answer a call without holding it awkwardly like some of the more modern designs of phones seem to require. The phone unfortunately is difficult to fit into some pockets, my coat had an inside phone pocket but unfortunately the 6600 is just a little too big for it, therefore not always convenient to carry. The phone feels strong, it is thick and after having dropped mine many times, I have never experienced any functional damage, only the obvious scratches were to be frowned at.
The Nokia 6600 runs the Symbian operating system version 7. It has very easy to navigate menus thanks to the joystick just above the keypad as well as large easy to read icons in the menu. The phone is very customisable and you will be able to create folders to place your icons into categories, I have only really made use of this with the Games and Extra folders. It is handy to put the icon for all of your installed programs into a, this makes loading the menu slightly quicker and makes finding what you want much easier. The phone is not very quick at starting up, it takes mine 30 seconds to load up (without a background image), but then takes a further 4-5 seconds to load up
menu for the first time since switching it on (otherwise it is less than a second). The camera takes a couple of seconds to startup regardless of whether you were just running it or not, I prefer to take some time off of the loading of the camera by setting my left soft key to open the camera.The camera is a VGA (640x480px) camera and unfortunately isn't great for taking photos, but this is an older cameraphone and this is to be expected. There are 3 modes in the camera screen, Standard, Portrait and Night mode. Portrait takes very small photos (80x96px), but it is good for taking low file size pictures for use as display pictures for your contacts. Night mode is very useful for use in darker places. Although it makes photos go a bit speckly in really dark places it does illuminate features a little better than standard, however it takes time to focus and is a little laggy, therefore to take a photo using night mode you must hold the camera still for a short while while you wait for it to adjust. The phone is pretty efficient for messaging people, it has a very good contacts manager which is a lot more efficient if you have a lot of contacts, I will cover the contacts list later. When clicking "New Message" you have 3 options, text, multimedia or email messaging. When text messaging, it tells you how many characters you have left to use and in brackets tells you how many texts you will be charged for sending. In Multimedia messaging and e-mail it tells you how large (in kB) the message is. One complaint about messaging is that if you have began writing a message but then press close, it saves a draft of your message, I periodically have to clear my drafts folder out of messages, on the other hand it is useful if you pressed it accidentally. E-mail accounts are easy to setup as long as you know the technical details such as pop3 addresses. The location of your messages can be checked by going to the review page, this tells you whether your messages are still pending or have been received by the contact - this is an alternative to either a text message receipt or a message displayed when the message had been received. There is a predictive text system as well as picture and photo messaging in the messaging system on the phone.
The contacts system is easy to use, you only need to create a list of contacts, and then you can add as many different contact methods for each contact as you like. Under each contact there are lots of default contact methods that you can enter but you can also create your own contact methods to add to a contact. By adding e-mails or different phone numbers, when you select to phone or send a message to somebody it will ask what method you would like to send it by, sms,mms or e-mail. Once you have setup a contacts list you can setup groups by dividing them into family, friends and colleagues or your own custom groups. I rarely use this however as by typing a contacts name (or first few letters) it will suggest who it thinks you are looking for. The gallery by default has 3 categories, images, sounds and video files. You can create your own with the options menu or you can switch to a memory card (if inserted) by pushing the joystick right. Where you can setup your own categories if your memory card wasn't a default 6600 memory card.
By opening the services menu you are presented with your bookmarks list, by going right you can see pages which you have saved into the phones memory. The phone connects via GPRS which isn't very fast, but ok for looking at text webpages or mobile optimized webpages. In the options menu it is easy to save a page to your bookmarks or access the navigation menu. The video recorder is disappointing. It is handled in the same way as the camera, but if in the settings you have selected large image sizes and decided to use audio in your video, it will only let you make 9 second videos. This is in my opinion useless, the quality is so poor that it is pointless to use. The file sizes of video are relatively low however so if you make lots of videos you should be with the phone memory.
The application manager is useful to see whats using up the space on your phone, and if necessary, pressing the clear button with ask if you want to delete the program. Otherwise it has little use. Profiles can be changed by either pressing the on button quickly, or by going to the profiles menu. It's easier to use the on button method but to customise profiles you need to use the profiles menu. Unfortunately you can't add your own profiles, therefore you need to edit a profile you don't want if you need an extra setup. I find it easier to just use silent and standard and outdoor (loud mode).
The Go To page is basically like a graphical version of your internet bookmarks page, except you can have links to applications on your phone too. I don't find this feature particularly useful, it would have been more useful as perhaps a quick menu system as opposed to a standalone page. There is also not a lot of option when you are setting it up, not all pages work with it. The themes are very good, the default themes are ok but basic, however there is a large variety of user made themes on the internet thanks to a theme creater which can be obtained from the internet.
The To-do page is good for leaving notes for yourself, however I find the calendar is an easier feature to use. It is intended to be used as a checklist, but I've made more use out of it by using it as a password manager ( there is a password protected version inside the wallet ). There is another notepad which is not a lot different to the one in the wallet or the to-do list except it is better for longer notes. I have also grouped the typical mobile phone tools into the Tools folder, such as calculator, clock, memory etc. There is a currency and units converter which is very useful when working on the phone.
The settings menu is easy to configure because of the help system which explainshttp://www.ciao.co.uk/opinion_write_new.php/OpinionId/5647457
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Bluetooth can be annoying because to turn it off you need to go to to bluetooth menu, which seems annoying if it turned itself on for you when you try sending a file. The phone cannot play mp3 files without a 3rd party mp3 player. Its sound recorder only records for one minute which can be annoying if you actually intend to use it since I imagine most people who use it would need longer than one minute. Which is my major complain about this phone, its limited video recorder and sound recorder recording times.
Overally I have had a good experience with this phone, I have tried many different programs on it as there is a large library available on the internet for games and programs and themes. It has a usable camera ( which can be improved by downloading "PhotoAcute" which improves photo quality ) as well as smartphone features, it does not however have a good video camera and is poor for playing music on and has a limited sound recorder. One final complaint is that this phone is difficult to change the cover on, its a very tight case and a little confusing how to take it apart at first. It is not worth the effort of changing to be honest.
If you are interested in a phone like this, I suggest looking at an alternative from the series 60 phones, or if it is a smartphone you are looking for, try the Nokia N series. The 6600 is a little old nowadays.
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