Nokia 6670 mobile phone

The Nokia 6670 is a series 60 smartphone that offers a broad range of functionality within a stable, well-designed platform and is highly recommended for business use.

The 65k screen is the same size as other Nokia smartphones (176 x 208 pixels) and is adequate but not as good as rival smartphones from Motorola or Sony Ericsson. The form factor is convenient, with a conventional keypad that's more useable that the similar-spec Nokia 7610. This suggests that the 6670 is more targeted at the business user than the fashion user (or else that Nokia has learned finally that novelty keypads don't make for great phones!)

On the multimedia side, the 6670 comes with an excellent 1 megapixel camera with a digital zoom and a choice of normal and night modes. There is a also a video camera which takes reasonable quality video, with a maximum duration of ten minutes. Full-screen video playback is possible using the built-in RealPlayer software. The 6670 also supports video download and playback and can function as an MP3/AAC player, although only a mono headset is supplied.

The 6670 supports all the normal voice and messaging features that you would expect. These include voice dialing, speed dialing, voice commands, voice recorder and an integrated handsfree speaker. There is full support for MMS and email (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4), with a document viewer capable of viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. An integrated internet browser supports HTML, XHTML and WML. The memory card comes with a Netfront Web browser with suport for PDF files.

The internal memory of the 6670 is 8 Mbytes, and a 64 Mbyte memory card is supplied as standard. The size and weight of the 6670 are very good for a smartphone. Battery life is average to good.

The one area where the 6670 is weak compared with rival smartphones is in connectivity. Granted it comes with full support for Bluetooth and USB cable, but is missing an IR port. The internet connection is a GPRS connection, but there is no high speed data. This makes email and web browsing very slow.

Overall the 6670 is a great smartphone for business users. It lacks some of the functionality of the Nokia 7610, but has a better keypad. Equally it is missing some of the high-end features of the Nokia 6630, but seems to be a more reliable phone. If only Nokia could release a smartphone that takes the best of each of these devices - that would be a real 5 star phone!