Giving the Nokia 6650 a spin

January 5, 2009 by Annie

I was given temporary custody of a Nokia 6650 on AT&T over the past couple of weeks. I uploaded some photos to Nokia Chronicles (find me under Chapter 5) and gave it a little test drive.

Rockefeller Center

It’s a solid phone. It has a 2mp camera, video (although no live streaming like an N95), and what I think is the coolest feature, AT&T Navigator, turn by turn GPS with voice.

I’m already juggling 2 phones, and with the holidays I didn’t get to play with it as much as I would have liked. I do admit if it had live streaming ability I would have used it much more.

Since I’ve had an iPhone since July I’m a little spoiled when it comes to phones, but both the video camera (which is quite clear and smooth) and the GPS rule over the iPhone. While the iPhone offers traffic info in the form of red and yellow indicators, the 6650 gave detailed traffic info that came in handy as we drove north to spend Christmas eve with my sister-in-law. The NY State Thruway was stopped dead, and we learned early enough to ditch it and hit the back roads.

Green/Blue tinge with the flash

It does multi-tasking, too, which is pretty impressive. I didn’t have to sign out of the GPS to take a photo on the road.

The camera works really well outdoors, and it has a flash for indoors, but the flash makes everything a greenish-blue, so I avoided using it.

I didn’t have a chance to use the music transfer or cellular video features, but both make this a good phone for a kid. A luckier kid than one of mine, who generally get hand-me-downs or freebies.

Giving the Nokia 6650 a spin

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