Nokia 6630 aka Charlie

The Nokia 6630 is Nokia's first UMTS (aka WCDMA or 3G) S60 smart phone. It's rather cute and cuddly and has a 200MHz Arm processor which makes it appear rather swifter than the older 100MHz S60 phones. A rebranded version is sold in Japan as the Vodafone 702NK. Notable downsides to the 6630 are the firmware bugs in early models and the limited amount of internal ram hindering effective multitasking. Like the Nokia 6680 it uses S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2.

• Rui's superb 6630 summary
• Russ' 6630 linkfest
• Russ' first impressions Note: his phone is pre-production, he may be seeing firmware bugs fixed in later versions.

Why Charlie? Well, Charlie was apparantly the phones's code name before it was launched, the way that the moniker appear to have stuck gives an indication of how memorable (or not) Nokia's numbering system is.

In addition to the 702NK, a slightly remodelled version is also sold in Japan as the Nokia NM850iG on the DoCoMo network, notable differences include a restyled keypad, and i-mode support, by Japanese standards this is not an impressive phone.

The Nokia 6680 is the successor to the 6630, and has been shipping since April 2005 in Europe. Smarter looking with a second (user facing) camera for video calls, and many firmware fixes, the 6680 looks like the better bet, unless the 6630 is significantly cheaper. The 6680 has itself been superseded by the Nokia N70.

There is also a CDMA version of the 6630 called the Nokia 6638 for those rural backwaters of the World without GSM or 3G networks; to date the 6638 is the only announced CDMA S60 device. It comes with an impressively long external antenna for added comedy effect.

There are other Specific Phones in the S60 range.

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