I have to agree with Russ on this one - Nokia went to great lengths to fix some design issues that existed in the 7610 and 6620, but this phone is practically useless because of the lack of RAM!
Three or four times now, when trying to snap a picture i have gotten "Not enough memory, close some applications" errors and ended up missing the photo opp! and after holding down the application key to get the running list, the only thing i had running was Messaging, Phone, and Contact List. If you use the on-board Email app to retreive your email automatically, that's enough to max out the phone. How frustrating - this never happened on my 7610 or 6620. what were they thinking indeed.
The few good things about this phone are
- The speed. very fast, and processor speed has everything to do with EDGE speed as well, so the downloads are much faster using EDGE than the 6620
- Hot swappable memory, finally!
- The phone works without a SIM! How simple is this? but no one has done it before. there are definitely cases such as swapping contacts or transferring applications that a power user needs to run the phone without a SIM
- They finally added "Flight Mode" to non-N-Gage Series 60 phone, so you can do things like read e-books on the plane and not get hassled by flight attendants. This was on the original N-Gage 1 power button tap menu but wasn't on any other Series 60 phones.
- The camera - still not quite as good as the Sony Ericsson S700/S710 , but about there. The click to picture lag that exists in the 7610 is still there but smaller. pictures of moving objects (such as kids) are still difficult.
Also, there are some differences i have found between the versions Nokia is giving out to developers and the operator versions. I have a TIM (Italy) OEM version and they fixed a few Java VM issues that I encountered while trying a developer version given to one of our partners...whew! thought they messed that one up too.
Hope they fix this memory issue in the 6640!
Posted by Steve at January 1, 2005 09:25 AM | TrackBack