Nokia 6620 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)

Rating:
Summary: Great Phone Bad Service
Review: All the phones I've owned were Nokias and when I purcahsed this one it was what I expected from Nokia plus more. Great features with good amount of memory for couple of MP3's and other additions to the phone. The service I got from Amazon was horrible though. I was told 24 hour shipping and even paid extra to get it to me quicker. After getting e-mails saying my phone was delayed and would ship on the 12th, I recieved another one saying they had to cancel the order after waiting close to 2 weeks. So I got it from a AT&T store. The price on Amazon is unbeatable even compared to any website on the net and especially compared to the price at AT&T but with delays and no phone, what good is it? Plus theres no Amazon help desk number which makes it worse. Overall, I recommend the phone but go somewhere else to get the phone unless you have the patience of a saint.

Rating:
Summary: Nokia makes pretty good phones
Review: General phone features are great. Cam is better than previous phone cams, but it still is a little poor. Edge services are cool but there aren't enough US mobile friendly sites. Europe seems to have way more. I think this will change. I have barely scratched the surface of the applications available for Symbian Series 60 OS.

Cons:
I have not been able to figure out how to get my voice tags to record. I had one recorded but when I deleted it I wasn't able to record another anymore. I haven't taken the time to troubleshoot this.

My Outlook 2003 on my laptop must have a corrupt installation b/c I can't get the Nokia sync software to work there. It does work on my office desktop with a direct connection to Exchange.


Be careful about the AT&T mMode service. It turns out that the "Unlimited" data plan ($24.99) is limited to port 80. So you can forget about accessing your secure Outlook site (if you have an Exchange 2003 server on the net) unless you fork over another $5-$10 for AT&T's Office service. So much for that Putty app I downloaded. I haven't been able to telnet either.

Disregard what the reviewer below said about voice mail passcode. You can for sure enter your passcode in the voice mail settings so you don't have to enter it every time.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best phones Nokia has to offer
Review: I have overall been disappointed with Nokia in the past, finding that Samsung and Motorola tended to have better quality phones. While this phone obviously doesn't have the same quality construction as Motorola does, the Nokia 6600 is one of the better phones I've used. What makes it so great is the versatility and the number of features it has. The best features that I use most often are:

1) Great audio quality overall. Handset quality is great, as is the speakerphone quality and the headset audio quality.

2) Camera phone. A decent camera phone for taking quick pictures, movies, and having general all around fun with.

3) The joystick design they are using on the new Nokias gives you a great degree of control. The only problem is that occasionally the joystick does start to dig into your thumb while gaming.

4) One nice thing about Nokias is that they have a ton of ring tone and game choices. If you love your cell phone games or changing your ring tones everyday, Nokia beats everyone else.

5) Bluetooth wireless technology, so that I can transfer data to and from my computer without messing with any cables. This is great for putting photos and memos on the computer and transferring calander data to my phone.

6) The phone is really wide, which seems to be a turnoff for many people, but the phone is actually easier to grip and feel more ergonomic. I feel much less likely to drop this phone than others, which are actually starting to get too small. You will probably have to get a belt clip for it, however, unless you wear the pants with the cargo pockets.

My biggest concern is that I have found Nokia phones lower quality construction to lead to lower prices, but they also don't last as long. I can tell using the phone that it feels a little flimsier than Motorolas do, but as long as I'm not planning on dropping the phone or running over it with my car it should be just fine. I wouldn't use it for business purposes and hand one out to all my employees, because you tend to want a little more rugged a phone for that. Other than that it meets or surpasses all of my needs and surely won't disappoint any already established Nokia phone fans.

Rating:
Summary: Nokia 6620 Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)
Review: I have use this phone for about 4mos, and I find it to be one of the best Nokia cell phones I have ever used. Great buy, but try and get it on sale.

Rating:
Summary: Nice phone, not great software or reception
Review: I owned one of these phones for about 15 days in October 2004. This account is an experience of using the Nokia 6620 with AT&T Wireless (now Cingular) in the San Francisco Bay Area (mostly San Jose, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and other locations on the peninsula). I'll make this short since others have done a great job of pointing out this phones strengths and weaknesses. What I thought was missing was the following:

+ Pro's:
Symbian OS phone (series 60) has lots of software included
Phone works well outdoors
Good resolution on camera
Graphical User Interface very intuitive
Easy to navigate menus
Typical excellent Nokia features

- Cons:
* Phone software navigates slowly (sluggish response to user input)
* Supports only Windows operating systems (data sync operations)
* Camera requires very steady hand (press "shutter" button and it takes a second or more for the camera to take the picture)
* Battery life is a bit brief
* Poor Mac OS/X support (not a huge surprise, but AT&T said it would sync just fine with a Mac ... and it didn't)

One last negative for the phone: Signal reception indoors was always marginal if not non-existent. I attribute this more to AT&T's network than the phone. It worked very well outdoors so long as you were not far from GSM towers.

Recommendations: Overall it is a good phone with plenty of features. The price is pretty high if you buy from somewhere other than the *great* Amazon.com site. Amazon has *wonderful* prices on cellular phones (shameless plug). Just be patient with the user interface and find a GSM carrier with good coverage in your area.

Rating:
Summary: Best Cell Phone On The Market
Review: I was very skeptical about buying this phone. I had heard of the numerous glitches in the 6600 (T-Mobile ) which is identical to this phone. However, I have found no problems with the 6620, the pictures are amazing and the signal is great!
I do hope that they eventually offer a more powerful battery. The one it comes with is good but once those top two bars are gone it goes rather quickly.

Rating:
Summary: An Awesome Phone
Review: I'm a person who only wants the best, and my cell phone is no exception. I have a Nokia 6620 from AT&T Wireless and I love it. I can take 10 second video and edit it right on my phone; I can also take pictures and watch TV. I found few places where I couldn't get service on my phone, and with the allover network form Cingular I can talk to any AT&T or Cingular customer any time for FREE yup all 46 Million of us, try to beat that Verizon. The phone also runs Syrian phone OS which means you can get lot's of apps and upgrades and all this with a HUGE screen this is not one of the best phones on the market it is THE BEST PHONE ON THE MARKET PERIOD. -Andrew Kostin -- Student

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Summary: If only I could get over my bad feelings about AT&T
Review: Maybe just maybe then I would appreciate this phone more. It has a good signal, no dropped calls. Which the way my service was before makes this fact alone a miracle.

Got water damage, tried to dry it out. Now one of the softkeys on the right side that is supposed to disconnect calls and such doesnt work. Have to use a few different key combos to hang up.

Funny but warranty covered everything but water damage.

I like the picture quality. It works for me.

Darn there goes me thinking about AT&T again.

They lied to me so many times. Said one thing then did another. When I called back they said that there was nothing in the notes saying that I had ever been promised what in fact I know I was.

Good phone, bad phone company.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Phone
Review: This is a fantastic phone with the emphasis on multimedia. Still and video camera functionality is well placed, and the menuing style will be familiar to anyone who has used Nokia phones in the past. MMS (Multimedia Messaging) is heavily emphasized here. The screen is large and the display is bright for this reason. The camera itself is about 0.5 MP, so there are better out there, but this does the job when the lighting is good. You can take a picture or video and bounce it to someone else in a message.

It's painless to take a picture and attach it to a contact for display when ringing or browsing contacts. In addition to thumbnail photos, other detail may be added to a contact such as various phone, fax, email address, mailing address fields. You may also specify a contact's birthday, but curiously it requires a year to be set. "And what year were you born, Ma'am?"

The call log is setup into tabs for missed calls, received calls, and dialed numbers. There is no list that combines the three... a useful feature provided on other phones.

A 32MB memory card is included with the phone and may be upgraded apparantly. Throughout the interface when you save things, you are given the option of saving them (photos, videos, etc.) to the memory card or the phone memory. Similarly, contacts may be imported and exported in a straightforward way to the SIM card if you need portability of this information between phones. A USB cable is included for upload to a desktop computer. Useful for backing up or syncing contacts or installing applications, etc.

RealPlayer is the video player included on the device. Pdf+ is included for viewing PDFs on the device. A variety of games and other applications are included though many of them are only on a 2-use trial basis. The Nokia Sports feature allows for viewing of streaming sports (made possible by the use of the fast EDGE network available with AT&T or Rogers). This is a pay service though.

For Web browsing, the Opera browser (a very-capable browser) is included, though you could certainly download another browser if you prefer. Check out www.reqwireless.com for a different browser you might like. AT&T, Rogers, and others provide higher speed EDGE network services, and this phone will work with that. If however, you're reading this review with the intention of buying this phone unlocked from another source and activating on another network, you should know that you can setup web browsing with this phone on GSM networks that do not have EDGE. Browsing and other services will just be a little slower. You just need to setup the specific access point for your provider's GPRS service. Settings > Connection > Access Points.

Long story short, I'm really happy with my purchase, and I'd highly recommend the phone. When I bought, I also considered a Blackberry which would have been my choice if I needed the phone for more sophisticated email uses. Blackberry blows this phone away on email functionality, if that's what you're looking for. I wasn't.